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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
A couple of weeks ago we had posted up a photo of what purported to be the Nokia 3660, a follow-up to their popular 3650 cellphone that swapped out that odd circular keypad of the 3650 for a more normal setup. At the time it wasn’t clear whether the pictures were genuine or not, but…
HomeTheater.About.com has a guide to everything you need to know about subwoofers, including a couple of alternatives like the Clark Synthesis Tactile Sound Transducer or Aura Sound’s bass shaker, which can augment the experience of watching a DVD in surround sound by actually physically shaking and vibrating your furniture. Read
To be perfectly honest, we’re now completely bored with this whole “Are they? Aren’t they?” controversy over whether or not Liebermann Inc. (the company offering that massive Grand Canyon monitor and a line of super decked out laptops) is a real company. We know that the products they’re offering do exist — other companies resell…
There isn’t a whole lot to back this up, but Smartphone Thoughts is reporting on a rumor that Sprint plans to release a Samsung cellphone (the i600 we presume) running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system. We’d heard that Verizon was supposed to be the other carrier (besides AT&T Wireless) to offer a Smartphone in the US,…
In a true sign of the times, Kodak says they’re going to stop making slide projectors next year. They won’t stop producing slide film though, at least not any time soon. The news makes kinda makes us nostalgic for all the times our dad forced us to sit through endless slide shows of his photos.…
It sure took long enough, but Bantam’s BA1000 MP3 player (which we first reported on way back in January) is finally, finally going to see the light of day. But don’t get too excited. While it does have a few nice features like an FM tuner which you can record from using its built-in MP3…
Gateway isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind when you think about digital cameras (though they’re trying hard to change that), but PC Magazine reviews the DC-T50, Gateway’s new five megapixel flagship, and gives it high marks for both its low price and its ease of use. Read
Canon only released its G5 digital camera three months ago, and already the rumors are flying that a G6 is in the works. These are unconfirmed, but supposedly the G6 will come out in mid-November, be 20% smaller than the G5, have a 5x optical zoom lens, and a resolution of 6.5 megapixels. So you…
Fujitsu has finally found a legitimate use for the PC: skin care. In Japan they’re selling a special digital camera called the Hada Chekki V01 that connects to a PC over USB and uses special software to scan facial skin and then offers advice about how best to take care of it. Read
From what we hear, palmOne is getting ready to announce three new handhelds — the Tungsten T3, the Zire 21 (pictured at right), and the Tungsten E — at midnight on October 1st. One reader wrote in with the scoop that the new Palms have already turned up, with pictures, on palmOne’s support page. Read…
Jeff Pulver’s new company, pulverInnovations, has come out with a WiFi phone that can make VoIP phone calls over 802.11b. Right now the WiSIP is mainly meant to be used with Free World Dialup, Jeff’s Voice over IP calling network for making free calls to other Free World Dialup users, so it’s not rather limited…
A line of Pocket PCs for the blind from Freedom Scientific that completely lack screens; instead they have full keyboards and special 20 or 40 cell Braille matrices for “displaying” information. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
NEC is working on a new chip that would raise the maximum number of colors that can be displayed on most monitors and flat-panel televisions from the current maximum of 16.77 million colors to over a billion. Read
Siemens is coming out with a portable digital music player that can connect to a cellphone to wirelessly download songs from an online music service. The player stores the songs on an SD memory card, and will also play regular MP3s transferred from a PC too, but songs downloaded over the phone can’t be copied…
Article in PC World about how the lines between PCs and TVs continue to blur, citing as examples Dell’s recent foray into the LCD TV business, Toshiba’s line of flat-panel televisions that have FireWire and Ethernet ports, Sony’s PEGA-VR100K which records video on to Memory Sticks for watching on its Clie line of handhelds, and…
Word is going around that there is something grievously wrong with Cingular’s GSM cellular network, with lots of customers (concentrated mainly in the Midwest) not being able to get service. Read [Via MobileTracker]
Well, you can throw out that high-definition televison you just bought — it’s already obsolete. Japan Broadcasting Corporation has developed a prototype for ultra high-definition television that has sixteen times the resolution of anything else out there. It’s so realistic that some footage shown at a recent demonstration that was shot while driving around Tokyo…
Gateway continues its push into the world of consumer electronics with a new gadget that combines a two megapixel still digital camera with a tapeless camcorder that can record MPEG-4 video to SD memory cards, sort of like Panasonic’s SV-AV line of all-in-one cameras. The Gateway DV-S20 Pocket Multi-Cam also has 64MB of built-in memory,…
As is our custom, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo, in case you missed any of them: Creative’s Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra First high-definition digital media adapter The Mirra Number portability will also apply to landlines First TV with built-in DVD recorder Counterfeit Bluetooth Pretec plans 12GB CompactFlash card Escape Cell Hell New…