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Toshiba’s Tiny Hard Drive Future

Toshiba has passed along some concepts for possible uses of that new 0.85 inch hard drive: the wrist PDA (seen yesterday on Gizmodo); the integrated headphone MP3 player; the digital wallet/electronic key; and the information specs. None of them are real, of course, and they all look sort of corny, but as usual, speculative items…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

Translucent Concrete

Having grown tired of the oppressive atmosphere concrete can give to a structure, 27 year-old Aron Losonczi has invented a type of concrete that allows light to pass through. By combining fiberoptic material with standard concrete, the newly-dubbed ‘LitraCon’ will allow silhouettes of outdoor shapes to pass through to the inside of rooms. Losonczi hopes…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

500 MHz Underwood No. 5

This 500MHz Mini-Itx machine has more style in its left shift key than most of the molded-plastic and brushed metal cases of the last 30 years. Of course, it helps that it is a retrofitted Underwood No. 5 typewriter, with integrated sound and CD drive. I really wish PC manufacturers would start offering more case…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

ClipDrive Bio Review

If a USB flash memory drive sounds like a good idea, but doesn’t have enough security for your liking, Memory Experts International’s ClipDrive Bio might be worth a look. It’s pricey—the 64MB version starts at $120, all the way up to $720 for a 2GB version—but the ability to lock down a secure section of…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

BlackBerry 7750

RIM unveiled their new BlackBerry 7750 at the CTIA Wireless 2004 trade show, with a 65,000 color screen and all the other features you’ve come to expect. It’s been interesting to hear the feedback from people lately about RIM devices; It’s rare to see something be so equally loved and reviled. Read

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

Olympus C-750 Review

Olympus’s new C-750 Ultra Zoom is only an incremental upgrade to the Camedia line, with a 4 megapixel CCD and 10x optical zoom, but still gets high marks in this review from Pyroport. Read [via I4U]

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

3D Vendor CeBIT Roundup

Beyond3D walked through CeBIT and slurped up a lot of good (if technical) information about the latest happenings from all the PC 3D vendors. Interestingly, it seems that while both ATI and NVIDIA have PCI-Express boards in reference form, everyone is waiting on Intel to push through motherboards that use the standard before waiting to…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

Water Taxi Himiko

The 114-ton Japanese water-taxi ‘Himiko’ was designed by anime artist Leiji Matsumoto (Space Battleship Yamato) “to appeal to the younger generation.” It does this by being awesome. [Thanks, Rich!] Read

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

BeoCenter Price Update

Just a quick update on that Bang & Olufsen BeoCenter 2 we talked about a week ago. Our man “Mike” inside tells us you can pick up the whole shebang for around $4,100, including the ‘connecting brick’ where all the back-end system connections are made. Most U.S. B&O stores should start seeing a few units…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

Control Games With Your Mind

Using your brain to control a video game character is nothing new, unless you don’t mean using your brain to control your hands, but just raw mind power, and then, yeah, that’s new. Researchers have developed a game and headset that allows the player to control a tightrope-walking man-frog (of course!) by focusing thought on…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

3 CCD Sony HDV Camcorder

Sony has announced a high-resolution 3 CCD HD camcorder that should come in at under $5,000. This camera will be the first official ‘HDV’ standard camera, a high-definition format agreed upon by Sony, JVC, Canon, and Sharp. While JVC was first-to-market last year with a single CCD HD camcorder, it looks like this Sony ‘prosumer’…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

I-Stick USB Flash Drive

These I-Stick USB flash drives are thinner than the USB socket on your PC. In fact, the Intelligent Sticks are so small they actually come with a plastic credit card-sized case for stashing two side by side in your wallet. They are so tiny I want dozens to stash in various places, or to use…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

The Humvee of Laptops

Like the surge in popularity of Hummer/Humvees after the first Gulf War, Business Week speculates that many returning soldiers may have grown too attached to their ruggedized notebooks to go back to the fragile consumer versions. While full-on military-class notebooks are out of reach for most, some ‘semi-rugged’ units with spill-resistant keyboards, hard casings, and…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

MIOX Portable Water Purifier

The MIOX water purifier is a portable unit that uses an electrical process to generate hypochlorous acid from salt, producing a solution that can purify a gallon-and-a-half in about thirty minutes. Not only should the salt and watch batteries that power the $129 device be readily available to most travelers, the purified water doesn’t have…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

Cinch Tie Fishing Tool

Frustrated trying to tie knots in his fishing line, Ken Koehler developed a simple brass gizmo, the ‘Cinch Tie,’ which allows anglers to tie any of 14 different knots in around five seconds. The Cinch Tie can be had for about $12, and comes with no promise of increasing your ability to catch fish (that…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 22

Boffin Builds World’s Ugliest Robot

U.K. scientist Steve Grand has developed ‘Lucy,’ a five-CPU robot that can—on a good day—distinguish between an apple and a banana. While that may not sound like an amazing feat, bear in mind that rather using software shortcuts, Lucy’s ‘50,000 neuron’ brain used trial and error to develop the skills necessary to differentiate the shapes.…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 21

Toshiba PDA Watch Concept

Toshiba threw a little speculation into their CeBIT presentation with this ‘Wristwatch PDA,’ a wearable computer concept (read: one marketing intern and some rendered graphics). With a wide ‘hi-definition’ display, WiFi, and Bluetooth, the Wristwatch PDA would be really cool except for one thing: it isn’t cool at all. No one wants to wear a…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 21

More MPx Details

Motorola has given out a little more information about their do-all MPx handset. Somewhat disappointing is the lack of a 850MHz tri-band version, since many of the U.S. GSM carriers use that frequency. The expected $930 price tag isn’t exactly a feature I was looking forward to, either. Read

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 21

Iomega Micro Mini USB Drive

Iomega’s newest USB 2.0 drives are certainly the smallest and most stylish I’ve seen so far. What’s even better is that they use Iomega’s Active Disk technology which allows you to install and run applications directly from the device. Read

Tech News JOSH RUBIN Mar 19

9x Media Very Large Video Arrays

Here’s something that puts that Go-L four-wide monitor array we covered a while back to shame: the 9x Media X-Top and X-Wall video displays. The X-Top are custom desktop display systems that supports up to ten monitors for your very sturdy desktop. And if that isn’t enough, scratch together just under $300,000 and you can…

Tech News JOEL JOHNSON Mar 19

Toshiba’s Tiny Hard Drive Future

Translucent Concrete

500 MHz Underwood No. 5

ClipDrive Bio Review

BlackBerry 7750

Olympus C-750 Review

3D Vendor CeBIT Roundup

Water Taxi Himiko

BeoCenter Price Update

Control Games With Your Mind

3 CCD Sony HDV Camcorder

I-Stick USB Flash Drive

The Humvee of Laptops

MIOX Portable Water Purifier

Cinch Tie Fishing Tool

Boffin Builds World’s Ugliest Robot

Toshiba PDA Watch Concept

More MPx Details

Iomega Micro Mini USB Drive

9x Media Very Large Video Arrays

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