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Cowon P5 Portable Media Player Has 5-inch Touchscreen, Haptics, Usual Cowon Goodness

Cowon's upcoming P5 will improve on their A3 and Q5W portable media players (which we've both reviewed) with the addition of a haptics touch-feedback feature. The rest is fairly similar: a 800x480 screen, FM radio, stereo Bluetooth, TV-out, stereo speakers, USB, extreme codec support and 40GB-80GB sizes. There will still be Wi-Fi, but you'll have to get it tacked on after the fact with a dongle. The Korean price is $430ish by the end of the month. No US info yet as far as we know. Maybe we can trade them an early sneak peek at Starcraft 3 for this? [Cowon via CNET]

2:51 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Jason Chen
2,724 views, 30 comments

Latest by deusdiabolus: I'm wondering how this would work as a DJ tool...maybe a simple app with a crossfader, two inputs/outputs, cue and digital pitch. Probably not quite within the range of this, but hey...free idea. more »

dealzmodo

Dealzmodo: Treo 755p For $100 on Verizon

It's not even a year old, but the Treo 755p is already being axed by Verizon to make way for the Centro. However, it will not die in vain. You can now score the phone from Verizon for $100 with a 2-year contract. [Verizon via Treocentral]

1:50 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Sean Fallon
1,619 views, 11 comments

gemstone

Acer Ships Ginormous 8920G Gemstone Notebooks; 16:9, Dual HDDs, Blu-ray Included, Hernia Belt Not

Acer's now shipping the 8920G Gemstone laptops, and they're even more impressive than we'd thought. While not the biggest screen we've seen on a portable, they sport an impressive 18.2-inch LCD at 1920x1080 with a 16:9 aspect ratio, perfect for watching movies on the integrated Blu-ray R/W drives. They're not light, tipping the scales at just over nine pounds, but their 1.6-inch thickness makes up for some of that. What's really interesting is Acer put dual hard drives in these machines, meaning you get 640GB total, probably the highest we've ever seen in a shipping portable. If you're looking for the ultimate in desktop replacements, these are a great place to start, if you can afford the $3,000 price tag. [Trusted Reviews]

10:00 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Matt Hickey
5,930 views, 31 comments

Latest by n/a: I think this is the wave of the future. Mobile desktop machines will be very handy when were all living in a cardboard refrigerator box and drinking yougurt from a bag. more »

comcast

FCC Ready To Slam Comcast For P2P Filtering

It looks as though Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is ready to lay the hammer down on Comcast regarding their wanton BitTorrent blocking. As was evident in the recent net neutrality hearing, Martin is hellbent on protecting consumers by establishing rules for transparency within ISPs. In an interview with AP, Martin noted that "The commission has adopted a set of principles that protect consumers' access to the internet, and we found that Comcast's actions in this instance violated our principles." He went on to say that they "arbitrarily" blocked internet access and failed to disclose this to customers. More »

5:40 PM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,486 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: I was reading about the download cap Comcast is supposedly going to impose of around 250GB/Month. In the article, [www.internetevolution.com] , the writer tries different methods to estimate just "how much is too much". Video streaming is the most demanding more »

rumors

Nikon Coolpix P6000 Gets Leaked, Rumored to Deliver an Absurd 13.5 Megapixels

What looks to be the upcoming Nikon Coolpix P6000 has leaked, showing a picture of the high-end point-and-shoot as well as some of the specs and a purported release date of this August. Most notable is an absolutely-bananas 13.5-megapixel sensor, which should provide you with pictures large enough to print billboards from. The follow-up to the P5000, it's aimed at people who want better quality shots than your average point-and-shoot without the bulk of a DSLR. No word on pricing, but the P5000 debuted at $400, so place your estimates in that ballpark. [Nikon Rumors]

5:37 PM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Adam Frucci
4,276 views, 31 comments

Latest by n/a: I have a P5100 and its perfect. Feels like a real camera should. One wonders what would happen if you turned all these negatives into positives, would you still get good pictures? Maybe we are becoming more obsessed with numbers more »

lg

LG Getting New KC910 As Flagship Phone With Killer Camera Features

There's apparently a new touchscreen handset from LG on the way, and early word is that it's slated to be the Korean phone maker's new flagship phone. So far known as the KC910, it appears to be more camera than phone, shooting at 8-megapixels with a real Xenon flash, face detection, image stabilization and a 480p camcorder function, which is worth noting. It also supposedly has an 800x480 resolution screen, which means it can show 16:9 movies with no cropping, all in a form factor a little over half an inch thick. If they can throw in a few other high-end features like Wi-Fi and a good browser then this handset could out-media the iPhone and be a real challenger, but we're holding our judgment till we've seen it in action. [Electronista, via DC Sources, via Ubergizmo]

