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Incredibly extensive and in-depth side-by-side comparison over at DAPreview.com of two of the newer hard drive MP3 players to hit stores, the 10GB iHP-100 from iRiver and the 15GB HDD100 from Philips. They end up giving the edge to the iHP-100, scathingly condemning the Philips player as coming “with so many critical annoyances, that it’s…
The Associated Press is reporting that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of the Segway Human Transporter because several people have fallen off of them when the batteries are low and been injured. 6,000 Segways are part of the recall. This isn’t exactly what the Segway, which has been plagued by lower-than-expected…
Reader Nick Bicanic was shopping for a new laptop, and wrote in to tell us about a 15-inch laptop he found from EUROCOM. For an extra $600, they’ll put a staggeringly high resolution 2048×1536 display into their D500P Monte Carlo laptop. To put that in perspective, a regular 15-inch laptop usually has a resolution of…
Some video over at CNET of the MPx200, that new cellphone from Motorola running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system, with Microsoft product manager Jason Gordon explaining some of the features of the phone. Watch
Don’t think we’ve ever specifically written anything about a battery recharger before, but this week’s Circuits section of the New York Times has something about one that seems noteworthy: the I-C3, a new recharger from Rayovac that can power up a pair of AA batteries in fifteen minutes. The trick is a switch which makes…
Right now the flat-panel television market has largely bifurcated into two categories: plasma TVs if you want something forty-inches or larger and LCD TVs if you want something smaller. But it looks like LCDs are finally getting closer to competing directly against plasma displays. A bunch of Taiwanese manufacturers are investing heavily in building larger…
Two pieces of Nintendo news in one day: besides that new console for China, they’re also coming out with a wireless module for the Game Boy Advance so users can play games together without having to use a cable. The module will use wireless technology that’s “similar” to Bluetooth, and come out in Japan early…
The rumors are flying that Fossil’s Wrist PDA, which was first announced nearly a year ago, has been “indefinitely delayed.” The watch, which runs Palm OS 4.1 and has a 33MHz Dragonball VZ processor, 2MB of RAM, and a 160×160 pixel touchscreen that you can write on with a tiny stylus stored in the watchband,…
A “first look” (though still extensive) review over at Imaging Resource of Minolta’s new 3.2 megapixel Dimage Z1, which also has a 10x optical zoom lens and uses SD memory cards for storage. Read [Via Photography Blog]
We’re still not entirely sure whether or not Liebermann Inc. is an actual company, but after Monday’s post about their Grand Canyon line of massive multi-panel displays, several readers wrote in about another one of Liebermann’s products that they’d noticed on their site: an awe-inspiring seventeen-inch laptop that could (almost) make one forget about Apple’s…
From Buffalo, the first 802.11g wireless adapter for PCs that connects to a USB 2.0 port. It actually wouldn’t make much sense to have a USB 1.1 adapter for 802.11g, since USB 1.1’s throughput tops out at 12Mbps, far below the maximum speed of 802.11g, which is 54Mbps. The WLI-USB-G54 should be out now. Read
Apparently Nintendo is coming out with a new video game console that’s just for the Chinese market. The iQue Player will come with a memory card which can be used to download new games to play from special kiosks in stores, with each game costing about $5 or so. To combat piracy of the games,…
Along with our pal Ryan Kairer from Palm Infocenter, we hit Handspring’s big press event for the Treo 600 yesterday afternoon. Besides getting to play with a Treo 600 (which we now lust after heartily), we didn’t learn much we didn’t already know about the phone, except that there will be four carriers offering them…
Tom’s Hardware Guide review of Zalman’s new ZM-RS6F headphones, which are the first to offer true 5.1-channel surround sound (other surround sound headphones, like the ones from JVC we mentioned last year, only simulate 5.1-channel sound). The get true surround sound, the ZM-RS6F actually has six transducers, or speakers, in it so that all six…
We have no idea whether they’re talking about floppy diskettes or CD-Rs or what, but Sanyo is coming out with the MildDisc, a disc made from… corn. Well technically, they’re made from an acid extracted from corn. The upshot is that the discs are biodegradable. The only question on our minds: Will Intel follow Sanyo’s…
We knew that BT was working on something similar to this, but here in the States, Marx Toys has a line of plush Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck dolls that connect to a PC and “enhance” instant messenger conversations: For example, if one friend has a Bugs Bunny IM Buddy and is logged onto an…
BargainPDA has some photos and details on Dell’s new Axim X3 Pocket PC, which is lighter, thinner, and better-looking than their earlier foray into handhelds, the Axim X5 (don’t ask us why they went from “X5” to “X3”). Looks like there will be three different models, a 300MHz device, a 400MHz device with 64MB of…
We actually suggested something like this last year, but PalmSource CEO David Nagel admitted that they’re thinking about licensing the Palm operating system to manufacturer who would build a Palm-powered laptop with a proper keyboard and full-sized screen. We can’t wait; we love the idea of having a quick-booting Palm laptop that could easily synchronize…
We’re still waiting for the official announcement (this morning’s press conference was delayed an hour or so) but USA Today has photos of both Dell’s new wireless Axim X3 Pocket PC and its Digital Jukebox hard drive MP3 player (pictured at right). Dell is also announcing an online music store to compete with Apple’s iTunes.…
Cingular must really be getting scared about the impending imposition of phone number portability, because they’re throwing out lots of pathetic and condescending excuses for why it shouldn’t go through, like that the process might be too “complicated” for most people. Spare us. Read