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Another glowing review of Zodiac, Tapwave’s Palm PDA designed specifically for playing games, this one by Ric Manning of Portables.About.com. But forget about the Zodiac being a N-Gage killer (the N-Gage is already doing a perfectly fine job of that) — Ric goes so far as to call the this thing a “Game Boy Killer,”…
A new webcam from Logitech that can actually follow your face as you move. The QuickCam Orbit Logitech has special face-tracking software which can make sure that the automatically camera stays focused on you without needing to be adjusted manually. The Orbit can also double as a 1.3 megapixel still digital camera. Read
Gateway is getting even deeper into the television business. They’re adding a 56-inch rear-projection widescreen TV to their line of LCD and plasma displays that is about one-third the depth of a regular rear-projection television. Read
Speaking of the 7700, Nokia’s new multimedia phone with the digital television tuner, Nokia says that eventually they’re going to be putting digital television tuners into all their cellphones. But not until sometime aroud 2007, when hopefully there will actually be digital television broadcasts to watch. Read
Arriving even earlier than we had originally predicted, the first DVD recorder that will support the playback and recording of Windows Media 9 video files is here. Using Windows Media 9 means that over six hours of DVD quality video can be squeezed onto one disc, and the DiVA 489, which is being built by…
William Hungerford of Palmtops.About.com ventures into some dangerous territory and takes a stab at the whole Palm vs. Pocket PC debate, laying out some of the facts and misperceptions about both operating systems. Read
We wrote yesterday that our initial reaction to Nokia’s new 7700 cellphone was that it looked a lot like the N-Gage. We didn’t realize how right we were. Our pal Rich Brome of PhoneScoop got confirmation from Nokia that just as with the N-Gage, to make a phone call with the 7700 you have to…
Following in the footsteps of Linksys, which came out with its Wireless Digital Media Adapter a few months ago, Netgear is working with Mediabolic on its own line of networked digital media adapters. Read [Via eHomeUpgrade]
Prototype from Sharp of a new screen for handhelds with an extremely high-resolution of 300 pixels per inch. Read
For its 40th anniversarty the CIA is showing off some of its more unusual spy gear at an exhibit that sadly is not open to the public. And apparently they built some crazy gadgets back in the day, like a mechanical dragonfly with a listening device for eavesdropping and some sort of robotic catfish. Read…
Popular Mechanics explains how Nextel was able to expand its walkie-talkie-like Direct Connect push-to-talk service to work nationwide. Read
Glenn Reynolds has an interesting column up at TechCentralStation about rights for robots and machine intelligences, something that sooner or later is going to become a very big issue. Read
Some more details and a photo of that new business card-sized PDA from Citizen, which is designed mainly for doing email and has a black and white screen, an SDIO expansion card slot for adding a WiFi or Bluetooth wireless adapter, and USB for synching with a PC. Read
Lest we forget, yesterday Nokia announced four other new cellphones besides that fancy new 7700 handset: the clamshell 7200 (which we had a few pictures of the other day); the 6230, which will have Bluetooth, an integrated digital camera, and a built-in FM tuner; and two updates to their 6800 cellphone (the one with the…
Gosh, we remember when the Antelope Modular Computing Core was just vaporware, way back in the halcyon days of late 2002. But despite all the haters who said it’d never come out, the Antelope MCC has arrived. About the size of a deck of cards, the MCC is a tiny 1GHz computer with 256MB of…
It’s not very often that the worlds of celebrities and gadgets intersect (like that time when the “Dude you’re getting a Dell” dude got arrested right in front of our apartment here in New York), but some thieves made off with Michelle Branch’s laptop, cellphone, and iPod during a daring heist at the Aladdin Hotel…
This hasn’t been officially announced yet, but courtesy of a filing with FCC, we’ve learned of a new slate-style Tablet PC coming from Fujitsu. The ST5000, which will be Fujitsu’s third Tablet PC so far, will improve on its predecessor, the ST4000 with a faster processor (1GHz vs. 933MHz), a larger hard drive (40GB vs.…
A couple of pricey new high-end ThinkPad laptops from IBM. The R50p and the one-inch thin T41p both have 1.7GHz processors, 512MB of RAM, 60GB hard drives, built-in Bluetooth and WiFi. The R50p also comes with a DVD burner. Read [Thanks, Brian]
Does anyone out there remember Rocky IV? You know, the one where Sylvester Stallone has to fight this Soviet boxer (played by Dolph Lundgren) who uses all this fancy technology to train while all Rocky has is this desolate cabin in the middle of nowhere? Not ringing a bell? Well, it doesn’t really matter, it’s…
New York City has started a campaign to identify all the “dead zones” where cellphone coverage is poor (or non-existent). Best of all, they plan to release the information on November 24th, the day cellphone number portability goes into effect, so New Yorkers thinking of switching carriers can see whether coverage might be better or…