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Nokia Remote Camera

Nokia announced an interesting new home security camera that uses any GSM network to send images back to your phone or email if someone trips its motion sensor or if its in-built thermometer exceeds a pre-set threshold. It’s a lot like a 1-megapixel cameraphone without the phone part, although it can even take pictures at…

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Panasonic’s Bluetooth MP3/CD Player

LIAM “AWESOME” MCNULTY — What you’re looking at is a demonstration model of Panasonic’s Bluetooth MP3/CD player, shown at this year’s “A&V Festa” in Tokyo “A&V Festa.” Announced specifications are quite sparse, but what we do know is that it features “Adaptive Frequency Hopping” support to ward off any wireless LAN interference. Perhaps more interesting…

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Evening Bits

Product Highlights • PluggedIn: Next-generation TV streams over phone lines [Reuters] • Canon Goes Wi-Fi [WiFiNetNews] • JVC launches digital media camera (Everio) [TheRegister] • Smart AC Converter [Merconnet] • Marantz Introduces Three New Plasma Displays [HomeTheater.About] • Tribes: Vengeance Gold [FiringSquad] (VGW!) Business • VZ Wireless Slams National 411 Directory [InternetNews] • Yahoo! to!…

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Toyota’s Digital Hub for Cars

Toyota is showing off their new “Toyota Hub” at the Mondial de l’Automobile this weekend, a centrally-linked integrated system that orients around a removable PDA, connecting together the PDA, cell phones, MP3 players, and cameras into an all-in-one system that intelligently uses the car itself for things like sound and tactile interface. The best part?…

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Sony May Support Native MP3 (What Took You So Long?)

Oh ho! Sony, who I had already pretty much counted out of the portable music game, has just stepped back up to the plate with the announcement (which makes for really boring baseball, really) that they will be supporting MP3 on their players, starting with flash players and going from there. That’s the good news.…

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Accupix MPG-230M:VR Theater

Just when you thought it was safe to put that black leather trench coat and shiny mylar shirt back in the closet, a company called Accupix launches a new “virtual theater” display called MPG-230M. The glasses, when worn, simulate a 30-inch screen viewed from about 6 feet away, but sadly only accept a composite video…

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Vodafone’s Sharp 902sh: UK’s First 2 Megapixel Phone

Higher megapixel cameraphones are moving West, as Vodafone announces the Sharp V902sh as part of its UK 3G lineup, a 2.02-megapixel phone with optical zoom. Could that mean the US could see a 2-megapixel handset by the end of the year? I’m not betting on it. Read – First 2-megapixel cameraphone for the UK [TechDigestUK]

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iRiver H300 Series Officially Announced

We mentioned the new iRiver H300 series launch a little bit earlier today (just a link), but we thought we’d give them a big US welcome with this healthy, near life-sized image. With the launch of these new 20GB and 40GB players with color screens, 16 hour battery life, and the ability to played both…

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Networked, Powered Tiles Concept

These “Pervsaive Ambience” tile concept by Caleb Fung would an extremely elegant way to add unobtrusive function to rooms. Each tile can serve as a link in a network, providing power and information to various “node” tiles, including “lighting tiles, heated tiles, flat speaker tiles, and LCD tiles.” It would be wonderful if someone would…

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Sidekick II Intellisync For More Than Outlook?

Hey, Sidekick II owners, have you downloaded the Intellisync software yet? Do you use something besides Outlook as your contacts system? Try this and tell me if it works. A reader sent in this tip: I used to work for Intellisync and I think that if you install the full version of Intellisync on your…

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Sprint PCS Launches Samsung i600

Sprint has officially unveiled the Samsung i600 smartphone, a Windows Mobile 2003 clamshell (the first Windows Mobile unit for Sprint PCS, they say). Their website has it listing for $470 and it should be in stores next month. This is essentially the same phone released last year by Verizon, so don’t expect a whole lot…

