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Tech TV on the only PDA that comes with both 802.11b and Bluetooth built-in: HP’s flagship Pocket PC, the iPAQ h5450. The h5450 is about as feature-laden a handheld as you can get these days, it sports a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 48MB of ROM, a 3.8″ 16-bit transflective touchscreen, a Secure Digital I/O…
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A wearable WiFi detector made out of 64 LEDs that light up to alert you whenever you’re in range of WiFi: WiFisense scans for the presence of WiFi (802.11) networks wherever you go. It detects the networks’ signal strength, and whether they are password protected (WEP-enabled) or not. When WiFisense finds a network, it uses…
Pics and specs have surfaced for a whole bunch of new mid-range iPAQ Pocket PCs from HP. The HP iPAQ 2200 (pictured at right) will have either a 200MHz or 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 32MB of ROM, SD/IO and CF expansion slots, and optional Bluetooth. HP’s iPAQ 1940 and 1945 series will have a…
Researchers at the University of Freiburg in Germany have worked long and hard to build… a robot that can play foosball: KiRo is a completely autonomous table soccer playing robot: using a camera it perceives the playing field and, depending upon the current game situation, it decides how the rods under its control should be…
Apart from the intermittent bouts of carpal tunnel, we’re pretty happy with our mouse (Microsoft’s Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer, if you have to know), but Wired reports on a company called FingerWorks has an idea for eliminating all that repetitive strain: hand gestures. FingerWorks sells two types of products. The iGesture pad is about the size…
Sprint is going to start offering Intermec’s 760 wireless Pocket PC, which has a built-in bar code reader and integrated Bluetooth, WiFi, and CDMA, to business customers. Which means regular customers won’t be able to buy these at Radio Shack. Read
AT&T Wireless has started spamming its subscribers with text messages advertising services for making international calls. How much want to bet this is just the beginning of a much bigger, much more troubling trend? Read [Via TechDirt]
A new five megapixel prosumer digital camera from Nikon. The Coolpix 5400 has a 4x optical zoom lens and something called “Best Shot Selector” which can automatically pick the sharpest image from a series of five consecutive images. No, it’s not really clear to me either what they mean by that. Read
Ready for yet another wireless networking standard? Motorola is working on one code-named ZigBee, which works on the 802.15.4 specification, and supposedly will be used to wirelessly control all sorts of stuff like lighting fixtures and security systems. ZigBee will also be slower in speed than WiFi and Bluetooth, but make up for it by…
And just to go totally overboard with Sony news this week, the company showed off a concept design for a tiny new Clie handheld with a clamshell design, a built-in digital camera, and integrated wireless (whether it’s WiFi or Bluetooth is unclear). Read
Two new Loox Pocket PCs from Fujitsu-Siemens, one with built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, the other with GPRS. The Loox line has been really popular in Europe and Asia, but for whatever reason Fujitsu-Siemens has waffled about whether or not they would ever introduce their Loox line of Pocket PCs here – they even made plans…
First it was Nokia and Mastercard, now Visa and Philips are working on a wireless payment system that would let you pay for things with a cellphone. Are American Express and Motorola up next? Read
We don’t even have 3G here yet, and NTT DoCoMo is already field testing a 4G cellular network there in Japan. Read
Even more Sony news today: word of a new version of the PlayStation 2 called the PSX that will have a TV tuner, a 120GB hard drive, a DVD burner, and be able to double as a digital video recorder. Due out in Japan later this year, no word on when or if the PSX…
A couple of new two megapixel ultracompact digital cameras from Sony. The DSC-U30 is basically just the DSC-U20, with one small “improvement”: a convex mirror on the front so you can see what you look when taking a self-portrait. And the DSC-U60 (pictured at right), Sony’s first “ruggedized” outdoor camera, has a waterproof case and…
A new wireless bridge from D-Link that can add 802.11g to anything with an Ethernet port, such as an Xbox, a PlayStation 2, or a ReplayTV. The WEG54G is out now, or at least it should be. Read
MobileTechNews on how to spam all of your friends and family members with all those “great” pictures you’ve taken with your Sanyo 8100 cameraphone. Read [Via MobileTracker]
First dual-network 2G/3G cellphone from NTT DoCoMo in Japan. Te FOMA N2701 also has not one, but two built-in digital cameras with flash. Comes out next month. Read
More and more PDAs these days are coming with WiFi, and PDA Street has a good guide to finding one with 802.11b built-in and how to add it to a PDA if it doesn’t have it already. Read