8:51 PM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Matt Hickey
5,580 views, 27 comments

Latest by n/a: The picture posted reminds me of the episode of Flight of the Conchords, when Brett makes Jermaine a "camera phone". more »

this post is dedicated to Adrian Covert, who drives a Sony Ericsson cabriolet

Sony Ericsson Cancels Paris and BeiBei Smartphones

Sony Ericsson's Paris, much coveted by S-E purists, has been canned, according to the Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog. The Paris, aka the P5i, has been filed under T (for trash) alongside its sister smartphone, the BeiBei, or the G702. Apparently it's to do with the less-than-enthusiastic reactions from some of the mobile phone bloggers, who weren't exactly gagging for it. There's also speculation that a lot of its features were already lagging behind those of its competitors—and this is before it had even hit the streets. I guess we'll never have Paris. [Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog via Mobile Mentalism]

8:45 AM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By AddyDugdale
1,762 views, 19 comments

Latest by spacecadetdavsot: awwww, i liked these more »

cyberlink

CyberLink Uses ATI Card To Transcode Four 1080p Video Files Simultaneously

The fashionable thing these days is to take the tremendous processing power of graphics cards and put them to use when you're not utilizing them to render games. CyberLink, for one, has come up with a pretty ingenous method to take an ATI or NVIDIA card (in their case, the demo was on an ATI Radeon 4850 512MB card) and convert four 1080p MPEG-2 movies into MPEG-4. Simultaneously. As long as you've got a pretty fast video card, all you need is a copy of CyberLink PowerDirector 7 and you can be doing this too. We hope this is the kind of thing Apple's going to be putting into Snow Leopard. [TG Daily]

6:00 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Jason Chen
3,848 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: @ichi1 you must have spyware/adware on your machine. An idling computer without any software intentionally running in the background should be 0% as shown by task manager, although that 0% is really a rounded off number. more »

hdtv

"HD for Kids!" Coloring Book: Now You Really Have to Stay Inside the Lines

This great "HD for Kids!" coloring book by Non-Toxic Reviews teaches tykes all about the joys—and pitfalls—of High-Def TV through activities like tracing burn-in on a plasma screen and the borderline-autistic "draw 1,080 dots inside this HDTV". The book is too funny not to be a little tongue-in-cheek, but the lessons are real and helpful for people of all ages. I can definitely relate to the part that gets the young 'uns disappointed early in life when they realize they have four HDMI devices, but only one input to plug them into. Check out our favorite pages in the gallery, and get the full book for free by hitting the link. [Non-Toxic Reviews via BBG]

7:29 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Benny Goldman
2,844 views, 13 comments

Latest by Killjoy: @Channing: ^_^ more »

projector

Samsung's P400 DLP Projector is Tiny for Portability, Sleek too

Samsung's new P400 Pocket Imager projector is designed mainly for businesspeople on the go, so it's pretty tiny. Inside, its DLP unit is a native 800 x 600 resolution and its LED lighting pushes out 150 lumens, resulting in a 30- to 40-inch display capability with 1000:1 contrast ratio. It takes the standard RGB, composite, S-video and audio inputs, and has two 1-watt speakers. Plus, though it's no pico-projector, it's just 5 x 3.7 x 2 inches in size and weighs 1.9 pounds, so it'll carry nicely in your laptop bag. And you know what? Just coz it's businessy doesn't mean it has to look ugly or utilitarian: so Samsung has actually made this thing look pretty good. Available now for $749, full press release below. More »

4:52 AM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,125 views, 4 comments

Latest by Schalliol: Will, 150 lumens be sufficient? In a bright room 3000 doesn't seem to be enough. I wouldn't expect miracles at this size, but it would be nice to know if it is usable. more »

reviews

$4300 Kaleidescape 1080p DVD Streamer Reviewed (Still Not Real HD)

Sound & Vision gave a gushing review to the Kaleidescape 1080p player, a DVD upscaler that streams movies from a home server for the price of a nice used car. They especially liked the Gennum VXP video processor chip, which upscales DVD content to vividly sharp 1080p detail, with very accurate colors and high contrast. The Kaleidescape's updated ability to play content without importing it to the server first was also a big draw. But seriously, $4300? Come on. More »

10:41 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Benny Goldman
3,087 views, 6 comments

