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The Engadget Show - 002: Steve Ballmer, Droid, Nook, and new Macs

by Joshua Topolsky posted Oct 23rd 2009 at 4:47PM

Do we really need to tell you what this is all about? Steve Ballmer. Windows 7 launch day. Pure magic. Sit back and enjoy a spirited conversation with the CEO of Microsoft -- then stick around to watch Josh, Paul, and Nilay get into it over the week's news!

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel
Special guest: Steve Ballmer
Produced by: Chad Mumm
Directed by: Michael Slavens
Music by: Bit Shifter
Visuals by: Paris and outpt
Opening titles by: Julien Nantiec

Download the Show: The Engadget Show - 002 (HD) / The Engadget Show - 002 (iPod / iPhone / Zune formatted)

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The Engadget Show, live with Steve Ballmer!

by Joshua Topolsky posted Oct 22nd 2009 at 3:21PM

Keep your eyes tuned to this post -- because at around 2:30PM ET (give or take), we'll be starting The Engadget Show live, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer as our guest! You don't want to miss it!

Update: And that's a wrap! Thanks to everyone who watched the stream, we'll have the full recording available tomorrow.

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Reminder: The Engadget Show with Steve Ballmer tapes tomorrow -- here's how to attend (or livestream it)!

by Joshua Topolsky posted Oct 21st 2009 at 5:14PM

If you've heard that the next Engadget Show will be featuring a live, one-on-one interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (on the Windows 7 launch day, no less) -- you've heard correctly. Additionally, our good friend Bit Shifter will be there providing chiptune jams, and Paris and Outpt will be on hand for some brain searing visual art. And of course, the editors of the site will sit down for a roundtable discussion of the week in news. If you'd like to join us for the live taping, you can -- just check out the info below. If you can't make it in the flesh, don't worry. We'll be livestreaming on the day-of, and we'll also have a full, edited version of the Show available just a few days later for download via the site, iTunes, or the Zune Marketplace.

The Show will take place at the Times Center, part of The New York Times Building in the heart of New York City at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues. Tickets are -- as always -- free to anyone who would like to attend, but seating is limited, and tickets will be first come, first served... so get there early! Here's all the info you need:

There is no admission fee -- tickets are completely free
The event is all ages
Ticketing will begin at the Times Center at 12:30PM on Thursday, October 22nd, and the show begins at 2:30PM
You cannot collect tickets for friends or family -- anyone who would like to come must be present to get a ticket
Seating capacity in the Times Center is about 340, and once we're full, we're full
The venue is located at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City (map after the break)
The show length is around an hour

If you're a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we'll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com.

If you can't make it to the live event, we'll have a stream here on Engadget (provided by USTREAM) which coincides with the taping. Just tune your browser to Engadget at 2PM on the 22nd to catch it. You can also hit our USTREAM page.

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The Engadget Show with Steve Ballmer tapes Thursday, October 22nd -- here's how to attend (or livestream it)!

by Joshua Topolsky posted Oct 20th 2009 at 7:02PM

If you've heard that the next Engadget Show will be featuring a live, one-on-one interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (on the Windows 7 launch day, no less) -- you've heard correctly. Additionally, our good friend Bit Shifter will be there providing chiptune jams, and Paris and Outpt will be on hand for some brain searing visual art. And of course, the editors of the site will sit down for a roundtable discussion of the week in news. If you'd like to join us for the live taping, you can -- just check out the info below. If you can't make it in the flesh, don't worry. We'll be livestreaming on the day-of, and we'll also have a full, edited version of the Show available just a few days later for download via the site, iTunes, or the Zune Marketplace.

The Show will take place at the Times Center, part of The New York Times Building in the heart of New York City at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues. Tickets are -- as always -- free to anyone who would like to attend, but seating is limited, and tickets will be first come, first served... so get there early! Here's all the info you need:

There is no admission fee -- tickets are completely free
The event is all ages
Ticketing will begin at the Times Center at 12:30PM on Thursday, October 22nd, and the show begins at 2:30PM
You cannot collect tickets for friends or family -- anyone who would like to come must be present to get a ticket
Seating capacity in the Times Center is about 340, and once we're full, we're full
The venue is located at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City (map after the break)
The show length is around an hour

If you're a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we'll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com.

If you can't make it to the live event, we'll have a stream here on Engadget (provided by USTREAM) which coincides with the taping. Just tune your browser to Engadget at 2PM on the 22nd to catch it. You can also hit USTREAM proper, where the Show will be featured.

