ARM has been making processors for smartphones and all manner of other gadgets and hardware for a long time. ARM has now announced its next processor that will find its way into smartphones, home entertainment devices, and wireless infrastructure devices called the Cortex-A15. The new Cortex-A15 has as much as five times the performance of [...]

We know that we can control the brightness of certain bulbs in lamps by turning a knob, but DARPA recently issued a pretty tall order from science and tech communities – they’re asking UC Santa Cruz researchers to find a way to slow down the speed of light. What is refreshing is this – the [...]

The folks over at iFixit were not going to stop at just disassembling the new iPod touch. Now it is the nano’s turn. The 6th-gen device weighs 67 percent of the volume of its predecessor, with a thicker body and an integrated clip on back. The teardown found that the 2010 nano has its front [...]

Splitfish made a name for itself in the gaming world years ago when it unveiled the controllers for console gamers that allowed them to play games with a mouse controller for the right hand and controller for the right hand that looks like half a gamepad. Splitfish has announced the street date for its next [...]

When it comes to web browsers many people don’t like the browsers that ship on their smartphones and start looking for alternatives that work better. Opera makes one of the more popular alternate browsers for many of the smartphone operating systems on the market. I mentioned back in July that Opera Mini 5.

Here’s a tablet that won’t leave you broke. StreamTV’s Elocity A7 is now listed for pre-order on Amazon. They even managed to offer it at a lower price point than promised, just $370. If this thing sells nicely, it might encourage others to lower their price point. It has some decent specs, but even if [...]

Sanyo has announced another one of them there Xacti digicams, this time geared for the social media crowd. The VPC-GH4, like its sibling the VPC-GH2, features Full HD 1080 video recording; and unlike the aforementioned GH2, integrates YouTube, Facebook, and Picasa uploads — as well as Twitter notifications. But at what cost? Well, the newer [...]

There are plenty of single-display tablet devices, not as many dual displays. The Kno sports dual 14.1-inch touchscreen displays. It shouldn’t take too long to get it to market since the company has received a $46M investment. In fact, they are talking an end-of-year launch date. The Kno will be powered by an NVIDIA Tegra [...]

Robots help us accomplish many complex tasks, from diffusing bombs to assembling automobiles. Now, with the open source Egg-Bot, we can add “drawing on spherical surfaces” to that list. Not that complex, you say? Well just look at this diagram: More »

Guess what humans? The Engadget Show is back in a big way next Tuesday, September 14th at 8pm! We’re celebrating our first birthday and lucky 13th episode with an incredible show for you… first up, Josh is sitting down with NASA’s new Chief Technologist Bobby Braun, the man tasked with recharging NASA technology! Next, Engadget [...]