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iPod Bluetooth Dongle

Bluetooth on your iPod can finally be a reality. AirLogic is offering the icombi AP11 wireless stereo iPod dongle. Stream the audio signal directly from your iPod to any compatible Bluetooth device (think laptop, headphones, etc.) while it sucks power from your iPod. Conveniently enough, AirLogic’s icombi line also offers (or will soon offer, as…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

Biometric Speed Dialing

The Chicago Tribune has a good article about how much more advanced the use of biometrics is in South Korea and Japan compared to here in the States. (Shocker, I know.) One use that I personally hadn’t heard of which I liked was the biometric speed dialing system, linking a different person for each finger…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

Slide Rule Pilot Watch

Torgoen has developed a pretty nifty watch, if you were born before the 50s and also had a stint at NASA. The Pilot Watch with Slide Rule features a circular slide rule that is “useful for units of measure conversions and multiplication/division problems” as well as for calculating time, distance and speed. Or you could…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

Fuel Cell Buses, Driving Now

Not to be outdone by Yamaha and their silly “pedal taxis“, Toyota has built an entire bus that runs on fuel cells. Called the Intelligent Multimode Transit System (it’s a hybrid), these buses of the future are poised and prepped to move people around the World Expo without contributing too much to our atmosphere’s declining…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

ATI Introduces New IMAGEON

ATI announced their new media processors, the IMAGEON 2282 and 2182. The chips offer something of a package deal to cell phone manufacturers with 3 megapixel camera support, hi-fi digital audio, and a digital camcorder with streaming video and video conferencing capabilities. Although nothing spectacular from an individual feature standpoint, the chips act as media…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

Verizon Announces Amp’d

Verizon is all abuzz about their newest Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) which they’ve termed “Amp’d”. If the target demographic wasn’t immediately apparent to you right there, the new service for “active youth” will launch third quarter of this year and exclusively use EV-DO phones. All Amp’d phones will feature Push-to-Talk, a memory card slot,…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

AK-47 MP3 Player

Audio Books For Free has announced a great, psuedo-legal way to use your spare Kalashnikov (read: AK-47) assualt rifle with their new AK-MP3—an MP3 player built into ammunition magazines from AK-47s. Able to function loaded in an AK or standalone, the player offers 20GB of storage and a USB 2.0 interface, as well as a…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

LG Successfully Demonstrates 3.5G

LG demonstrated their new 3.5G high-speed cellular happiness technology at CTIA which allows for transfer speeds of up to 14-Mbps over W-CDMA. There was an earlier successful test run at a Nortel Lab earlier this month that LG claims used the same model of phone. It should be noted that even 3G is hardly anywhere…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

Mouse Adapter Compensates For Hand Tremors

IBM announced on Monday that they’ve developed mouse-based input technology that can compensate for manual tremors. The new system uses similar algorithms as those found in image stabilization systems for digital cameras. Montrose Secam is selling an adapter based on IBM’s technology which can have its sensitivity adjusted by a few large knobs and switches.…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

Song Earworm Research

If you’ve ever wondered why your brain goes ahead and gets the most obnoxious songs stuck in your head, collision detection sheds some light on the “earworm” phenomena with their look at a Dartmouth press release. By hooking up some folks to fMRIs and watching their auditory cortexes whilst blasting both familiar and unfamiliar music,…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

Sprint PCS Vision MM-535

Sprint announced their new LG-made MM-535 phone at CTIA today. It features an integrated 1.3 MP camera along with a built-in flash and a 262K TFT color display. It’s a slider with an MP3-playing trick up its sleeve, boating a miniSD slot in addition to its 32MB of integrated memory. Programmable shortcuts, a 3D graphics…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

Sunglasses That Stay Put

Japanese sunglasses manufacturer KT Optica shows off their new temple design, wherein the glasses hook to the inside of your ear (although, it should be noted not directly into the canal, sadly). The company claims they’re a great solution for sports but I’m thinking you should just pony up like this guy. Selling for about…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

Eclipse Solar Gear Messenger Bag

For the eco-friendly types who prefer messenger bags (and let’s face it, that’s all eco-friendly types) over backpacks, Eclipse offers their Solar Flare Messenger Bag. Able to hold (but not charge) a laptop, the bag can juice up anything that plugs into a standard 12V car socket and will only cost you $130. Also available…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

CTIA: Gizmodo Just Won’t Stop Selling Out

I’m hopping a plane to New Orleans this morning, so Team Single Intern will be holding the fort while I get down to CTIA. This time I’m going as a guest of Kodak to the ‘Wireless Gala,’ which I’m sure will be just as fancy as it sounds, but of course I’ll pop around the…

Tech News Joel Mar 15 '05

Logitech MX518 Gamer Mouse

Logitech’s new MX518 mouse is geared towards gamers, what with its ability to process 5.8 megapixels/second and to gear the resolution down at the click of a button. The new Logitech SetPoint software lets you set as many as five levels of resolution, from 400 dpi to 1600 dpi and includes a total of eight…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

CTIA: Fashion in Motion Models

Every year, trade journalists and industry executives get together to dress bikini models in futurey devices and parade them across a catwalk while people snap pictures of the technology, which just happens to reside in a pouch in front of someone’s cooch. Now the trade journalists I understand—the closest we get to gadget models is…

Tech News Joel Mar 15 '05

Hitachi’s Robot Walking Assistant

Hitachi has developed an adorable robot perfect for helping your geriatric friends walk. The EMIEW (“Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Workmate,” natch) will be presented at the 2005 World Expo in Japan, where robots seem to be a recurring theme. Incredibly agile and quick, the EMIEW can also recognize the voice of its master…

Tech News Cardinal Mar 15 '05

ELEVE Photo Binder 20GB

Here’s a pretty gnarly portable photo storage device from the Japanese company “ELEVE.” It is the “ELEVE Photo Binder 20GB,” and among other things, measures 69 x 79 x 22mm (H x W x D) or 2.7″ x 3.1″ x 0.9.” In other words, it isn’t much bigger than a MiniDisc as far as height…

Tech News Zmcnulty Mar 15 '05

Piano Style Keyboard

What do pianos and computers have in common? They both have keyboards, provide hours of entertainment, and require a basic skillset to implement properly (oh how I wish my computer had pedals). Bringing the two even closer is the new “OWL-KB106PI” and “OWL-MOUPI” keyboard and mouse made of wood. But not just any wood; that…

Tech News Zmcnulty Mar 15 '05

Coca-Cola PSP

I recently heard a representative from Coca-Cola’s marketing department speak, and he told me the marketing philosophy of the old CEO was along the lines of “if it moves, sponsor it. If it doesn’t, paint it red.” It is only now that this is starting to sink in with me, as Coca-Cola in Japan has…

Tech News Zmcnulty Mar 15 '05

iPod Bluetooth Dongle

Biometric Speed Dialing

Slide Rule Pilot Watch

Fuel Cell Buses, Driving Now

ATI Introduces New IMAGEON

Verizon Announces Amp’d

AK-47 MP3 Player

LG Successfully Demonstrates 3.5G

Mouse Adapter Compensates For Hand Tremors

Song Earworm Research

Sprint PCS Vision MM-535

Sunglasses That Stay Put

Eclipse Solar Gear Messenger Bag

CTIA: Gizmodo Just Won’t Stop Selling Out

Logitech MX518 Gamer Mouse

CTIA: Fashion in Motion Models

Hitachi’s Robot Walking Assistant

ELEVE Photo Binder 20GB

Piano Style Keyboard

Coca-Cola PSP

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