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Word of a new Tablet PC from Acer that uses Intel’s new Centrino wireless chip. The TravelMate C110 is just 2.5cm thick, and looks like it’ll come with integrated Bluetooth, dual-band 802.11a/b (or just regular 802.11b), a 60GB hard drive, and up to 2GB of RAM. Read [TabletPCTalk]
Besides cellphone spam being annoying, it can also cripple your phone. There’s a text message spam going around that damages Siemens’ S46 cellphone, even if the message isn’t opened: One AT&T Wireless subscriber, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the fateful short-text message landed in her in-box on Wednesday. She deleted it, believing it to…
Word of a prototype PC from Microsoft and HP called the Athens that’s, “intended to be the hub for communications and collaboration built around voice, video and text messaging capabilities.” Read
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: 3G Swivelphone More on the Mini-PC The new iPods are out DIY Warspying How to stop cellphone tossing 3D crystal ball Don’t try this at home 60GB Nomad Jukebox Zen Remember that show Knight Rider? Did you really, really like…
There have been a lot of iPod-related posts this week, but we’ve got one more. The people at iPoding have discovered that the iPod has a secret recording mode. Read
It’s a small cult, but there is a group of people who believe that the keyboard reached perfection sometime around 1990, when IBM’s 101-key keyboard was king. In his latest column, Gary Krakow, ships off a musty old 101’er to PC Keyboard, a company which for a small fee will clean them up, refurbish them,…
Could there really be a black iPod? We reported a few days ago on the possibility that Apple was introducing an all-black iPod, a rumor that was rather quickly disspelled. Or so we thought. Reader Ben Bethel writes in that the Apple store in Phoenix is supposed to be receiving some black iPods this weekend.…
Forget about the Vertu. The new must-have status symbol to claim the title of “world’s most expensive cellphone” is a diamond-encrusted handset from DBTEL that costs almost $30,000 and comes complete with a three-carat rock as a centerpiece. Read
A new e-book from Matsushita that will last for six months on just two AA batteries. The Sigma has two 7.2-inch LCD panels set side by side to each other that conserve power by refreshing the screen only when a page is “turned,” rather than sixty times a second like with most LCDs. Read
This is a new low: MSN UK is creating what Microsoft calls the world’s first Internet outhouse, or iLoo, complete with flat-screen plasma display, wireless keyboard and broadband access. MSN UK spokesman Matthew Whittingham described the portable toilet as the first “WWW.C,” referring to the term W.C., or water closet. Besides the obvious stupidity of…
Word that MiTAC’s Mio 8380, the first clamshell phone to run Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system, has been “postponed indefinitely” because of SARS. Read [Via MSMobiles.com]
From PoGo! Products, a TiVo for radio. The idea for something like this has been kicking around for a while now (and there are even MP3 players that can record directly from the radio), but it looks like the Radio YourWay might be the first one that actually functions like a TiVo. It’s an MP3…
To help fight the war on terrorism, researchers at Carnegie-Mellon have built some robotic snakes with sensors that can be used to “slink into tight spaces, such as pipes or air ducts, the robots could be used to probe into collapsed buildings or in hostile environments – even under water.” Read
Adding more fuel to the debate over whether cellphones actually pose a danger to aircraft, a new report by the British Civil Aviation Authority says that the risk really is genuine: In tests, compasses froze or overshot, navigation bearings were inaccurate and there was interference on radio channels… Since 1996, pilots have reported 35 mobile…
Canon’s smallest digital camera. The PowerShot SD100, also known as the Digital IXUS II, has a resolution of three megapixels and a 2x optical zoom lens, and is the first digital camera from Canon using SD memory cards instead of CompactFlash for storage. Read
ZDnet roundup of the best ultracompact cameras, giving top marks to Minolta’s Dimage F100, the Olympus America D-40 Zoom, the Minolta Dimage Xi, and Canon’s PowerShot S400 Digital Elph. Read
The Wireless Exstreamer from Barix, which with the addition of a PCMCIA WiFi card, will stream MP3s from a PC or Mac to a stereo. One problem: it doesn’t have a remote control, so it’s not clear how you can change tracks or playlists except to walk over to your computer and do it from…
With news of Knight Rider feature film in the works and a possible revival of the television show, it seems only fitting that there’s a website dedicated to helping people convert their cars into full replicas of the KITT, Knight Industries Two Thousand, car. Read
Infosync review of Acer’s new budget Pocket PC. The n10 has a 300MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 32MB of ROM, SD and CompactFlash memory card slots, and a 240×320 pixel LCD screen. Read
Graham Earnshaw writes in with an interesting tidbit from the South China Morning Post: The Beijing Star Daily reported that one woman complained that she had burned her new mobile phone when she tried to sterilise it in a microwave. State media also reported that a woman in Beijing’s suburban area of Tongzhou had tried…