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Vaio Spring 2005 Desktop Lineup

Having just talked about the new Vaio laptops, I somehow feel obligated to mention the new Vaio desktops. But are they really new? No. On the very high end of things is the Vaio type R desktop, with a 3.8 GHz CPU, two 250GB hard drives (intertwined by RAID 0, nonetheless), and 1GB of RAM.…

Tech News Zmcnulty Jan 5

Saitek Unveils CES Line-up

Saitek s CES line-up includes some pretty cool gadgets. Besides a new laser-cut keyboard that actually glows blue light through the individual keys and a joystick that features a separate throttle with a digital display, the peripherals company is jumping on the very overloaded poker bandwagon. Later this month they will be releasing a handheld…

Tech News Brian Crecente Jan 5

Vaio Spring 2005 Notebook Lineup

Sony has announced their Spring 2005 lineup of Vaio laptops. Things look to to be pretty standard, with simple updates to the current type S, type T, type A, and type E notebooks (spells EAST), but they’ve also got two new ones — the type Y and type F (spelling FEASTY, or F YEAST). The…

Tech News Zmcnulty Jan 5

Logitec LHD-PBM2GU2, Portable 2.2GB 1″ Hard Drive

While certainly not the first time I’ve seen a product like this, Japanese manufacturer Logitec also appears to be jumping on the “use hard drives instead of flash, because flash is expensive” boat. Less than 0.4″ thick and 1.96″ wide and tall, Logitec’s LHD-PBM2GU2 has a 2.2GB capacity, and costs around 17,800 yen ($170 USD).…

Tech News Zmcnulty Jan 5

Faux File-Sharing

What consumers want—an out-of-box way to share and transmit files between different storage media and computers (and users)—is exactly what manufacturers don’t want to give them, but they’ll tease us a little. So, if you’re really rich, DigitalDeck Entertainment Network is busting out an in-home network PC to gear to DVD sharing system that costs…

Tech News Choire Jan 5

CES Preview from PC World

PC World pimps its most-likely-to-succeed gadget list for a Consumer Electronics Show preview: · The Jabra headset is the first* LCD bluetooth ear-thingey talker; not outrageously priced at $119 either. · Lexar’s JumpDrive Lightning (in 1 gig and 2 gig capacities) is extremely, extremely shiny, and we like it just because of that. Besides, you…

Tech News Choire Jan 5

SafeTurn

The SafeTurn is a wrist-mounted LED light for bicyclers that flashes when it senses the rider’s outstretched hand. I can’t quite determine if it has a directional blink, changing depending on the angle of the cycler’s arm, but it would certainly make sense that it would. You can find out for yourself in February, when…

Tech News Joel Jan 5

Samsung CES Lineup

Samsung, who is showing off this new “world’s largest” 21-inch OLED display, has also announced their products that are to be shown at this year’s CES. While we’ll definitely dig in with some more details throughout the week, there’s some appetizing bits in there already—I’d be happy to include a 57-inch LCD or a 67-inch…

Tech News Joel Jan 5

Cingular Test Hits 3 Megabit

Lucent and Cingular completed a test today of some next generation cellular data technology that hit data rates of up to 3Mbps. The service, called High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), is built on the UMTS service that Cingular is slowing deploying in some markets and could possibly reach speeds as high as 14.4Mbps. I hit…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Micro MultiMedia Player

I have a soft spot in my heart for ugly electronics, but this new Micro MultiMedia Player is sort of tragic. I like the built-in camera and everything, but I’m afraid I can’t look at it without hearing Sloth ask me for a Baby Ruth. We could go through the trouble of translating the stats…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Xbox 2 at CES Unlikely

Last-minute reports are indicating that Bill Gates’ pre-conference keynote address at CES will probably not unveil the Xbox 2, despite rumors to the contrary (and contrary rumors). Now it appears the Xbox 2, code-named ‘Xenon,’ will be shown off at the Game Developers Conference or perhaps even E3. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-2-to-be-unveiled-at-ces-23602 Xbox 2 announcement looks unlikely as…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Gateway Photo Jukebox Reviewed

