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Iomega’s coming out with its own dual-format DVD burner. The Super DVD drive will write to both DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, and DVD-RAM and come in both an internal version (pictured at right) and an external model that’ll use USB 2.0 to connect to a PC. Read
So I finally leave the house for more than three hours (to go to the Gothamist/601am Happy Hour and then a party for Bulgari) and I come back to this: scads of emails about how Apple has “accidentally” leaked the specs for its new Power Mac G5. As expected, the new G5 looks really tight…
It’s not clear whether it’s going to be called the Xbox 2 of the Xbox Next (or something else entirely), but the second-generation of Microsoft’s gaming console is set to drop in 2006, a year after the PlayStation 3 is supposed to come out. Read
PC types envious of Apple’s monster 17-inch Powerbook G4 are in luck. Hypersonic’s coming out with the first PC laptop with a widescreen 17-inch display. There’s lots more to the Aviator ZX7 than just a huge display, it also packs in a 3.06GHz processor, up to 1GB of RAM, 64MB of video RAM, either a…
Really a nanoguitar, the world’s smallest guitar is just ten micrometers long, with six strings that are about 100 atoms wide. The strings will actually resonate if plucked by an atomic force microscope, not that you’d be able to hear anything. There’s only one thing we want to know: how long until the first nanoguitar…
Rumors of two new high-end Palm handhelds that should be out by November of this year, a Zire with a 200MHz processor and 32MB of RAM, and a Tungsten with a 400MHz processor and possibly as much as 128MB of RAM. Both would run the new Palm OS 6, which, if this is actually true,…
We’re skipping the second day of CeBIT America trade show – there just isn’t all that much to see there – but PC World and Wired News both have articles with some of the highlights of this very low-key affair. So far, the only actually exciting news to come out of this show has been…
Just about the best thing we saw yesterday at the CeBIT America tech trade show that’s going on here in New York was NTT DoCoMo’s 1.3 megapixel cameraphone, the SO505i from Sony Ericsson. Now there’s another one megapixel cameraphone coming out from DoCoMo, the Mova SH505i, which has a 2.4-inch color display and an SD…
In today’s Circuits section of the New York Times, David Pogue reviews Sony’s new RDR-GX7, the first dual-format DVD recorder that hooks up to a television. He likes the player, but sorting out which recordable DVD format will work where is a huge headache: Discs you record in either -R or -RW Video format work…
MobileBurn review of the HBM-001 from Hit, which may be the first Bluetooth headset for cellphones that doesn’t feel extremely painful when worn for extended periods of time. Read
Yet another new use for cameraphones: using them to send instead of couriers to send images of X-rays to doctors. “Specialists are so used to seeing different fractures that in 98 out of 100 cases they could tell which sort of treatment was needed from looking at the X-ray on a phone.” The X-rays are…
Wired News on the real reason Palm bought Handspring: to get its hands on the new Treo 600 which is coming out this October. Read
As expected, a couple of new laptops from HP today. The nx7000 (pictured at right) has a widescreen 15.4-inch display, built-in 802.11b, a 1.6GHz processor, up to a 60GB hard drive and 2GB of RAM, either a DVD or a DVD/CD-RW drive, and optional Bluetooth. The ultralight nc4000 weighs just 3.5 pounds and is just…
An industrial robot might turn out to be the Next Big Thing at amusement parks. The Robocoaster is essentially a massive robotic arm with a rollercoaster-type harness attached to the end of it: Kuka claims to be the first company in the world to use PC controls in its industrial robots, typically used in large…
Linksys has pulled its WSB24 Wireless Signal Booster off the market. The WSB24 only had FCC approval to be connected to Linksys’ WAP11 wireless access point and BEFW11S4 wireless router, but plenty of people were using it to extend the range of other Linksys gear, something that didn’t go over too well with the commission,…
We all know that Bluetooth’s been struggling lately, and this is unlikely to change the situation much, but an updated version of Bluetooth has just come out. Bluetooth 1.2 is backwards compatible with 1.1, and has a few new features, like adaptive frequency hopping for better dealing with interference from devices using 802.11b (which operates…
CNET with some more details and some video footage of the new Treo 600, which is due out from Handspring this fall. It’ll run on both CDMA and GSM, cost between $400 and $500, have a built-in digital camera, a 160×160 pixel display, run Palm OS 5.2, a mini-keyboard, and an SD expansion slot. Our…
This almost looks like an elaborate hoax, but apparently someone has figured out to get the Mac operating system to run on an iPAQ Pocket PC. Not that there’s a whole lot you would actually accomplish by doing so, except to prove it could be done. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
A new 2.1 megapixel digital camera from Creative that can also double as a PC webcam, and has a swivel base for use during video conferencing. Read
Two new digital cameras from Toshiba with 10x optical zoom lenses and large 2.5-inch LCD screens, the two megapixel PDR-M500 (pictured at right) and the three megapixel PDR-M700. Read