Filed under: Handsets , RIM , Verizon Wireless , EV-DO , CDMA , BlackBerry OS We’ve already given you our thoughts on RIM’s BlackBerry Tour , but our warm hearts just wouldn’t let us take the crowbar to it. Thankfully, the tool-wielding fiends over at GSM Phone Unlocking are a bit more calloused, as they’ve decided to dissect and reassemble the aforementioned smartphone in a nail-biting 5 minute, 38 second YouTube clip.

“To me it almost reminds me of the first Kindle, which I actually liked the design of…it’s just. It’s from SPACE. and then when you pick it up you start crying…and then your tears get on the oleophobic screen, but then you can just wipe them right off and there’s no smudges.” – @futurepaul on the HTC Hero during last week’s Engadget Podcast .

This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget every day to lucky readers until we run out of stuff or companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got an OWI Robotic Arm Kit on offer.

It’s yours. Allow me to explain. Earlier today, I mentioned in a post on Engadget that the “C” in “Nokia Cseries” could stand for “crap.” Taken alone, it’s pretty easy to construe that as a swipe at Nokia — but looking at the post as a whole, it was patently obvious that I was making a joke (a bad one, maybe, but a joke nonetheless). Alas, I took an old-fashioned whooping from commenters anyway. “Wow. Bashing a series that’s just a trademark filing is going too far,” one said.

We know that the LG GD910 watch phone will be available in Europe via Orange , and from the looks of it, it might debut in the US as well. The LG GD910 has just gotten approved by the FCC for US retail, and while this is certainly no assurance that it will indeed hit the North American market, this is surely good news for those hoping and praying for this watch phone to become available in the region. Who can blame them? A watch that also boasts of 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity and a touchscreen phone at the same time, the competition has nothing on the LG GD910 .

It was almost two weeks ago that we first heard about the patent for Sony’s PlayStation Eye-powered object motion detection, and now the company’s announcing facial recognition for the console. According to Gamasutra, Kish Hirani, SCEE’s Head of Developer Services, said that the facial recognition software would “detect gender and even the age of the face, separate facial features such as the nose, eyes and ears, and even detect whether you’re smiling or not.” This new gear will also work with the Sony Motion Controller, with the camera tracking X, Y and Z motion by using the glowing ball.

Garmin-Asus G60, M20 pics surface, Coming to Malaysia in 30 days – pmptoday.com 07/19/2009 It has certainly taken Garmin, now known as Garmin-Asus , a while to make their nuvifone G60 available to the public, but if these new pics are any indication, we might see both the Linux-based G60 and Windows Mobile-powered M20 out in Malaysia pretty soon. Word is that both phone will be available in the country “within 30 days” according to the source of these pics.

It was almost two weeks ago that we first heard about the patent for Sony’s PlayStation Eye -powered object motion detection , and now the company’s announcing facial recognition for the console. According to Gamasutra , Kish Hirani, SCEE’s Head of Developer Services, said that the facial recognition software would “detect gender and even the age of the face, separate facial features such as the nose, eyes and ears, and even detect whether you’re smiling or not.” This new gear will also work with the Sony Motion Controller , with the camera tracking X, Y and Z motion by using the glowing ball.

It was almost two weeks ago that we first heard about the patent for Sony’s PlayStation Eye -powered object motion detection , and now the company’s announcing facial recognition for the console. According to Gamasutra , Kish Hirani, SCEE’s Head of Developer Services, said that the facial recognition software would “detect gender and even the age of the face, separate facial features such as the nose, eyes and ears, and even detect whether you’re smiling or not.” This new gear will also work with the Sony Motion Controller , with the camera tracking X, Y and Z motion by using the glowing ball.

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentIt was almost two weeks ago that we first heard about the patent for Sony’s PlayStation Eye-powered object motion detection, and now the company’s announcing facial recognition for the console. According to Gamasutra, Kish Hirani, SCEE’s Head of Developer Services, said that the facial recognition software would “detect gender and even the age of the face, separate facial features such as the nose, eyes and ears, and even detect whether you’re smiling or not.” This new gear will also work with the Sony Motion Controller, with the camera tracking X, Y and Z motion by using the glowing ball.