Latest by Midda: "Blu-ray looks the same as DVD on a standard definition TV" Quote of the day. more »

google

Google Tools Will Tell You If Your ISP Is Slowing Down Your Connection

And I was starting to feel unfulfilled by the stuff coming out of Google's labs. Its senior policy director, Richard Whitt, says that they're cooking up software that'll tell you if your ISP is screwing with or slowing down your connection because you're hogging too much bandwidth, and what exactly they're doing to it. (There's already some available, BTW, since Whitt didn't mention a release date.) But it's not necessarily because they believe willy nilly in net neutrality. More »

7:00 PM on Sat Jun 14 2008
By matt buchanan
46,311 views, 20 comments

Latest by maven2k: I would totally download this. I have Roadrunner "turbo" and it seems to be losing it's "turb-ness" lately. I trust Google a hell of a lot more than Time Warner. more »

laptops

HP EliteBook 6930p: One Badass Business Laptop

HP is announcing 10 business notebooks today, but there's only one that we care about: the flagship EliteBook 6930p, a ruggedized, super-encrypted, QuickLook 2-boosted, 4-and-a-half pounder. More »

4:00 AM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Benny Goldman
18,081 views, 7 comments

blu-ray

Rumor: Samsung BD-P2500 Blu-ray Player, First Sammy With BD-Live Capabilities

Some French message board has rumor of a new Samsung Blu-ray player called the BD-P2500. There have been countless before, but the hot thing about this is that its the first with the hardware to support full spec BD-Live from the Korean company. Update: Samsung has said that the previously announced BD-P1500 will come "BD-Live-ready," with a firmware upgrade required to take it to the full 2.0 spec. This rumored player would likely come with 2.0 action already built in. More »

4:35 PM on Sat Jun 7 2008
By Brian Lam
3,192 views, 6 comments

Latest by n/a: After my negative experience with the BDP-1000, I'll stay away from anything Samsung. My blu ray player no longer plays Blu Ray discs, only dvds!!! Must have something to do with the firmware updating procedure. That goes for Sony as well! more »

apple's military contract

Apple Goes To War (This Time Not With Microsoft)

When Apple purchased chip manufacturer P.A. Semi, the Department of Defense was worried. Why? P.A. Semi manufactures chips for ten different military systems, and has $100 million in deals with the DoD over the next four years. And the DoD never expected Apple to keep supporting the sweet, deadly chips.

But they were wrong.

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4:30 PM on Sat May 17 2008
By Mark Wilson
34,997 views, 69 comments

Latest by uberfu: I remember when the G4 Tower was released - there was scuttle about how it was the first personal computer capable of lauching a missile_ So now that we have more powerful Macs than the G4 AND Apple just bought a more »

hdtvs

Samsung's High End 650 Series LCDs Reviewed (Verdict: Great)

CNet's reviewed Samsung's 52-inch 650 series LCD, the LN52A650. While there is a 750 series, it's worth noting that those sets get MPEG and MP3 playback from USB drives but have the same picture. So, for this generation of Samsung LCDs, this is as good as the picture gets. In summary, David Katzmaier loved the set. More »

Feature

5:50 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Brian Lam
11,476 views, 7 comments

samsung

Samsung P960 Heralds the European Arrival of the Mobile TV Cellphone

While mobile TV cellphones are ten-a-penny in the Far East, the West is pretty much virgin territory for them. Samsung's P960, however, may have got the ball rolling, a mobile TV phone aimed at European consumers. A sleek gray slider, the P960 supports both European mobile TV standards, DVB-CBMS and OMA-BCAST, and its 2.6-inch QVGA TFT screen even lets you watch two channels at the same time. As to whether we're going to see a US-friendly version later on in the year—well, that's not clear yet, but since the menu behind the dude is in dollars, perhaps the Koreans are making their press budget go a little further. Press release is after the jump.
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3:55 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By AddyDugdale
2,163 views, 12 comments

Latest by n/a: WTF for? What's wrong with a cell phone that... Wait for it, novel concept coming... *Makes and answers cell phone calls*!?! If I want a TV, I don't need one with a screen so small the people look like diatoms. more »

r/c planes

Top Gun 2008, the Movie (Without Cruise, Fortunately)

Not everything was about the stunning A-10 Warthog at last week's Top Gun 2008 competition, the largest R/C event in the world. 10,000 people watched the 120 invitation-only R/C airplanes competition—which included everything from from World War I Fokker fighters to WW2's Mustangs and Lightnings to Vietnam War's Phantoms, and plenty of civil aviation models. Gigantic gallery of this year's edition after the jump.
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10:30 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Jesus Diaz
27,009 views, 15 comments

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