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Get ready: Sony says it’s coming out with no less than 43 new Vaio desktops and laptops, at least in Japan. Read
From Pretec, a massive 6 gigabyte CompactFlash memory card. Let’s just pause and think about that for a moment. And the price is even bigger: just one of these costs $4,499.95, which makes you wonder that someone must need to have 6 gigabytes of storage on a single card really, really badly to justify shelling…
Alaska Air is going to start giving its first class passengers (and renting to coach passengers) a portable handheld video and audio player to keep them entertained in-flight. Called the digEplayer, it will have nine movies (it can store up to thirty), three TV shows, and ten hours of music stored on its hard drive…
Cisco is coming out with the first Voice over Internet Protocol telephone with a color touchscreen. The 7970G isn’t exactly a phone you’d buy to use at home, though. At a thousand bucks, it’s aimed mainly at businesses. Or actually entirely at businesses. Read
Yet another hot gadget from Sony today that’s only coming out in Japan (at least as far as we know), this one a little box that’s specially designed for recording television shows for playback on a Clie handheld. The PEGA-VR100K is basically a TV tuner that digitizes programs in a format (320×240 pixels) that can…
The Inquirer got a sneak preview of the latest smartphone from BenQ, a company which has been trying to carve out a niche for itself with its well-designed handsets. The unnamed phone will run the same Symbian operating system as Sony Ericsson’s P800, and have Bluetooth and a built-in digital camera. It’s not clear from…
Guy Kewney notes that stream video over WiFi using one of those new battery-powered wireless LCD televisions from Sharp that you can carry around the house with you has one significant downside: it cuts the data capacity of the rest of your wireless network (assuming you have one) in half: The set uses Sharp’s SmartLink…
Reviews by Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News of Canon’s new ultra-small digital camera, the 3.2 megapixel PowerShot SD100, which comes with a 2x optical zoom lens. The SD100 isn’t quite as thin as Casio’s Exilim or Pentax’s Optio S, but it’s the smallest digital camera Canon’s ever made, and Mike says the…
Someone in Japan South Korea actually went to the trouble of mounting a Compaq TC1000 Tablet PC to the dashboard of their car so they could use it for GPS navigation and as a video and music player. We love it. Read [Via TabletPCBuzz]
From Cingular next month, a new cradle for cellphones called the FastForward that will automatically forward calls made to the phone to a landline number. Works only with compatible Nokia and Motorola phones (and of course you have to be a Cingular subscriber), but support for some Siemens and Sony Ericsson handsets should come soon.…
There’s a new “P-Series” version of the Segway HT coming out that will be a bit slower (it’ll have a top speed of 10mph) and lighter than the current models that are out, and have a shorter range and a lower price (rumored to be somewhere around $4000) as well. This is apparently supposed to…
Their TR1A ultraportable laptop has only been available over here for a few weeks, but Sony’s already coming out with a new version of it in Japan, the TR2B, which improves on its predecessor with a faster processor (1.0GHz vs. 900MHz), a bigger hard drive (40GB vs. 30GB), quadruple the video RAM (64MB vs. 16MB),…
Soon you’ll have plenty of space to record video on that SV-AS10 — SanDisk is close to announcing a 2GB SD memory card. Read
Another new 4-in-1 digital camera from Panasonic. The SV-AS10 D-Snap, which is just one-third of an inch thick, combines a 2 megapixel digital camera with an MP3 player, a digital voice recorder, a QuickTime video recorder, and uses SD memory cards for file storage. Read
Rob Galbraith has updated his review of Nikon’s new four megapixel D2H digital SLR, the one with the WiFi attachment. He says that Nikon is giving preliminary word that the D2H will be able to beam images not just to a PC in a local area network, but will also be able to send files…
This is freaking amazing: an actual cassette deck for a PC called the Plusdeck. And it’s not one of those ancient tape storage drives, either, this is a real audio cassette deck that pops into a PC drive bay for recording sound or making MP3s of your tapes. Where was this five years ago when…
New digital video recorder from… Nokia? They’re not a name that springs to mind when you think of digital video recorders, but it actually sorta makes sense. Last year they came out with the Mediamaster 230 S, a digital satellite television receiver that had built-in Bluetooth for viewing pictures taken with a cameraphone. The Mediamaster…
New wireless 5.1 channel surround sound home theater-in-a-box system from Sony. The speakers and the subwoofer of the DAV-DS1000 connect to its receiver digitally using infrared, so you don’t have to string speaker cable everywhere. The DAV-DS1000 also has an unusual-looking upright DVD player that plays Super Audio CDs as well as regular DVD video…
We don’t really see the need for either, but researchers at both Carnegie Mellon and the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Canada are working on technology for phones that can sense when you’re busy working or talking to someone and so won’t ring and interrupt. Each works in a different way. The Human…
Some hospitals in France are considering experimenting with Anoto’s digital pen and paper system to make sure that handwritten notes about patients get properly recorded and added to their health records: The key to the technology is the complex pattern of dots printed on paper sheets…A pen fitted with a tiny camera can read the…