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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…
Brighthand reports that three new iPAQ Pocket PCs are due from HP in July: the h1945, an updated version of the h1910 which will have Bluetooth; the h2215, a mid-range model which will have both SD and CompactFlash memory card slots; and the high-end h5555. There’s a good chance that all three will run the…
Last month a Congressman from San Diego made news by insisting that when Iraq’s telecommunications gets rebuilt, they be made to use CDMA, a cellular technology created by one of his campaing contributors, Qualcomm, rather than the more widely prevalent standard, GSM. Looks like Qualcomm didn’t get what it paid for: the Pentagon has just…
Mark Hachman of ExtremeTech points out one underreported detail about Microsoft’s new prototype “Athens” PC: it has a dock for synchronization with a Tablet PC or a laptop, just like a PDA. It’s a clever idea given that more and more people are working on multiple computers these days, and one that surprisingly we’ve actually…
Over at ThreeGMobile, a gallery of photos of that new line of “fashion” phones from Siemens. Read [Thanks, Mike]
Save 15 bucks on Viking’s 6-in-1 USB Flash reader – no rebate necessary. Amazon
Sony Ericsson already has one of these on the market, but Nokia has a new Bluetooth digital pen coming out that can transmit what you’re writing directly to a cellphone and either store it as a file or send it off as a multimedia message. You do have to write everything on this special paper,…
Evan Nisselson in Digital Journalist on how cameraphones will transform photography. Not everyone, not even professional photographers, carries a camera with them at all times, he notes, but nearly everyone these days walks around with a cellphone in their pocket. In a few years, when the majority of handsets expected to come with built-in digital…
Almost forgot to put it together this weekend, but here are some highlights from the past week in case you missed any of them: 2,000GB Firewire hard drive Cellphone slaves Where is the Matrix Phone? Martian NetDrive Wireless review So the iLoo is true Cellphones as credit cards Sony Vaio PCG-TR1 First cellphone with built-in…
A pair of new Linux-based Zaurus handhelds from Sharp. The SL-C760 and SL-C750 (pictured from left to right) are the successors to the SL-C700. Both have 400Mhz processors, slots for SD and CompactFlash memory cards, and 3.7-inch, 640×480 pixel, LCD touchscreens that swivel around to reveal small built-in thumb keyboards. The only significant difference between…
We like the idea of the iMe – a smallish tablet PC with an 8.4-inch touchscreen, 128MB of RAM, and a 15GB hard drive – but there are a few catches. TabletPCBuzz reports that it doesn’t actually run the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, just regular Windows XP Home, and that it’s set…
Incredibly obvious story in Wired News about a new study on how teenagers, surprise, surprise, are using cellphones as yet another way to form cliques and exclude the uncool: In the study, teens who had no cell phones and whose numbers were not included in someone’s phone book could pretty much write off the possibility…
A new pair of sunglasses called the Eyetop that comes with a mini-LCD screen attached that can accept a signal from any audio-visual device such as a portable DVD player, video camera, or a laptop. Read [Via I4U]
Just a quick reminder to take our reader survey, if you haven’t already. One respondent, chosen at random, will win their choice of a Palm Zire, a Panasonic DVD-S35K Ultra Slim Progressive Scan DVD Player, or a Gameboy Advance SP. Thanks to everyone who has already filled it out and for all the great feedback…
A new search engine just for PDA-related searches which claims to have indexed over 45,000 pages of websites related to Pocket PC, Palm, and Symbian. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
This might not actually be a good idea, but somebody has a put up a DIY guide to making your own pair of infrared goggles for under ten dollars. Before you get too excited, they can’t be used for night vision. Read [Via BoingBoing.net]
It’s an open secret that except for the PlayStation 2, Sony isn’t really making any money. Al Ries, over at AdAge, thinks the reason is that with all their different lines of electronics, computers, and entertainment, they’re trying to do too much under one brand name, and that companies with more tightly focused brands are…
Save 20 bucks on a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 on Amazon, they’re going for $79.99, and with no rebate form to send in. Amazon