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Corsair XMS XPERT RAM with LED Display

High-end memory vendor Corsair’s newest offering is over the top, but holds a hacky promise that I’m sure people will be exploiting soon enough. Their new XMS XPERT memory modules have a 10-character alphabetical LED display on top (think old school calculators, says ExtremeTech) that by default displays memory speed, voltage, and temperature. But if…

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USB GuitarPlug and MicPlug

Like the JamPlug, the GuitarPlug is another smart design that skips the amplifier entirely, instead routing monaural audio from a guitar’s quarter-inch jack to your PC via an on-board USB connection. DVForge is also releasing the MicPlug, which is the same idea, only with an XLR connection on one end. Presuming these work with a…

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Entire Apex Digital 2005 Line to Support DivX

In a fairly major coup for DivX Networks, Apex Digital has announced that all of their upcoming 2005 product line will support DivX natively. I don’t know how that’s going to work for their televisions, say, but for items like portable video devices and DVD players it makes perfect sense. And as much as it…

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Creative Zen Micro Photo

Creative was showing off this Zen Micro Photo at CES, a 6GB hard disk-based player that will have a 160 by 160 pixel OLED color screen. If the sales numbers Creative is throwing around are anywhere near accurate (and let me qualify that they are basically just saying “we sold a ton”), the Creative Zen…

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Pirkus Robot Controlled by Bluetooth Phone

The Pirkus is a fine-looking robot kit that can, once assembled, be controlled via a Bluetooth-enabled phone. The kit isn’t cheap—it’s quoted at 1,000 quid—but it’s no slump when it comes to abilities, with fully articulated arms and legs. It can even do handstands. You can pick one up next month in Japan from that…

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More on Apple vs. Think Secret

It’s sort of a big deal that Apple sued Think Secret, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the question as to whether a blog or ‘non-major website’ has the same rights to protect sources that any other publishing outlet does. There have been various meditations on this over the last…

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Virgin Pendant Player 128MB/256MB

Virgin has taken the wraps off their new wearable player, a 128MB/256MB coin-sized unit that will retail for $100. There’s not a lot to it, and the looks are sort of pedestrian, but if pendant players are your poison then you might give it a look. With tomorrow’s announcement of the iPod Flash, it’s hard…

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Nine New Products from Griffin Technologies, Including AirClick Remote

MacMerc has a roundup of Griffin Technology’s newest products, being announced this week at MacWorld. Not all of the links back to Griffin’s site work yet (although some, like this AirClick remote, are already online), but it gives you a good idea of what to expect from the iPod and Mac peripheral vendor this week.…

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Sonance Adds iPod photo, Video Support to iPort

Sonance, makers of the iPort—essentially a docking station for an iPod which allows you to stream its music contents throughout your home audio system—will be announcing video support for its system—even though the iPod doesn’t support video. By taking advantage of the oft-forgotten fact that the iPod is basically just a FireWire hard drive, Sonance…

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Shuttle XPC Media Center, Intel Joins Media Center Race

The Inquirer (whose Charlie Demerjian was just lovely about the time I maybe sort of made fun of him for checking out the Daisy Dukes at E3) spotted lots of good stuff at CES, including this Shuttle XPC in a set-top form factor. One-upping most smaller Media Center PCs is the ability to upgrade the…

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SanDisk’s “Gaming” Memory Cards

SanDisk is starting a new line of ‘Gaming’ memory cards, consisting essentially of neon-colored translucent versions of their existing products. Not mind-blowing, but pleasing all the same, I guess. And unlike the floppy disk, reaching the neon-colored age doesn’t mean they’re about to die out. SanDisk suddenly enters gaming accessory market [MobileTracker]

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Alltel Buys Western Wireless

The WSJ is reporting (according to MobileTracker) that Alltel is buying Western Wireless, making them the 6th largest US wireless carrier. Alltel buys Western Wireless [MobileTracker]

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Canon Pixma iP90

There’s hardly a product category I care less about than printers, but ever since middle school gym class I’ve learned to care about ‘small.’ The new Canon PIXMA iP90 claims to be the smallest “in its class,” whatever that means, but it is certainly a pint-sized printer (although when I tried to fill it with…

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Diamond Studded Bluespoon 5G

Howard Forums’ Mark Morrow got his hands on the very first Bluespoon 5G, the absolutely smallest Bluetooth headset in the world. In this picture, you can see it next to a clear AX. I picked up an AX just a couple of days after Christmas and have loved it, in part for its tiny size.…

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Kata R-102 Rucksack Reviewed

Although the Kata R-102 Rucksack is designed specifically for photographers and their fragile equipment, there’s no reason the $125 bag—developed by the same manufacturer of Israeli body armor—shouldn’t be considered for anyone hauling a lot of electronics around. It’s tough, configurable, and well-engineered—I especially like the reversible rain bonnet that flips over to show a…

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Memsen Wireless File Sharing Flash Drives

Memsen was showing prototypes of their new ‘Click ‘n’ Share’ flash memory drives at CES. The concept is simple, but potentially powerful: each flash drive has (presumably) a ‘shared’ folder, and when two flash drives are within range, just a simple button press will wirelessly transfer the contents of those shared folders. It’s only at…

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EcoBlast Rechargeable Signal Horn

The EcoBlast Signal Horn from Goal Sporting is a rechargeable air horn that can be attached to most bike frames and filled up with a standard bike pump. It even has volume control for those times you want to honk but not harm. It’s no recycled seltzer water, but at just $20 it’s our first…

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No Samsung Q30 for US?

Samsung’s Q30 notebook is dreamy, with an ample resolution on its widescreen and a bucketload of built-in features all within a slimline profile case. I said we should be “fairly positive” of its release here in the US, but reader Mohammed Rahman tells us to think otherwise: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-q30-notebook-reviewed-28683 Sorry for letting you know this so…

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iPod Flash: Life is random.

And no sooner than I mention the upcoming Flash iPod, an Italian Apple fansite purports to have seen pictures of the new device at MacWorld, as well as the new Apple catchphrase “Life is random,” lending credence to their reports that the new iPod has no screen at all and will instead focus primarily on…

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Waiting for MacWorld

Thank all that is plastic and shiny that CES is over. It was fun to waltz from vendor to vendor, hoping they would actually be showing off something new and interesting, and not just pushing their products we already knew about in 2004. But I’m definitely glad to be back in Brooklyn, the town which…

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Corsair XMS XPERT RAM with LED Display

USB GuitarPlug and MicPlug

Entire Apex Digital 2005 Line to Support DivX

Creative Zen Micro Photo

Pirkus Robot Controlled by Bluetooth Phone

More on Apple vs. Think Secret

Virgin Pendant Player 128MB/256MB

Nine New Products from Griffin Technologies, Including AirClick Remote

Sonance Adds iPod photo, Video Support to iPort

Shuttle XPC Media Center, Intel Joins Media Center Race

SanDisk’s “Gaming” Memory Cards

Alltel Buys Western Wireless

Canon Pixma iP90

Diamond Studded Bluespoon 5G

Kata R-102 Rucksack Reviewed

Memsen Wireless File Sharing Flash Drives

EcoBlast Rechargeable Signal Horn

No Samsung Q30 for US?

iPod Flash: Life is random.

Waiting for MacWorld

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