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A few WiFi TVs have come out in Japan, mainly small LCDs from Sony and Sharp that are meant to be easily moved around the house, but KiSS Technology, a small Danish electronics company that continues to amaze us with every new product they put out (something we don’t think we’ve ever said about anybody),…
We first reported on this way back in February, and it looks like Sony Ericsson will finally come out with the Z1010, its first 3G cellphone, sometime very early next year. The Z1010, will have two built-in digital cameras (one for video conferencing, one for taking still pictures), a 65,000 color display, and the ability…
The Media Center Edition of Windows XP, which among other things lets you record and watch TV shows like a TiVo, hasn’t exactly taken off yet, but Sony and Dell are both expected to come out with PCs running the operating system later this fall. Actually, it’ll probably be the updated version of Windows XP…
A new Pocket PC Phone for the German market from Yakumo. The Omikron will be a tri-band GSM phone, and have a 200MHz processor and a built-in digital camera. Not many other details are known, like how much RAM the phone will have or what the resolution of the camera is. Read
Article in Japan Media Review on how cameraphones are changing people’s definition of whether something is worth taking a picture of or not: In comparison to the traditional camera, which gets trotted out for special excursions and events — noteworthy moments bracketed off from the mundane — camera phones capture the more fleeting and unexpected…
DesignTechnica review of the Yepp YP-55V, Samsung’s latest ultralight MP3 player, which comes with 256MB of storage space, which isn’t much compared to all the iPods and Nomads out there, but is lighter, cheaper, and come with a few other nice features like a built-in FM tuner (which can be recorded and saved as MP3…
From Hitachi, an extremely tiny RFID chip that doesn’t require an external antenna and could potentially be embedded in all sorts of paper products like money, tickets, magazines, etc. There were some earlier reports that the European Central Bank was going to start putting Hitachi’s RFID chips in every euro note, but that is apparently…
Brand new version of Sony’s Aibo robotic dog. The new Aibo ERS-7 is way goofier-looking than our Aibo ERS-210, but has better image and face recognition technology, and improved mechanism for more fluid body movement. Comes out in November. Read
About a million people wrote in with the news about the Aquada, an amphibious car from British car company Gibbs. It’s certainly stretching the definition of a gadget a bit, but what the heck, a car that can do 100mph on land and 30mph in the water doesn’t come along all that often. Read
New ultralight laptop from Sharp. The Actius AV18P is just one inch thick,weighs under four pounds, and has a 12.1-inch LCD screen, a 40GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM, a DVD/CD-RW combination drive, built-in 802.11b. Should be out today.
NTT DoCoMo and Texas Instruments are working on a new, and potentially scary new feature for cellphones: the ability to record calls at the press of a button. When you think about it, there’s no technical reason why many of the new smartphones shouldn’t be able to do this, and for plenty of people it’d…
New wireless network video camera from Linksys which is basically a surveillance camera which can connect to a local area network over 802.11b and stream its video feed to any Internet-connected Web browser anywhere. There are already on few of these on the market from D-Link, Panasonic, Toshiba, and others. The Linksys Wireless-B Internet Video…
We don’t think any of these can touch the iPod in terms of design, but ZDNet Australia has a nice roundup of all the different new hard drive based MP3 players coming out this fall which in one way or another are all laying claim to the iPod’s crown, like the new 15GB HDD100 from…
HP is working on prototype of an iPAQ Pocket PC that uses a digital camera attachment to automatically translate signs that are in foreign languages. The only catch is that the Pocket PC has to have a high-speed wireless connection at all times for it to work, because the actual translation is being done over…
It’s sure taken them long enough, but Philips is coming out with its first line of home 802.11b wireless networking gear, including a base station (pictured at right), a USB adapter, and a laptop card. Read
Yet another no-name personal video player to add to our growing list — how come we keep hearing about so many of these, but have never actually seen any of them for sale? Anyway, before we get too exasperated to finish writing this post, GemSOC’s Media Jukebox MJB-3100 has a 10GB hard drive, a 2.5-inch…
GotApex review of the new 17-inch widescreen NP4760 Supra laptop from Sager, which is apparently the same machine as the Aviator ZX7 laptop from Hypersonic we featured a few months ago, just under a different brand name. Besides the massive screen, the NP4760 specs are about the same as those of the ZX7: a 3.06GHz…
TechTV guide to iPod accessories, like the Backup Battery Pack, the Auto Kit, the Navipod Wireless Remote Control, FM transmitters like Belkin’s TuneCast and Griffin’s iTrip (pictured right), and carrying cases the iPod Armor. Read
Courtesy of Sony Ericsson, the silliest, yet certainly most creative, Bluetooth gadget we’ve seen: a little toy car that can be remote-controlled using one of Sony Ericsson’s Bluetooth-enabled cellphones. They demonstrated these back at CeBIT this past March, but we didn’t think they’d ever actually come out. Read [Thanks, Daniel]
Three new cellphones from Sony Ericsson: the Z600, which has a clamshell design, a built-in digital camera, tri-band GSM/GPRS, a 65,000 color display, and swappable faceplates, which is a first for a clamshell handset; the Z200, (pictured at right, we agree with The Register’s assessment that it’s oddly reminiscent of the original Apple iBook), which…