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A new version of Minolta’s 3.2 megapixel Dimage XT specifically aimed at business users, which is a bit unusual for a non-professional digital camera. The Dimage XT Biz, as it’s called, is about the same as the regular XT, just with ways to annotate photos with voice and text notes. Read
The iTrip, that transmitter from Griffin that’ll let you listen to your iPod on any FM radio, has been banned in the UK. Just like A Clockwork Orange! Well, actually not like that at all. The reason the iTrip is now contraband is that because it functions as a low-power FM transmitter, it could potentially…
Tom’s Hardware Guide on some of the new, smaller, portable hard drives that have come out recently, like the SPIO (pictured at right). These are the ones that use the same kinds of 2.5-inch hard disks which have been showing up in laptops for awhile now. Read
Sony’s new Clie UX50 PDA (pictured at right) has Ed Hardy over at Brighthand wishing that Microsoft would make it easier/possible for manufacturers to make a clamshell Pocket PC with a built-in keyboard. The first thing Microsoft should do is add landscape support to Pocket PC and make it easy for developers to create software…
Sure, setting up a wireless network isn’t always that easy, but we’re not sold on Gaze-Link, Sony’s prototype solution for automatically connecting devices together. Basically, rather than having to configure settings manually, every device in a wireless network would have a sticker with a code on it that contained its settings. Then a laptop with…
Divorcing someone by text message seemed sorta sketchy in the first place, and now the Malaysian government looks like it’s going to overrule an Islamic court’s ruling and ban divorces through “impersonal channels” like text messages, email, letters, faxes, and phone calls. Read
Remember that multi-media refrigerator from LG? Well Electrolux has gone even further with its Screenfridge, a prototype refrigerator which has a digital camera inside that snaps pictures and uploads them to a server every time its door closes. Then when you’re at the store and want to check what you’re out of, you can just…
From SOFTAVA, possibly the least promising of the recent attempts to incorporate a full alphanumeric keypad into a cellphone: The Q12 design tries to make use of the space between the keys, much as Fastap does, but without actually putting buttons there. The Q12 system relies on multiple buttons being pressed at the same time.…
The saga of the Dell Axim X5 continues. Dell came out with a patch to fix the slow downs that Axim users who upgraded to the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system had been experiencing, but have since pulled it from the site. Apparently “hackers” figured out how to use the patch to get the…
NEC says that within two years it plans to test market a new fuel cell that can power a laptop for 40 hours. Read
Digital picture frames never really took off, but maybe they just needed what the Wallflower has: built-in WiFi for transferring images wirelessly from a PC to the frame. Read
A new ultraportable from JVC that falls somewhere between a PDA and a laptop. The Mini Note MP-XP7210 runs Windows XP, and has an 8.9-inch screen, an 800MHz processor, 256MB of RAM, a 30GB hard drive, but no built-in WiFi. Read [Thanks, James]
You knew this would happen sooner or later: disposable digital cameras. Pure Digital Technologies is coming out with a disposable two-megapixel model that lacks an LCD screen and is set to retail for $11. Read
Wired News on how even two years after being discontinued, Apple’s Power Mac G4 Cube still has a dedicated following of users who are upgrading them with faster processors, bigger hard drives, extra RAM, and DVD drives. Read
As you may know, we’re quite fond of those USB-powered gadgets, but we’ve discovered another one that we fear some people might become a bit too fond of: a USB-powered “personal massager” from GrandTec. Definitely something to ease the stress of being hunched over a PC for ten hours a day. By the way, that…
Review over at BargainPDA of Sharp’s Zaurus SL-C750 handheld, the one that runs on Linux and has an LCD touchscreen that swivels around to reveal a small built-in thumb keyboard. They love it: Well, to be quite honest, this device blew me away along with all my iPaq and Axim-toting co-workers, the moment I unpacked…
New DVD burner from Plextor to support both of the competing recordable DVD standards, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW. We still think it’s freaking ridiculous that there are two competing standards in the first place, and that people have to shell out extra cash for these dual format drives. Read
You gotta hand it to eMachines. For being a budget PC manufacturer, they keep coming out with laptops laden with features that you’d expect from more high-end manufacturers. Their new M5310 doesn’t just have a 15.4-inch widescreen display, it also comes with built-in 802.11g (the higher-speed cousin of 802.11b), a 40GB hard drive, 512MB of…
More details have emerged on Sony’s new PlayStation Portable. The PSP will have twin processors (one for media, the other 3D graphics), 8MB of RAM, and play special 1.8 gigabyte “Universal Media Discs.” The PSP will also support playback of MPEG4 video files, and Sony says they’ll be able to fit up to two hours…
The FCC’s just granted Handspring approval to sell both the GSM/GPRS and CDMA versions of its new Treo 600. We hadn’t realized this before, but there is actually a slight difference between the two versions. Both have the same internal specs (32MB of RAM, 144MHz processors, Palm OS 5.2.1), but the CDMA model (pictured at…