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Holographic Storage: Help Me Optware, You’re Our Only Hope.

A company known as Optware has debuted a holographic storage prototype which they expect to release in a retail version by 2006. The device uses “polarized collinear holography” that coordinates both blue-violet and red lasers in combination to record between 200 to 300GB of data on a single 12cm disc. I wonder how similar this…

Tech News Joel Apr 28

Possible Playstation Price Drop, Xbox 2 PowerPC or Bust

The falling sales number of the Playstation 2 may signal a price cut ahead as the Xbox takes a units-sold lead for the first time in the console race. The Xbox is currently selling for $149, while the Playstation hovers at $179. It’s not unrealistic to expect a price-drop announcement from Sony at this year’s…

Tech News Joel Apr 28

$5 Hand Held Shark Vacuum

You know, for $4.99, this Euro-Pro EP031 Mini Turbo Shark hand vacuum might not clean out every steeze, or crevist, but I bet it provides at least a fiver-worth of suck, which, let me tell you, can be a surprising amount. Read [via Slickdeals]

Tech News Joel Apr 28

Space Toast, Broast to Roast

For those of you candy asses too sissified to roast your bread over open flame (my landlord hates this), a new UK-based company’s invention may be finding its way into The Toaster of the Future. The newly patented system monitors sugar and carbon particles in the bread with a sensor, precisely detecting the effects of…

Tech News Joel Apr 28

Iomega Rev Review

Pocket-Lint has a review of the Iomega Rev, the new 35GB/90GB removable disk drive from the people that brought you the Zip (click click click) and Jaz formats. Stuart seems to like the Rev well enough, so if you’re in need of that sort of storage, I suppose the Rev merits a spare gander, but…

Tech News Joel Apr 28

Iraq Sneakers

It’s a little outside our bailiwick, but we’ll go all Josh Rubin here for a second to mention these Dsquared ‘Iraq’ Sneakers, similar in style to the Canada or Brazil sneakers that you people without metal stumps for legs get such a kick out of. Now you can support the war effort/make derisive political statements…

Tech News Joel Apr 28

Earth, Wind, & Zire: Shining Stars

PalmOne’s new two new bargain PDAs, the Zire 31 and 72, have been released, and along with the lifting of the NDAs comes the requisite outpouring of reviews. The $149 Zire 31 sports a 160 by 160 color screen, 200MHz ARM-based processor, headphone jack and MP3 player, 16MB of RAM, SD card slot, and runs…

Tech News Joel Apr 28

Wacom PenParter Miniature Drawing Pad

Wacom, the people who insist that their product is not pronounced whack ’em, but can’t stop me even if they tried, has a new portable tablet out called the ‘PenPartner’, designed for the mobile digital artist, or businessman who really needs to draw circles on spreadsheets. With a much lower resolution than some of the…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

SmartFone Mutates, Form of: SlashPhone

Our friends at SmartFone.net asked us to pass along word that they’ve rebranded themselves as SlashPhone.com, which may imply that they’ve moved over to a Slashdot-style posting format, but no, they just think slashes are pretty cool. It is certainly easier to remember. Go give them a first day look see. Read [SlashPhone]

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Vodafone’s Exclusive Sharp GX30 Review

The latest model in Sharp’s GX phone line, the GX30, hasn’t changed much on the outside, but brings a bucketload of features on the inside, including Bluetooth, an SD/MMC slot, and a 1.1-megapixel camera. As nice as the little clamshell is, don’t get your hopes up if you’re in the States: the GX30 is a…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Philips Micro Jukebox, A Loveable Loser

Can the Philips Micro Audio Jukebox HDD060 best Apple’s iPod Mini? Errr, well, no. How about the Creative Nomand MuVo2? Hrmmm, not so much. Is there anything that makes the 1.2GB hard disk music player worth buying? Well, if you want a great interface that stands up in usablility to the iPod and “the best-sounding…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Playstation 2 PC Case Mod

