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Sony to Sell Multi-Format Recordable DVD Drive

PC World on Sony’s new multi-format recordable DVD drive. Frustratingly, there are two competing recordable DVD formats, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW (at least each faction didn’t chose the same name for their format). Obviously when there are two competing standards, combo drives are the way to go, but you’d think that everyone involved would realize that…

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Dangerous Blogging

Just discovered this blog dedicated to news about Danger’s new Hiptop handheld. It’s a great idea, and part of the growing trend of everything having a blog devoted to it. Read

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Toshiba New Pocket PC’s

The Guardian on Toshiba’s new high-end Pocket PC’s. Read Buy

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Where Gadgets Go To Die

Eye-opening BBC Online photo essay on what happens to all the thrown out computers and consumer electronics – they end up as toxic waste in China. Read

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The First DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD Player

Home Fidelity Review on the Marantz’s recently announced “universal player”, which supports both new competing high-fidelity formats (DVD-Audio and SACD), and plays DVDs and regular CDs. A step in the right direction, but the existence of two competing high-fidelity formats will probably only ensure that neither takes off with consumers. Read

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Is Segway Really IT?

MSNBC on rumors that the Segway Human Transporter is actually not the mysterious IT device that Steve Jobs, John Doerr, and Jeff Bezos were wowed by a few years ago, but rather that Dean Kamen has some other, even more amazing device waiting in the wings. Sounds like wishful thinking. Read

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Bring WiFi to Your Visor for Cheap

The price of Xircom’s SpringPort 802.11b module for Handspring’s Visor has just plummeted, from $300 to $100. UPDATE: It’s actually Amazon’s Marketplace Sellers offering the SpringPort at that low of a price, so it might take a couple of clicks to find one for $100. Buy

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Disappearing DVRs

CNet on the future of the digital video recorder. TiVo and ReplayTV will disappear – that is, they won’t survive as stand-alone boxes, and will eventually have their functionality absorbed into both televisions and PCs. Read Buy

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Sanyo’s New Angle

PC World on Sanyo’s new gameplan – digital still cameras with expanded video recording functions. The company’s latest model, the DSC-MZ3, takes two megapixel images, but an also record up to three hours of video on its 1GB microdrive. Expected to hit Japan September 20th, and hopefully the US later this Fall. Read

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FAA: Wireless PDAs OK to Use In-flight

Gadget convergence is making the FAA’s rules against cellphones on flights look somewhat arbitrary. Right now it’s alright to use a wireless PDA to check your email in-flight, but connecting to the same cellular network on the same frequency with a cellphone is against the rules. The jury is still out on whether cellphones actually…

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Acer Plans to Enter the PDA Market

Conflicting stories on Acer’s moves to enter the market for PDAs with its own Palm-OS based handheld. CNet reports that the s50 and the s60 will be available worldwide, but PDABuzz is saying that an Acer rep told them that no decision has been made yet about whether or not to sell the new handhelds…

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Portable Video in Your Pocket

It turns out there is something like Sharp’s MT-AV1 portable video player available here in the States: Pogo Products’ Flipster. It looks just like a flip phone, and has a built-in Windows Media Player that supports MPEG-4. Perfect for the subway. Read

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Sony’s New Mini Digital Camera

Digital Photography Review with an advance look at Sony’s new ultra-tiny digital camera, the CyberShot DSC-U10. It’s only 3 inches long and 1.5 inches wide, but still shoots 1.3 megapixels and has an LCD display. Read

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New Dual-Processor Macs Aren’t Any Faster

You may want to hold off on buying one of those new dual-processor Macs that Apple announced last week. Speed tests are showing no difference in processing power between the new architecture dual processor Macs and the old ones. Read

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Surround Sound Headphones

JVC has a new pair of Surround Sound headphones out with an “SRS Circuit” to simulate three-dimensional sound. These would go great with one of Panasonic’s portable DVD players, or would be good for someone who wanted to take advantage of the surround sound capabilities of the XBox or PS2 but didn’t want to shell…

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Zero-Interaction Authentication for Laptops

The latest in laptop security: Zero-Interaction Authentication. Rather than require fingerprint scans or passwords for access, users wear a wireless-enabled ‘authentication token’ that can be built into a watch or an item of clothing. Whenever the token is in range of the laptop, the computer functions normally, but get up for a few minutes to…

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Sony to Sell Multi-Format Recordable DVD Drive

Dangerous Blogging

Toshiba New Pocket PC’s

Where Gadgets Go To Die

The First DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD Player

Is Segway Really IT?

Bring WiFi to Your Visor for Cheap

Disappearing DVRs

Sanyo’s New Angle

FAA: Wireless PDAs OK to Use In-flight

Acer Plans to Enter the PDA Market

Portable Video in Your Pocket

Sony’s New Mini Digital Camera

New Dual-Processor Macs Aren’t Any Faster

Surround Sound Headphones

Zero-Interaction Authentication for Laptops

Handhelds in Hospitals

Your Own Space Shuttle Flight Deck Simulator

Home Theater Tune Up Tips

New Web Browser for Palm OS 5

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