Subscribe to the Show:

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Giveaway: Win one of ten very special pink Nyko Kamas for Wii!

by Laura June posted Oct 16th 2009 at 5:46PM

Hey there, happy Friday! We here at Engadget love giving things away, as you probably already know... and today we have something very special for our dear, beloved readers. Nyko's graciously provided us with 10 very special pink Kama wireless nunchuks for the Wii (which should go very nicely with those just-unveiled Wii Wands). These Kamas aren't available to purchase -- so if you win, you'll be one of a very select few to own them, which is always nice to hear, right? Read the full rules after the break, and get commenting to win! Good luck.

Huge thanks to Nyko for providing the gear!

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Engadget Japan meetup wrap-up and farewell Japan!

by Joshua Fruhlinger posted Oct 15th 2009 at 11:41PM

So there are ways to wrap up trips and there are ways to wrap... up... trips. After four weeks of Engadget souls roaming the trains of Tokyo for TGS and CEATEC, we finally closed things out with a massive reader meetup with Engadget Japan. About 500 rabid (but very friendly) Engadget Japan fans lined up in Roppongi to meet the editors and see some mind-boggling, sometimes hysterical, and always interesting presentations. Thanks to Maywa Denki for his artistic impressions of Engadget readers (and the amazing Otamatone musical...thing). Also big ups to Samo Dengi (composer of music for Tekken), Cerevo, Acer, Microsoft, and Sony. But most of all, thanks to our amazing readers world-round, and thank you Japan! We are humbled, honored, and oh, so tired. See you next year! Rainen mata oaishimashooo! Video of the event after the break (taken on a 3G Android device, btw!).

Gallery: Engadget Japan meetup 2009

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Buy this book: Chris Ziegler's 'Palm Pre for Dummies'!

by Joshua Topolsky posted Oct 13th 2009 at 7:03PM

Now look, we're not calling you stupid or anything -- but you don't really know what to do with that phone... do you? Why don't you make things easier on everyone and just pick up this handy tome, written by our in-house Dostoyevsky, Engadget Mobile lead Chris Ziegler. We don't want to ruin anything for you here, but by the time you're done with this sweet piece, you'll be so handy with a Pre, Palm will call you for tech support. Is that overselling it? Nah.

Engadget reader meetup in Tokyo!

by Laura June posted Oct 12th 2009 at 6:06PM

If you're in the vicinity of Tokyo, Japan on October 15th, you're going to want to read this. Our compatriots at Engadget Japanese are having a reader meetup! There will be music (with a performance by Mawya Denki as well as Sano Dengi / sanodg of DS-10 fame) and free food, plus you'll get to hang with the way cool editors of our Japanese site. Believe us, you want to attend. There will also be live product demos by Microsoft, Sony, Acer, Sanyo, Nikon and a Q&A with the editors. Did we mention the giveaways? No? Oh yeah, giveaways! Here are the details:

Date: October 15, 2009
Location: Super-Deluxe (map)
Address: B1F 3-1-25 Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Time: Doors open at 19:00, event begins at 19:30
The venue holds about 300 peeps so get there early!

Head here for full information.

The Engadget Show is available in the Zune Marketplace!

by Joshua Topolsky posted Oct 9th 2009 at 4:36PM

Hey cats and kittens -- just a quick note to let you know that the Show is now available for download via the Zune Marketplace. You can nab the feed here.

And while we have your attention, don't forget that the next Show will be taking place October 22nd, and we'll be sitting down with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer!

If you missed the first two installments, you can see the long show with Jon Rubinstein here, and a short segment on Times Square right here.

Oh, and of course, you can subscribe in iTunes and via standard RSS as well:

[iTunes] Subscribe to the Show directly in iTunes (M4V).
[RSS M4V] Add the Engadget Show feed (M4V) to your RSS aggregator and have it delivered automatically.

The next Engadget Show tapes live October 22nd -- with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer!

by Joshua Topolsky posted Oct 6th 2009 at 2:31PM

The Engadget Show returns Thursday, October 22nd, in New York City, and we couldn't be more excited about our guest. We'll sit down live and in-person with CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer for a frank and unscripted one-on-one conversation... on the day of the Windows 7 launch!

As you may already know, the Show is filmed live in front of an audience once a month -- but if you can't make it, don't worry. We're bringing the video back home to Engadget (and as a free download here or in the iTunes Store) for your viewing pleasure. The full show will be online just a few days after we tape.

For this next show, we will also be livestreaming! (Details to come)

We'll have a lot more info in the coming days and weeks (like where to be and when), but for now, mark your calendars... and get ready! If you want to catch up, you can see the first episode of The Engadget Show here, and our first short segment here.

