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The Week In TV By Brian L. Clark There they go again: Last week AT&T rolled out Homezone, its initial “IPTV offering” in San Antonio and Ohio. Turns out Homezone is less IPTV than just another package deal that brings together a phone company and a satellite service—in this case, Echostar—to provide the same types…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 25 '06

Google Offers Traffic Maps for Mobile

As an avid Google mobile fan (Google SMS anyone?) I am happy to announce the availability of Google Traffic Maps for Mobile. This service provides detailed directions, integrated search results, easily movable maps, satellite imagery and real-time traffic for 30 major cities on your cellphone. Google Maps for Mobile is mostly free. It does require…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 25 '06

Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite

Why lug a PC with you everywhere you go, when you can offload your photos onto a Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite? This is one versatile unit, compatible with almost all flash memory cards, a veritable alphabet soup including CF I/II, MD, MMC, SD Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, MS Duo and MS PRO…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 25 '06

Panasonic HDTV Photo Player: Slideshows Galore

Panasonic’s upcoming DMW-SDP1 is an SDHC card reader that’s designed to hook up to HDTVs, where your digital pictures will then be displayed in popular slideshow format. Joy to the world. Should you desire to, you can zoom in up to 16X on your pictures. Additionally, there’s a port that allows you to connect the…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 25 '06

Design Concept: Illume Display Shelf

Chris Owens, an enterprising design student from North Carolina State University, created a shelf that’s lit from beneath by LEDs. Pressure-sensitive switches embedded in the shelf turn on those lights when you place an object on them. Take a look at the video to see the design prototype in action. Wouldn’t this be great to…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 25 '06

Bluetooth Mighty Mouse Released

It was less than 24 hours ago that we first heard word of a Bluetooth upgrade for the Apple Mighty Mouse, which happens to still suck. Well Apple worked through the night and have finished the Mighty Mouse. https://gizmodo.com/mighty-mouse-getting-a-bluetooth-upgrade-soon-189518 It has Bluetooth technology, a laser tracking engine, innovative scroll ball and button, touch sensitive top…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 25 '06

IOPS BlueQ Mini-Multimedia Player to Ship

Korean manufacturer IOPS says it’s ready to ship what it calls the world’s first mini-multimedia player capable of 30fps playback, the BlueQ. Besides playing back smooth video, it also has an FM tuner and plays back MP3s. With just a 1.8-inch LCD display, we’re not thinking it’s going to be much fun watching videos on…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 25 '06

Sony Reader Hands-On

We first heard word of the Sony Reader back in January when it made its triumphant debut at CES 2006. Patrick Norton at PC Mag recently gave the Sony Reader a nice little hands-on. Like most of the other pre-reviews we have seen, people are wowed by how nice the e-ink looks and how easy…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jul 25 '06

Buddy On Demand: You Never Have to be Alone, Sorta

A women’s car insurance firm from Australia called Sheila’s Wheels (those Aussies like to call all women “Sheilas”) have an idea for timid ladies who are afraid to drive alone at night, and they’re calling it Buddy On Demand, a life-size blow-up male passenger doll that will make it appear that they’re not unaccompanied. Nothing…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 25 '06

Dospara Prime A Note Cressida 64TW

No, that’s not an iBook, but a “Prime A Note Cressida 64TW.” If the name doesn’t clue you in, it’s an ultra portable notebook computer from Japan, land of super happy fun quirkiness. Obviously, the best thing it’s got going for it is its size: it weighs only four pounds, making it light enough to…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jul 25 '06

Bring 2D Pictures Into the Third Dimension With The EZ3D Picture Frame

It used to be that you’d be burned at the stake if you tried to perform such brazen acts of witchcraft, but since that is no longer the case, feel free to give the EZ3D Picture Frame from DigiGear a try. The picture frame works in conjunction with DigiGear’s software that plays dress up with…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jul 25 '06

World’s Largest HDTV

We’ve seen big HDTVs before, claiming to be world’s largest, but now Mitsubishi has topped them all, building a high-definition video screen at a horseracing track in Tokyo that’s 218 feet wide and 37 feet tall, taking up 8000 square feet—that’s nearly a fifth of an acre. The screen, delivered in 35 pieces and assembled…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 25 '06

