It may not monitor your heart rate or double as a media player like some other devices for swimmers, but this new Pool-Mate watch from Swimovate looks like it should appeal to quite a few folks nonetheless, with it packing a built-in accelerometer to help you keep track of lap counts. That’s apparently done by [...]
This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget [...]
We’ve been playing with Motorola’s recently-announced Endeavor HX1 for the past few hours, and we’re just going to come right out with it: this is the best Bluetooth headset we’ve ever used. Moto claims that the HX1 is the world’s first consumer headset to use “true bone conduction technology,” a veiled (but obvious) reference to [...]
Sony’s NWZ-W202 Walkman headphones may be great for folks looking for an all-in-one device to use while going for a run or working out — just so long as they don’t work out too hard, that is. Apparently, they have a little issue with not working if you sweat on them too much, which has [...]
Okay, so if you thought the CATSeye matchbox-sized tracking device was a bit too big or cumbersome, the gang is back with something decidedly smaller and more discrete. Introducing the CATS.i, also known as CATSeye Mk2. It’s got all the same functionality as its predecessor — GPS, GSM/GPRS, RF, internet / SMS controls, etc. — [...]
The most gullible shopper on the planet has to be the first time parent. Well meaning consumers who at their core are scared senseless. Chris Ebejer knows this and has developed a line of Babyglow clothing for newborns meant to communicate changes in your baby’s temperature — the fabric turns white above 37-C or 98.6-F. [...]
This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget [...]
Get lost easy do ya? Then you’ll find Garmin’s new Foretrex 301 and Foretrex 401 navigators more handy on the switchbacks than a sack full of Wonder “bread.” These wrist-worn GPS navigators feature a rugged, waterproof design and the ability to store up to 500 waypoints and 20 routes that’ll help keep you from getting [...]
Got a game with a lot of commands, but are sick of supporting the Big Keyboard industry? Meet your rebel input replacement, the Peregrine. Demonstrated to us at E3, the Peregrine is basically an elastic glove with some wires sewn into it at various points. Connecting one of those points to conductive patches on the [...]
Leave it the mad scientists at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to concoct this one. Rather than just figuring out a way to read back information in one-way fashion on one’s glasses (think Sixth Sense, but with eyewear), these folks are diving right in to the real stuff: bidirectional communication. In essence, their goal for the interactive data eyeglasses [...]
