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PalmSource is going to have the newest edition of the Palm operating system, Palm OS 6, ready for manufacturers just before the end of this year, which means that with any luck the first Palms with the new OS should start showing up spring of next year (it takes manufacturers a few months to customize…
CNET reviews the first two desktop PCs running AMD’s new 64-bit Athlon XP 2400+ processor, iBuyPower’s Zillion-FX (yes, we know the name sounds like it was picked by a kindergarten class) and Polywell’s Poly 900NF3-FX1 (Apple’s new G5 was the first desktop with a 64-bit chip). The big deal about 64-bit chips is that they…
Not technically a gadget, but the New York Times has an article about the Tzero, an electric sports car powered by 6,800 lithium ion laptop batteries that costs $220,000 and can go from zero to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds. Read
We knew about Pretec’s 6GB CompactFlash memory card (the one that costs $4500), but did you know they’re planning to have 12GB CompactFlash card out some time next year? Slightly sooner than that, Pretec’s also bringing out an SD digital camera attachment and a CompactFlash bar code reader for PDAs. Read
And another good tip from Christopher Coulter today, this one that Acer is coming out with both a new Tablet PC and a new widescreen laptop. The Apsire 2000 will have Centrino, a 15.4-inch widescreen display, and an “instant-on” mode so that it’s possible to watch DVDs or listen to CDs without having to boot…
It looks like the PEGA-VR100K, Sony’s video recorder that saves shows onto Memory Sticks for watching later on a Clie PDA that we mentioned a few weeks back, is going to be released here in the States. The resolution isn’t so great, but the VR100K can squeeze up to four hours of programming onto a…
Apparently there is a big problem in Britain right now with “counterfeit” Bluetooth gear. It’s not that the stuff, like cellphone headsets, don’t actually have Bluetooth radios in them, it’s that the people making the counterfeit gear aren’t registered members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group and aren’t authorized to use the trademarked “Bluetooth” label…
New Tablet PC spotted from Tatung, the company that builds Tablet PCs for both ViewSonic and Research Machines. The TTAB-B12D looks like it might give NEC’s superslim Versa LitePad a run for its money. It’s just 2.3 centimeters thick, weighs only 2.2 pounds, and has a 10.4-inch display, a 900MHz Centrino processor, built-in WiFi, a…
A few months back we wrote a piece for Wired magazine about Voice over WiFi, and the potential for creating a wireless phone system on the cheap. Now Dartmouth College, which already has a campuswide WiFi network, is giving students Voice over WiFi software and seven-digit phone numbers so that they can make (and receive)…
MiTAC, which we mentioned yesterday is coming out with a new Smartphone, is also planning to release a new all-in-one desktop PC with a 17-inch widescreen LCD. We haven’t seen any photos yet, but we suspect that the E8181D (which will have up to a 240GB hard drive, an SD and Memory Stick card reader,…
Televisions with built-in DVD players are commonplace these days, but Panasonic is taking it to the next level with the world’s first TV with a built-in DVD recorder, a 21-inch model called the DVD2-SHOT which comes out in Japan next month. TVs with both hard drives and DVD burners shouldn’t be too far behind. Read
Really, really early word of a new Pocket PC from Fujitsu-Siemens code-named “Barnabas” that’s due out next year, possibly running the 2004 version of the Pocket PC operating system (remember that the Pocket PC 2003 OS only just came out a couple of months ago). The new handheld will have built-in Bluetooth and WiFi, and…
After returning home from a trip to discover a broken circuit and a refrigerator filled with rotting food, Dan Gillmor has come around to the idea of an Internet-connected “smart” refrigerator that would have been able to let him know that it wasn’t working. Read
Brief review of the one ultraportable laptop all of our friends (well, mainly Jake) have been raving about, the ThinkPad X31 from IBM, which weighs a mere 3.6 pounds and has a 12.1-inch display, a 1.3GHz processor, built-in 802.11b, a 20GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM, and an external DVD drive. Read
We don’t tend to give laser printers a lot of coverage, but Larry Blasko of the Associated Press has written an ode to Lexmark’s X215 MFP laser printer/fax/copier/color scanner. Read
Sony is upgrading its low-end RS series of desktops by adding dual-format DVD burners (the kind that can record both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW) to them. The most expensive of the bunch, the RS430G (pictured at right), will also come with Sony’s Giga Pocket digital video recorder software for recording TV shows like TiVo. Read
We think we just found our next monitor: Liebermann Inc. is coming out with a new line of “Grand Canyon” displays, the largest of which is a four panel behemoth that is 92 inches wide and has a resolution of 6400×1200 pixels. There’s also a three panel “Cinerama” line which has a maximum size of…
The NYPD is going to start using handheld scanners that cost $2,100 for issuing parking tickets. The city hopes that the handhelds, which will scan a car’s registration sticker and then automatically print out a summons, will mean that fewer drivers will be able to contest their tickets because of mistakes or illegible handwriting. Read…
We’ve been thinking a lot about yesterday’s post about FCC Chairman Michael Powell, and how he’s a gadget freak, and, well, we think he should be reading Gizmodo. From his interviews he sounds like the ideal Gizmodo reader: he’s a classic early adopter who buys just about every new kind of gadget that comes out,…
One of the woefully underreported benefits to the FCC’s decision to force the cellphone companies to let customers take their number with them when the switch carriers is that phone number portability doesn’t just apply to cellphones, beginning November 24th you’ll also be able to switch a number from a landline to a cellphone, and…