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One megapixel cameraphones coming in Japan

So it looks like there’s more than one new one megapixel cameraphone coming out in Japan; over the coming months NTT DoCoMo should be releasing three new higher-resolution cameraphones from Fujitsu, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson. Shouldn’t be too long before you can take a decent picture with your phone right here in the US. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 10

The ArtDrive

We didn’t even realize that this was something one could expect from a peripheral device, but All4DVD is selling a line of external FireWire hard drives and DVD burners designed by Swiss artist Johann Ulrich that promise to “exhilirate the creative soul.” Read [Via MacMinute]

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 10

Robodex roundup

Great roundup of robot photos from the recent Robodex 2003 trade show held in Yokohama, Japan last week. We especially like the bewildered look of the Ifbot (pictured at right). Read [Via BoingBoing]

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 10

Handhelds on the road

In this week’s Circuits section of the New York Times, a guide to the software applications that’ll you need if you want to leave the laptop at home and do all your work on a PDA. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 10

The Panasonic G50

Updated version of Panasonic’s tiny GD55 cellphone. The G50 has a 4096 color screen, connects to GSM for voice and GPRS for data, weighs just 75 grams, and is only 80mm x 43mm x 18mm. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 10

So maybe there won’t be Macs with Intel processors

Remember last month how John Dvorak speculated that Apple was going to switch to Intel processors? Well John Gruber takes Dvorak’s conjecture to task in an piece over at Daring Fireball, and it includes a few gems like this: No matter how badly people clamor for it, Apple is never going to release a version…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 10

You might not be able to take it with you

You might have heard something about how the FCC has set a November 24th deadline for cellphone companies to make it possible for you to keep your number when you switch carriers. Well, the carriers, who know full well that this isn’t good for them, are mounting a last ditch effort to stop the FCC.…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 9

GSL’s other Palm PDA/phone

Turns out that GSL doesn’t have just one new Palm PDA/phone coming out. PalmInfocenter reports that a second is expected as well. The Onyx, as its called, looks even better than the Zircon, and has a clamshell design reminiscent of Samsung’s Palm-powered PDA/phone, the i500. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 9

The PC Mascot

Speaking of robotic birds, it can’t quite scare off pigeons, but the PC Mascot can read you your email and let you know when you’re about to miss an appointment. Basically it’s a plastic bird that plugs into the USB port of a PC and alerts you whenever you have new messages. In our case…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 9

The Perfect PDA?

Brighthand wonders if the forthcoming iPAQ h2200 Pocket PC from HP is the “Perfect PDA”. It’s small (just .63″ thick), light (5.5 ounces), expandable (slots for SD and CF memory cards), has a great screen, a fast processor, plenty of RAM, and built-in Bluetooth, and is expected to retail for around $400. While the omission…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 9

Hating on Bluetooth

Ross Rubin of Ziff Davis on why Bluetooth is in a “state of decay.” It suffers from a WiFi inferiority complex, he says, and: until it gets into far more cell phones, Bluetooth may have no greater an impact on most users’ digital life than infrared did. Syncing wirelessly with your PDA is a convenient…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 9

Amazon sale on Microsoft’s Wheel Mouse Optical

Microsoft’s Wheel Mouse Optical is on sale for just $15.93 over at Amazon. Maybe we’re still jet lagged, but shouldn’t they have named it “Optical Wheel Mouse”? “Wheel Mouse Optical” sounds too much something William Safire would say. Amazon – Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 9

Second Centrino Tablet PC

It isn’t actually the first, as Research Machines beat them to the punch just a few days ago, but Acer has its own Tablet PC running Intel’s new Centrino chip coming out. The TravelMate C110 has up to 2GB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive, and a 10.4-inch LCD screen. This last spec comes as…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 9

Philips looking for beta testers for new MP3 jukebox

Philips is looking for fifty beta testers for its latest MP3 player, the HDD100, which has a 15GB hard drive and uses USB 2.0 for file transfer. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 9

Smart microwave

From a company called Tonight’s Menu Intelligent Ovens of a prototype of a microwave that can be controlled from a cellphone or over the Internet and that can cook food and then refrigerate it until it’s ready to be eaten. The idea is to save time, but it still won’t do much about the fact…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 8

A DVD + DivX player from Philips

Perhaps taking a cue from that DVD player from KiSS Technologies that has an Ethernet port and can stream video off of the Internet, Philips is adding a media chip to the design of its Nexperia DVD recorder so it can playback videos encoded in the MPEG-4 and DivX formats. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 8

Down and out in Euro Disneyland

This one’s for Cory D.: We’ve been too busy these past few days to write up our reflections on the Mobius Europe 2003 confab we recently attended at Euro Disneyland (yes, we have a professional life outside of Gizmodo), but we couldn’t resist posting this photo of ourselves in front of the Phantom Manor, the…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 8

Robotic falcon

Scientists in Scotland are hard at work on a robotic peregrine falcon that’s designed to fly around and scare off pigeons and seagulls. Yeah, this is lots easier than just keeping real falcons from going extinct. Read

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 8

The Purring Kitty

Howard Rheingold, the author of Smart Mobs, details one of the more unusual pieces of spam he’s received lately: a service in the UK that offers to use the vibrate setting of a mobile phone in a, shall we say, more stimulating manner. MOBILE PHONE EROTIC MASSAGER – THE PURRING KITTY 8th April 2003 Girls,…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 8

HP’s Scout: Somewhere between a PDA and a laptop

Not particularly insightful article in Reuters about the future of PC design that does have one juicy tidbit of information towards the end – that HP is planning a new device called the Scout that falls somewhere between an ultralight laptop and a PDA: About the size of an old-fashioned day planner, the flat-panel screen…

Tech News Gizmodo Apr 8

One megapixel cameraphones coming in Japan

The ArtDrive

Robodex roundup

Handhelds on the road

The Panasonic G50

So maybe there won’t be Macs with Intel processors

You might not be able to take it with you

GSL’s other Palm PDA/phone

The PC Mascot

The Perfect PDA?

Hating on Bluetooth

Amazon sale on Microsoft’s Wheel Mouse Optical

Second Centrino Tablet PC

Philips looking for beta testers for new MP3 jukebox

Smart microwave

A DVD + DivX player from Philips

Down and out in Euro Disneyland

Robotic falcon

The Purring Kitty

HP’s Scout: Somewhere between a PDA and a laptop

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