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Scientists in Scotland are hard at work on a robotic peregrine falcon that’s designed to fly around and scare off pigeons and seagulls. Yeah, this is lots easier than just keeping real falcons from going extinct. Read
Howard Rheingold, the author of Smart Mobs, details one of the more unusual pieces of spam he’s received lately: a service in the UK that offers to use the vibrate setting of a mobile phone in a, shall we say, more stimulating manner. MOBILE PHONE EROTIC MASSAGER – THE PURRING KITTY 8th April 2003 Girls,…
Not particularly insightful article in Reuters about the future of PC design that does have one juicy tidbit of information towards the end – that HP is planning a new device called the Scout that falls somewhere between an ultralight laptop and a PDA: About the size of an old-fashioned day planner, the flat-panel screen…
Review of Nokia’s new 3300 cellphone, which is designed to double as a portable MP3 player and also has an FM tuner, a digital voice recorder, an MMC memory card slot for storage of audio files, and a 128×128 pixel color screen. The 3300 is also one of the first cellphones to support True Tones…
From TDV, what looks like the first sub-$1000 Tablet PC, the nVision 1500. The 1500 has a 12-inch LCD screen, a wireless keyboard, a Transmeta 1GHz processor, 20GB hard drive, and 256MB of RAM. No built-in 802.11b, but that’s added easily enough. It’s about time these started to come down in price, hopefully they’ll reach…
TiVo’s new Home Media Options, which are a bunch of premium features that work with the new Series 2 TiVos, come out next week. You’ll soon be able to use your TiVo as a digital music player and photo viewer, schedule it to record programs from a web browser, and transfer programs between two different…
Obviously not what comes to mind when most people think of wireless Internet, but Brighthand has a great overview on using Bluetooth to connect your PDA to the Web. Read
New Palm PDA/phone from GSL. Due out in Europe and Asialater this year, the Zircon connects to GSM for voice and GPRS for data, has 16MB of RAM, a 2.2-inch color screen, and a built-in digital camera. No word on when or it it’ll be made available in the US. Read
Word of a new iPAQ Pocket PC from HP. The H2200 will have built-in Bluetooth, 64MB of RAM, slots for CompactFlash and SD memory cards, a 240×320 color screen, and function as a universal remote control. Read [Scroll down to the bottom]
Remember that snowboarding jacket from Burton that has a built-in controls for an iPod? Well it looks like Burton has a new backpack coming out that comes with a secure iPod storage pocket and a control panel built-into one of the shoulder straps. Expected to retail for $200. Read [Thanks, Larry]
CNET reports that Handspring has doubled the rebate on a new Treo 300 to $200, combine that with a $150 rebate for new service activation from Sprint, and you can pick one of these up for $149.99. Read Amazon – Treo 300
A whole slew of bizarre household gadgets at the Ideal Home Show in London this past week, including an cutting board that can surf the Web and an Internet-connected toilet roll that can display current news and stock prices, and print out the information on, you guessed it, toilet paper. Certainly provides an innovative way…
New USB 2.0 external CD burner from JOBO that can record a CD directly from flash memory cards even when it’s not connected to a computer. The Disc Steno CP100 has slots for CompactFlash cards, Memory Sticks, MicroDrives, SmartMedia, and SecureDigital cards. Read
MSNBC on some of the more unusual gadgets out there for those worried about their personal safety during these troubling times, like the Baby Tent (pictured at right), which is used to protect an infant from a chemical attack; a stungun disguised as a cellphone; and a personal parachute for surviving a leap from a…
Tom’s Hardware Guide shootout pitting two massive new 250GB hard drives against each other: Maxtor’s MaXLine Plus II 7Y250P0 and Western Digital’s WD2500JB. It looks like a draw: If you’re faced with having to decide between the two, then you have no easy task ahead of you. The differences revealed in the test results are…
The Gadgeteer review of the FlipStand, a white plastic case for the iPod with a cover for the control wheel that pops out and flips around to function as a stand. Read
TokyoDV has some footage of those mini Bluetooth-controlled robots from Epson that we covered a couple of weeks ago. Watch
Envy News review of the Lapvantage Deluxe Dome laptop stand from Plasticsmith that looks a bit like one of those new iMacs, only without the monitor. And speaking of the 17-inch PowerBook, it’s actually the only laptop that’s too big for it. Read
A wireless gadget from MobiPower might mean you’ll never have to carry change to feed a parking meter ever again: The key is a small box that works similarly to the EZ Pass system. When a car enters certain parking zone, a light on the box will flash the parking rates for that area. One…
First look over at ZDNet at Apple’s long overdue seventeen-inch PowerBook G4, which is just now starting to arrive in stores after being announced back in January. Looks like it’s worth wait, with a 1440×900 pixel high-resolution screen, built-in 802.11g, Bluetooth, FireWire 800, a DVD-R/CD-RW drive, 512MB of RAM, a 1GHz processor, and a backlit…