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Frog Design Mind

[Eds. Note: Even if you have never heard of frog design, you are undoubtedly familiar with the company’s enormously influential design work—the Sony Trinitron TV, Logitech’s QuickCam Fusion, AT&T’s first digital answering machine, the Apple IIC and NeXT Box. This is the first in a series of frog’s Design Mind columns that will appear every…

Tech News Noah R

Hitachi W32H to support FeliCa

FeliCa is Sony’s contactless IC card system. It is a card that essentially controls everything of your life. The FeliCa card provides access to many different services and contains information regarding pretty much everything about your life. The card is extremely secure and has high speed processing. The FeliCa card will be integrated into the…

Tech News Travis Hudson

New HP Handheld? In Poland?

Who woulda’ thunk it, but these images came straight from our friendly allies Poland on the country’s PDA Club site. Though there is basically no solid information on these new HP wireless smartphones, but it’s nice to dream—and look at Polish photos. Rumour has it that if we do see these devices, they will be…

Tech News Johnb

CEDIA News: Logitech Introduces New Harmony 890 Pro and 895 Remote Controls

While we’re on the subject of technology to keep us off our feet and on the couch—are we ever really off it? — Logitech introduced new remote controls at CEDIA, the Harmony 9800 Pro and 895. Logitech welcomes these remotes to the family with its first implementation of RF to IR relaying ($99 transceiver), which…

Tech News Gizmogo

The nano News and ROKR Re-up

There has been lots of news, rumor and speculation since the ROKR and nano were released last week. Instead of posting dribs and drabs about how hard it is to access the ROKR sim card or the algorithm for determining the weight-offset of the nano when placed inside a pocket protector (took me all darn…

Tech News Noah R

The Big nano Update

The nano has already been dissembled and now hacked. It sounds like the nano does not mod as easily as its predecessors. But instructions on how to changes the text, font and graphics looks easy enough. [Make] Samsung has raised the ire of everyone else in the NAND flash marketplace because they offered such a…

Tech News Noah R

The ROKR Re-up

When Motorola says 100 songs, they mean it. It turns out that ROKR prevents you from adding more than 100 tunes, even if you are using less than the 512MB of space available (pity all the punk rockers who listen to 3 minute Ramones songs). [Dave’s iPaq] The iTunes interface is clunky. Nothing wrong with…

Tech News Noah R

Thunder In Your Palm

Next time you go out on a “dark and stormy night”, you might want to bring along a safety net. Spectrum Electronics’ “Thunderbolt Storm Detector” is a handheld, portable device that detects storm and lightning activity from over 75 miles away and then warns you about the storm’s distance, approach speed, intensity, and estimated arrival…

Gadgets Johnb

Canon HDV XL-2 Camcorder: HD Amateur Pr0n?

The folks over at camcorderinfo.com managed to get an exclusive peek at Canon’s new HDV XL-2 video camera. The formal announcement from Canon should be coming later this week at the Canon EXPO event happening in New York City. They are also reporting that this new HDV XL-2 will only record in 1080i and not…

Tech News Travis Hudson

CEDIA News: HP Launches Wi-Fi Capable LCDs

Crashing Dell’s party in the computer/TV biz, Hewlett-Packard introduced a new line of LCD TVs, along with announcing a plan to bring out LCD-TV models with integrated Wi-Fi capabilities in 2006. So look for 26-inch, 32-inch and 37-inch LCD-TVs with ATSC tuners, digital CableCARD slots and detachable side-mounted speakers (pricing not available yet) to be…

Tech News Johnb

XBox 360 Unhackable, Vista Will Launch Next Year, Monkeys To Fly Out of My Buttocks

So some smartass at Microsoft decided he’d tell the world that the Xbox 360 will be “unhackable”. This in turn just begs for your product to be hacked to shreds. Listen to what Chris Satchell from the Xbox Advanced Technology Group told the BBC: One of the reasons we went with custom hardware design for…

Tech News Johnb

Automaton Orchestra: P.A.M.

