A keyboard from Canesta made entirely of light. Instead of a cramped thumb keyboard, this works by having a tiny light that attaches to or is integrated into a PDA or a cellphone and projects an image of a keyboard onto any flat surface. Then you just tap away at the images, like a regular…
Microsoft to enter the wireless networking hardware market in the coming weeks, with a bunch of new 802.11b products, including a wireless base station, and wireless adapters and notebook cards. Curiously, none of these products are designed to work with the Xbox. Read
Loads of new gadgets on view at the DemoMobile conference going on this week. Big focus on 802.11x (no surprise there), but apparently there were a few other interesting new ideas, like the io Personal Digital Pen from Logitech, which stores whatever you write by on this special paper in its 1MB of Flash memory,…
If that Hello Kitty USB hub isn’t tough enough for your desktop, you may want to get the Hubzilla, a four-port Firewire hub in the shape of Godzilla. Where’s the Bad Badtz-Maru hub? Read [Via MetaFilter]
The two camps supporting opposing formats for rewritable DVDs are still no closer to comprising on a single standard. Read
A reader points out that there is one MP3 player that lets you record off of the radio: the iRiver iFP-180T. Extra-incentive to buy one: comes with a “Fashionable necklace-type string. – Simply wearing iFP-180T makes you look outstanding.” You can’t top that. Read [Thanks Larry!]
Nice piece in the San Francisco Chronicle about Intel’s new Digital Media Adapter. It’s not about the “last mile” anymore, now that broadband is in a large number of homes. With people using their PCs to download loads of music and video off the Web, the real problem has become the “last twenty feet”, and…
While there are hundreds of MP3 players out there now, there are surprisingly few that come with built-in FM tuners (and don’t even ask about AM radio). Anyway, my very good friend Kat has been looking for one of these “FMP3” players, and she’s finally settled on one: Samsung’s new YP-700H player which has 128MB…
The date keeps getting pushed further and further back, but it looks like Danger’s long anticipated HipTop mobile communicator is about to finally hit. Danger Info, the weblog dedicated to news about the device, has obtained a copy of an email sent out that confirms October 1st as the street date for T-Mobile’s branded version…
CNET round-up of sub-$300 laser printers. They like the Brother HL-1440 (which is just $229 at Amazon) best. Read Amazon
A new Palm OS phone on the way from Samsung that runs on the 144kbps CDMA 2001 1x network. The MITs M330 has a 256 color screen, and a bunch of accessories available, like a portable keyboard and a digital camera. Read
Palm InfoCenter has the scoop on the two new Palms that are coming out next month, the 16MB Palm Tungsten, which runs the brand new OS 5, and will cost $499; and the Palm Zire, a new low-end entry with just 2MB of RAM, and will cost $99. Read
Sony Ericsson has pushed back the launch of it’s flagship P800 camera-phone from the end of this month until December. No explanation given, but weak consumer demand for camera-phones probably has a lot to do with it. It’s rumored that Ericsson would love to get out of this joint-venture with Sony, which has lost lots…
Hot deal on 512MB Compact Flash cards from Amazon. Just $149.99 after rebate. Perfect for all those new high-resolution digital cameras that are coming out. Amazon
Excellent forward-looking article from ExtremeTech about the future of portable computing and how shape memory alloys and ultra-thin organic LED screens will be used to make roll-up computers the thickness of a piece of paper. Read
A house vacumming robot from iRobot called the Roomba debuts tomorrow. Using heuristics it can automatically figure out when it’s covered the entire floor of the room. Just $199 too. Read [Via MetaFilter]
A five gigabyte CompactFlash memory card for under $25? A bunch of guys from MIT figured out a new method for creating solid state memory that is tiny and costs just a few dollars per gigabyte. If this is for real, the cost of an iPod could plummet, PDAs could have tons and tons of…
A very creepy gadget, this one a biometric mouse from Fujitsu that authenticates users by scanning the pattern of veins in their palm. Harder to fake than a fingerprint. Read
InfoSync review of Palm’s new flagship PDA, the m515, which has a 16-bit, 65,000 color screen, 16MB of RAM, and weighs just under five ounces. Amazon has them for just $380. Read Amazon
Great guide to multi-channel audio over at FiringSquad. Read