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A new pair of hot-looking portable battery-powered speakers for the iPod from Altec Lansing. The inMotion can also pull double duty as a dock for charging and synching the iPod. Read [Thanks, Cory]
An anonymous tipster leaked us some information and photos about Nextel’s 2004 lineup of Motorola cellphones. Among the more interesting models planned for next year are the i830 (pictured below on the left), a clamshell which will be Nextel’s smallest phone, and will have a 65,000 color display and the i860 (pictured below in the…
There’ve been no shortage of reactions to Disney’s new MovieBeam video-on-demand set-top box which is being test marketed right now, and we’re going to add our own fuel to fire. Honestly, while we wouldn’t go for it ourselves (the movies aren’t letterboxed, and somehow we doubt it’ll have the selection of indie and foreign films…
Taking a cue from Dell and Gateway, both of which have their own lines of flat-screen TVs, HP has been dropping hints that it, too, is going to start selling televisions. Read
We know how badly Gizmodo can induce your gadget lust. Fortunately for those of us for whom an iPod is just out of reach, you can now “build” your own faketronic paper iPod. Just paste to cardboard, cut out, assemble, and put it into some sort of iPod case. No one but you will know…
It’s a little disturbing, but next year Coca-Cola is planning to give prizes to people who buy special cans of Coke by tracking them down using GPS tags embedded in the cans and bottles and presenting them with prizes including a Hummer H2 and one million dollars in gold. Read
A new incredibly small and light tapeless digital video camcorder from Sanyo that records video as MPEG4 files and saves them onto SD memory cards. The DMX-C1, which weighs just 155 grams, has a 5.8x optical zoom lens and can also snap still digital photos — even when you’re in the midst of recording video,…
Back in June, JVC announced with great fanfare that it was diving into the Pocket PC market with two handhelds, the iO MP-PV131 and iO MP-PV331, that looked like they were going to be amazing. Well, brace yourselves, because neither one is coming out. Citing “delays in availability,” JVC has decided to cancel them, and…
Creative’s the latest to jump on the wireless media adapter bandwagon, with their Sound Blaster Wireless Music system which let’s you wirelessly (using 802.11b or 802.11g) stream the MP3s and WMAs trapped on your PC’s hard drive to up to four Sound Blaster receivers attached to stereos. There’s also a remote control with an LCD…
In case you’ve been wondering, Microsoft has posted up a list of all the changes and improvements they’ve made to the new 2004 version of Windows XP Media Center Edition, among them, better support for widescreen monitors, on-screen alerts for when you receive phone calls, and most excitingly, the ability to pause and rewind live…
Just when we were starting to feel like it was safe to use our cellphones without risk of damaging our “blood-brain barrier”, Dutch scientists are saying the 3G cellular radiation can cause headaches and nausea. On the otherhand, the study also showed, bizarrely, that exposure to 3G base station signals boosted “cognitive functions such as…
It wasn’t exactly a well-kept secret, but Palm’s three new handheld are out today, the Tungsten T3, the Zire 21, and the Tungsten E. The T3 (pictured at right) is the latest in the Tungsten T line, and has a 320×480 pixel display that can switch from portrait to landscape mode, a 400MHz processor, built-in…
Levi Wallach sent us a link to a rather extensive review he’d written up comparing the T-Mobile Sidekick, which he bought last year shortly after it came out, with the color BlackBerry 7230 from RIM which he recently broke down and purchased after experiencing many frustrating months with the Sidekick. Read
A couple of Romanian inventors have created a cellphone battery with a built-in detector that can sound an alert if there is a fire or if there are any dangerous fumes or toxic gases like carbon monoxide in the air. Read
A new CDMA cellphone from Nokia that’s available exclusively from Sprint here in the US. The 3588i has swappable color covers, a color screen, GPS for location based emergency services, and can record voice memos. Read
Courtesy of an FCC filing, a few more details have emerged on Dell’s new Axim X3 Pocket PCs, details that the company couldn’t be bothered to tell anyone when their new line of handhelds was announced last week. The new X3’s will be lighter, shorter, and thinner than the old Axim X5’s, have 3.5-inch, 16-bit…
News.com has some details on the new Media Center PCs coming from Dell, HP, Toshiba, and Gateway. All of them will run the 2004 version of Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system which is specially designed for recording TV and playing back digital audio files. Read
A new digital camera from Olympus with a wide angle zoom lens that the company claims is the widest to be found on a digital camera. The five megapixel CAMEDIA C-5060 WZ also has a start-up time of just three seconds, which is a big deal for anyone who has ever had to wait ten…
Disney is rolling out a new video-on-demand service called MovieBeam that is sort of a cross between a TiVo and HBO On Demand. What it is, is a a set-top box (made by Samsung) with a hard drive which has 100 DVD-quality movies stored on it that you connect to your TV. The box costs…
Canon, Sharp, Sony, and JVC have settled on a specification for recording and playback of consumer-grade high-definition digital video, or HDV, so that tapes recorded on one manufacturer’s camcorder could be played back on another’s equipment and vice versa. Read