Category: Gadgets

Pigeon-inspired drone bends its wings to make it more agile

[ad_1] “Birds can dynamically alter the shape of their wings during flight, although how this is accomplished is poorly understood,” the researchers wrote in one of the studies they published. So, they used dead pigeons to study how birds bend and extend their wings to change their shape. What they found was that the angle […]

The Morning After: Comcast and NBC explain their Peacock streaming service

[ad_1] Ready for another trip?Engadget Podcast: Super Nintendo World, here we go! Devindra, Cherlynn and Senior Editor Nick Summers take a relaxing break from the madness of CES by diving into some of this week’s news, like the trailer for Japan’s Super Nintendo World park. They also question the wisdom of Sony abandoning E3 (yet […]

Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer won’t arrive until after 2021

[ad_1] Cyberpunk 2077, was supposed to be part of the pretty long list of much-awaited games dropping in April, along with the Resident Evil 3 and Final Fantasy VII remakes. (Square Enix also move back FFVII’s release for a month.) However, CD Projekt Red had to delay the RPG’s release by five months to give […]

Behringer’s synth clone train keeps rolling with modular System 100

[ad_1] Word is the Behringer System 100 parts will start at $50 and top out at around $99, which puts it at the extreme low end of Eurorack gear. And that’s just a fraction of a vintage Roland module, which can fetch well over $600. To start with there will be 11 modules in the […]

Wirecutter’s best deals: Save $99 on a 55-inch TCL 5 Series 4K TV

[ad_1] TCL 5 Series 55S525 4K TV Street price: $380; deal price: $281 with code TCLDOLBY15 Down to $281 when you use code TCLDOLBY15, this is a great deal on our top budget 4K TV pick. The TCL 5 Series 55S525 4K TV has a street price around $380, but this drop matches the previous […]

The Moog Subsequent 25 offers classic synth bass with modern amenities

[ad_1] Lets start with Duo mode which splits the two oscillators so that you play two notes at once. Of course you can always stack them back up to get that iconic mono bass sound. There’s more headroom so that you can louder and richer clean tones, but also a retuned multidrive circuit and filter […]

Search warrant suggests FBI pulled data from a locked iPhone 11 Pro Max

[ad_1] The phone belonged to Baris Ali Koch, who helped his brother convicted of hate crime escape the country. Koch’s lawyer confirmed to Forbes that the phone was locked and that authorities didn’t have access to the passcode. They also didn’t force Koch to use FaceID. Under “inventory” in the warrant, a handwritten note says […]

Gamechanger Audio introduces an optical spring reverb pedal

[ad_1] Traditional reverb tanks — which add a sense of space to your guitar pedal — were first used in electric organs. Fender quickly added similar units to some of its guitar amplifiers, arguably redefining the sound of the era. As technology progressed, engineers created reverb effects using capacitors, rather than springs and transducers. Eventually, […]

2020 will bring new ways to upgrade your hearing

[ad_1] Olive Union Smart Ear $249 If you have mild hearing loss in just one ear, a pair of hearing aids might not make sense (or fit your budget). Olive’s Smart Ear aims to bring consumer headphone style to an assisted hearing device. It’s not a “hearing aid” instead it’s an amplifier (think reading glasses, […]

Microsoft’s Chromium Edge browser is here

[ad_1] As we’ve covered in earlier previews of the next-generation Edge browser, you can look forward to significantly faster browsing performance, better overall security, and a slew of helpful new features, like an Internet Explorer mode for compatibility with older web apps. Collections, a feature that lets you gather information from web pages and organize […]