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Sony Japan Announces PSP Price, Availability

In this PSP versus DS speculative battle over the last few months, I’ve been pretty hard on the PSP, mostly because of its anticipated price and battery life. Now, having played the Nintendo DS, and hearing what Sony plans to sell the PSP for—$195, with a battery life of 4 to 6 hours—I can say…

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Rumor: 2GB iRiver Flash Player

The word on the street (if the street were Nihon Keizai Shimbun) is that iRiver Japan is planning a new flash-based portable MP3/WMA player with a 2GB capacity. This makes plenty of sense to me — iRiver’s parent company, Reigncom, is also a distributor of Samsung flash memory. Nihon Keizai Shimbun expects the product (whatever…

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Griffin iTrip in Black

Griffin is making a black edition of the iTrip to match the new special-edition U2 iPod. $35 pre-order now and shipping in November. They should have made it brown—then the iPod would look like a pint of Irish stout. Product Page [GriffinTechnology]

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Six PVPs, Swinging

Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.

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SpinalCat Digital Turntable

What happens if you cross a CueCat (those old free barcode scanners from Radio Shack) with a hi-fi turntable? Well, nothing. You just have a broke-ass CueCat and a useless relic. But if you’re an MIT student from the Aesthetics + Computation Group, you may instead have a fascinating thesis and a working prototype of…

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Retro: WW2 Foxhole Radio

I don’t know enough about electronics to make any sort of informed guess about how well this “foxhole radio” would work, but anything that uses paper clips, razor blades, and pencil lead to pick up radio waves is worth a second glance, to me. (Thanks, BentPenguin!) Full Image (Note: Sort of Huge, 300K) [Gizmodo]

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iPod Photo Dock Has S-Video Out

Check out this image of the iPod Photo Dock. That looks a lot like an S-Video out to me. Presumably you can just use a regular cable out. It does also note that the image out is composite, not component, so that’s a bit of a drag. I’d like some high-rez progressive scan out with…

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Apple Launches 9 Euro iTunes Music Stores

Forgive me, international friends! In all the excitement about the new iPods, I almost forgot to mention: Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain all got their own iTunes Music Stores, too. Still €.99. I’m sorry you’re getting ripped off, Euro Friends. It’s not our fault the dollar is so weak. Press…

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iPod Photo Connects to TVs

Looks like the iPod Photo Dock and AV Cable will dump not only video but sound directly via a three-plug RCA connection. Hats optional. Get Brownie Points for Sharing If you d like everyone else to smile right along with you, iPod Photo makes it easy. Sure, you could let them take the Click Wheel…

Tech News Joel

iPod Photo: First Details

Okay, here’s the shortbread: it’s a 65k-color screen, 220 by 176 pixel resolution. Same click wheel as before. 15-hour battery life (rock!), iTunes is bumping up to version 4.7, iTunes will auto-sync album art so you can see that whiel playing. Store up to 25,000 photos transfered through iTunes (dunno about iPhoto support for Mac…

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Black iPod U2 Edition

Here’s the iPod U2 Edition. It’s black. Somebody punched it. God damn Irish. Update: The U2 Box Set is not included with this 20GB iPod. Check it out: Apple has created the online music industry s first-of-its-kind Digital Box Set. The first digital box set, The Complete U2, will contain over 400 tracks including all…

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iPod Photo is Alive

It lives: iPod Photo. Back in a minute with details. Lots of tasty details in this post, if you’re coming in from a direct link.

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Zipit Wireless Messenger in Time for X-Mas

Announced back in September, it looks like you can now purchase the Zipit Wi-Fi-powered messenger at your favorite retail outlet for around $100. Teens are the target here, but when I was a spry youth haunting the hallways of Generic Suburban High School, this kind of thing would have been banned faster than overalls with…

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HOT: iPod Photo Announced!

Hot, hot rumor that is unconfirmed. The Apple Store is down and we’ve just received word from technology analyst Brian Blair that the new color iPods are launching today, capable of holding 25,000 photos. Update: We’re hearing a a 60GB color version for $600 and a 40GB version for $500. Also, the U2-edition iPod will…

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XM MyFi by Delphi

That portable XM radio is here: the Delphi XM MyFi, a $350 portable designed to be used when either out and about or in your car. Notable features include an entirely-internal antenna, a “Memory Mode” than can store up to 5 hours of content right on the device (flash or hard drive, I’m not sure;…

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Samsung’s Fashion Clamshell: DVF Mobile

Samsung is teaming up with wrap-dress maven Diane von Furstenburg to develop yet another line of ‘fashionable’ products, starting with this sort of wretched limited-edition DVF Mobile phone. While the clamshell has all the usual bits, its most unique feature is an accessory called the “CityBand,” which allows lip gloss, credit card, and phone to…

Tech News Joel

Motorola Razr V3 In Cingular Stores?

Motorola just sent out a spam that said “Be the first to get one. The Moto Razr V3 is coming soon!” Motorola’s customer service reps have confirmed that the (for now) exclusive Cingular phone should be in stores, like, now. Has anyone actually seen them in Cingular yet? It’s not on their site. Related Razr…

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AC Propulsion tZero: 200mph Electric

200 mile per hour electric car? We’re okay with that. AC Propulsion’s tZero is an electron-powered supercar, whirring up from zero to 60 in just 3.6 seconds. Unfortunately, because our battery technology still sort of sucks, it only has a 300 mile range—probably way less when you’re pedal to the plastic. On the upside, it’s…

Tech News Joel

Afternoon Bits

Product Highlights • PalmOne Tungsten T5 In Stock in UK [PDA247] • Gas-Powered Blender [GadgetryBlog] • PalmOne Issues Bug Fix For T5 Calendar Glitch [PocketFactory] • RoboNexus Robotics Show Report [EverydayRobots] • House-Bots Becoming a Reality [eHomeUpgrade] • SanDisk announces higher capacities of digital media [MacMinute] (Again) Business • Intel drops LCOS TV idea [TheInquirer]…

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Dvorak Opposite Day: Podcasting is Dead

John C. Dvorak, you old crusty battleship, it’s time to head back to port for decommissioning. His latest wobbling shot is fired across the bow of Podcasting, the RSS and MP3 combo that lots of people are using to broadcast music and talk shows to portable audio device—not just iPods, as Dvorak blubbers. Not only…

Tech News Joel

Sony Japan Announces PSP Price, Availability

Rumor: 2GB iRiver Flash Player

Griffin iTrip in Black

Six PVPs, Swinging

SpinalCat Digital Turntable

Retro: WW2 Foxhole Radio

iPod Photo Dock Has S-Video Out

Apple Launches 9 Euro iTunes Music Stores

iPod Photo Connects to TVs

iPod Photo: First Details

Black iPod U2 Edition

iPod Photo is Alive

Zipit Wireless Messenger in Time for X-Mas

HOT: iPod Photo Announced!

XM MyFi by Delphi

Samsung’s Fashion Clamshell: DVF Mobile

Motorola Razr V3 In Cingular Stores?

AC Propulsion tZero: 200mph Electric

Afternoon Bits

Dvorak Opposite Day: Podcasting is Dead

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