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Rio’s finally unveiled its new MP3 players. The one getting all the attention, naturally, is the Rio Karma (pictured at right), Rio’s 20GB competitor to the iPod. The Rio Karma has a couple of features that the iPod lacks, like support for the Ogg Vorbis open source audio format, a dock that comes with both…
And while we’re on the subject of WiFi SD cards, Socket Communications also has one coming out in a few weeks. Pretty much the same deal as the SanDisk card, i.e. it only works with Pocket PCs. Read
An early review over at Wi-Fi Planet of SanDisk’s new SD 802.11b card, the one that fits into the SD expansion slot of Pocket PCs. Apparently it doesn’t perform quite so well compared to a standard 802.11b card in a laptop. Read
Wired News article on people who are freaking out that their gadgets might get damaged now that airport security personnel are going to be spending more time inspecting electronic devices like laptops, cellphones, and cameras: Many fear that even a basic search, conducted by someone who is not technically inclined, could harm their computers… “I…
Some photos and details have turned up on the Mio 8390, MiTAC’s followup to their Mio 8380 cellphone running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system. The 8390 (the phone on the right) looks like it’s lighter and thinner than the rather bulky 8380 (the phone on the left), and will run the new Smartphone 2003 version of…
With Terminator 3 having just come out a few weeks ago, maybe it wasn’t the best time for the Defense Department to unveil Project Alpha, which is charged with figuring out how the US military can develop armies of autonomous robots by the year 2025. At least they won’t look like the Terminator: “The robots…
Wow, it really must be legal to still sell BlackBerrys. The first color model, the 7230, went on sale in the today in the US (it’s been out in Europe for a couple of months already). You might recall that last week a Federal judge ordered Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, to…
Helpful guide over at ExtremeMHz to burning DVDs that are compatible with your standalone DVD player. It’s frustrating, but with all the competing standards out there it’s not a given that a DVD burned on your PC will actually play on the DVD player in your living room. Read
Well, HP’s revealed their hundred new gadgets, and as we suspected, it’s mainly new digital cameras and printers. While there are a few other products of note, most of the rest of the hundred new products are filler, and aren’t anything to get too excited about. Unless, of course, you’re the type to get terribly…
These have been on the market for a while now, but there’s a nice piece over at Forbes about the Handy Trax, a portable turntable made by Vestax. They’re mainly aimed at DJs who want a way to listen to records before buying when they go shopping. The article also suggests that you could use…
Mobile.Burn gives props to Sony Ericsson’s new cellphone, the T226, calling it an “entry-level gem.” Besides having pretty nice design, the T226 has dual-band GSM, GPRS, though it looks like Sony Ericsson skimped a bit and gave it a 512 color display to keep the price down. Should be out here in the US soon.…
People have been hacking video game consoles for years, and now there’s actually a console coming out that’s meant to be hacked. The 16-bit XGameStation won’t exactly rival the PS2 or Xbox in terms of graphics, but you can do just about anything you want to it – take it apart, burn your own custom…
A new technology for video cameras called DMIST that can take clear pictures through fog, heavy rain, and haze: The device works by taking out the light scattered by water particles so the picture can be recovered in colour, as if it were being shot on a clear day. Read [Via Lockergnome]
Hewlett-Packard is set to unveil more than one hundred new gadgets and consumer electronics later today, mainly digital cameras and printers we suspect. We’ll have more details as they come in. Read [Thanks, Jon]
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: Four new MP3 players from Rio The AcceleGlove 4GB CompactFlash memory card Down on Kensington’s WiFi Finder WiFi sniffing robot Sony’s new WiFi TVs Motorola’s fall lineup The N-Gage Special Forces The world’s smallest camcorder? Gadget fun in the streets…
From Denmark, interesting alternative to those wireless home entertainment hubs, like PRISMIQ’s MediaPlayer or SMC’s EZ-Stream Universal Wireless Multimedia Receiver. It seems a bit convulted, even when compared to setting up a home network, but rather than connect your TV and stereo to your PC via Ethernet or 802.11b, the (poorly-named) Palmbutler is a little…
Over at TabletPCBuzz, Christopher Coulter digs up some info on the origins of the tablet computer, which has its roots in the DynaBook, a concept for a pen-based computer that Alan Kay and others at Xerox PARC developed in the late Sixties/early Seventies. Read
It’s such a brilliantly elegant idea for saving space in a desktop computer that we’re surprised don’t see these more often: an optical drive with a built-in Flash memory card reader. I/O Magic’s new 52x internal CD-RW drive comes with a 7-in-1 media reader that reads CompactFlash cards, Multimedia Cards, SD cards, Smart Media cards,…
Pentax is coming out with its first digital SLR camera, a 6.1 megapixel model to be called the ist D, in Japan next month. Read
Cellphone number portability isn’t set to go into effect here until November 24th, but the carriers, scared that their customers will abandon them in droves (as well they should), are already said to be changing their ways. We haven’t seen much evidence of it, but they’re supposedly improving customer service, increasing network capacity, and adding…