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Ross Rubin reviews the Motorola’s IMFree, making a few of the same criticisms about the wireless instant messaging device as we did when we first posted about the IMFree a few weeks ago: that it only does one thing (AOL Instant Messenger, thought it could conceivably do more) and has a remarkably limited range (it…
From TDK, the world’s first CD case with built-in speakers. The I’MASPEAKER has two flat-panel speakerscan, space for up to 24 hour CDs, and a ludicrously stupid name. Read
Pickup a spare Canon NB-1LH battery for their Digital Elph series for $39.94. No rebate necessary. Amazon
This is brilliant: a new phone from Nokia which flips open to reveal a small pad where you can write out text with a stylus, sorta like the Grafitti area of a Palm PDA. Looks like the 6108 will be aimed at the Chinese market, where entering text with a pen is sure to prove…
I4U reports that the new Matrix-themed phone from Samsung, the SPH-N270, has already sold out on the Samsung Matrix Online Store just five days after its release. Read
A new external DVD burner from Plextor. The PX-504UF can connect to a PC using either FireWire or USB 2.0 (a nice option to have), and burns DVDs in the DVD+R/RW format. Read
It’s the fourth anniversary of the AIBO robotic dog, and to mark the occasion Sony’s releasing some new software for it called “AIBO EYES” and a introducing a new cobalt blue-colored AIBO. AIBO EYES will let you send your little robot an email and then automatically receive back a JPEG of what it’s looking at…
MSMobiles thinks it’s time to concede that the Neonode N1, a tiny new cellphone that runs on Windows CE, is just vaporware. The company behind the Neonode keeps pushing back the release, and recently had to cancel a planned Internet-only pre-sale of the phone due to “software issues.” Read
MobileBurn review of Samsung’s new color flip phone, the SGH-T400. The T400 is essentially an updated version of Samsung’s T100 phone, just lighter and with a 16-bit, rather than a 4-bit, display. Read UPDATE: Rich Brome of PhoneScoop writes in that the T400 won’t work in North America.
This isn’t exactly new, but Scientific American has a good piece on Shazam, a new service in the UK which identifies songs, and how it works. Anyone with a cellphone can call up Shazam, point the phone at the music they want identified for at least fifteen seconds, and then a few minutes later the…
Sleek-looking Tablet PC from Amtek that attaches onto a rotating docking station arm, and when mounted horizontally resembles a flat-screen iMac. The T-1100 ID comes with either a 10.4 or 12.1-inch display, a 1.0GHz processor, up to 768MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, integrated 802.11b, and USB 2.0 and Firewire ports. The docking station…
A prototype of weird new PDA/television from KDDI called the TV Mobile that’s designed for watching video streamed wirelessly over a 3G cellular network. Probably will never actually go into production, but the core technology is likely to be incorporated into other PDAs, and hopefully even cellphones. Read
As if walking around Walt Disney World with a young child wasn’t difficult enough as it is (not that we’ve been doing that lately), now you can rent a special Mickey Mouse doll for the day that will tell your kid what to check out: Pal Mickey helps guests get the most out of a…
The video game console price war continues: the retail price of both the Xbox and the PlayStation 2 is set to drop to $179 soon. Sony’s also going to introduce a new PlayStation 2 that comes bundled with a network adapter, a built-in IR adapter for a remote control, and enhanced DVD playback that will…
We want this for our Pocket PC: a tiny new Bluetooth-enabled LCD screen from MicroOptical that clips onto a pair of eyeglasses and connects wirelessly to a PDA, cellphone, or laptop. The DV-1 Digital Viewer should start showing up later this year. Read
Paul Andrews wonders over at the Seattle Times whether gadgets could have saved Aron Ralston, that mountain climber who had to cut off his own right arm after being trapped under an 800 pound boulder in a Utah canyon. Turns out that there isn’t much out there today that could have helped. Ralston was too…
A couple of conflicting stories about what is supposed to be the second phone to run Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system, the long-awaited Tanager from HTC, aka the Orange SPVx, aka the Orange SPV e100. CoolSmartPhone reports that it’s finally going to come out in Europe on June 21st, but the Inquirer thinks the Tanager might…
Pioneer is following Sony’s lead and is going to start selling DVD burners that support both competing DVD formats, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW. Good news, but it’s partly Pioneer’s fault (along with the other major electronics manufacturers) that there are two different recordable DVD standards in the first place. Read [Thanks, Mike]
Digital Photography Review takes a look at the new three megapixel ultracompact Optio S from Pentax, which has the same 3x optical zoom lens as Casio’s Exilim EX-Z3, and is so small it can fit into an Altoids tin. Read
This sounds almost more like a hoax than a real product, but Envy News reviews MouseWax, a special liquid that, once applied to both your mouse and your “mousing surface,” is supposed to reduce friction and make using a mouse much easier. Reminds me of that April Fools Day joke from last year of a…