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Sony Ericsson Mystery Trapeze Phone

GodMode got a hold of these pictures of this Sony Ericsson mystery phone. Anybody ever seen it before? It’s looks a little too out there to be a real unit to me. With its trapeze spinning screen it looks more like a design concept than a production phone. The original pics on GodMode are little…

Tech News Joel

Air-2 Vapir Basic Review

Earlier last week I was charged with reviewing the Vapir by Air2, purported to be one of the cleanest and most effective methods to inhale plant products. In the name of research and Science I humbly accepted the responsibility. There are several models to choose from, but I had the corded version which starts at…

Tech News MIKE R

Motorola Announces Updated V620, Five More Clamshells

Good lord, Motorola dropped a whole boatload of phones last night. I don’t think it makes sense for us to into every last detail about them today, but there are some interesting overarching qualities, like the fact that they’re all clamshell and the fact that they all have Bluetooth. The sexiest is clearly the V620,…

Tech News Joel

DigitalFocus: Samsung YH-999 is Nice; TiVoToGo Details

I got a chance to fool around with Samsung’s Portable Media Center last night for a bit at the pre-event press boozing for the DigitalLife show. I should have taken a picture of the YH-999 with something next to it for reference, but you’ll just have to trust me when I say it’s much smaller…

Tech News Joel

Hot: Archos Gmini XS200

Word up to Archos and the official announcement of the Gmini XS200, the claimed “world’s smallest” 20GB MP3 player (and it does look pretty tiny) that happens to have an extremely pleasing price—just $250. Archos’s other new small player, the Gmini 400, is already my favorite portable video player of this generation, so I have…

Tech News Joel

Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner

I’ve had a nasty bias against SC Johnson’s Scrubbing Bubbles ever since, as a small child, I discovered that the bubbles do not actually have whisker brush mustaches. I knew even then that they were not likely to be sentient—I wasn’t retarded— just like the Kool Aid man was not actually a living, breathing creature,…

Tech News Joel

Kakaku.com Opens Funeral Price Search Engine

Dead? No? That’s too bad—we’ve got a hot deal for you. The hot Death market has lead Japanese mega-price search site kakaku.com to open a new section they’re simply calling “Sougi,” meaning “funeral.” Though the funeral price-search engine currently covers only the greater Tokyo and Kanagawa areas, the company is planning on expanding it to…

Tech News Zmcnulty

Kaori Web Smell-O-Vision Update

We reported on K Opticom’s “Kaori Web” system back in July, which you may remember as “that computer that can create smells.” In the surprisingly vaporware-free country called Japan, PC Watch’s “Yajiuma PC Watch” feature has covered “Kaori Web” first-hand. Just for a quick recap, this system was jointly developed by Tsuji Wellness and France…

Tech News Zmcnulty

Toshiba “Sleep Measurer” To Revolutionize Sleeping?

Yomiuri Shimbun brings word that Toshiba has developed a portable “Sleep Measurer,” which apparently measures the depth of one’s sleep. In what the company has called the “world’s first” of such a device, normal consumers can measure the depth of their sleep from the comfort of their own home. The measurements are based on the…

Tech News Zmcnulty

New “Celebrate Cell Phone Open! Tamagotchi Plus”

November 23rd will see the release of the “Celebrate Cell Phone Open!!! Tamagotchi Plus” electronic pets in Japan, from none other than original creator Bandai. The price is acceptable at around $20, but the main feature of the new toys is their ability to interface with your (Japanese) mobile phone via infrared. Exactly what this…

Tech News Zmcnulty

AXIS 206M Megapixel Network Camera

Axis Communications will be releasing the “AXIS 206M Megapixel Network Camera” shortly, which, as you could probably tell by the name, is a network camera that supports resolution up to a megapixel. In fact, it’s more—1280 x 1024 is closer to 1.3MP. My first question when I saw this announcement was what framerate the camera…

