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Scientists at UC Berkeley are working on robotic houseflies that could be used for military surveillance, data collection, and search and rescue. Does the idea of tiny robotic flies buzzing around doing “data collection” sound just a little bit sinister to anyone else? Read
New wireless laser printer from Samsung that connects to a local area network over 802.11b. Read
Sleek new cellphone from BenQ, which seems to be making a name for itself lately with the design of its cellphones. The S830C has a 4096 color screen, a second, external LCD screen, and switchable aluminum faceplates that come in four different colors. It also comes with what they claim is the world’s smallest external…
This is one of the most poorly thought out gagdets we’ve seen lately. The IMfree is a wireless device from Motorola reminiscent of a BlackBerry or a Sidekick that can be used only for chatting via AOL Instant Messenger, and only within the 150 foot range of a wireless base station that needs to be…
Two new versions of Think Outside’s Stowaway XT folding keyboard for PDAs coming out that will work with HP’s line of iPAQ Pocket PCs and Sony’s line of Clie Palm handhelds. Read
From Japanese company Lupo, the PCBox, a computer case made of cardboard that you can fold and put together yourself. Just be careful to make sure it doesn’t overheat and catch fire. Read [Via Slashdot. Translated from Japanese using Babelfish]
Christopher Coulter tips us off to the new Xplore iX104, a rugged Tablet PC that’s really made by Wistron. The iX104 is designed to withstand a lot of abuse, and can handle extreme temperatures and humidty, a four-foot drop onto concrete, and being submerged in water. As far as specs, it has an 866MHz processor,…
New working group developing an standard for making FireWire connections wirelessly. The idea is that wireless FireWire could be used for transmitting video between PCs, TVs, digital video recorders, etc. in a wireless home network. Apparently 802.11a and 802.11g don’t have the bandwidth to the job well-enough for a lot of hardware manufacturers to feel…
New Bluetooth cellphone headset from Sony Ericsson: The new HBH-35 is a replacement for the popular HBH-30 and improves upon the device by getting a power boost. The new HBH-35 weighs the same as the older model, 28g, but sports up to 5 hours of talk time and 5 days of standby time – easily…
TechTV review of Dell’s new Dimension XPS desktop PC, which has been completely redesigned with gamers in mind. The XPS has a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor, 1GB of RAM, two 120GB hard drives, a DVD+RW drive, and a 128MB Radeon 9800 Pro video card. Read
A shortage of high-resolution imaging sensors and lenses has postponed the launch of new digital cameras from FujiFilm, Olympus, and Matsushita, which could mean a rise in prices for the next few months, or at the very least that prices won’t fall quite as quickly as they have been: One of the problems is that…
A little box that lets you connect a Pocket PC or a Sony Clie to a computer monitor, keyboard, and mouse. The idea is that you can use it for making presentations with your PDA. But why stop there? The Pitch Solo has gotten us thinking about what we really want: a full-powered PC about…
The route? A 250-mile course between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The date? March 13th, 2004. The prize? A million dollars? Wired News article on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Grand Challenge, a road race in which all the contestants have to be “autonomous motor vehicles” that can drive and navigate entirely without any…
Word that the newest version of the Palm operating system, Palm OS 6, won’t start showing up on devices until sometime in the middle of next year, and that it’ll put a big emphasis on wireless: PalmSource CEO Dave Nagel outlined the software subsidiary’s plans and talked up the new operating system. “OS 6 is…
Gizmodo is sort of a gadget porn site, but this is the real deal: A Mac-themed porno site that’s dedicated to “the inevitable fusion of hot bodies and hot Macs.” The picture at right is about as family friendly as it gets. Read
Research in Motion plans to license the email technology it uses on its BlackBerry devices to companies making Palm handhelds. Read
Tiny new Mini DV camcorder from Sony. The DCR-PC105 weighs just one pound, can record video to Sony’s Memory Stick storage cards, has a 10x Zeiss optical zoom lens, a 2.5″ LCD touchscreen, and can also double as a one megapixel digital still camera. Read
New digital set-top box from Motorola that combines an HDTV cable box with a digital video recorder and cable Internet modem. One thing, though. The DCT6208 “only” has an 80GB hard drive, which can’t possibly store that many hours of high-definition television programming. Read
Word that Steve Ballmer is in Stockholm trying to convince Sony Ericsson to use Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system for its cellphones. Remember that so far no major handset manufacturer – apart from Samsung (and even that seems a bit iffy right now) – has agreed to put the Smartphone OS on its phones. While it…
One of the biggest complaints about the Hiptop, or Sidekick, is that it won’t sync with Microsoft Outlook, but now Danger is running a survey asking users if they’d like to be able to sync their handheld, and if so, which calendar and address book applications they’d like to be able to sync with. If…