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K40 RD850 Radar Detector Review

For the last two months, despite my earnest effort, I have not been able to get a single speeding ticket. It was all part of my plan to test the speeding ticket payment guarantee that comes when you purchase (or review) K40 Electronics radar/laser detector, the RD850. In fact, that’s sort of the defining feature…

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Land Rover and Nokia Personal Telephone Integration System

I think it’s a bit disturbing that Land Rover actually calls their in-car monitor the “central infotainment display,” but at least they’re using it for something on the “info” side with this new Nokia Personal Telephone Integration System, which lets drivers view and select phonebook entries, answer calls, look at call logs and read text…

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Homebrew Riding Mower

I have no idea if this actually works, but it’s a brilliant attempt, either way. (Thanks, Vorbis!)

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Sony VAIO Type X “Super TiVo” Launches

Sony’s Vaio ‘Type X’—the Japanese giant’s so-called Tivo-killer—launches today. A Pentium 4 at 3.60GHz comprises the heart of this beefy PVR, with 1GB DDR and 1TB (4x250GB RAID 0) of storage standard—welcome to the future, where you can simultaneously record up to seven programs at once and store so many of them that you’ll likely…

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Mac OSXbox

I’m sure that you’d be breaking hundreds of license agreements and the like to do it, but someone has figured out how to install Mac OSX onto an Xbox and been kind enough to post instructions. It’s no small feat, though, involving a mod-chipped Xbox, image files of OSX, installation of the Pear PC emulator,…

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GooRoo Rugboard Reviewed

If memory serves, I4U brought us the scoop on the GooRoo Rugboard back in August. Now they bring us a hands-on review of this wireless thin-client based on Tatung’s WebPad hardware. Ships with your choice of operating system (Windows CE, XP embedded, or Linux) and a host of custom apps. Still no hard drive, but…

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Treo 650 Will Work Seamlessly With Exchange

I just got off the horn with PalmOne regarding their newly-announced alliance with Microsoft—or at least Microsoft’s Exchange. Future Treo products (you know, the one that doesn’t exist) will be shipping with a fully-compliant version of Microsoft’s ActiveSync interface to Exchange, allowing Treo Who Shall Not Be Named to act just like any other well-behaved…

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Curitel P1

Curitel’s new P1 candy bar phone, currently available only in Korea, is pretty full-featured. With text-to-speech functionality for those too lazy (or blind) to read their messages, a 2 megapixel CCD camera with flash, and a large 1.9-inch LCD, the P1 also has a strange sideways layout, opting for controls a bit more camera-like than…

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Altec Lansing GT5051

Once, I was a kid in those days when Reagan was President and Victoria Jackson was hot, and I visited Disney World and experienced then-astounding 3D positional audio from two speakers. It may have been an early tech demo intended for the entertainment of guests, but it was a brilliant illustration of how audio engineers…

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NHJ VHD-550 with Bluetooth Headphones

NHJ Limited is scheduled to announce a new 5-gig MP3 (and WMA, but that’s it as far as I know) player tommorow at the ongoing CEATEC expo in Makuhari. The NHJ VHD-550 stands apart from previous NHJ offerings due to its higher capacity and the inclusion of Bluetooth for your wireless headphoning pleasure— presumably it…

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Gmail Adds Atom Feeds [MicroPersuasion] • Kensington Laptop Desktop USB 2.0 Inexpensive Docking Station [GadgetMadness] • HP Deskjet 6840 Printer [LivingRoom] • Sweet! Caffeinated, ginseng beer [Money] • New Smart Box Can Warn Drivers, Issue Tickets [Jalopnik] http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/news/new-smart-box-can-warn-drivers-issue-tickets-022594.php Business • Radio Shack Boosts 2005 Views [AP] Reviews • Laptop: TravelMate 8006LMi [BIOS]…

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The Case of the Missing Preminis

Gay over at SorobanGeeks chides us about the new DoCoMo Premini phones: Everybody seems to think that DoCoMo launches only 1 new Premini (the “Sport” version), but this is not correct as 4 new Premini phones see the daylight. In our defense, the other 3 new Preminis don’t look anything like the original, although one…

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BenQ S700

BenQ has launched their newest phone, a tri-band GSM clamshell with a 1.3-megapixel camera with LED flash and “smooth cinema-like video display quality at 30 frames per second.” Oh, and it has a name: the S700. Other than the aforementioned, it’s not particularly whiz-bang, although it does appear that you can use mounted miniSD cards…

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Nokia: Series 60 on Intel Chips

Not going to bore you with all the dirty details—and honestly, there isn’t a whole lot revealed at the moment except the typical mutually masturbatory yapping/fapping of partnership announcements—but Nokia and Symbian have announced plans to support Series 60 on Intel silicon. The long and the short of that means to expect Xscale-powered Nokia phones…

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iAudio M5, G3, 5

Hey, folks. Sorry about the long post gap—I felt pretty awful yesterday and stayed out late last night like a real person. I promise I’ll never let it happen again. Now that we’re made up and nuzzling, would you like to know about a new line of portable audio gear from iAudio? It’s a bit…

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DoCoMo’s Premini-S

NTT DoCoMo has launched a newer, uglier version of their Premini phones, this time called the Premini-S (for elephantitiS, I think). Although a little bigger than its predecessor in size, the new Premini-S weighs about the same—the main difference seems to be that it’s a cheaper “consumer” model. It’s too bad, too, because the original…

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Gawker Media Bulks Up

Thank god this day finally came. Not only does SpaceShip One win the X-Prize, but the trio of “boy blogs” published by shadowy Dr.Claw-type Nick Denton—my boss and mortal enemy—have finally launched. Seriously, it’s been like nine years since they said they were going to launch them and I’ve had to keep all extra quiet…

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eBay: Motorola V3 Razr for $40

Hey, this guy got a Motorola V3 Razr for just $40! Pretty amazing, but he’s got proof—you can see it right there in the… picture… I took. Hrm, maybe that’s why he took down the auction already. I wonder if anybody got snookered, and more importantly, how much of that money do I get? (Thanks,…

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Truly MP301 Flash Player Reviewed

I4U reviews an odd little flash player, the Truly MP301, which looks a lot like a PDA, but as you can tell from the picture, isn’t nearly the same size (although that hand does look sort of ginormous). That 1.5-inch color screen can’t do a whole lot, but can display BMPs and JPGs, which could…

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Nokia 7610 Reviewed

Eric Thauvin tries out the Nokia 7610—an import, but we’ll see it here soon enough (on Cingular I believe)—and comes away fairly impressed, although he admits right out that he doesn’t have a lot of experience with previous Series 60 phones. It seems the 7610 is very much oriented around Nokia’s LifeBlog software, which isn’t…

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K40 RD850 Radar Detector Review

Land Rover and Nokia Personal Telephone Integration System

Homebrew Riding Mower

Sony VAIO Type X “Super TiVo” Launches

Mac OSXbox

GooRoo Rugboard Reviewed

Treo 650 Will Work Seamlessly With Exchange

Curitel P1

Altec Lansing GT5051

NHJ VHD-550 with Bluetooth Headphones

Morning Bits

The Case of the Missing Preminis

BenQ S700

Nokia: Series 60 on Intel Chips

iAudio M5, G3, 5

DoCoMo’s Premini-S

Gawker Media Bulks Up

eBay: Motorola V3 Razr for $40

Truly MP301 Flash Player Reviewed

Nokia 7610 Reviewed

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