It’s rare that a modded PC case actually looks better than its inspiration, but this custom acrylic case by Sung-Eun is much sexier than the Playstation 2 after which it was modeled. Not only is the Pentium 4-powered tower Ooh Shinier than the flat-plastic PS2, the glowing blue lines that creep up the edges are…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Tiny Stealth PC Adds Integrated WiFi

Stealth Computing’s newest small footprint PC, the LPC-401XW, has built-in WiFi, but sadly only of the 802.11b variety. With up to a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 inside, you could hide this substantial little box anywhere there is a power outlet (think Home Theater PC). The 802.11b is really too bad, though: it’s fast enough to stream…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Xbox 2 Specs Possibly Leaked

A ‘leaked’ schematic detailing the architecture of Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox 2 has the web roiling this morning, both from the more-than-respectable trio of 3.5GHz PowerPC processors at the helm as well as debate about the leak’s legitimacy. While some have speculated that Xbox Next will be powered by AMD, all signs (including public press releases)…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Mind Controlled Personal Video Player?

This mPAVIO portable video player on Akibalive is intriguing, not because of its features—with a relatively small 2.5-inch screen and 20GB hard drive, it looks a little awkward to use—but because of the mention of a ‘Mind Control Program (Mind Control Study Program)’ with no follow up information. Are the Japanese slowly prepping their society…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Full-Service Fan Service

Why are the Japanese versions of blow up dolls—specifically these Real Doll-esque silicone models—called ‘Dutch wives?’ I’m sure if we harness the full power of this battlestation, we can find out. The latest version, pictured here, is the ‘Jewel,’ from Orient Industry. Creepy trivia: Orient will take back any unwanted doll free of charge, then…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Green Tea Slurry To Polish Hard Drives

Speaking of hard drives and storage, an Arizona company has developed a new environmentally-friendly lapping slurry, the liquid used to polish the precision surfaces of hard drive platters, using phytochemicals from green-tea extract. So not only will our future hard drives be cheaper (since it will cost manufacturers less to dispose of the slurry), they’ll…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Sony’s Professional Disc for DATA

Sorry about the late start this morning, I had a date with a hard drive crash that was only fixed after shelling out $40 and eating a bowl of stew. Looks like Sony’s pushing their new ‘Professional Disc for DATA,’ the blue-violet laser optical disc storage that is sort of a high-end companion to the…

Tech News Joel Apr 27

Bluetooth, Gender Roles, Something About How Men Are Awesome

Zero Sum/Guerilla Research has some interesting bluetooth statistics (Wait! Come back!) from a survey of 1500 individuals in one of London’s central business districts: 68% of personalised devices were given ‘male’ names, with only 20% allocated a ‘female’ name. Although mobile phone ownership is higher for men than women in the UK, this does not…

Tech News Joel Apr 26

JVC’s Sub-Optimal Sub-Notebook

JVC’s new sub-notebook is a cute little bug, with a very handy feature for owners of the JVC GR-HD1 DV camcorder: an integrated HD-TS decoder. Unfortunately, the 1GHz mini-laptop has an oddly-proportioned 1024×600 screen, crippling its usefulness in the sort of day-to-day work for which lightweight sub-notebooks are designed. Read [ContinentalOp]

Tech News Joel Apr 26

Holographic Storage: Help Me Optware, You’re Our Only Hope.

Possible Playstation Price Drop, Xbox 2 PowerPC or Bust

$5 Hand Held Shark Vacuum

Space Toast, Broast to Roast

Iomega Rev Review

Iraq Sneakers

Earth, Wind, & Zire: Shining Stars

Wacom PenParter Miniature Drawing Pad

SmartFone Mutates, Form of: SlashPhone

Vodafone’s Exclusive Sharp GX30 Review

Philips Micro Jukebox, A Loveable Loser

Playstation 2 PC Case Mod

Tiny Stealth PC Adds Integrated WiFi

Xbox 2 Specs Possibly Leaked

Mind Controlled Personal Video Player?

Full-Service Fan Service

Green Tea Slurry To Polish Hard Drives

Sony’s Professional Disc for DATA

Bluetooth, Gender Roles, Something About How Men Are Awesome

JVC’s Sub-Optimal Sub-Notebook

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