New York Times on the growing use of PDAs in hospitals. The fact that hospitals are just beginning to take advantage of this technology now says a lot about how inertial the health care industry is. Read
One of a kind gadget for sale: A former public school teacher has put the incredibly realistic space shuttle flight deck simulator he built up for auction on eBay. Starting bid: $14,999.00. Read Buy
CNet’s ten tips to getting better sound out of your home theater set up. Read Buy
Screenshots of the web browser expected to ship with Palm’s new OS 5. Read
The FCC is turning out to be the best source for leaks about new smartphones. Companies have to file with the FCC in order to get clearance to sell their phones in the US, and the FCC is required to make these filings public. Infosync found some pics on the FCC website of Samsung’s new…
Excellent, lengthy review in Imaging-Resource.com of Nikon’s new entry-level digital camera, the Coolpix 2000. Read
So it turns out that Palm with the collapsible graffiti isn’t coming out after all. The pictures that were floating about were of a genuine prototype – just one that was cancelled. All this gadgets gossip – it’s like being in junior high or something. Read
Samsung plans to introduce two new Palm-OS based SprintPCS cellphones next month, the SPH-I330 and the SCH-I500. Read
CNet Roundup of digital cameras aimed at the so-called “prosumer” market of consumers who want picture quality approaching that of a professional digital camera, but who don’t necessarily want to shell out the big bucks for it. Read Buy
Sales of personal video recorders like TiVo and ReplayTV are slowing rather than accelerating as analysts had predicted. Not surprisingly, the inability to archive the shows you’ve recorded onto DVD-R or a PC is proving to be a hindrance to consumer adoption. The fact that no one has figured out how to market these devices…
The Register speculates that if Apple does introduce an iPhone, they’ll either create it in co-operation with Sony Ericsson, or they’ll just rebrand an existing phone like Sony Ericsson’s P800. (pictured at right) Read
CNet on Sharp’s new 8.4-pound Actius GP20 laptop. Apparently Sharp has decided to follow Toshiba into the market for larger, “desktop replacement” notebook computers aimed at people who want portability, even if they rarely take their computers anywhere. Read
Huge feature in PC Magazine on the future of gear. Why doesn’t Wired do this stuff anymore? Read
CNet has an updated guide to how much radiation cellphones emit. I was not particularly pleased to discover that my phone, the Samsung SPH-A400, emits more radiation that most of the phones on the list. Read
EdgeReview on the new Finepix F401 digital camera, Fujifilm’s attempt to offer a professional quality camera in the body of a point-and-click. Read Buy
BBC article on speculation that manufacturers may abandon Region Coding for DVD players, that annoying system in which DVDs from one part of the world won’t work in players elsewhere. Read
Gadgeteer review of the Olympia Soundbug, a bizarre little device with a suction cup that attaches to any flat surface and turns it into a makeshift speaker. Apparently you need two of them if you want stereo. Read Buy
It’s official: Dell plans to offer its own line of printers and PDAs. I’m not sure whether it’s such a great idea for Dell to stray from doing what it does so well – selling PCs – but everyone over at HP has got to be worried. Read
Home Theater Magazine on Runco’s new CX series of plasma screens. Apparently these screens have a 1500:1 contrast ratio and light output of 500 cd/m2. (That’s candelas per square meter, the standard measure of luminance. A CRT screen might have 100 cd/m2.) This means that the screens look as good in a brightly-lit room as…
CNet on the future of notebook computers. Read