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From LAKS, a wristwatch with 128MB of flash memory hidden away inside of it and that connects to a PC over USB for data transfer. Read [Thanks, Roman]
A new wireless surveillance camera from Veo that connects to a network via 802.11b, and can be viewed remotely over the Internet. The Veo Wireless Observer even has options motion sensors that can automatically email you if it catches anything moving. Read
It’s not even out yet, but Alan Reiter, responding to a post he saw here the other day, has already found one big flaw in the forth-coming Mini-PC from Vulcan: it might have the power of full-fledged laptop, but the its keyboard is just too small for it to be of much use. And he’s…
Article on three new digital camcorders that record directly to mini DVD-R discs: Panasonic’s VDR-M30 (pictured at right), Hitachi’s UltraVision Digital DZ-MV380A, and Sony’s DCR-DVD200 Handycam. Read
Guy Kewney wants the airlines to fess up and settle once and for all whether or not the use of cellphone mid-flight is actually dangerous or not. If using a cellphone is a risk, then why isn’t using a laptop or PDA with the WiFi switched on? If this is necessary, then I’m all for…
Mystery announcement expected today from Dell regarding Good Technology, a company that makes a BlackBerry-like two-way email pager. Speculation ranges from Dell acquiring Good to Dell planning to incorporate Good’s wireless capability into its Axim line of Pocket PCs. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
Rumor over at MobileTracker that Samsung and Nokia plan to team up to build 3G and 4G phones. 4G cellphones are still a long, long way off, but supposedly will have top speeds of up to 100Mbps. Read
And, just to add to the overflow of iPod-related posts, Georgia College & State University has a pilot program in which iPods are used to distribute MP3s of class lectures or of music related to a course. Two iMacs were placed in separate computer labs to serve as the “mother ship” for student iPods. Each…
The new iPods look great, but they still don’t have a built-in FM tuner, something that plenty of other MP3 players come with these days. It’s perhaps not the ideal solution, but Griffin has a new external FM radio that connects to the iPod, predictably enough called the “iFM”. The iPod’s remote actually pops into…
You can finally listen to satellite radio on a PC now. XM has come out with its XM PC Receiver, which connects to a PC over USB. Read
We reported on this a couple of weeks ago, and it looks like Cisco’s new WiFi phone, the 7290, is finally out. Although it’s aimed at companies with voice over IP phone systems and meant to be used on “coroporate campuses,” eventually you should be able to use the 7290 anywhere there’s a WiFi hotspot:…
The big gadget news of the day: Apple’s new, slimmed down iPod, which now comes in 15GB and 30GB versions. It’s now just 0.62 inches thick, weighs just 5.6 ounces, and comes with a new dock that can sync with both FireWire and USB 2.0 and that also has an audio out port for connecting…
Review of Belkin’s Quadra 4-in-1 Pen, which combines a PDA stylus with a ballpoint pen, an LED flashlight, and a laser pointer. Read
Apparently cellphones have gotten so cheap that baseball fans no longer have any compunction about throwing them at the heads of players during games. Seriously. The latest phone chucking came at Wrigley Field, where drunken Cubs fans have grown tired of tossing home run balls back onto the field. In the eighth inning Thursday, some…
Does Apple have a new mouse in the works? They’ve just applied for a patent for a mouse with a rotary dial that can be spun backwards and forward to scroll vertically and moved from side to side for horizontal scrolling. At right is an illustration lifted from the patent application. Read
Complaints about the limited range of the PowerBook G4’s internal WiFi card are legion, but believe it or not, the trick to getting it to working better is to massage the battery compartment gently for ten seconds. Read [Via BoingBoing]
Anyone else seen that new infomercial for the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner from iRobot? The fact that they’re being shilled in the same manner as Flowbee Haircutting Systems and George Foreman Grills says a lot about the future of personal robotics.
Eruware has come out with some drivers that’ll let you use regular Compact Flash cards in the CF slot of those new Sony Clies. Currently the Clies work only with Sony’s new WiFi Compact Flash card and nothing else, not even regular Compact Flash memory cards are compatible. Sony is almost certainly not pleased, but…
There’s been speculation about this for months, and now the website is finally up for the Mini-PC, a new pint-sized laptop that weighs less than a pound and is just one inch thick from Vulcan, a company owned by the other Microsoft multi-billionaire, Paul Allen. The Mini-PC will run a full version of Windows XP,…
A few months ago Sony introduced a couple of Clie handhelds, the PEG-NX70v and the PEG-NX60, with a slot for CompactFlash accessories, something that no other Sony handheld had. The problem is that the slot will only work with one accessory, Sony’s overpriced CompactFlash WiFi card. Read