If you're a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we'll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com.

Challenge: Make your own Natal demo video, get yourself on The Engadget Show

by Joshua Topolsky posted Sep 28th 2009 at 2:42PM

We hope by now you've seen the video of Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda demoing the latest software to undergo the Project Natal treatment -- Beautiful Katamari and Space Invaders Extreme. If you haven't, you really should, because there's nothing quite like seeing a man gesticulate wildly for seemingly no reason. In that post, a commenter of ours -- aardWolf -- made the genius suggestion that people do their own "demo" videos of Project Natal. We think that's a grand, grand idea... and we're going one better. If you make those videos, we'll put them together in a segment for The Engadget Show. Here's what we want from you, the reader:

Film yourself "playing" a game "with" Project Natal
Upload the video to YouTube, Viddler, or the video site of your choice tagged with "engadget natal contest" (with quotes, at least on Viddler), and specify exactly what game you're playing. Feel free to give details.
Email us at engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com with "natal video" in the subject, as well as the link and any pertinent info you'd like to provide (or you can just leave a link in comments)
Lather, rinse, repeat

Once we get some good entries, we'll cut the whole shebang together in a segment for The Engadget Show (provided you guys aren't super boring or something -- though we don't think that will be an issue). It goes without saying that by submitting a video you're granting us the rights to use it on the Show and in any Show promotional materials we might produce. Don't worry, we won't sell you into slavery or anything. Probably. In case your memory is super bad, we've included the clip of Kudo after the break.

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Happy 3rd birthday Engadget HD!

by Ben Drawbaugh posted Sep 22nd 2009 at 6:02PM

Yes we can't believe it either, but as of today Engadget HD is officially done with the terrible twos. The EHD crew's made us proud ever since their first post 36 months ago by bringing all of you the best HD news coverage they can, and in that time they've written over 11,672 posts and recorded 125 podcasts, which is pretty crazy. We're looking forward to many more years of HD goodness, but of course none of this would be possible without all of you Engdaget HD readers, so go ahead and give yourselves a pat on the back -- and then get back to reading.

A note about last week's Engadget Podcast

by Joshua Topolsky posted Sep 14th 2009 at 5:16PM

A lot of our faithful listeners have inquired as to the status of last week's podcast. We regret to inform everyone that we lost the audio just after we were done recording. To be more exact, the Mac Pro at AOL's studio which was recording our rare (and magical) in-person podcast decided to upchuck the boogie and destroy our precious tracks. What that means is we will be skipping that show (it is already the following week) -- though in the next few days we'll bring you the first-ever Engadget Show as well as a proper podcast. Sorry everyone, and thanks for understanding!

Thanks for coming out to The Engadget Show!

by Joshua Topolsky posted Sep 14th 2009 at 12:55PM

People of Earth -- we wanted to say thank you to everyone who came out to the first-ever taping of The Engadget Show last night! We couldn't have asked for a better crowd, and Jon Rubinstein was an amazing first guest. We're going to have the full video on the site this week, but if you can't wait till then, the folks over at Gear Patrol took some photos and did a writeup, and Weblogs Inc.'s director Brad Hill snapped some great pictures as well -- hit the links below and check it all out.

Note: If you were in the audience and want to know how to get your Touchstone, we'll have all that info in the video post!

Read - GP Events: The Engadget Show
Read - Brad's photos

Engadget's back to school giveaway, part 3!

by Laura June posted Sep 14th 2009 at 12:04PM

We told you when we unveiled our back to school guide that we'd be giving away a bunch of gear, remember that? Well, here we are, ready to deliver. So what do we have in our bag of goodies this time? Let's just say our winner is going to be one happy camper. A bunch of the companies we featured in the guide have graciously handed over some gear for one lucky reader. The list of gear that will be in your bag is below -- so read the rules (seriously, they've changed -- read them!) and submit a comment to be entered! Good luck.

One randomly chosen winner will receive:

One (1) Sony DSC G3 digital camera
One (1) MyTouch 3G phone
One (1) iHome iP9 dock
One (1) Incase Backpack
One (1) Incase Neoprene sleeve
One (1) Lenovo IdeaPad s10 laptop
One (1) Samsung SCX-4500W printer
One (1) Sony Reader Pocket Edition
One (1) copy of Microsoft Home and Office Student

Big thanks to the following companies for providing us with gear to give away: Sony, T-Mobile, iHome, Incase, Lenovo, Samsung, and Microsoft.

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