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It’s already been available for a few months now, but PalmInfocenter has a review of the Zire 71, Palm’s mid-level “consumer” handheld, which runs on Palm OS 5.2 and has a 144MHz processor, 16MB of RAM, a 320×320 pixel, 65,000 color display, and a built-in digital camera. Ryan gives the Zire 71 points for having…
We were decidedly unimpressed with that new prototype e-book reader which HP revealed the other day, mainly because it just seemed like a tablet PC with some special software on it. Maybe it just needed to use digital ink, which could mean e-books that are incredibly light and thin, but use hardly any power. There…
The Inquirer takes a first look at the A920, Motorola’s new hyperadvanced 3G PDA phone which comes with a swiveling digital camera for video conferencing, a 65,000 color touchscreen, a slot for SD memory cards, and something called “Assisted” GPS for location-based services and navigation. Overall they like the phone, but think it’s a little…
We’d known about Philips’ new HDD100 15GB hard drive MP3 player, but buried towards the bottom of this story about the manufacturer’s new line of gadgets are a few lines about the HDD060, another hard drive-based player, this one with a 1.5GB drive. We’re betting it uses the same exact drive as the Nitrus, Rio’s…
You know it’s a scam, but Teslar Inside hawking a wristwatch that supposedly can block radiation and electromagnetic fields coming from cellphones, computers, and other gadgets. Not surprisingly, scientists say it’s ridiculous, but Wired News reports that that hasn’t stopped Madonna, Sharon Osbourne, Barbara Walters, and several members of the Oakland Raiders football team from…
Whether they’re amazingly prescient or amazingly responsive (or it’s just a coincidence), we’re not sure, but TiVo’s latest email newsletter has a step-by-step guide to connecting your TiVo via WiFi. You might recall our post a few days ago about the difficulty one TiVo owner experienced when trying to add a WiFi adapter to their…
They’re blurry, but the first photos of Orange’s SPV2 cellphone (which is also known as the HTC Voyager) have turned up. It’s basically just like the SPV e100, but with Bluetooth, a built-in digital camera, and the Smartphone 2003 version of the Smartphone operating system. Read
Updated version of Dell’s 15-inch widescreen laptop. The Inspiron 8600 has up to a 1.7GHz processor, up to 80GB hard drive, up to 3GB of RAM, and either a DVD/CD-RW or a DVD+RW optical drive. The 8600’s predecessor, the Inspiron 8500, came with built-in 802.11b and 802.11g, and even though the article doesn’t say, we’re…
SanDisk takes it to the limit with new “Extreme” versions of its CompactFlash and SecureDigital Flash memory cards that can read and write data faster than a regular card and are coated with a special layer of silicone for operating in extreme temperature conditions. Read
Refreshingly, a GPS gadget that’s not for tracking your children or significant other; it’s just for tracking yourself. Garmin’s new Forerunner 201 Personal Training System is designed for athletes who want precise data about their performance for training: The Forerunner 201 uses an integrated GPS sensor to measure training time, pace, distance, lap time, lap…
Craig over at GearBits says that a friend of his just got the Explorer 8000 from Scientific Atlanta, the combination cable tuner/digital video recorder that Time-Warner Cable is offering to its customers in various locales around the country, and that it’s not so hot: There’s one big difference between the 8000 and your run-of-the-mill TiVo…it…
It’s not exactly cheap, but there’s a new wireless IP network surveillance camera from Hutton that doesn’t just have built-in wireless, it’s solar powered as well (the idea being it can be set up to keep an eye on places that not only don’t have Ethernet, but don’t have electricty as well). The Solacam, as…
A couple of stories about Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, those miniature radio transmitters with unique identifiers that are supposed to replace UPC barcodes and let retailers track everything. The first, in Wired News, is that while WalMart may have shelved its plans to switch over to RFID (something that would have had HUGE implications…
Article in Reuters about the big IFA consumer electronics show going on in Berlin right now. Some of the highlights: vibrating headphones, a cycling jacket with built-in GPS, and most tantalizingly, a stereo system that is supposed to cost more than one million euros. We’re gonna try and get the manufacturer to send us one…
The first review we’ve seen of the Nitrus, Rio’s new 1.5GB hard drive MP3 player. Nothing too surprising – the reviewer says that with a retail price of $299, that even though it’s smaller and lighter, the Nitrus is just not a good enough deal compared with the 10GB iPod of the same price. Read…
From Sharp, a new home-theater-in-a-box system that features Sharp’s new super high-fidelity 1-bit digital audio technology which uses an extremely high sampling rate. The SD-PX1 comes out in Japan (of course) in November. Read
PC Magazine takes a look at two of those new gargantuan seventeen-inch widescreen laptops that strain the very notion of portability, HP’s Pavilion zd7000 (pictured at right) and Toshiba’s Satellite P25-S507. With each topping out at about 11 pounds, you probably shouldn’t plan on doing much traveling with one of these anytime soon. And in…
AgileMobile says it has a new software application for cellphones that can detect when the person you’re talking to on the phone is lying. Supposedly it can measure the stress that shows up when someone is being less than truthful. We’re sure it works perfectly. Read [Via TechDirt]
New MiniDV Handycam digital camcorder from Sony that can also take 3.31 megapixel still photos. The DCR-PC330 has a 10x optical zoom Zeiss lens, Sony’s Super NightShot infrared system for shooting in the dark, and a Memory Stick/Memory Stick PRO slot for saving still images. Read
We’re not even close to getting proper 3G wireless here in the States, but not only is Japan’s NTT DoCoMo working on a 14Mbps 3G cellular data network that they hope to deploy within a couple of years, they’re already researching a 100Mbps 4G network that should be ready sometime around 2010. Read [Via Smartphone…