Today in Engadget: February 17, 2006

Features
News
- MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery
- RIP OSx86 Project?
- Smartvue V2 -- automatically configuring IP video surveillance
- Sanyo Diply Talk voice recorder with miniSD slot
- Rollei's 8-megapixel da8324 compact
- Apple patents touchscreen control interface
- Kodak launches four new compact digicams
- PlayStation 3 not shown, still being launched in 2006
- Samsung X11 laptop brings the Core Duo
- Toshiba plans HD DVD firmware upgrade, takes show on the road
- Build your own wireless music player
- AACS finalized, Blu-ray and HD DVD: game on!
- Mustek drops the uber-cheap 8 megapixel MDC-832Z
- NEC develops devices to draw power from fluorescent lights
- Toshiba's new WLT66 HD LCDs
- Norinchukin Bank to issue vein reading bank cards
- A PhonEY Bluetooth headset disguises what phone you're really toting
- BioSub underwater environment nearing completion
- Breath Test Pen for alcoholism, not halitosis

