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Flexible Robot Skin

University of Tokyo researchers have developed an artificial skin for robots that gives them a sense of touch. Essentially an array of pressure sensors embedded into inexpensive, flexible materials, the prototype skin has about 16 sensors per centimeter – pretty good, until you realize that human’s have around 1,500 per centimeter in our fingertips (although…

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Pong Mechanik

I’ve linked to this once in the Bits remainders, but so many of you keep sending it in that you’ve convinced me it merits a whole post. Two German students have built an electro-mechanical version of Pong, replacing all the digital bits with pulleys and strings and electrical sensors. It is rather brilliant, perhaps I…

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$150 14-Inch LCD Panel, $109 Gateway DVD Player with Wi-Fi

There are all sorts of good sales happening today, but I thought I’d pick out a couple of things that are especially nice. Best Buy has this Proview 14-inch LCD monitor on sale for $149 ($249 with a $100 instant rebate). It’s just 1024 by 768 pixels, of course, but as a second monitor or…

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Special Forces SnowGoose Drone

I think you can share my dissapointment in realizing that the Marines have not, in fact, developed a parachuting blue whale as a final measure in the War On Krill. Sadly, it’s not a whale at all, but instead a SnowGoose, an unmanned cargo drone capable of transporting up to 600 pounds of cargo in…

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Dental Chair Uses Bone Conduction to Play Music

A Japanese dental equipment manufacturer has developed a special chair that uses bone-conduction to broadcast music to patients that might not otherwise be able to hear it over the sounds of drills and the disinterested chatter of your dentist. The thing is, isn’t the drill making noise through bone conduction, too? Read – Front Page…

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Cute InCase iPod Mini Sleeves

Not much detail beyond the pictures, but it looks like InCase (the same people that make the iPod skateboard bag) is prepping new sleeves for the iPod mini. I could do without the one with the flames, but the turntable case is pretty ingenius. I’m surprised that hasn’t been done that already. (Thanks, Ken!) Read…

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • Analyst note: Nintendo DS invites free voice-over-IP chat [Gamespot] • Mechanical Pong [Cybernikias] • Two New FireWire products from WiebeTech [MacMinute] Business • Can IM morph into ‘instant music’? [CNet] • Netflix, Warner Bros. in video-on-demand test [CNet] Reviews • iRiver H320 (20GB) [CNet] • SnapStream Firefly [PCMag] • Asus a730 Review…

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More iPod Wedding Cake

Someday I’ll have a beautiful wedding with individually decorated cakes, including ones will little icing iPods on them. Or on second thought, I will just make some cakes. And before iPod haters get on the stick and send me hate mail, try to remember one thing: this isn’t about the iPod. This is a post…

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Hello Kitty Bluetooth Headset

Not one, but two Hello Kitty cellphone peripherals in one day? Be still my heart! The first is from Expansys and is a Bluetooth headset, but not the clip-over-the-ear kind, but the kind you keep in a pocket and then use a corded earpiece with (read: sort of pointless). The other looks quite a bit…

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Nokia Remote Camera

Panasonic’s Bluetooth MP3/CD Player

Evening Bits

Toyota’s Digital Hub for Cars

Sony May Support Native MP3 (What Took You So Long?)

Accupix MPG-230M:VR Theater

Vodafone’s Sharp 902sh: UK’s First 2 Megapixel Phone

iRiver H300 Series Officially Announced

Networked, Powered Tiles Concept

Sidekick II Intellisync For More Than Outlook?

Sprint PCS Launches Samsung i600

Flexible Robot Skin

Pong Mechanik

$150 14-Inch LCD Panel, $109 Gateway DVD Player with Wi-Fi

Special Forces SnowGoose Drone

Dental Chair Uses Bone Conduction to Play Music

Cute InCase iPod Mini Sleeves

Morning Bits

More iPod Wedding Cake

Hello Kitty Bluetooth Headset

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