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New line of Sony digital audio stereo components that come with Firewire ports. Right now connecting a Super Audio CD player to a receiver involves using a whole bunch of RCA cables; the advantage of Firewire is that it replaces all those cables with a single all-digital connection, which results (or at least should result)…
Are there any readers attending CeBIT in Hannover later this week that would be interested in covering the trade show for Gizmodo? We’d love it if someone could report back (with lots of pictures) on the best of what they’ve seen in the exhibition halls. Think along the lines of Dave Weinstein’s amazing field report…
Article all about the latest developments in Japan’s cellphone industry. Among the innovations: Sanyo’s JSAO5, which has a screen that transforms into a mirror at the press of a button; photo sticker machines which connect to cameraphones for printing out stored digital photos; and a new Toshiba cellphone that accepts memory cards. Read [Via I4U]
The new Linux-based PDA/phone from German company Invair. The Firewalker doesn’t look so great, but it does have tri-band GSM and GPRS, integrated GPS for navigation, Bluetooth, 64MB of RAM, and a slot for SD and MMC memory cards. Oddly though it has a 16-shade grayscale screen, something that seems positively antiquated these days. Read…
Laptops should be getting a bump up in storage capacity soon, with tiny 80GB hard drives coming from Fujitsu and Hitachi. Read
Another new cellphone from Siemens, this one with special software that lets you compose your own tunes that you can use as ringtones or swap with friends. The M55 also has a color screen, supports tri-band GSM, and should be out in Europe by June. Read
Tiny new color cellphone from Siemens. The SL55 weighs just 79g and has a keypad that slides away when not in use, shrinking the phone to a length of just 81.6mm. Supports tri-band GSM for voice and GPRS for data connections. Read
Apparently as cellphones continue to shrink in size and start putting antennas on the inside rather than on the outside, quality of reception is becoming worse and worse. Research from Ethertronics, a San Diego company that researches antenna capacity and manufacturers mobile-phone antennas, indicates that, all other things being equal, the radio strength of today’s…
New earbud Bluetooth headset for cellphones from Samsung with a microphone that picks up the user’s voice directly via the sound resonating through their head: In promotional material released ahead of the show, Samsung said that “when we speak, our heads act as natural resonance chambers. That’s why, for example, singers use earplugs—so they can…
Well we didn’t have to wait all that long to find out what was behind that new teaser campaign from Sony. Turns out it’s a new Vaio laptop, one with lots of wireless connectivity. The Z1, as it’s called, is superslim and has built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, a 1.6GHz processor, up to 512MB of RAM,…
Looks like AOL is coming out with a TiVo-like television-on-demand digital cable television service called Mystro TV that’ll let you pause live television and that calls up shows that aired previously from a central server, obviating the need for cable subscribers to buy any additional hardware or to remember to program a box to record…
We love all things thin here at Gizmodo, so for a while now we’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival in the States of Sharp’s superthin Actius MM10 laptop, which has been out in Japan for a few months now. The MM10 is just 0.54-inches thick and just weighs 2.1 pounds, but still has a 15GB…
New “home entertainment server” from Interact-TV called Telly that is basically a multimedia PC with an 80GB hard disk with a DVD/CD-RW drive, and that has an Ethernet port so you can stream audio and video to other devices around the house. Also comes with an interactive program guide so that it can also double…
New verson of the Archos Multimedia Jukebox due out next month that’ll be pretty much like the Jukebox 20, but will feature USB 2.0 for file-transfer, an improvement in video quality, and an attachment for recording directly from TV. Read
Mysterious teaser ad up at several Sony websites for a new, yet-to-be revealed product. Looks like some kind of new computer, more details to come. Anyone know what it might be? Read [Thanks, Gotecki]
As if a 4GB CompactFlash memory card wasn’t enough of a great leap forward, there’s word now of a 6GB on the way from Pretec. Think about that for a second. And even if it turns out to not be true, there can be no doubt that 6GB and even 10GB memory cards aren’t all…
eBay auction for a hand-built PC that’s been fit into a 1/10 scale model of a 2003 Porsche 911. Not to be confused with that line of computers designed by Porsche that are sold by Best Buy. Read [Thanks, Mark]
Mobile Burn loves the new Nokia 7250 cellphone: The 7250 has all of the features that you want in a phone, for the most part. It is triband GSM, it has a color display, polyphonic ringtones, Java, and a speakerphone function, too. Sure, it is missing Bluetooth, but I pretty much have given up on…
Amazon sale on Maxtor 120GB internal hard drives, with rebate the price is a $120.99, which is almost exactly a buck a gigabyte. It’s kind of a milestone when you think about it. Amazon
Business 2.0 article on the new Apple store in SoHo, and why it’s a success. Part of the success is due to CEO Steve Jobs’ obsessiveness about having every little detail in every store be just right: Apple CEO Steve Jobs spends half a day each week with a 20-member design team, hashing out tweak…