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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…
CNET roundup of the best ultraportable laptops. Their picks: Dell’s Latitude C400 and Toshiba’s Portege 3505 Tablet PC (pictured at right). Read
Tiny new Bluetooth headset from Nextlink. The Bluespoon Digital headset has two microphones, weighs just 10 grams, and uses digital signal processing to reduce external noise. Read
New version of Sony Ericsson Clicker is out, the software which lets you turn any Bluetooth-enabled Sony Ericsson cellphone into a remote control for any Mac computer running OS X. Read
It’s like 1999 all over again: Amazon has dropped the price on Sony Ericsson’s new T68i cellphone to $269.99, but there is still a $300 rebate, so if you buy the phone and sign up for a T-Mobile service plan, you’ll actually make $30 for buying the phone. Amazon – Sony Ericsson T68i
From UK company RM, what looks like the first Tablet PC using Intel’s new low-power Centrino chip to hit the market. The RM Teacher Tablet PC is, not surprisingly given the name, aimed at the educational market, and has built-in 802.11b, a 900MHz processor, a 10.4″ LCD screen, a 20GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM,…
We’re back from Euro Disneyland, hopelessly jet lagged (the advent of Daylight Savings isn’t helping), and trying to catch up on what we’ve missed over the past couple of days.
Sony is working on a new line of plasma televisions that can stream video directly from the Internet: The TV is expected to include a Web browser but is not envisioned as a run at Web TV. The device will be manipulated by a remote control rather than a keyboard and will use the Internet…
It’s not quite a Watch PDA or Watchphone, but the new Tornado USB Memory Watch from Allied Data connects to a PC or Mac through a USB cable and let’s you carry up to 256MB on your wrist. Really, really should have Bluetooth though. Read
WhatIsNew.com’s suggestions for how the Tablet PC could be improved, such as longer battery life, better pressure sensitivity, and “sports” models that are water resistant. Read [Via TabletPCBuzz]
New line of low-priced flat screen HDTVs from Samsung. Read
Speculation over at Brighthand about some new gadgets from Sony. The first is that an updated version of Sony’s Clie NX70V handheld is coming out soon. Reports vary, but it looks like it’ll get a bump up in processor speed, from 300MHz to 400MHz, Bluetooth, and an integrated one megapixel digital camera. The other rumor…
You might have noticed a lot of references to Organic Light Emitting Diodes, or OLEDs, which is being touted as the next big thing for displays. ZDNet has a pretty good guide to the technology, and why it’s better than LCD. Read
The latest version of Sony’s CoCoon digital video recorder, the NDR-XR1, can record up to 90 hours of television programming, but here’s the kicker: it also has a built-in DVD burner that you can use to archive shows that are recorded on the hard drive. TiVo doesn’t have the guts to put out a box…
One of the biggest downsides of cameraphones is that the resolution of the built-in digital cameras are woefully poor, usually a third of a megapixel at best. Now J-Phone and DoCoMo are working on phone with a one megapixel sensor that should be out by May. Of course emailing those larger pictures to friends will…
Kermit Woodall writes in that that new palm-sized digital camcorder from I-O Gear is available in the US from Mustek as the DV 3000. Read
Mobile Burn on Motorola’s new E390 cellphone, which, somewhat oddly for a handset, comes with 24 channel, simulated 3D surround sound. Also has Bluetooth and a built-in digital cameraphone. Read
We love TiVo, but we’re not terribly pleased that our digital video recorder might rat us out someday: Under the USA Patriot Act, passed a month after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the feds can force a noncable TV operator to disclose every show you have watched. The government just has to say that the request…
We’ve discovered the hard way that there are no T-1 lines in the hotel rooms here at Euro Disneyland. So updates are courtesy of the WiFi LAN they’ve set up here at Mobius in the conference room. So far we’ve gotten a look at some of the new Smartphones that are coming up, including the…