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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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This is about as geeky as it gets: a downloadable software program for NEC cellphones that lets you operate a remote control car via the phone’s infrared port. Available only in Japan, of course. Read
New FireWire 800 card for laptops from FirewireDirect. FireWire 800 is twice as fast as regular Firewire (800Mbps as opposed to 400), and comes standard on a lot of the new Powerbooks. 400Mbps per second is already plenty fast for most people, but if you’re doing digital video editing FireWire 800 is probably worth investing…
Unlike the previous owner, which stood up to Hollywood and was promptly sued, the new owner of ReplayTV is kowtowing and saying that it might remove some of the features from its next line digital video recorders that the television networks find most offensive, like being able to skip commercials or send a show saved…
Ratification of a final standard for 802.11g is expected next month. Not normally a newsworthy event, but confusingly, late last year a lot of manufacturers decided to go ahead and build wireless cards and base stations using the draft standard of 802.11g, which has been causing some interoperability problems for people trying to use equipment…
A ballpoint pen that alsom sports a 128MB USB flash drive. USB flash drive keychains makes sense, and even that new memory watch from LAKS isn’t such a bad idea. But why do I have the feeling that the next lame tech trend will be putting USB flash drives in all sorts of silly things…
Digital Photography Review takes an extensive look at Kodak’s new fourteen megapixel (!) digital camera, the DCS-14n. It’s probably too much camera for most people, but if you absolutely have to have the highest resolution digital camera out there, this is the one. Read
A whole bunch of new Vaio desktop PCs coming from Sony, including an $800 entry-level model which comes with a 2.4GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, and a both a DVD-RW and a CD-RW drive. At the other end of the scale, their new high-end Vaio will come with a 3.0GHz processor,…
Speaking of gadgets that change color, Alan Reiter has an excellent entry on the Ambient Orb, which first surfaced last year. The Ambient Orb is a handblown glass bulb that changes colors to reflect different kinds of information, like green if the stock market is up, red if it’s down, and yellow if it’s unchanged.…
A first look over at CNET at the GR-HD1 from JVC, the world’s first and only high-defintion camcorder for consumers. Only worthwhile if you also happen to own a high-defintion television as well, and that while it’s resolution is great, since the GR-HD1 uses a one-chip imaging sensor it isn’t as good at capturing color…
Amazon sale on IOGEAR’s 5-port USB 2.0 PCI card for desktop PCs. $17.54 after rebate. Amazon
TechTV on a new MP3 player from Bantam Interactive that also has an LCD screen that doubles as a digital photo viewer for creating slide shows with accompanying music. But the real appeal of the BA800 apparently is that its semi-translucent casing acts like a built-in light show, changing in time with the music when…
Another weird all-in-one gadget from Japan. The V@mp MPM-101 has a 2.5-inch color LCD screen and combines an MP3 player with a digital camera, a television (it even has a pull-out antenna), and an MPEG-4 video player. Comes out in Japan next month. Read
Prototype of a crazy new virtual keyboard that consists of coils that wrap around your fingers that use, “electrical contacts on thumbs and fingertips and/or alongside each finger to generate all the characters found on a traditional keyboard using traditional touch-typing skills.” Read [Via BoingBoing]
Matsushita is working on a GPS receiver for Pocket PCs that will fit onto a postage stamp-sized SD card. No word on when this might actually be released though. Read