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Lego-borne BlackBerry Tour probably still lacks WiFi

How do you know you’ve reached status as an internationally-recognized icon? When someone decides to make a Lego representation of you, that’s when — so our hats go off to you, BlackBerry Tour, for this distinguished accomplishment. Well-traveled Lego artist Nathan Sawaya was recently tapped to turn RIM’s global CDMA traveler into a life-sized monolith of plastic bricks, though with an unusual twist: his unnamed patron wanted a working video display, too, which required some “trial and error” to integrate. It might not fit in a pocket, but we reckon you could still find a belt holster that could swallow this thing. Follow the break for video!

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Lego-borne BlackBerry Tour probably still lacks WiFi originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ZAGGsparq portable USB charger gets reviewed, adored
Imagine a HyperMac, but one that’s highly portable and engineered specifically to rejuvenate your USB-connecting gizmos. That, our friends, is the ZAGGsparq. Our good pals over at Gadling had a chance to sit down with the portable charger recently, and as expected, they came away duly impressed. At its core, this is little more than a portable 6000mAh battery with a pair of USB inputs; you simply plug whatever USB gizmo you’ve got into it (a smartphone, portable media player, e-reader, GPS system or anything else that can be charged over USB) and watch as it provides life where there was none. It also supports international power sockets (which you’ll have to provide separately), and it packs enough juice when fully charged to bring five dead iPhones back to full capacity. At just under a Benjamin, it’s hard to not recommend for the avid traveler, but feel free to give the source link a glance if you need more proof.

ZAGGsparq portable USB charger gets reviewed, adored originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Engadget’s Black Friday giveaway, part two: win a pack of PSP Go accessories!

Black Friday is one of those days you wish you could skip right over sometimes. The long lines, the disappointing deals, the stampedes and the arguments over Cabbage Patch Kids. We can sympathize. That’s why we’re hanging out here all day, with you! And we decided to pull out some things we stocked up on just to give away to you, our devoted readers. Read the full rules after the break and get commenting to win. Now we’ve got a pack of PSP Go accessories, including: an In-Ear headset, Component AV cable, Soft Carrying Case, Traveler Case, and a Cradle / Base. Just admit it: you want this.

Keep checking back all day — we’re going to do one giveaway every hour or so, and we have some great stuff to hand out, including an HP Envy 15!

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Engadget’s Black Friday giveaway, part two: win a pack of PSP Go accessories! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AutoPilot should be with you on your next trip

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USA Today has released AutoPilot for the iPhone and iPod touch, and it looks like a winner. This free app [iTunes link] lets you plan your trip, informs you of flight delays, gives you quick links to hotel, rental car and airline phone numbers, gets you the weather for your destination, and pulls up Flickr photos of where you are going. Whew!

There are lots of other travel apps, but I think AutoPilot has hit all the highlights of useful information that people will want in one place.

The app even reminds you to check in for your flight, and allows you to email your itinerary to others. If you need to quickly call your hotel or your airline, all that information is there. You can tap on a phone number and the call gets made, or you can save the info to contacts. You can also click on a URL and go to a hotel, airline or rental car website

I put in some suggested trips, and everything worked very well except for flights with connections. Each flight had to be entered one at a time. I’d have preferred to be able to enter all the flights at once by typing in flight numbers separated, for example, by a comma.

The app integrates with Tripit, so if you have an account there it can pick up your flight information. Tripit, by the way, has an excellent iPhone app [iTunes link] as well.

Everything else about this app worked very well. There are ads at the bottom of the screen, but I did not find them distracting or obtrusive.

Having the flight tracker is very nice when you are meeting friends at the airport, and the information appeared up to date. The app was developed by Mercury Intermedia, the same firm that did the excellent USA Today [iTunes link] app. It’s very slick and reliable for a version 1.0.

I can’t think of any reason why a traveler wouldn’t want to try this app out. I’m thinking about making a trip I don’t even need to go on, just for the experience.

One other suggestion I’d make. The app shouldn’t be limited to just air travel. If I’m driving somewhere, I’d still like the ability to define a trip, have the hotel and weather information and the destination galleries available for me, and maybe add some points of interest whether I’m driving or flying.

Check out the gallery for screen shots of AutoPilot in action:

TUAWAutoPilot should be with you on your next trip originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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