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FoxNews article on the Eyetop, those sunglasses with the mini-LCD screen attached. They made a big splash a couple of months ago, and it looks like they’re actually hitting the market now. Read
We’d meant to mention this a couple of days ago: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has finally taken the wraps off his secretive startup, Wheels of Zeus. It’s another one of those panopticon-like services that offer to wirelessly track your kids, pets, and possessions. Their tracking devices will use 900Mhz radios with a range of about…
Brighthand review of the Tungsten T2, Palm’s successor to the Tungsten T, which comes out as expected today. The Tungsten T2 looks pretty much like its predecessor, but ups the RAM to 32MB, and has a higher-resolution 320×320 pixel transflective display and built-in Bluetooth. Read
Another new portable photo printer for cameraphones, this one from Bandai. Like Fuji Film’s new printer, this one also use infrared to receive images from a cellphone handset, and just for the Japanese market. How come no one’s come out with one of these for the US? Read
A new speaking electronic version of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary from Franklin, which can actually pronounce all of the 200,000 words in its database. The SCD-1870 also has an optional PC connectivity kit for downloading eBooks. Read
Official announcement of Nikon’s new digital SLR aimed at sports and news photographers, the four-megapixel D2H. The high-speed D2H has a new type of imaging sensor called a Junction Field Effect Transistor for shooting up to eight frames per second, and (here’s what so hot about this camera) an optional WiFi transmitter which can automatically…
A new GPS navigation device for the blind that uses the European Space Agency’s system of geostationary satellites to improve the accuracy of GPS in cities to within a few meters. Being off by fifteen or twenty meters isn’t such a big deal while driving in a car, but for a blind person trying to…
Another tablet-style PC with an 8.4-inch display, though this one doesn’t look like it’s a proper “Tablet PC” since it has a touchscreen (rather than an Active Digitizer display) and doesn’t appear to be running the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition OS. [How many times can I use the word “tablet” in one sentence?] Anyway,…
Lindows.com, the company that builds those low-cost Linux-based PCs sold at Wal-Mart, is offering a new “information appliance” that is basically a hard drive-less PC. The WebStation is set to retail for $169 (without monitor), and will boot off a Lindows OS 4 CD-ROM, and have 256MB of RAM, a pokey 733MHz VIA processor, and…
One of the first DVD players to come with DVI, or Digital Video Interface. Basically a DVD player with a DVI-out port can send a pure digital video signal to a digital display, rather than having to convert the video signal to analog (which degrades picture quality) to watch a DVD on a television with…
We’re not sure that this is actually the world’s smallest alphanumeric keyboard like they claim, but either way the UniTap is about as small as a keyboard can get and still be functional. It works by having a grid of small dot-like keys, so rather than having each dot associated with a specific letter or…
Intel and Linksys are teaming up to make it easier for people using laptops with Intel’s Centrino wireless chipset to connect Linksys’ line of WiFi access points. Read
BusinessWeek’s Stephen Wildstrom says that electronics manufacturers should “lose the extras” on their DVD players, and that by adding Ethernet ports and DVD recorders to their players they’re just making things needlessly complicated for consumers. He’s right that Panasonic’s DMR-E60S is remarkably graceless in its operation, but we’re talking about a first-generation of high-end electronics…
X-bit Laboratories roundup of thirteen 17-inch LCD monitors to the test. For this set of tests they specifically looked at each display’s real pixel response time, which evidently is another factor (along with contrast, brightness, and resolution) to consider when selecting an LCD. Their pick for the best of the bunch: Samsung’s 172B. Read
Mobile.Burn review of Samsung’s new SGH-P408 cameraphone, which has a 65,000 color display that twists around 180 degrees and a rotating camera lens like the one on Samsung’s i700 Pocket PC Phone. The P408 is primarily for the Asian market, and when it is released elsewhere will be known as the SGH-P400 and have several…
We’ve mentioned this before, but today’s New York Times has a good article on how D&M Holdings, the new owner of ReplayTV, is stripping out all of the automatic commercial-skipping and show-sharing features that were pissing off the entertainment industry from its new line of digital video recorders. You’ll still be able to manually fast-forward…
The Tungsten T2, Palm’s successor to the Tungsten T, is set to hit stores on Wednesday according to The Register. The T2 looks about the same as the T, but will have double the RAM (32MB as opposed to 16, which is still not enough), a 320×320 transflective display, and run Palm OS 5.2.1. Read
Over at Pocket PC Thoughts, Jason Dunn makes some solid points about why Toshiba’s stubborn refusal to offer owners of its handhelds upgrades to the new Pocket PC 2003 operating system is such a bad idea. Among them, that the negative publicity will likely cost them more money (in terms of repeat customers, new business,…
New progressive scan DVD player from Hitachi that also records to DVD-R and DVD-RAM. The DVRX5000U should be out sometime this Fall. Read
Wired News on why Sony’s pricey new UX50 Clie PDA is such a big deal. It’s not that it just has both Bluetooth and WiFi built-in, the UX50 also incorporates a special new chip Sony created called the Handheld Engine that’s specifically designed for running multimedia applications without killing the battery. Read