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Eric Lien over at MixedAsian found the original listing for that USB toothbrush from a few days ago, and has helpfully translated what’s written. Turns out they sell for about $10.50, and do indeed operate on USB power. Read
Rugged new Tablet PC from Panasonic. The Toughbook CF-18 has a shock-mounted 10.4-inch touchscreen, a shock-and-vibration isolated 40GB hard drive, and integrated GPS for navigation. But what’s best about the CF-18 is that you can use any combination Bluetooth, WiFi, GPRS, and CDMA 2000 RTT for wireless connectivity, it’ll support them all, even all at…
Hot on the heels of that USB toothbrush from a couple of days ago, is well, a USB hot cup that’s apparently to be used for making yourself a nice cup of tea. It’s from a company called “Dreams Come True,” and conveniently, works with both Mac and PC! Someone please stop the madness. Read
Haven’t seen anything like this yet, but it makes perfect sense when you think about it: a cellphone headset that comes with a digital camera attachment. The HS-1C works with Nokia’s 7210, 6610, and 6100 phones. Read
New 5GB portable hard drive from Panasonic that has a couple of extra features aimed at users of digital cameras: a slot for dumping images stored on Secure Digital memory cards and a video out port for viewing images on a TV. Read
It’s not much to look it, but e.Digital’s Treo 15 MP3 player gives you 15GB of storage space, and has a retail price of $190, which is ten bucks less than what a 5GB iPod retails for. Certainly a good bargain, but really, how much trouble would it have been for e.Digital to have designed…
Tom’s Hardware Guide review of two new 17-inch LCD monitors, Samsung’s 171N and NEC’s LCD 1760V. 17-inch LCDs have really dropped in price in the past few months, even these higher-quality monitors can be found for below $600 now. Read Amazon – Samsung 171N
Forbes article on RoomLink, Sony’s foray into home wireless networks, which is designed to connect your TV and your stereo with your PC. Read
Not that this will be of much use to US readers, since no Smartphones have even gone on sale here yet, but Arne Hess of PPCW.net has figured out how to remotely control a Microsoft Smartphone from a desktop PC. It’s more than just a neat trick though, since you can use Remote Display, as…
Last month we wondered whether a 40GB iPod was coming; now rumors are running wild that Apple is very close to announcing one and that they’ll phase out the 5GB model. The even juicier gossip is that Apple plans unveil a “radically new successor” to the iPod sometime later this year. Read Amazon
Rumors that Palm will release a new wireless handheld, the Tungsten C, next month, and that it will come with an integrated mini-keyboard and built-in WiFi. Read
Gizmodo pal Gabe Meister went to Japan recently, and we prevailed upon him to return to Akihabara to give us another report on what he saw there at Tokyo’s famed electronics district. Just like last time, he’s come back with a whole slew of photos of dream gadgets. “Fuji FinePix F401.” “NEC’s Valuestar PC.” “Casio’s…
Andrew Orlowski of The Register pronounces the long-awaited Sony Ericsson P800 cellphone to be well worth the wait: For the real news, and why I called it ‘revolutionary’, you can thank Opera. This is the first handheld that does the full web – Opera’s native Symbian browser is quite amazing. Speaking of the P800, reader…
Joseph Mercola wonders what’s going to happen when we have petabyte-sized hard drives, something that’s expected to happen by the end of the decade. Every book you’ve ever read would only fill 30 gigabytes at best; a lifetime of digital snapshots would be perhaps 30 terabytes; 80 years of MP3s would fill just 42 terabytes;…
Disturbingly, one of the biggest new trends in the automotive worlds isn’t installing DVD players and $10,000 entertainment systems into SUVs, it’s putting DVD players in steering wheels and rear-view mirrors so that drivers can watch movies as well. Read
Pocket PC vs. Palm is shaping up to be one of the great rivalries of our day, a rivalry that’s heating up now that both lines of PDAs have become even more competitive with each other in terms of price and functionality. Most surprising, the cost of new Pocket PCs are dropping even more quickly…
New wristwatch from Citizen with special built-in wireless authentication technology from Super Wave that can make sure that no one else (at least no one else not wearing the watch) can use your PC or unlock your car. Read
Howard Chui reviews Panasonic’s new color GD87 cameraphone, giving it points for style and its small size but knocking it down for poor sound quality and short battery life. Read
Most PDAs don’t come with much internal RAM, but do come with a slot for memory card, so if you run out of internal memory, you should be able to just install applications and run them off the memory card with no problem, right? Not so fast, says Steven Frank, who details the myriad of…
For the most part ZDNet likes Toshiba’s new ultralight laptop, the Portege 2010, which weighs just 2.6 pounds and is just 0.73-inches thick, though they’re not so crazy about its short battery life. Read