Peripherals

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 Sang-Jung, who is desperately in search of the perfect cordless critter to take some of the strain away from that trackpad.
“I’m heading to [...]

Tired of hearing that your next favorite netbook / nettop is hamstrung with one of those woefully underpowered GMA950 graphics chipsets? Eager to see what all AMD is going to do about it? If The Inquirer is to be believed, an up and coming integrated chipset should elevate the multimedia prowess of low-end machines, as [...]

Like my grandmother always says, sometimes the best gadgets are the ones you build yourself — with kits imported from Japan, purchased at places like Fred Flare. Princeton’s Paper Speaker kit comes with a pair of 1W stereo speakers, a USB connection, paste, and a paper template for building a retro desktop sound system. Three [...]

UK researchers said they were getting close earlier this year, but in one brilliant fraction of a second a gaggle of Yalies beat those limeys to the punch, with a team led by Robert Schoelkopf, a professor of Applied Physics at Yale, creating what’s being hailed as the first quantum processor to actually perform calculations. [...]

Oh, Thanko, fine purveyor of hidden cameras and ill-advised input devices, whenever it gives us a peripheral that looks like, well, a peripheral, it feels like a big step in the right direction. And what do we have here? The Silent Mouse EX is a bit of a misnomer. After all, it isn’t totally silent [...]

If this OLED-laden keyboard looks a little familiar, it should, ’cause we saw the same one back at Computex when it was known as the United Keys OLED Display Keyboard (itself manufactured by Foxconn). Of course, with the OCZ name comes widespread US availability, although there’s unfortunately still no word of a price or release [...]

Of all the AC adapters stuffed into your personal item when globetrotting, the plug used in Merry Old England must surely be the most cumbersome — its three copper prongs flung to the extremes of a giant block of plastic. That Victorian holdover gets a major re-do with this UK Folding Plug concept. The [...]

Motorola isn’t shying away from a fight here with its Endeavor HX1 Bluetooth headset — and if there’s anything the Bluetooth headset industry needs, it’s some manner of controversy. The company is calling its new HX1 the “only Bluetooth headset to use true bone conduction technology,” with a user activated “Stealth Mode” that switches the [...]

Looking for something a little more in your HTPC keyboard than just a multitouch trackpad? Then how about a built-in 3D mouse that’ll have you waving the keyboard around at some potential peril to your couch-mates? That’s just one feature of Cideko’s new Air Keyboard, which also packs a pair of gamepad-style shoulder buttons in [...]

Logitech may have thrown caution to the wind with the designs for its recent V220 RF-based laptop mice, but it looks to have brought things back to basics for its new M555b Bluetooth mouse, which packs most of the featured you’d expect in a clean and simple package. That includes five programmable buttons, a 1,000 [...]