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New line of personal video players from Archos. The AV300 comes in 20GB and 40GB varieties, both of which have 3.8-inch color LCD screens, TV out ports for connecting to a television, can record up to 80 hours of programming directly off of television (courtesy of an attachment), and can play video files encoded in…
This has been in the works for ages, but RIM has finally released its first color BlackBerry, at least in Europe. The 7230 has 16MB of RAM, and besides doing email it also has a built-in GSM phone. Read
ThreeGMobile.net review of the Sagem MY-X6 (the cellphone on the right), which somewhat resembles Sony Ericsson’s T610 (you know, the one that just got recalled). Anyway, the MY-X6 has a 65,000 color screen, a decent built-in digital camera, but, unfortunately, no Bluetooth. Read [Thanks, Mike]
Yet another new gadget from Sony that is unlikely to ever be released here in the States. The PCGA-UTV10 is a USB 2.0 TV tuner for PCs that encodes television signals directly into MPEG-2. Read
Brighthand reports that June 23rd is the day that Microsoft will launch Pocket PC 2003, the latest version of its operating system for PDAs. It’s supposed to have better support for WiFi and Bluetooth, an upgrade in its Internet browser, support for SMS, and include Windows Media Player 9. If you’re buying a Pocket PC…
Infoworld on the new battlefield networking system that the US Army is working on. The heart of it is a helmet with a small attached monitor called an Integrated Helmet Assembly Subsystem, which can show a soldier his or her exact position on a map via GPS, display live video from unmanned aerial drones, and…
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week here at Gizmodo: The Hopbit: coming soon? An iPod for DJs? The travel robot The Super PlayStation 2 The iGesture Foosball robot WiFisense: wearable WiFi detector Japanese TV PC
Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News on the sub-$1,000 ultralight Averatec 3150 laptop, which weighs just 4.3 pounds. That’s not as light as, say, Sharp’s MM10, which is just over 2 pounds, but for the money you get a 1.3GHz processor, a 12.1-inch display, 256MB of RAM, a 30GB hard drive, a DVD/CD-RW…
New thumb keyboard for HP’s 3800, 3900, and 5400 series of iPAQ Pocket PCs. Read
TiVo is notoriously cool about people hacking their digital video recorders, so it’s unlikely that they’re going to sue the author of TiVo Hacks, a new book which teaches you how to add extra recording time, change the titles of TV shows, and check your email with your TiVo. Read Amazon – TiVo Hacks
Verizon and AT&T Wireless are going to be the first wireless carriers to offer cellphones running Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system here in the US. No word on exactly when thay’ll hit the market, but it seems like this is taking a lot longer than it should be, since Smartphones have been out in Europe since…
Just in time for SARS, a new protective stretcher from Isotech that can transport a patient in complete isolation. Read
Russian scientists have supposedly invented a robotic dog that can sniff out drugs. They plan to deploy the robots at border crossings. Read
Someone’s gone ahead and built a wireless remote control module for those new iPods that have just come out. It’s basically a standard infrared receiver, which conveniently means it’ll work with most remote controls and that you’ll probably be able to control your iPod with the same remote you use for your CD player. Should…
Rumors that Canon is about to come out with a G5 digital camera, a five megapixel successor to its G3 line, and skipping completely over “G4” because reportedly Apple wouldn’t let them call the new camera that. Read
Akihibara News with some video footage of the PRIUSDECK 770F20TVP, a PC designed to replace your television that has a beautiful-looking widescreen LCD, a DVD burner, built-in TV tuner, remote control, FireWire, and slots for all sorts of memory cards. Read
At the rate these keep coming out, robotic vacuum cleaners aren’t going to be news soon. Nonetheless, there’s a prototype of very small new one from Hitachi. The Home Cleaning Robot is about 250mm in diameter, and automatically empties its dust container when it gets full, and can return to its base station when its…
A nice, lengthy review over at the Register of Sony Ericsson’s new P800 smartphone by someone who seems to have discovered every single one of the phone’s (apparently many) flaws, but who overall is still very satisfied with their purchase. Read Amazon – P800
Samsung has started selling 32MB miniSD memory cards, which are even more dimunitive than regular SD cards, in Japan. These new miniSD cards are meant to be used mainly in cellphones, and are incredibly minute – about 21.5mm by 20mm – or just small enough that they’ll be very easy to lose. Read
Palm’s adding the ability to make Voice over IP calls to its new WiFi-enabled handheld, the Tungsten C: Gphone is a VoIP (Voice-over-IP) application available for several platforms that will allow users to place phone calls to any other Gphone-using Tungsten C, Pocket PC, or desktop system, or even over the public telephone network. Gphone…