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Imaging Resource review of the new Optio 330 GS from Pentax, a 3.2 megapixel digital camera with 3x optical zoom. But what’s really cool is that the 330 GS can also take 3D pictures: [The Optio 330 GS] produces three-dimensional “stereo pairs” of images similar to old-fashioned stereographs. The camera guides you through the process…
TechTV on Palm’s latest wireless handheld, the Tungsten W. It’s Palm’s first PDA which can be used as a cellphone (like Handspring’s Treo), and the first with a built-in mini-keyboard. TechTV thinks the Tungsten W is great for data, but that it doesn’t work quite so well as a phone. Read Amazon – Palm Tungsten…
Newsweek article on how robots are starting to appear in the real world: Over the past few years, robots have infiltrated our ranks, robots that look nothing like the luminescent-eyed androids of science-fiction lore. They can t emulate the human brain s boundless flexibility, but they do take advantage of the latest innovations in computing…
Pretty good roundup of all the different digital camera attachments for Pocket PCs. Now if someone could just make one that took decent pictures. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
Cellphone networks in the UK have banded together to create a central database listing every handset’s unique identifying number, so that if the phone is reported stolen it can be blocked from use even if the SIM card has been changed. Why isn’t there something like this in the States? Read
Ok, so it can be a little difficult staying on top of all the different standards that are out there for wireless Internet. Just as people were finally starting to become aware of 802.11b and what it was, they’ve already gone ahead and come out with two new standards, 802.11a and 802.11g. To help ease…
Yet another iPod clone, this one from Jens of Sweden, which we assume is a Swedish electronics company. The MP-200HD has a 20GB hard drive and is slightly bigger than an iPod (so far no one has managed to build an iPod that’s actually smaller than the original). The MP-200HD does have a few features…
New superthin laptop from Samsung that’s just 23.8mm thick and weighs only 1.8kg. The Sens X10 has integrated WiFi, up to a 60GB hard drive, up to 512MB of RAM. It’s the thinnest and lightest laptop to come with a built-in optical drive; the drive itself is only 9.5mm thick. Read
After an embarrassingly long delay, it looks like Apple is starting to ship the first 17-inch PowerBook G4s. Read [Via MacMinute]
Dual WiFi/Bluetooth wireless access point from Possio, probably the first one of these that we’ve ever seen. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
Good overview in today’s Washington Post of the battle between DVD-R and DVD+R, the two competing standards for recordable DVDs. Read
Wired peers into the future with its list of ten gadgets they’d like to see by the year 2013, among them an iPhone from Apple that combines a PDA, wireless Internet, mini iPod, and phone into a wearable arm band; ear plugs that only filter out sounds you don’t want to hear; and enormous, flexible,…
Buried in this story over at PCWorld on all the unexpected gadgets that getting WiFi added to them, like a digital camera from Sanyo and a handheld file server from Sony, is this: a new DVD recorder from Matsushita that records television shows at 1.3 times faster than normal speed. Why? “That’s slow enough to…
New smart gun from a South African company with biometric sensors that limit who can fire it. But what’s particularly novel is that the Intelligent Fire Arm also comes with an embedded camera that takes a photograph whenever the gun is fired, something sure to prove popular with hunters who want a visual record of…
JPZR of MSMobiles.com is at CeBIT this week, and he’s just written to us with some new details about Samsung’s Matrix Phone: Samsung people told me yesterday (while showing the Matrix movie playing on their Matrix phone), that it will be available in USA (not in Europe) for around 600 bucks around May 2003 –…
Gizmodo’s just been picked by Forbes as one of the best technology weblogs, along with Slashdot, TechDirt, Kuro5hin, and Reiter.weblogger.com. Read
Gossip is more properly the domain of Gawker, our sibling blog, but there’s a rumor going around that Samsung is dropping its plans to build a Microsoft Smartphone-powered cellphone, and is going to use Symbian’s Series 60 operating system instead. Samsung would have been the only major cellphone manufacturer to use Smartphone, so losing them…
Steven Frank wants to know what you’d get engraved on the back of your iPod: Now that Apple has cut the price of iPod laser engraving to a paltry $19, everyone can afford to put something stupid on the back of their iPod! What’s the funniest thing you can think of to have engraved on…
New tape-less digital camcorder from Pretec that records entirely to SD memory cards and doubles as a 2.1 megapixel still camera. The DV-4200 captures video at 30 frames per second, which means you might actually want to use this to record those special moments, unlike Panasonic’s very similar SV-AV30, which records at only 15 frames…
HP is going to start putting 802.11b into some of its desktop computers, something you usually only see built-into laptops. Read