Pic Pocket Camera Case

There are so many micro-sized cameras these days, and now here are Pic Pockets from Waterfield Designs, a variety of cases in which to carry those tiny digi-shooters. They’re stylish-looking, too, with plush insides, your choice of colors or patterns on the outside, a self-locking zipper and a pulltab with a carabiner that lets you…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 25 '06

BenQ and The Tale of The 1080p Monitor

We, kind of, sort of mentioned this BenQ monitor a few weeks ago, but a little bit of updated information never hurt anyone, especially since we’re dealing with a world’s first. The FP241W is a 24-inch LCD 1080p computer monitor complete with HDMI port, which, says BenQ, is the world’s first such computer monitor. The…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jul 25 '06

Temperature, Time and USB Air Purifier, All In One

The casual observer would never suspect that we’ve seen an unusually high number of USB powered air purifiers in these parts, where there have been units for the office, for the car, and even for the soul, but now the USB air purifier has been teamed up with the digital temperature alarm clock, in a…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 25 '06

Pentax Optio S7 Debuts

Pentax updates its S series with the Optio S7, raising the megapixel count to 7.0 and bringing along a 3x optical zoom and 2.5-inch LCD viewscreen. Pentax follows suit with a number of other camera makers, trying to help users sharpen up their images by giving them faster response, raising the ISO to 1600. This…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 25 '06

Hitachi-LG Readies World’s First 4X Blu-ray Burner

Still haven’t picked a side in the high definition disc war yet? Perhaps being able to burn a Blu-ray disc at 4X will help decide your allegiance? If so, keep your eyes on Hitachi-LG, since they just announced to availability of a Blu-ray burner that will burn discs at a speedy 4X, rather than the…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jul 25 '06

Motorola RAZR MAXX V6: Noteworthy For Its Fast Data, and Extras

This RAZR lookalike isn’t a RAZR. It’s a MAXX — just think of it as a hot dog, with all the extras. First and foremost, it has 3.5G HSDPA connection. That’s good for 400 to 700 kbps transfers, with 1 megabit bursts, on Cingular’s network (if the phone is ever picked up by the carrier.)…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 25 '06

Gizmodo Today

News Motorola MOTO RIZR Z3: Slider Officially Released Motorola MOTO K1 KRZR: Officially Released Other Bits and Bytes HDBeat: We Don’t Need No Stinking 1080p Mighty Mouse Getting A Bluetooth Upgrade Soon BenQ FP92V: A Monitor Coated for Color and Resilience Slim Devices Transporter: Exclusive First Look At the Ultimate Audio Streamer Morph Pad Donate…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 25 '06

Motorola MOTO RIZR Z3: Slider Officially Released

Moto’s released a slider phone, their first under the new moto design mandate: look saucy. The phone was released in Korea last week.What we know so far makes it sound similar to the KRZR. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-z-silver-slider-launched-188991 -176 220 TFT with 262K colors -A 2-megapixel camera -20MB memory plus microSD card slot -Stereo Bluetooth -Dimensions of 45.5 105.5 16…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 24 '06

Tuning Fork

Google Offers Traffic Maps for Mobile

Digital Foci Picture Porter Elite

Panasonic HDTV Photo Player: Slideshows Galore

Design Concept: Illume Display Shelf

Bluetooth Mighty Mouse Released

IOPS BlueQ Mini-Multimedia Player to Ship

Sony Reader Hands-On

Buddy On Demand: You Never Have to be Alone, Sorta

Dospara Prime A Note Cressida 64TW

Bring 2D Pictures Into the Third Dimension With The EZ3D Picture Frame

World’s Largest HDTV

Pic Pocket Camera Case

BenQ and The Tale of The 1080p Monitor

Temperature, Time and USB Air Purifier, All In One

Pentax Optio S7 Debuts

Hitachi-LG Readies World’s First 4X Blu-ray Burner

Motorola RAZR MAXX V6: Noteworthy For Its Fast Data, and Extras

Gizmodo Today

Motorola MOTO RIZR Z3: Slider Officially Released

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