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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…
A BlackBerry with a color LCD screen should be out by summer. Read
The big news from Dell and Good Technologies has turned out to be that the two companies are going to work together on a new wireless handheld that should be out next year, and that Dell will start selling Good’s BlackBerry-like G100 email pager later this year. Read
Apple’s 30GB iPod has only been out for a couple of days, and it’s already been rendered obsolete. The newest version of Creative’s Nomad Jukebox Zen, announced just today, will have double the storage capacity – 60GB – and cost a $100 less. Of course, the iPod still tops the Nomad in terms of design.…
In-depth look over at Digital Photography Review of Canon’s new four-megapixel PowerShot S400. They give it high marks, calling it the “best of the ultra-compact four megapixel class.” Read
It doesn’t necessarily make a whole lot of sense, since they have their own competing line of MP3 players, but Creative has couple of new speaker sets designed to match Apple’s iPod, the Creative I-Trigue 2.1 I3350 for home use and the portable TravelSound i300 (pictured at right). Read [Thanks, Jason]
Eric Smith wrote in yesterday wondering whether Apple had done anything about the rather poor battery life of the iPod, which dwindles from about ten or eleven hours on purchase to about under an hour or two a year later. Well it’s not clear whether or not they’ve corrected the problem with the new iPods,…
The cellphone stupidity continues: some clueless person in Australia decided to try and recharge his phone by putting it in the microwave, which, not surprisingly, caused the battery to explode. The local fire chief said, in a truly masterful piece of understatement, that the incident is, “a timely reminder to people not to put things…
Sales of PDAs might be down, but the New York Times reports on some gadgets that are selling well during these uncertain times: the Air Supply MiniMate, a battery-powered portable air purifier that hangs around your neck (guess what people are using that for); the Evacuchute, a parachute designed to b e used for escaping…
Sprint plans to carry one of the first CDMA cellphones to come with built-in Bluetooth, the T608 from Sony Ericsson. Read
Amazon sale on Netgear’s RP614NA 4-Port Cable/DSL Router. Just $44.99 after rebate. Amazon
A few companies have 3D monitors in the works, but Actuality System’s new three-dimensional display takes the cake. It’s not a regular LCD monitor that tricks the eye into seeing a three-dimensional image – it’s a glass sphere that looks like a crystal ball that creates a “360-degree spatial display” that can be viewed from…
Rich Brome of Phone Scoop and David Schloss weigh in on a recent post about whether or not cellphones are actually a threat to aviation. David writes that, In researching a piece on Lufthansa’s broadband connectivity equipped plane (which I got to fly to Germany) I found out that the ban on cellphones comes from…
The Inquirer on an inventor who has figured out how to use a cellphone as a wireless key that can, open a variety of locks whether it’s a car, your front door, the garage or office doors. For example, you can open your own front door for somebody else if they are talking to you…
From I/OMagic, a new portable 20GB hard drive designed for storing digital photos. The Digital Photo Library has slots for CompactFlash cards, Smart Media, Memory Stick, MultiMediaCards, and SD cards. Read
It’s sorta like Friendster, but in the real world: electronic name tags that can store personal information and wirelessly share it with other people around you. The nTag, as it’s called, has 128K of memory, a two-line display, and built-in infrared. The idea is that besides just putting your name and where you’re from you…
Viking 512MB CompactFlash memory cards are on sale at Amazon for less than 100 bucks after rebate. Amazon
Leigh Weimers of the Mercury News suggests one way to get people to stop throwing cellphones at baseball players, which as we noted yesterday, is becoming something of a problem: Instead of throwing the phone back and pressing charges, the player keeps the phone. He uses it to call every friend and relative he knows…
What in the hell is this all about? A photo of a sinister looking all-black iPod has turned up in an article in Fortune magazine, anyone know if this is the real deal? Apple announced its redesigned iPods yesterday, but it didn’t say anything about them coming in any other colors besides white. And honestly,…
And to go along with that last post, the Radical Software Group on how to build your very own wireless video receiver so you can engage in some “warspying” and intercept signals from X10 surveillance cams. And in total MacGyver-style, all that’s needed is a 5-inch video screen, a 2.4GHz video receiver, some RCA cable,…