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We hadn’t been aware of this, but apparently ghost sightings are down. Way down, and have been on the decline for the past fifteen years or so. Tony Cornell of the Society for Psychical Research in England thinks there’s only one rational explanation for this: that cellphones, or more specifically, cellphone radiation, are drowning out…
Popular Mechanics roundup of a few of the better inkjet photo printers that are out now, like HP’s Photosmart 7550 (pictured at right), which has a 1-inch LCD screen for figuring out which picture you’re printing; Epson’s Stylus Photo 2200, and Canon’s i9100. Read
New PC laptop card for connecting to NTT DoCoMo’s high-speed 3G network. The F2402 can also be used to make videophone calls from a PC to one of DoCoMo’s FOMA video cellphones. Needless to say, only available in Japan. Read
The rest of this article is nothing you haven t heard a million times already before, but there is one very interesting bit of news in Bill Howard’s column in PC Mag about the iPod: that Sony will (finally!) come out with its own hard drive-based MP3 player next year designed to compete with the…
Mobile.Burn had some more leaked photos of a Nokia phone, but Nokia’s lawyers forced us to take down the photo we had posted. Sorry! Read
Some new Palm accessories from palmOne, including an infrared keyboard that should work with almost any Palm handheld, and a 1.3 megapixel digital camera SD card attachment, so you’ll finally be able to take a decent picture with your Tungsten C, T, or T2. Read
As laptops get smaller and smaller, the PC expansion card slot, which seemed plenty small when introduced, has become one of the obstacles to further shrinkage. No worries though, the PCMCIA trade group which established the PC card standard has finally formally introduced the ExpressCard standard, which will get the width of new expansion cards…
IBM is showing off a couple of prototypes for new ThinkPads as the try to breathe new life into the line, which recently celebrated its 10th birthday. The G-Series prototype (pictured at right) actually transforms into a mini-desktop PC, that opens like a regular laptop, but comes with a detachable keyboard and a display that…
T-Mobile’s Sidekick celebrates its first birthday, and Cory Doctorow is plenty excited about the new features that have been added to it, so much so that he’s considering not ditching it even though his one-year contract is up. At least not until number-portability kicks in in November, that is, and he can switch providers and…
New Centrino version of Panasonic’s ruggedized Toughbook laptop. The CF-29 conforms to the US military’s specifications for resistance to impact, vibration, moisture, and dust, and comes with a 1.2GHz processor, 256MB of RAM (768MB max.), a metal-encased, shock-resistant 40GB hard drive, an outdoor-readable 13.3-inch display, and built-in Bluetooth, GPRS or CDMA 1xRTT, and 802.11b. Read
Apple has updated their 15-inch Powerbook, which was starting to seem a bit antiquated compared to all the 12-inch and 17-inch Powerbooks. The new version now has an aluminum casing (like the 12-inch Powerbook), a backlit keyboard, 802.11g, Bluetooth, FireWire 800, up to a 1.25GHz processor, up to an 80GB hard drive, a DVD-R/CD-RW drive,…
A new five megapixel digital camera from Toshiba, a name that might not immediately spring to mind when you think of digital photography. The PDR-5300 has a 3x optical zoom lens and uses SD memory cards for storage. Read
Perhaps this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given that they’re making a Microsoft-powered cellphone, but Motorola says that there’s a Pocket PC in their future as well. Not any other information or details available on what they’re planning, but we’d be surprised if whatever they ended up coming out with didn’t have…
We officially love Phillip Torrone, who just sent us some pics of his new Sony Clie UX50, complete with Gizmodo on display on its screen: Plus, here’s a roundup of UX50 reviews from Brighthand, BargainPDA, and PalmInfocenter. Read – Brighthand Read – BargainPDA Read – PalmInfocenter
The Tapwave Zodiac (originally to be called the Helix), that Palm-powered handheld designed specifically for playing games, should be available for pre-order on Tapwave’s website starting tomorrow morning. Read [Via GearBits]
Photo of one of those wireless handheld “Personal Response System” transmitters that are being used in large lecture classes at UMass-Amherst (and apparently in some classes at Rutgers University, as well). Thanks to everyone who wrote in with this.
Worried that class sizes are getting to big and that students aren’t getting enough out of lectures, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is requiring students to pay $36 for a small, wireless handheld transmitter for giving feedback and answering questions: To connect with students in vast auditoriums, professors sprinkle multiple-choice questions through their lectures.…
Nice article in Wired News on all the different stuff that’s going in cellphone gaming right now, like the new Game Pad controller for Sprint’s A600 cellphone (pictured at right), and a new first-person shooter game for the Xbox that let’s you trade items for your character from your cellphone. And yes, they mention the…
New ultrasmall digital camera from Canon. The four megapixel PowerShot SD10 (also known as the IXUS i), is slightly smaller and thinner than the PowerShot SD100 (which previously laid claim to being Canon’s smallest digital camera), uses SD memory cards for storage, lacks an optical zoom lens, and comes in four colors: white, bronze, silver,…
Piece in TheFeature by Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold about how cellphones and wireless PDAs are changing the metabolism of cities, with people squeezing even more into their days by being able to make calls, send emails and text messages, etc while commuting or moving about the city: As a result of the extra telephone-enabled…