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Ego Systems’ new “Quata Fire 610” Firewire audio interface should provide plenty of ways for you to mash away on your keyboard and end up with a MIDI file. Since it also operates off of bus power, laptop users can compose their Final Fantasy/Ethyl Merman tribute music in the yard. But it will set you…
Today brings another interesting announcement from Sony, in the form of new video processing technology called “DRC-MFv2” (Digital Reality Creation: Multi- Function V2). It can scale up conventional TV signals to full High-Definition – 1920 x 1080 pixels (you might know it as 1080i). Explaining just how the technology works would be difficult, because basically…
I’ll be honest with you, first impressions may be all you get of this Samsung SGH-D410, the first US slider phone from Samsung – currently available from T-Mobile. It’s not that it isn’t cool, it’s just that first impressions may be all you really need with this one, because all-in-all it’s not that deep. The…
In sort of an end to an era, PalmOne will be shutting down its Palm.Net internet service, subscriptions to which have fallen to just around 42,000 users over the last coupel of years as wireless data services from mobile carriers have eclipsed the five year-old service in both speed and coverage area. The Palm.Net email…
Thales Navigation has a new GPS unit called the ‘Magellan eXplorist 100,’ which is far from feature-rich, but manages to get plenty of functionality packed into a unit that retails for just $99.99. That makes the eXplorist 100 the first GPS handheld with sub-three meter accuracy for under $100. Not bad. It also tastes like…
TIME Magazine reviews Dell’s GPS Navigation System for Pocket PC (Dell or otherwise) and comes away pretty happy, finding it “exceptionally good at certain things,” like rerouting directions when you miss a turn (an exceptionally handy feature for absent minded drivers such as myself). One downside is the all-or-nothing setup of the map data, though.…
Altec Lansing has a new set of gaming headphones, the AHS602s, with now-ubiquitous boom mike and “SRS 3-D Audio,” which is not to be mistaken with actual surround sound but instead more than likely is yet another slightly-out-of-phase stereo technology (which works well enough, but I’m just saying). For a hundred bills the 40mm neodymium…
They won’t hit the rest of the US stores until this Sunday, but the new Tamagotchi Connection virtual pets were released ahead of schedule yesterday in New York and Los Angeles. The main difference between the new and old Tamagotchi is the inclusion of wireless links that will allow different Tamagotchi pets to marry and…
The Alaskan man who was accused of causing a fatal crash due to watching a DVD while driving has been acquitted of all charges, including two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of manslaughter. Although Erwin Petterson Jr. maintains he was reaching for a soda when he vehicle swerved into another lane, no specific…
I can’t find any mention of it on Verbatim’s website yet, but according to Network World Fusion (who is sorely in need of a Photoshop class), they’ve got a new 2.1-gigabyte USB hard drive coming out under the Store ‘n Go product line. The new $250 drives use a 4200 rpm, 1-inch drive and should…
The Boardbug is a watch-like baby monitor that has two distinct modes. In the first “baby” mode, the devices work like a traditional baby monitor, broadcasting audio from the child’s unit to the parent’s and even sounding a warning buzzer if the baby outsmarts the latch and takes the unit off. Plus it has a…
I don’t know if it’s been officially announced or not, but a new Shuttle XPC small form factor PC has shown up on the Euro version of Shuttle’s site, dumping plenty of details about the SN95G5. The new aluminum barebones system uses Nvidia’s nForce 3 Ultra chipset (meaning it’s for Athlon 64 CPUs), the custom…
Here’s a slightly more clear picture of Bandai’s Haro Gundam PC we talked about a couple of weeks ago. I’m fairly sure that it wants to be my new best friend forever. Read – “Halo” Le PC robot de Bandai [Akiba.SorobanGeeks] Related Gundam Haro Cube PC Sidekick [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/gundam-haro-cube-pc-sidekick-18654
Aaah, you guys are killing me. The new µcard format can reach sizes of UP TO TWO TERABYTES, yes, I know. What you all seem to be missing is that it ISN’T A TWO TERABYTE CARD YET. Nobody knows what sizes they will release first, but I bet you all eight million ass coins that…
I think maybe I watched Stargate SG-1 like half of once, maybe. I recall there be being a big black dude with pretty lips with one of those chocolate pirate coins stuck to his head and maybe a gun. But I hear some of you people like it, and I know you all like fake…
Okay, so you know how I’m always saying that one of the main advantages of flash memory MP3 players would be oddly-shaped players that just can’t be easily done with hard drives, but with the exception of a few egg-shaped players here and there it’s mostly all the same stick things over and over? Well,…
Are crystal-encrusted cellphones right out? Are mobiles clad in the finest random reptile skin the newest of hotnesses? The choice, very gentle reader, like a lamb really you are, is up to you. Prices are unknown – they vary per phone, I’d imagine – but what price swankiness, seriously? Read – Product Page [Modphone]
LAPD officers will soon be carrying a new committee-designed flashlight that is “lightweight, bright and virtually incapable of causing serious injury.” The standard-issue 2-pound metal flashlights – such as those used to beat suspected car-thief Stanley Miller – will likely be phased out in the next few months. Based on shortcomings of the current flashlights,…
Nintendo has announced a new GameCube controller with the trademark green and blue theme of Mario’s beanpole brother, Luigi. In addition to the colors, an “L,” shaped like that on Luigi’s hat is printed on the front. Hard hitting news as it happens, folks. Unfortunately, there’s not much chance we’ll get the controller here. It’s…
Continuing with Sony’s announcements, NE Asia brings word that the company plans on using Playstation 2 chips inside of new flat panel TVs to be introduced this Fall. This announcement has confused many as it counters what Mr. Playstation himself, Ken Kutaragi, stated in an interview during September of last year – that “it is…