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Hewlett-Packard is working on a “travel robot” that can sit in for you at meetings while you’re thousands of miles away. But it’s not like you’ll be able to take off and go water skiing or whatever is you’d do instead. The travel robot is designed to let you more fully participate in distant company…
David Berlind exposes the truth about Bluetooth: that the wireless standard just doesn’t work all that well when it comes to connecting devices together. He describes meeting with a couple of representatives from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, and being completely unable to link together any of his three Bluetooth-enabled laptops. Helpfully, he does have…
Pick up an original HP-12C financial calculator from Amazon for $62, 25 bucks off the suggested retail price. Amazon
Word that Apple may be working on a professional version of the iPod that will be aimed at DJs and will let them alter the pitch and speed of songs. Deejaying with iPods is already starting to take off, and while you can be sure that people will be spinning vinyl forever, not having to…
Astute reader Ara Feinstein writes in that Samsung’s new Palm-powered SPH-i500 has mysteriously turned up on Sprint’s retail site, although since the phone is not officially for sale yet it’s listed as “Sold Out.” Read
This has been out in Japan for a while now, but it looks like the Hopbit, a Bluetooth-enabled 5GB portable hard drive from Toshiba, might actually come out here. The Hopbit is about the size of a Pocket PC and can connect wirelessly to Bluetooth-enabled handhelds and laptops. It’s a great idea. It means you…
Some highlights from the past week in Gizmodo, in case you missed any of them: Nokia’s Bluetooth digital pen Your Pal Mickey Nokia’s new pen-based phone Segways in Paris; plus, the case of the missing Segway Spiral bound The V@mp MPM-101 Kodak’s fourteen megapixel digital camera 128MB ballpoint pen Remote control car phone Making a…
Over at the Inquirer, Charlie Demerjian explains why he thinks Palm is doomed. Rather than put together a rigorous argument about how Palm has fallen behind the Pocket PC, it mainly sounds like he’s angry about how he can’t synchronize his Netscape email program with his new Tungsten T. Read
A DIY guide to building your very own electrocardiograph, all for under $10. Just be careful you know what you’re doing before you strap a couple of electrodes to your body. Sure, it’d be useful for monitoring your heart rate, and you’d be saving a few bucks, but there’s probably a good reason why hospitals…
Apple plans to start selling TiVo digital video recorders in its retail stores later this year. Normally this wouldn’t be news, as Apple sells a lot of third-party stuff at their stores, but the notion of Apple buying TiVo has been raised before, and this is only going to add fuel to the fire. Read
Envy News review of the iVolution from Vaja, a very snug-fitting, padded protective case that’ll sorta make your iPod look like it’s been swallowed by the Michelin Man. Read
A portable thermal printer from KDDI that can print pictures taken with a cameraphone. Now if they could just figure out who to build the printer into the phone itself. The SV-P25 is only available in Japan. Read [Thanks, Mike]
Scientists in Japan (where else?) are working on transparent transistors that could be used to make completely clear LCD screens and displays. Read
If you really, really have to get your hands on a Microsoft Smartphone and don’t want to wait, you might want to cheat a little and buy a Smartphone developer’s kit. Or you could come by Gizmodo HQ and check out the Orange SPV Smartphone Microsoft gave us last month. Anyway, the kit, which Microsoft…
Prototype of a paper-thin rechargeable lithium and lithium-ion batteries from VoltaFlex that supposedly will be less expensive and pack more charge than regular lithium batteries. No word on when these might start appearing in products. Read
The New York Times on some of the new GPS navigation systems for cars, like the in-dash navigation systems that are starting to show up in less expensive cars from Honda, Nissan, and Toyota, and portable GPS navigation systems like the StreetPilot III from Garmin (pictured at right). Read Amazon – Garmin StreetPilot III
Back when I was a kid, my brother and I once photocopied a five dollar bill and successfully fed it into the token machine at the arcade by our house. This was back when photocopiers had just started to become affordable, and it didn’t take long before people caught onto it and made change machines…
A new wireless Internet security camera from D-Link. The DCS-2100+ works over 802.11b and 802.11g, an integrated web server for remote viewing over the Internet, and a motion detector that can automatically email you if something’s fishy. Read
Over at No Good For Me, our new favorite weblog, Kat asks, Why not garments that extend even further into the space around you, protecting the body from the intrusions in that space? I’m thinking of those crowded subway rides when I lived in New York; how about an inflatable coat that would give you…
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