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Casio has developed the world’s first optical lens constructed from transparent ceramics, making it possible to create cameras with optical zoom that are even thinner than existing models. Not only do the new ceramic lens have a greater refractive index (they bend light more than glass) they are also considerably stronger – important in something…
Rave-MP is reentering the MP3 player market with at least two new units, the Rave-MP ARC [pictured] and the Rave-MP AMP, the former a hard disk-based player available in 2.5GB and 5GB versions, with the latter a less-interesting but still decent flash-based player. I had a chance to sit down with some of the folks…
I’d always thought “shark repellant” was just sort of an ACMEesque joke product, but apparently there have been a variety of products available for just such a purpose as far back as World War II. The downside of these repellents, though – and this is a pretty big downside – is that they generally didn’t…
Sometimes people accuse me of being biased towards Apple and giving them too much column space. And I have to admit, I’m a pretty big fan of (some) of their products. But the real reason Apple gets lots of smooth, slow stroking from me is that, love them or hate them, justified or not, when…
Handtops has nice overview of the Antelope MCC, the ‘modular computing core’ computer that uses swappable cores to allow you to move you environment from a desktop dock to a handheld shell computer, enabling a complete environment migration if you need to move on the go. And that would be great and all if Antelope…
So I almost missed this catch on DAPreview (because there was no pretty picture and I can barely decipher), but apparently Archos is coming out with a new version of their often- and sadly-overlooked Gmini hard disk player, now called the Gmini 400. The original Gmini [pictured] was a solid device, but had only a…
Fujitsu has a new “PDA for Professionals” called the Multipad (“Leeloo Dallas, Multipad”), an oddly-shaped but strangely-appealing Pocket PC unit with built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Compact Flash, and miniSD slots, all wrapped around a 400MHz Intel CPU. Sadly, it still has the lower-resolution 320 by 240 screen that is typical of lower-ended PocketPCs. You’d think in…
If you own a phone where a single button press can call the police, you better hope that there’s a keylock on that thing or you might have a lot of splainin to do, right? DDI, Kyocera, and Toyota have teamed up to create the AP-K303T, marketed to children, women, and the elderly — you…
PCWorld’s Michael S. Lasky reviews Nextel’s newest Push To Talk service called ‘NextMail,’ a sort of “Push To Email” service that allows subscribers to record short voice clips with their phone that are then emailed to an individual as a Windows Media file (or optional MP3). It looks pretty interesting, if a little convoluted (but…
So there’s stink about this one possibly being a fake, but there’s a new Sony hard disk-based video player on Japanese website CD Report that claims to have a 20GB hard drive crammed into a unit just a hair bigger than the iPod mini (hence, the fake rumors). If it is legit, it is supposed…
If you have a hard time keeping track of which phones have been released, which ones you should be keeping an eye out for, and which ones you really don’t care about (and Lord knows, it’s hard), MobileTracker has a wide (if shallow) round-up of some of North America’s upcoming phones, including old favorites like…
Although they aren’t getting as much buzz as the new Rio Carbon, the three new flash player models of the Rio Forge line have been revealed today as well. Sharing a similar shape to the Rio Cali (although glossier, for what that’s worth) the new models come in three capacities (and colors), a 512MB (blue),…
Call me uncultured, but I don’t know that laminating a picture of a bunch of roses on your vacuum cleaner exactly qualifies you to call it ART (even if especially if that’s your product name). If the ART vacuum by Miele had a website that maybe took itself a little less seriously (“A cocktail of…
Seimens has unveiled a very interesting phone design, aimed at business users, but certainly appealing to the IM- and SMS-heavy set. The SK65’s defining feature is a central swivel with reveals a QWERTY keyboard, made all the more appealing with the inclusion of Research in Motion’s Blackberry push email, making the unit a potentially very…
The AOpen MVP Player does something that lots of other set-top boxes have done — display video and image files on your television — and given it a little twist, mainly by making the hard drive modular. That means instead of stringing network cable or setting up WiFi, you can take the hard drive enclosure…
As we talked about this weekend, Rio has announced at least one new player, an update to the Rio Nitrus called the ‘Rio Carbon,’ a 5GB hard disk-based MP3 player with a killer 20-hour battery life (if that’s the sort of thing that slays you; the iPod mini does about 8 to 10 hours, for…
Here’s some highlights from last week’s Gizmodo. We’ll be back in the morning with news, features, and maybe a new contest or two. Monday July 26th, 2004 HP Unveils Latest iPaqs Including h6315 Smartphone PDA Hybrid MP3Blue Music and Bluetooth Jacket Apple Parody Fuse Ads Poppot Pet Camera https://gizmodo.com/hp-unveils-latest-ipaqs-including-h6315-smartphone-pda-18221 Tuesday July 27th, 2004 Apple to…
A leak on the temporary web development site for Rio Audio accidentally revealed the names of two new audio players, the flash memory-based ‘Rio Forge,’ and a companion unit to the Rio Karma called the ‘Rio Chroma.’ In addition to the text-only leaks, both the Karma and the Chroma were listed as having a 10,000…
If you own a cube PC and like Gundam, you’ll probably lose it for this new “case case.” Obviously inspired by the show (well, obvious if you’ve seen it before), the “Haro” can fit entire cube PCs inside. But how could Haro be complete without annoying sidekick-like behavior? By way of remote controller, you can…
Vodafone K.K. has announced that they will release a “cameraless” version of the Mitsubishi V301D, released back in October of last year. According to Vodafone, the reason for this offering is so that those who work in factories and other places where secrecy is important can still use their cellular phones. Does this mean the…