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A new photo printer from Epson that can print labels directly onto special ink-jet printable CDs and DVDs. The Stylus Photo 900 comes at the end of this month. Read
Wow, yet another article about how videophones still aren’t ready for primetime, this one a review in the San Jose Mercury News of D-Link’s new i2eye VideoPhone. How about if everyone just agrees not to write about this until somebody finally gets it right? Read Amazon – i2eye
New 10GB MP3 player from iRiver. Uses the same hard drive found in the iPod, and uses USB 2.0 for file-transfer. Unlike the iPod, the iHP-100 also has analog and optical audio-in jacks for recording from an external source. Read
HandEra says it can’t afford the licensing fees anymore and is going to stop making PDAs that run on the Palm operating system. They were never a big player (it only had two models, the HandEra 330 and the TRGpro), but HandEra was just the second company to license the Palm OS. Is this yet…
A British judge who didn’t want to have to cancel his vacation (or holiday, as it were), instead heard pleadings in a couple cases he’d forgotten that he’d been assigned to from his rented villa in the south of Spain using a laptop and a secure Internet connection. Could you imagine how terrible it’d be…
Toshiba’s developed a device that diabetics wear on their wrist that can check their blood sugar level without drawing any blood: The device will send out a weak electric current which will cause a small amount of body fluid to form on the surface of the skin. Testing the blood sugar level of the fluid…
TechZone guide to turning any PC into a touchscreen MP3 jukebox in just five easy steps. Read
Amazon sale on 1GB Viking CF Cards, these are going for $184.99 after a $50 rebate. Amazon – Viking 1GB Viking CF Card
Scarily enough, voting via interactive television is being introduced in the town of Swindon in Britain. Hopefully this will cause a reverse the trend of declining voter turnouts, but at least forcing people to go to a polling place makes them take the decision seriously and weeds out people who don’t care enough about the…
Cisco’s getting into the Voice over WiFi game with a new phone that connects to an 802.11b network to make Voice over IP telephone calls. The 7290 is designed to be used on corporate campuses where WiFi is prevalent (and where they already use Cisco’s Voice over IP telephone system), but the ultimate goal here…
We were enjoying a nice cold beverage down at Teany, the local cafe, this afternoon, when some guy with a boombox strapped to himself started walking up and down the street blaring house music. Annoying, yes, but what he really needed was this: The new Homemix CDJ1 from Acoustic Solutions, which has two CD drives…
The Independent on all the crazy James Bond-style gadgets found hidden in a weapons cache in Baghdad, like briefcases with sub-machine guns and bombs hidden in pill bottles, umbrellas, and phones. Read
A new wall-mountable surveillance camera from Nokia that can beam images directly to a cellphone. A Nokia cellphone, one presumes. The Observation Camera actually has a cellphone radio embedded within it, complete with its own phone number. You just send it a blank text message and the camera automatically sends back the most recent image…
New 120GB version of the NetDrive Wireless from Martian, an external hard drive that connects to a home network via 802.11b and lets any computer access the files stored on it. This new version also comes with a port for hooking up a USB printer. Read
Amazon is taking pre-orders on the Garmin iQue 3600, the first Palm PDA to come with built-in GPS. The iQue looks like a pretty solid handheld even without the GPS: it has 32MB of RAM, an SDIO expansion slot, and a 16-bit color display. Read
Two conflicting stories about the future of cellphone porn. Read – Phone Porn Can Boost 3G Read – Wireless Porn Won’t Be Hot
These were supposed to be out last month, but it looks like Samsung’s new flash-memory MP3 player, the YP-55, is finally coming out later this month, at least in Korea. The cylindrical-shaped YP-55 comes in both 128MB and 256MB sizes, has a built-in FM tuner, special surround sound simulation technology, and runs for 15 hours…
Now Apple is claiming that it “has never made any offer to invest in or acquire a major music company,” a statement undoubtedly made in response to the mounting speculation that they were in talks to buy Universal Music. It’s still highly likely that the two companies were at least talking about a deal, even…
Updated version of Handspring’s Treo PDA/phone due out this fall. It’s about time, too. The Treo has been due for an overhaul for months now, and has been looking a bit musty compared to all the other PDA/phones and smartphones that are coming out these days. Read [Via BargainPDA]
New subtly retro-styled digital camera from Leica. The three megapixel D-Lux is actually Panasonic’s DMC-F1 camera, just with a different (and better looking) casing. Leica, ot its credit, is taking a different approach than most other manufacturers; almost all of their models look more like classic still cameras from the Fifties and Sixties, and it’s…