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Nokia Bluetooth Picture Headset HS-13w

In all the fuss over the new Nokia fashion phones yesterday, I missed this Nokia Bluetooth Picture Headset (the HS-13w); fortunately, our pal Josh Rubin’s keen eye scoped it out. The cool thing about the HS-13w is that it’s meant to be worn as a locket, where you can use the built-in color display to…

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Home Theater Master Color Touchscreen Remote MX-300 [Smarthome] • Cheapo Canadian USB Camera Flash Drive [RadioShack] • EL Wire Pillows [Tii] • Panasonic Electric Bike [Panabyc] • Pet Cloning [SavingsAndClone] • USB Geiger Counter [BlackCatSystems] • Cool USB Hub, Fan/a> [Thanko] • Viewsonic Wireless Media Network Thingies [Viewsonic] • Novii Blaster TV…

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Students Develops Bluetooth Cameraphone Jammer

Blueserker passes on information from an article in Singapore’s Asia One about three students from Temasek Polytechnic who have figured out a way to disable the camera function of select Nokia phones via Bluetooth. While the concept itself is interesting – enter a ‘no camera’ zone, and your phone disables itself automagically – the fact…

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Acer Aspire 1800, PCI Express Laptop

Acer has a new desktop replacement laptop out that’s sort of ho-hum in general, but is the first to market with a mobile graphics architecture based on PCI Express. ATI’s Mobility Radeon X600 powers the 17-inch, 1,280 by 800 pixel screen, and all the other usual desktop replacement parts come out to play, like a…

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The Delicate Art of Product Promotion

Team Sony, are you ready to unveil our new Cybershot cameras? Hot Japanese Models, how are you feeling? Really hot? Perfect. How about Swanky Dress Lady? Yeah, we’re good? Okay, how about Top Hat? He’s in the safety deposit vault eating a baby? Okay, awesome. Let’s do this. Damn it, Top Hat, can you put…

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Actually Cheap 256MB USB Drive/MP3 Player

Here’s something we’re not used to see coming out of Japan: low-cost products. Evergeen has announced the “EG-MP3” series of USB memory type MP3 players. And cheap for Japan means about $60 USD for a 256MB model, which isn’t half bad in America, even. Looking at the low cost, and seeing as how this can…

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Vodafone Personal Assistant III (VPA III)

Vodafone has met the call of the XDA IIs with a Windows Mobile smartphone of their own, called the Vodafone Personal Assistant III, or VPA III. And the best bit of news? It’s a quad-band, so it should be a mail-order lover candidate if you find its built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, SDIO slot, slide-out QWERTY keyboard,…

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Nokia 9300 Communicator Interview

All About Symbian has a nice article with Mark Squires, Nokia’s UK Head of Communications. It’s a bit fawning, but considering the source I think that’s somewhat understandable, and it does go a long way in explaining the mindset behind the 9300’s relative lack of features compared to its big brother, the Nokia 9500. According…

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Sharp Mebius Muramasa “MP,” PC-MP70G, PC-MP50G

Sharp has a new Mebius Muramasa on the way (to Japanese stores) called the “MP,” or PC-MP70G and PC-MP50G, if you want to get model number about it. It’s a sub-notebook as should be expected from the Muramasa line, and although it isn’t the smallest laptop they make, in this instance that should be a…

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Sony PSP at the AGC

Portable gaming nerds hungry for any scraps of information about Sony’s upcoming PSP handheld might want to talk a look at ConsoleConspiracy, where they’ve cribbed some notes from today’s “Programming the PSP” talk at the Austin Game Conference. Nothing particularly sticks out at the moment, although they do confirm that the 7.1 surround sound out…

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WallyPower 118

Gizmodo publisher Nick Denton has been asking me – well, not asking, but it’s there in his eyes – which yacht I’d like to be doing most of my blogging from. Normally this hopped-up space harrier that I bop about the atmosphere in each day is enough, as my needs are meager, but I’ve decided…

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H2O Audio SV i700 Waterproof MP3 Housing