Tech News Zmcnulty

Audiovox SMT 5600 Reviewed

PCMag reviews the Audiovox SMT 5600, a Windows Mobile for Smartphones SE-powered candy-bar phone that gets high marks all around, especially considering the price—just $200 through AT&T Wireless. The ‘SMT’ in the name presumably stands for ‘SMART,’ as the 5600 easily syncs all your PIM information over USB, provided you’re using Outlook, and keeps your…

Tech News Joel

Saitek PC Gamer’s Keyboard

We recently saw this PC Gameworld review of Saitek’s somewhat new backlit gamer’s keyboard. One can imagine the sheer glowy blueness of it adding an element of sci-fi creepiness to those long nights of fragging. Perhaps more importantly, you can sit in a dark room and actually see what keys you’re hitting. It’s got a…

Tech News Joel

Folding Radio, Open-Air Humidifier

Sometimes we link things not because they do something new, but because they look particularly good doing it. Being shiny, I’ve found, goes a long way to catching my easily captivated attention. This Brionvega TS522 folding radio was designed by Marco Zanuso, part of the collection currently carried by German office decor store Topdeq. You’ll…

Tech News Joel

Analog Cell Phones and Tumors

A study in Sweden has found that 10-year users of analog mobile phones have about twice as much chance of developing acoustic neuroma than the average person. The acoustic neuroma are benign tumors on the auditory nerve that occur normally at a rate of about 1 in 100,000. Researchers are unsure if newer, digital mobile…

Tech News Joel

KDDI WIN AU 2-Megapixel Phone

The Talby isn’t the only nice Japanese phone announced by KDDI today—this Casio-made WIN AU phone is a nice looking handset, as well, with a rotating QVGA screen and a two-megapixel camera. We’ll never see it in the West, but it’s fun to torture ourselves now and again with a look at what we’re missing.…

Tech News Joel

KDDI Talby Concepts Go Production

It looks like those really attractive “Talby” concept phones from KDDI are going to be released as an actual, for-purchase product in Japan. They’re going to show up in Decemeber for around ¥15,000 (around $140 American Dollars). Design concept “talby” [SorobanGeeks]

Tech News Joel

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Product Highlights • Ask PVRBlog Launches [Ask.PVRBlog] • 2004-05 NFL Schedule for Blackberry [NoDRM] • MobiTV launches on AT&T Wireless [ADMBlog] • Home Theater Cinema Paradiso With Video Projectors [TomsHardware] • Threatmeter Products [Threatmeter] Business • Wi-Fi not a slam dunk for basketball Maverick [CNet] Reviews • PhilMUG Reviews Alpine iPod Adapter [PhilMUG] • Casio…

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iNsane: iPod Holds 68% of Market

According the NPD Group research firm, Apple now holds 68 percent of the portable music player market with the iPod. And that’s not just hard disk-based players—they have an 82 percent share there—but includes flash-based players, as well. I doubt they included MP3 CD players in that mix, but even still, that’s seven out of…

Tech News Joel

Olympus Easy Imaging System

Olympus is tearing up the press release bin today, this time announcing their ‘Easy Imaging System’. This system, long overdue in my opinion, is a portable digital photography lab, complete with 4 mexapixel camera [IR-500, pictured], high quality photo printer [P-S100], 40GB hard drive [S-HD-100] and eventually, a DVD burner to top it all off.…

Tech News Joel

Sony Ericsson Mystery Trapeze Phone

Air-2 Vapir Basic Review

Motorola Announces Updated V620, Five More Clamshells

DigitalFocus: Samsung YH-999 is Nice; TiVoToGo Details

Hot: Archos Gmini XS200

Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner

Kakaku.com Opens Funeral Price Search Engine

Kaori Web Smell-O-Vision Update

Toshiba “Sleep Measurer” To Revolutionize Sleeping?

New “Celebrate Cell Phone Open! Tamagotchi Plus”

AXIS 206M Megapixel Network Camera

Audiovox SMT 5600 Reviewed

Saitek PC Gamer’s Keyboard

Folding Radio, Open-Air Humidifier

Analog Cell Phones and Tumors

KDDI WIN AU 2-Megapixel Phone

KDDI Talby Concepts Go Production

Morning Bits

iNsane: iPod Holds 68% of Market

Olympus Easy Imaging System

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