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A portable lie detector called the Handy Truster that analyzes subtle, involuntary changes in voice stress that are supposed to correlate with truthfulness. The manufacturer claims it works with 84% accuracy, a figure that might be pushing truthfulness itself. But you know, if you’ve got the kind of trust issues that would precipitate you needing…
New 10.4-inch Tablet PC due out from Wistron later this year that’s set to retail for $1,299, considerably less than what most Tablet PCs cost. Wistron also makes Tablet PCs for Acer. Can’t wait for these things to drop below a thousand bucks. Read [Via TabletPCBuzz]
This has been out for awhile, but the Griffin PowerMate is too weird and interesting a gadget to pass up. It’s ostensibly a glorified external volume knob that plugs into a USB port, but a review over at MacNETv2 reveals that it’s far more than that: Griffin Technology invented this device some time ago, and…
There’s a government agency called the Technical Support Working Group that is charged with finding the best gadgets that can be useful in the War on Terror, like a credit card-sized radiation detector that’ll conveniently let you whether or not you’ve been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation and a rugged laptop that can be…
IBM is recalling its G51 and G51t 15-inch CRT monitors. Apparently they have this annoying habit of, um, catching on fire. Read
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Four gigabyte Microdrives, mini-hard drives that can fit into the CompactFlash card slot of a PDA or digital camera, are due from Hitachi later this year. Jason Dunn of PocketPCThoughts thinks it’s too little, too late, and that the future of storage on mobile devices is going to be with solid-state memory. Read
Interview with Sony Chairman and CEO Nobuyuki Idei, where he talks about how he would buy the Palm operating system if he could: I can’t tell you why Sony has a Symbian OS on its phones and Palm OS on its PDAs. [Laughs] Even Bill Gates asked me if I was crazy. But this is…
And one more from Sony Ericsson: a Bluetooth MP3 player that comes with a built-in microphone so it can double as a headset for any Bluetooth-enabled phone. When a call comes in, the HBM-30 automatically mutes the music so you can decide whether or not to take the call, and uses Sony Memory Stick Duo…
Another new product from Sony Ericsson: a PC card for laptops that combines GPRS (for accessing data networks over a cellular network) with 802.11b. There’s no way to make a seamless transition between the two different networks yet (though that’s coming), but at least now you can still get access to the Internet, without having…
Five new color cellphones from Sony Ericsson: the T310, which comes with a small joystick for gaming and will be sold as the T316 in the US; the T610 (pictured at right), which comes with a built-in digital camera and will be sold as the T616 in the US; the T606 and the Bluetooth-enabled T608,…
New three-megapixel version of Casio’s superslim Exilim digital camera. At just 72g, the EX-S3 is the lightest three-megapixel camera around, but it shouldn’t be confused with the other three-megapixel Exilim, the EX-Z3. The EX-Z3 is a little bigger than the other cameras in the Exilim line, but more than makes up for it by having…
The memory card arms race is heating up, with two new CompactFlash memory cards from Lexar due out later this year, a 2GB card and a 4GB card. They on’t be cheap. The price of the 2GB card will be $699, and the 4GB card is expected to sell for $1,499. Read
Envy News review of the Olmypus C-730 Ultra Zoom, a 3.2 megapixel digital camera with a 10x optical zoom lens and a super-macro function for taking pictures from close as 4cm. Read Amazon
Stylish mini-CD player from Philips and Nike that also plays MP3s burned onto mini-CD-Rs and CD-RWs. Mini-CDs can hold about 185MB, which adds up to about two or three hours of music. Read
Whether or not it’s a pathetic ploy, you’d think technology companies would have figured out by now that quickest way to appear as if you’re desperately trying to appeal to Generation Y is to insert the word “Extreme” into the name of your product. Apple, a company from which one expects better, just named the…
Brighthand previews the two big tech trade shows that are coming up later this month, CeBIT in Germany and the Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference in New Orleans. Speculation abounds about what the big product announcements might be, and among the possibilities are a $200 Pocket PC from Toshiba, a new handheld from Palm, and two…
The Rio DR30, SONICblue’s new ultrathin MP3 recorder which they’re billing as the world’s thinnest MP3 recorder, looks suspiciously like PoGo’s RipFlash Trio. The DR30 weighs just 38.4g, and also comes with a built-in FM tuner. Read
Something that should have been out ages ago: a Bluetooth adapter for printers, so you can reduce the number of cables on your desk by one. The Bluetooth Printer Adapter from Epox will work with any printer with a parallel port, and to make sure that you don’t forget what it does, they conveniently made…