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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
Make your PC FireWire compatible for $39.52 with Adaptec’s PCI card. Comes with a 6-4 pin Firewire cable and MGI VideoWave 4 video-editing software. Amazon
A portable hard drive from Shining Technology called the CitiDISK DV that can connect directly to a DV camcorder, making it possible to dump video straight to it rather than to a PC. Sounds great, but is this really solving any sort of problem? Digital videotape isn’t all that expensive, so it’s not like you…
A pair of new Clie handhelds from Sony, the NX80V and the NX73V. Both run Palm OS 5, have a 200MHz processor, a 3.8-inch LCD touchscreen, backlit thumk keyboards, and it looks like the only major difference between the two is that the NX80V sports a built-in 1.3 megapixel digital camera, while the NX73V’s camera…
TiVo has been notoriously cool about people hacking their digital video recorders to add extra hard drive space, but for anyone who wants to, say, bump up their TiVo box to 240 hours without actually busting it open and doing the upgrade themselves, there’s a new authorized service center that’ll do it for you. (There…
New three megapixel digital camera from Fujifilm that’s bucking the “smaller is better” trend in gadgets these days with larger, easier to read buttons. The FinePix A210 Zoom also has a 1.5″ LCD screen and a 3x optical zoom lens. Read
An early review of over at HardwareZone.com of Samsung’s SPH-n270, aka the new Matrix Phone. They like the design, but find the phone perilously short on features apart from a few cool ringtones and wallpapers. By the way, as we reported last week, the Matrix Phone is already sold out at Samsung’s online store, but…
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications spent $50,000 to buy a hundred PlayStation 2’s which they then linked together to build a gigantic supercomputer that can process a half trillion operations per second. Sounds more like someone is trying to cover up their gaming addiction. Read Amazon – PlayStation 2
A new digital video recorder/DVD burner from Toshiba. The D-R1 uses Gemstar’s programming info, so it can double as a TiVo or a ReplayTV, but it also has a couple of other cool features that both of those DVRs lack, like a FireWire port for dumping video from a camcorder to its hard drive and…
They just banned smoking in bars and restaurants in New York, so this is probably not of much use here, but researchers in Dublin have tricked out Pocket PC so that it can measure how much secondhand smoke you might be inhaling when you’re around smokers. Read
Sony Ericsson’s new T610 cellphone has only just come out and it’s already been recalled because of an annoying hissing sound that’s been discovered in its speaker. They’ve offered to repair all the defective phones, which is good news if you happened to buy one of these, though you will be out of a phone…
Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News takes a trip down memory lane and compares a Fry’s Electronics advertising supplement from May, 1997 with one from this past weekend. While it’s nothing all that surprising – DVD players cost 10% of what they used to, and a 200MHz Sony desktop cost $2,199 then while…
Been going through the feedback from the reader survey we’re currently conducting, and since we forgot to make it clear, just wanted to say that we are only collecting email addresses to alert whoever wins the drawing we’re having after the survey closes on Wednesday. We’re not going to spam you or sell your email…
PC Stats guide to figuring out whether overclocking is for you. There’s a whole subculture of people out there who are pretty much obsessed with finding new ways to get the processor on their computer to run faster than its listed speed, and to get there they’ll have no qualms about spending hundreds or even…
We’ve ripped on RCA in the past for its line of clumsy, no frills hard-drive based MP3 players. And while the design of their latest player still isn’t quite there yet, with its smaller size, 40GB of storage space, and a suggested retail price of $330, the Lyra HD actually looks like it could prove…
Imaging Resource review of the Dimage F300, Minolta’s new five megapixel digital camera with a 3x optical zoom lens. Read Amazon – Dimage F300
From Hitachi, what’s being touted as a “digital blackboard.” Few accompanying details (this is just a photo from a trade show), but this looks like it’s a large LCD touchscreen that will let you write on it by hand just like a Tablet PC. Read
A couple of new Pocket PC from Asus. The Mypal A620 has a 400MHz processor, a 3.5-inch transflective LCD, and slot for CompactFlash expansion and memory cards. The A710 should be about the same as the A620, but will add built-in WiFi to the mix. Read
Peter Lewis of Fortune is mad at T-Mobile, his cellphone company, but he says he’s going to stick it out with them at least until November 24th, the day when phone number portability goes into effect, and you’ll be able to switch carriers without having to get a new new number. Unless of course the…
Dead pixels are the bane of anyone buying an LCD monitor, and while you’d think that finding one on a monitor you’d just bought would entitle you to a replacement, it turns out that most manufacturers have a threshold for the number of pixels that have to be defective before they’ll take action. Tom’s Hardware…