Stand aside, powerful musician unions: the robots are here for your jobs. P.A.M. (Partially Artificial Musicians), created by a team led by composer/violinist Kurt Coble, is an ensemble of machine instruments. Motors and solenoids hack away at traditional instruments like violins, with each gesture sequenced in C++. Traditional instruments are only the beginning—eventually Kurt wants…

Gadgets Johnb

DGICOM Introduces DIY Home Theater Box

Ever wanted a HDD recorder but wanted to pop in your own HDD? DGICOM thinks so and has released the first DIY home theater box sans hard drive. It comes with a DL DVD burner and tons of inputs and hookups. The device is MPEG-1/2, AVI(MPEG-4 ASP/Xvid), MP3, WAV, WMA, JPEG, BMP and PNG compatible…

Tech News Johnb

Pantech’s Slide Phone

Asian phone wizard Pantech and Curitel is throwing in its PT-K1500 as more competition to the ubiquitous RAZR. Pretty, 16.9mm slim and weighing only 80 grams, it’s got MP3 capabilities and sadly for the Asians, only a 1.2 megapixel camera (c’mon, you can do better than that). But the slideout keyboard is totally cool looking…

Tech News Noah R

Stroller Shopping, Eurotrash Style

John here. Just got back from an extended bout of European stroller shopping with the missus and I am not proud to say that it is not only in sheer high tech geekery that our continent is sorely lacking. We bought a Quinny Buzz, which, as those who are aware of humans called “babies” know,…

Tech News Johnb

Sony RDR-AX75 DVR Dumps PSP Compatible Video

Thanks, Sony, for making us think that you just may be on our side sometimes, Sony has given us a little gift with its RDR-AX75 DVR. As well letting you store MPEG-4 videos to its 250GB hard drive and burn them to Dual-Layer DVDs, it also lets you copy these files to Memory Stick Duo…

Tech News Johnb

EBay Buys Skype, Leaves Positive Feedback, Gets Blue Star

After some speculation, it seems eBay is going to pick up Skype for a few billion. Why, you ask? So millions of weird ashtray collectors can call each other immediately when they see a rare, near mint snoopy acrylic for sale in Illinois. It will also allow these selfsame weird ashtray collectors to stalk each…

Tech News Johnb

Kensington iPod Accessories: Includes Weird Grille-less Speaker

We were distracted by the iPod nano this week, so forgive us for missing this announcement of five new Kensington iPod accessories. In fact, three of them are actually iPod nano-compatible, thanks to the whole Universal Dock adapter thing that Apple implemented. The most notable accessory to debut is the weird grille-less NXT flat panel…

Tech News Gizmogo

Numark HDX Makes Any Idiot a DJ

Numark has seen DJing evolve over the years from vinyl to CD and now to digital music. They’ve decided it’s time to take the next leap forward and have done so with the HDX. The HDX is a hybrid vinyl-based CD and MP3 turntable. Equipped with a removable 80GB hard disk and a real vinyl…

Tech News Noah R

Katrina: EVDO in NOLA

Joel Johnson — We’ve made it into Algiers, the 15th Ward of New Orleans, at the request of Malik Rahim. Malik stayed in Algiers after the hurricane and is working to establish community help stations to assist in getting the neighborhood back on its feet. Tomorrow we’re going to visit the local community-run medical center…

Tech News Joel

Frog Design Mind

Hitachi W32H to support FeliCa

New HP Handheld? In Poland?

CEDIA News: Logitech Introduces New Harmony 890 Pro and 895 Remote Controls

The nano News and ROKR Re-up

The Big nano Update

The ROKR Re-up

Thunder In Your Palm

Canon HDV XL-2 Camcorder: HD Amateur Pr0n?

CEDIA News: HP Launches Wi-Fi Capable LCDs

XBox 360 Unhackable, Vista Will Launch Next Year, Monkeys To Fly Out of My Buttocks

Automaton Orchestra: P.A.M.

DGICOM Introduces DIY Home Theater Box

Pantech’s Slide Phone

Stroller Shopping, Eurotrash Style

Sony RDR-AX75 DVR Dumps PSP Compatible Video

EBay Buys Skype, Leaves Positive Feedback, Gets Blue Star

Kensington iPod Accessories: Includes Weird Grille-less Speaker

Numark HDX Makes Any Idiot a DJ

Katrina: EVDO in NOLA

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