PCWorld’s review of the Gateway Photo Jukebox is less than compelling. The 5GB hard disk-based player’s size is “close to those of the heavier 20GB Apple IPod,” while the color screen is too small to really be of much use, especially for viewing photos. All in all, it looks like another also ran—maybe that’s why…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Tsunami Relief Ringtones

ZapToPhone are selling “Tsunami Aid Ringtones,” the proceeds from which will be donated to UNICEF’s tsunami relief efforts. Different levels of donation are available, with each level (up to $9) netting you a different ringtone, all of which are the national anthems of affected countries. Assuming everything is going to UNICEF (and there’s nothing to…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Vonage UTStarcom F1000 VoIP Phone

Vonage is dropping some killer gear on us today, with product announcements that include this new Wi-Fi Voice-Over-IP handset from UTStarcom that will let Vonage subscribers make calls anywhere they can log onto a Wi-Fi connection. With an 80-hour standby time and three to four hour talk time, the F1000 looks practical enough to use…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Apple Upgrades Xserve, Drops Cinema Display Price

What would make Apple announce a upgraded Xserve G5 just a week before MacWorld? Could it be that they’re so crammed full of new product announcements that they’re actually pushing stuff out early? Wishful thinking, perhaps, and idle besides—this 2.3GHz Dual G5 rackmounted machine is a beaut. Why can’t all my machines be rackmounted, huh?…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Eye Dazzling Laser

First, I should say: I’m sorry about shining those laser pointers at the jets. I just thought they’d crash or something—I didn’t realize people would get all freaked out. I promise never to do it again, but as my influence over military spending is patchy at best (my line iteming of R&D for a carbon-fiber…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Motorola and Burton to Produce Bluetooth Jackets

No pictures yet, but apparently Motorola is set to announce a partnership with snowboard manufacturer Burton to produce a line of outerwear that not only has space for iPods and other portable music players, but will use Bluetooth to communicate with a bit on the sleeve that can control incoming and outbound calls, as well…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Fontastic THD-9080: DVD + NES

It’s technically illegal to bundle a bunch of Nintendo NES games with your portable DVD player, but god bless Taiwanese manufacturer Fontastic Telecom for doing it anyway, especially since their little entertainment unit can actually play them. And a double portion of blessing on them for including the seemingly superfluous telescoping antenna on top—it fully…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

TimeTrax Direct-to-iPod XM Satellite Radio Recording

TimeTrax will be launching a raft of new products this week at CES, including this version of their XM satellite radio reciever and software that will directly copy songs recorded from the XM service onto a user’s iPod. While it’s somewhat impossible to, say, pull an entire album down from XM, it’s still somewhat surprising…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Cingular RIM BlackBerry 7100g

MobileTracker is reporting that Cingular will be getting their own version of the RIM BlackBerry 7100* series, branded as the 7100g. The keyboardless T-Mobile 7100t has been a relative success for the company, despite recent issues with the network access from the carrier. UK carrier Vodafone has their own version of the 7100 which is…

Tech News Joel Jan 4

Vaio Spring 2005 Desktop Lineup

Saitek Unveils CES Line-up

Vaio Spring 2005 Notebook Lineup

Logitec LHD-PBM2GU2, Portable 2.2GB 1″ Hard Drive

Faux File-Sharing

CES Preview from PC World

SafeTurn

Samsung CES Lineup

Cingular Test Hits 3 Megabit

Micro MultiMedia Player

Xbox 2 at CES Unlikely

Gateway Photo Jukebox Reviewed

Tsunami Relief Ringtones

Vonage UTStarcom F1000 VoIP Phone

Apple Upgrades Xserve, Drops Cinema Display Price

Eye Dazzling Laser

Motorola and Burton to Produce Bluetooth Jackets

Fontastic THD-9080: DVD + NES

TimeTrax Direct-to-iPod XM Satellite Radio Recording

Cingular RIM BlackBerry 7100g

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