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Visualized: if the iPhone had happened in an alternate reality

This collection of devices — from Germany’s SKS Hinkel, and winner of an iF Product Design Award this year — is really a video intercom system. But if you use your imagination, from left to right, it looks like an iPod shuffle, an iPod classic, an i…

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Fabricate Yourself Kinect hack turns you into a 3D puzzle piece

We’ve been whittling our likeness into bars of soap for decades, but lucky for us someone’s come up with a far easier way to render our flawless good looks in miniature. Following in a long line of inventive Kinect hacks, the folks at Interactive Fabr…

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Wistron’s WiGO 1 and 2 streamers win iF design awards, presumably for strangeness

Though it could easily be mistaken for a dinosaur egg trapped in some prehistoric block of ice, what you’re looking at here is actually a set-top box. A media streamer, to be specific. Details are light, but Wistron’s so-called WiGO 1 and 2 have showe…

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inPulse Bluetooth smartwatch gets Facebook Places check-in app for Android (video)

Ever since Allerta released an SDK for its well-hyped inPulse smartwatch, it was only a matter of time before we start seeing more practical applications that take this Bluetooth peripheral beyond the BlackBerry ecosystem. For instance, the latest ex…

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VW’s Bulli van concept does iPad integration right, shockingly

After seeing many atrocious attempts, it seemed factory iPad integration was something that simply shouldn’t happen. Now, in Volkswagen’s Bulli concept, we’re seeing something that makes sense — something we’ve wanted to see for a while now. The tabl…

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BlackBerry PlayBook to be released on April 10th?

It’s a short and sweet disclosure from BGR this morning as multiple sources have apparently informed the news outlet that RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook will make its debut on store shelves on April 10th. The BlackBerry Tablet OS will reach Gold Master sta…

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Bing advances past Yahoo! to become world’s second most used search engine — with 4.4 percent

How far we’ve come from the heady days when Microsoft was willing to splash $44 billion to acquire Yahoo! Since then, the online portal has done whatever the opposite of going from strength to strength is, and today it’s suffered the somewhat predicta…

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The Engadget Interview: Ryan Bidan, BlackBerry PlayBook senior product manager

RIM held a little PlayBook party here in New York yesterday, giving us a chance to hang out with Ryan Bidan, the company’s senior product manager for the seven-inch tablet. In addition to chatting with us about battery life, connectivity, and pricing…

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Cox breaks return cable upload record with Motorola’s help, subscribers still waiting for their cable guy

There’s a somewhat narrow category here, but Cox Communications just set a benchmark for bandwidth on its Las Vegas network thanks to an RX48 DOCSIS 3.0 receiver from Motorola. That rate is 356Mbps on a 5 – 85MHz return path, which correlates to upstre…

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Google adding web-based in-app payments, probably some time in May

It’s not enough that you’ll soon be able to make in-app purchases on Android, Google wants to give you an outlet for your app spending online as well. The search giant is hard at work turning last year’s acquisition of Jambool and its Social Gold soft…

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