You know, there are times when you have to part ways with your adorable kitties at home, and you might not be so keen on getting a cat sitter in case he or she touches your precious game consoles (even if it’s an old granny ). We’ve seen the lazy man’s solution before, but Britain’s Mathew Newton has brought us a new DIY internet-enabled cat feeder just in time for a new decade.
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DIY cat feeder now enabled by a Cisco switch, streams food and video
Say what you will about dogs being man’s best friend — they sure can get into a lot of trouble. While our dogs have been limited to eating shoes and shedding on our furniture, Greg Strope of Richmond, Virginia has reason to believe his furry friend has gone the extra mile. While he lay in bed sleeping, his dog Oscar, he believes, purchased 5,000 Microsoft points
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Dog buys 5,000 Microsoft points, says he just wanted to check out the Abbey Road DLC
There was a raging debate going on last week at Engadget HQ over the role of dedicated ebook readers that spilled over on to the Engadget Show.
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Entelligence: Of ebooks and suburban moms
We’re confused as to how technology that was supposed to be available in 2006 can still be featured at an Emerging Tech conference in 2009, but so it is for General Electric’s attempt at holographic storage. Predicting drives for archival purposes in two or three years with consumer products around two years after that, manager Peter Lorraine claims Blu-ray has “two to four years of life to go” and expects licensees to clean up with speedy 3ms access time, 1TB+ storing (up from a mere 200GB ), backwards compatible hardware.
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GE shows off 1TB holographic discs but Wolf Blitzer remains skeptical
The Pentagon has been dreaming of portable pain guns for as long as we can remember , and if it has its druthers, said fantasy could soon become a reality.
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Portable pain gun could replace Colt 45s, logic in robot-controlled future
Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com. It seems that LL Cool J is still too hip to be seen rockin’ the latest and greatest from Samsung, but evidently Chris O’Donnell had no qualms doing the honors
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Screen Grabs: Instinct HD captures evidence in NCIS: Los Angeles
Well, would you look at that? With the launch of Microsoft’s next operating system merely 21 days away (give or take a few hours based on time zone), the Redmond giant seems to be proactively sending out Win7 Launch Party packs already. The first “unboxing” we’ve seen comes to us from a most unusual spot, one that Microsoft wasn’t actually equipped to ship to when the program first started
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Windows 7 party pack fittingly arrives on party-filled Cayman Islands
Helix Wind, a company that produces some very distinctive-looking wind turbines, is getting ready to start new trials in the US and Africa. These trials will involve testing the vertical wind turbines as a source of power for cellphone towers in areas where they may be off the grid, and carry much higher operating costs
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Helix Wind launching wind-powered cellphone tower trials in US and Africa
There she is. 20 months and 1 day after its original introduction to the world, the Garmin-Asus nüvifone G60 is at long last in our (admittedly sweaty) palms
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Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 unboxing and hands-on
Oh sure, we Americans love our fast food. And we love our technology. But do we really love the latter
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WiFi-enabled bathroom scale slides into USA, overweight Yanks sluggishly back away
