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Amazon deal on a micro keyboard for Compaq’s iPAQ 3800, 3900, and 5400 series of Pocket PCs. Read
New portable digital photo viewer from Seiko Epson. The Rio PhotoPC Player P-1000 comes with a 10GB hard drive, a 3.8″ LCD screen, a slot for copying files from Compact Flash memory cards, and the ability to print photos directly to Epson printers. Read [Thanks, Christopher and Robert]
It’s been six years since Apple stopped letting other manufacturers build Macs, but a guy in Minnesota is building a flat, pizza box shaped “iBox” that will run Mac OSX. The only problem is that Apple hasn’t changed its policy regarding third-party manufacturers, so the iBox might be the first unauthorized Mac: Fraser hopes to…
One of the oddest attempts at cross-promotion we’ve ever seen: Michelin is giving away free Zire PDAs with the purchase of four new tires. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
Anil Dash wants an iPod that will give him a complete audio record of his day, kind of like a TiVo for real life: Having a complete audio record of my day, indexed by time, would allow me to refer back to a moment in conversation when quoting it later, or when I needed clarification…
Now this is what the movie studios should be worried about: an absolutely miniscule new digital video camera from I-O Gear that weighs less just 110 grams, and can store up to two hours of video on a 512MB SD memory card. The AVMC211 also doubles as a 3.1 megapixel still camera. The catch is…
Speaking of banning cameraphones, the Liquorice Club, Edinburgh, Scotland’s “newest” strip club, has banned cameraphones from its premises to protect the privacy of its dancers and its “guests.” Read
Despite the fact that no one would even want to watch a film pirated with a cameraphone (and that’s even assuming it could be done at all), along with all their other anti-piracy measures (such as checking for camcorders) several movie studios have already started banning cellphones from press screenings of new films. Read
As totally bizarre as it sounds, for the next few days we’ll be blogging live from Euro Disneyland. Microsoft is having its Mobius Europe 2003 mobile computing conference here, and they’re giving us (and the editors of a whole bunch of other websites) a sneak peak at some of the new gadgets in the pipeline.…
Popular Mechanics picks for the best gadgets out right now, like Shure’s E Series earphones, Sharp’s Zaurus SL-5600 PDA, Canon’s four megapixel PowerShot S45 digital camera (pictured at right), Nokia’s 3650 color cameraphone (a choice we quibble with), Universal Electronics’ 6-in-One universal remote, Onkyo’s TX-SR800 THX Select audio/video receiver, and HP’s Media Center PC (another…
A new multi-format audio disc that would work on any CD, DVD, or DVD-Audio player is turning out to be a huge failure: The problem is that existing DVD players, which are designed to play both DVDs and CDs, get confused when faced with the hybrid disc. Half the DVD-Audio players used in the tests…
A couple of new wireless flat-screen LCD televisions from Sony. The KLV-17WS1 and the KLV-15WS1 (guess which sizes they come in) use 802.11a to receive a video signal from a base station. Read [Translated from Japanese using Babelfish]
That whole Eighties revival may have already peaked here in New York, but the rest of the country can still feel comfortable pounding out electro beats on the DrumXtreme, a new programmable electronic drum set from Pacific Digital that plugs into the USB port of a PC. The DrumXtreme comes with five drum pads, a…
Note to self: if ever sent to cover a war, make sure to bring a satellite phone. From a reporter acquaintance in Iraq: Weird, weird, weird. I’m sitting in my car, on Saturday afternoon, under sunny skies, and because my car (a Hyundai SUV), is also my home and workspace, I am in the passenger…
Believe it or not, there are still good reasons to buy a CRT monitor rather than an LCD. At least that’s what Nick Stam argues over at ExtremeTech: The tried-and-true CRT-based PC monitor remains the best display choice for many applications, such as professional graphics design or animation, where color accuracy, luminance uniformity, color purity,…
Two new budget Pocket PCs just for the Asian market: the n10 from Acer, and the E-1000 from Casio. The n10 has a 300MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 32MB of ROM, SD and CompactFlash memory card slots, and a 240×320 pixel LCD screen, while the E-1000 has virtually the same specs as the n10, but…
A couple of new Compaq Presario laptops from HP that come with built-in 802.11g. Read
Amazon sale on 128MB Viking Compact Flash cards. Free shipping too. Amazon
It looks like high-definition television is finally starting to catch on, at least according to the New York Times. The launch this past Sunday night of ESPN HD is supposed to be the tipping point: Because many people consider sporting events in HDTV to be perhaps the technology’s most compelling application, enthusiasts and industry executives…
Remember Ricochet? In all the buzz about WiFi and 3G you might have forgotten about Ricochet’s resurrected wireless Internet service that’s available right now in Denver and San Diego and manages speeds around 192kbps. It’s not as fast as WiFi, but then again you don’t have to find a hotspot either. Anyway, Linksys has a…