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Motorola Announces Updated V620, Five More Clamshells

Good lord, Motorola dropped a whole boatload of phones last night. I don’t think it makes sense for us to into every last detail about them today, but there are some interesting overarching qualities, like the fact that they’re all clamshell and the fact that they all have Bluetooth. The sexiest is clearly the V620,…

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DigitalFocus: Samsung YH-999 is Nice; TiVoToGo Details

I got a chance to fool around with Samsung’s Portable Media Center last night for a bit at the pre-event press boozing for the DigitalLife show. I should have taken a picture of the YH-999 with something next to it for reference, but you’ll just have to trust me when I say it’s much smaller…

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Hot: Archos Gmini XS200

Word up to Archos and the official announcement of the Gmini XS200, the claimed “world’s smallest” 20GB MP3 player (and it does look pretty tiny) that happens to have an extremely pleasing price—just $250. Archos’s other new small player, the Gmini 400, is already my favorite portable video player of this generation, so I have…

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Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner

I’ve had a nasty bias against SC Johnson’s Scrubbing Bubbles ever since, as a small child, I discovered that the bubbles do not actually have whisker brush mustaches. I knew even then that they were not likely to be sentient—I wasn’t retarded— just like the Kool Aid man was not actually a living, breathing creature,…

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Audiovox SMT 5600 Reviewed

PCMag reviews the Audiovox SMT 5600, a Windows Mobile for Smartphones SE-powered candy-bar phone that gets high marks all around, especially considering the price—just $200 through AT&T Wireless. The ‘SMT’ in the name presumably stands for ‘SMART,’ as the 5600 easily syncs all your PIM information over USB, provided you’re using Outlook, and keeps your…

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Saitek PC Gamer’s Keyboard

We recently saw this PC Gameworld review of Saitek’s somewhat new backlit gamer’s keyboard. One can imagine the sheer glowy blueness of it adding an element of sci-fi creepiness to those long nights of fragging. Perhaps more importantly, you can sit in a dark room and actually see what keys you’re hitting. It’s got a…

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Folding Radio, Open-Air Humidifier

Sometimes we link things not because they do something new, but because they look particularly good doing it. Being shiny, I’ve found, goes a long way to catching my easily captivated attention. This Brionvega TS522 folding radio was designed by Marco Zanuso, part of the collection currently carried by German office decor store Topdeq. You’ll…

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Analog Cell Phones and Tumors

A study in Sweden has found that 10-year users of analog mobile phones have about twice as much chance of developing acoustic neuroma than the average person. The acoustic neuroma are benign tumors on the auditory nerve that occur normally at a rate of about 1 in 100,000. Researchers are unsure if newer, digital mobile…

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KDDI WIN AU 2-Megapixel Phone

The Talby isn’t the only nice Japanese phone announced by KDDI today—this Casio-made WIN AU phone is a nice looking handset, as well, with a rotating QVGA screen and a two-megapixel camera. We’ll never see it in the West, but it’s fun to torture ourselves now and again with a look at what we’re missing.…

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KDDI Talby Concepts Go Production

It looks like those really attractive “Talby” concept phones from KDDI are going to be released as an actual, for-purchase product in Japan. They’re going to show up in Decemeber for around ¥15,000 (around $140 American Dollars). Design concept “talby” [SorobanGeeks]

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Ask PVRBlog Launches [Ask.PVRBlog] • 2004-05 NFL Schedule for Blackberry [NoDRM] • MobiTV launches on AT&T Wireless [ADMBlog] • Home Theater Cinema Paradiso With Video Projectors [TomsHardware] • Threatmeter Products [Threatmeter] Business • Wi-Fi not a slam dunk for basketball Maverick [CNet] Reviews • PhilMUG Reviews Alpine iPod Adapter [PhilMUG] • Casio…

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iNsane: iPod Holds 68% of Market

According the NPD Group research firm, Apple now holds 68 percent of the portable music player market with the iPod. And that’s not just hard disk-based players—they have an 82 percent share there—but includes flash-based players, as well. I doubt they included MP3 CD players in that mix, but even still, that’s seven out of…

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Olympus Easy Imaging System

Olympus is tearing up the press release bin today, this time announcing their ‘Easy Imaging System’. This system, long overdue in my opinion, is a portable digital photography lab, complete with 4 mexapixel camera [IR-500, pictured], high quality photo printer [P-S100], 40GB hard drive [S-HD-100] and eventually, a DVD burner to top it all off.…

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Gameboyzzz Orchestra Project

In a natural progression from solo Game Boy music mixers like 8BitPeoples, a polish sextet called the “Gameboyzz Orchestra Project” is touring Europe, using six Game Boys (both new and old, it would seem) to play live, electronic music. Although I think it’s safe to presume that much of the work is pre-sequenced, they do…

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Olympus m:robe MR-100

Here’s the other m:robe player announced by Olympus, the MR-100. This is another one of those now-common 5GB hard disk-based players, except there’s nothing very common about the sexy red-on-black light up interface. It’s sort of like the iPod mini’s evil twin. Its Karr to its Kitt, if you will. Olympus Announces MR-500i and MR-100…

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Olympus m:robe MR-500i

Olympus Imaging Corporation, manufacturers of fine cameras since 4,000 B.C., have announced a new line of products that have little to do with cameras or imaging. The MR-100 and MR-500i are both hard drive-based players, with the 500i being the feature honey: 20 gigs of storage for images and music, and a 3.7-inch VGA screen—touch…

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OQO Available for Pre-Purchase

It was something like five years ago that I first wrote about the OQO, I think, and after a couple of years to no-shows, it’s finally available for sale (or pre-ordering, I guess; it’s shipping next month). And while the little device is certainly slick, I think the $1,900+ purchase price is going to doom…

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Voodoo PC Vibe: Media Center PC and Xbox Combo

Although I don’t see anything about it on Voodoo PC’s website, Om Malik has information about a new Windows XP Media Center 2005 combo from the high-end PC manufacturer who has been most known in the past for making performance-oriented gaming machines. Called the ‘Vibe Media Center,” it’s comprised of a matching PC and Xbox,…

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Electric Wi-Fi Carts

A wireless internet service provider in Tempe, Arizona has retrofitted these two-seat electric cars as mobile Wi-Fi repeaters, allowing them to temporarily shore up holes in their network by deploying the carts to problem areas. WAZ Tempe’s Mobile WiFi Carts [TianCC]

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Four-Wheeled Segway Centaur

You’ve got to hand it to Segway—I didn’t think they could make anything look goofier than the Segway HT. This four-wheeled Centaur concept, though, has all the sex appeal of an over-sized baby carriage. Plus, mentioning that maneuvers that would normally be dangerous on an ATV would be safe on the Centaur is a bit…

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Motorola Announces Updated V620, Five More Clamshells

DigitalFocus: Samsung YH-999 is Nice; TiVoToGo Details

Hot: Archos Gmini XS200

Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner

Audiovox SMT 5600 Reviewed

Saitek PC Gamer’s Keyboard

Folding Radio, Open-Air Humidifier

Analog Cell Phones and Tumors

KDDI WIN AU 2-Megapixel Phone

KDDI Talby Concepts Go Production

Morning Bits

iNsane: iPod Holds 68% of Market

Olympus Easy Imaging System

Gameboyzzz Orchestra Project

Olympus m:robe MR-100

Olympus m:robe MR-500i

OQO Available for Pre-Purchase

Voodoo PC Vibe: Media Center PC and Xbox Combo

Electric Wi-Fi Carts

Four-Wheeled Segway Centaur

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