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Pink DualShock 3 arriving September 21, who’s manly enough to buy one?

Should the classy white, or the patriotic red and blue PlayStation controllers not take your fancy, Sony’s rolling out another hue just for you, discerning consumer: pink! The Japanese maker of everything with an electronic pulse has a bit of a tradition with this color and it’s not like the great PS3 hasn’t been licked [...]

Pentax K-5 DSLR leaks out, leaves us guessing at the specs

Quite appropriately for a camera, all we have in this here leak is the one image above. It shows a purported K-5 DSLR from Pentax, whose body looks almost a carbon copy of the well loved, but now aging, K-7. The biggest (only?) difference we’ve been able to spot between the two is in the [...]

iLoveHandles turns nano iPods into oversized watches

What happens when Apple introduces a square-shaped new iPod and adorns it with an analog watch face for a lock screen? A whole new cottage industry sprouts up, whereby entrepreneurial types dust off old and mostly worthless watch straps, cut out an iPod nano-shaped compartment in them, and charge you $19.99 for the privilege of [...]

Kno receives new funding for its humongous dual-screened tablet, still hoping to ship this year

If you need a tablet with presence you need the Kno. Its dual capacitive 14-inch IPS displays, each clocking in at 1,440 x 990, make this thing closer to a Surface than a Courier and surely present some unique challenges when it comes to pricing. Kno, the company, plans to sell it by the end [...]

Nokia’s OPK is out, replaced by Microsoft exec as President and CEO

The rumors were true. Nokia just announced a change in leadership: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is out, Stephen Elop, the current head of Microsoft’s Business Division, is in. That’s right, the very Finnish Nokia will now be led by a Canadian. Before Microsoft, Elop, a computer engineer by education, held senior executive positions at Juniper Networks, Adobe [...]

ViewSonic MB-P702, the color e-reader and HD video player you didn’t yet realize you needed

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and the same usually goes for tablets. But in the Great Venn Diagram of slate form factors, the ViewSonic MB-P702 seems to hover around the intersection of tablets and e-readers. It’s got a 7-inch 800 x 480 resolution touchscreen LCD display and functions as both [...]

Keepin’ it real fake: the affordable, off-contract Nokia Booklet 3G you’ve been waiting for, maybe

It may not be the most timely KIRF we’ve seen, but it looks like folks that were taken with the Nokia Booklet 3G’s design but not its high, on-contract price will soon have the device they’ve been waiting for — sort of. While its 3G-ness is still in question, this as yet unnamed netbook does [...]

Ask Engadget: Best e-reader for school use / PDF viewing?

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Noah, who needs a bit of assistance in making the transition from textbook to e-book. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry [...]

Apple backpedaling on some iOS development restrictions, will allow third party tools and ad services

Woah, who saw this coming? Apple has changed its super-controversial stance on third party developer tools for iOS apps, now allowing any and all comers, “as long as the resulting apps do not download any code.” We’re guessing this is mostly a nod to game developers, who use ported engines like Unreal and interpreters like [...]

Android Notifier sends notifications to your desktop

If you’ve ever used Android for any period of time, you know that the notification system can be both a blessing and a curse — it’s one of the most powerful, useful, and flexible approaches out there, but if you don’t keep up, your menu bar can stack up into a mess of cryptic numbered [...]

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