Anders Steele (someone’s mom had high hopes) sent me this image of the H2O Audio SV i700 MP3 player that I thought I’d pass along. H2O Audio doesn’t make the MP3 player inside – that’s an iRiver iFP-870 – but instead designed the waterproof housing and fully submersible headphones. You can even use regular headphones…

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One-Handed PS2 Controller

Japanese manufacturer Sanwa Denshi has created a special one-handed Playstation 2 controller, designed to work with the online-only Final Fantasy XI. Apparently the control in FFXI are so basic that you only need a D-pad and four buttons, though, and not the full compliment of shoulder buttons and the like – making it wholly unsuited…

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Fashion Forward Nokia 6600 in Awful Movie

I didn’t really want to see that new movie “Cellular” before, but after hearing that it’s about “getting [viewers] to identify with the frustrations of the police officer as he attempts to track down and rescue Ms. Basinger” using a crappy Nokia cellphone, I sort of started thinking that was maybe a little too close…

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Apple’s Hot Tips (Indeed)

Wow, Apple. I didn’t realize you were such a skank. Don’t rename it, though. We like it when you talk dirty. I’m fairly sure “El amor de mi vida” is “I brought you a soothing salve.” (Thanks, Boo Boo Prime!) Read – iTunes Hot Tips [Apple]

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Fly-Eating Robot [News.Google] • Panasonic Introduces New DVD-Recorders with 400 GB Hard Disk Drives [PhysOrg] • Leather Case for Rio Karma [VajaCases] • Mirra Personal Server Version 2.0 Released [DesignTechnica] • “OPERATING ROOM IN A BOX” UNFOLDS [DefenseTech] Business • Phone Gadget Wars Heat Up (RIM) [TheStar] • Ultra wideband may get…

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New Nokias: Nokia 7280, Nokia 7270, Nokia 7260

Okay, so Nokia just dropped three phones onto us, and they’re pretty crazy, and by ‘crazy’ I mean ‘sort of ugly.’ I have to cop to sort of liking the Tron-style and the asymetrical design – the one round corner, one square corner ‘new Nokia’ look – but I have a feeling I’ll be in…

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Next Windows to Limit USB Key, iPod Use

CNet is reporting that Microsoft’s upcoming Longhorn version of Windows will have tools designed to help businesses prevent the use of USB keys, iPods, or any other mass storage device that can be connected to work computers, all in the interest of protecting company data. Sounds like a cluster to me, but if iron-fisted sysadmins…

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Logitech Mobile Freedom Bluetooth Headset

Logitech has a new “affordable” Bluetooth headset on the way, as long as you consider $70 not a lot of money for a fancy speaker and microphone. Believe it or not, I’ve so far resisted the Bluetooth headset thing, mostly because I don’t need one, but also because it pains me to pay almost half-again…

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Sony Cybershot DSC-M1

Oh Sony, when you aren’t acting like a blind, lumbering bastard of a company sometimes I almost want to give you a big bear hug. Like when you make something like this new Cybershot DSC-M1 – there’s no reason for it, you just decided to get funky, and let the engineers take a long, deep…

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Nokia Bluetooth Picture Headset HS-13w

Morning Bits

Students Develops Bluetooth Cameraphone Jammer

Acer Aspire 1800, PCI Express Laptop

The Delicate Art of Product Promotion

Actually Cheap 256MB USB Drive/MP3 Player

Vodafone Personal Assistant III (VPA III)

Nokia 9300 Communicator Interview

Sharp Mebius Muramasa “MP,” PC-MP70G, PC-MP50G

Sony PSP at the AGC

WallyPower 118

H2O Audio SV i700 Waterproof MP3 Housing

One-Handed PS2 Controller

Fashion Forward Nokia 6600 in Awful Movie

Apple’s Hot Tips (Indeed)

Morning Bits

New Nokias: Nokia 7280, Nokia 7270, Nokia 7260

Next Windows to Limit USB Key, iPod Use

Logitech Mobile Freedom Bluetooth Headset

Sony Cybershot DSC-M1

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