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Spectrum on the ten most technically sophisticated cars of the year, including the 9-3 from Saab, the first car to come equipped with Bluetooth, making it possible to connect a Bluetooth-headset or wireless PDAs and laptops to the car’s built-in cellphone. Read
Tying in with the forthcoming Matrix sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, Samsung is coming out with a Matrix-themed cellphone. Like the sequel itself, Samsung is keeping the phone shrouded in mystery, and so far hasn’t released any info about the phone or when or where it might be sold. If the phone is a hit (and…
Could someone please explain why in the hell anyone would need an electric toothbrush that can plug into the USB port of a computer? Is it to power the toothbrush, since a USB port can be used to power some gadgets? Could anyone going to Japan soon please pick one of these up for us?…
Those oversized 17″ PowerBooks that Apple said would be in stores by the end of this month now aren’t likely to be available until sometime in late March or early April. Read
A new company called Pocket PC Films is selling movies that are specially compressed for watching on a Pocket PC. Watching a full-length movie on a handheld sounds a bit dubious, but the idea of catching an episode or two of Undeclared or The Simpsons while in-flight does have its appeal. You’re best off forgetting…
Amazon is taking pre-orders for the Versa LitePad from NEC, the world’s thinnest and lightest Tablet PC. The LitePad is just six-tenths of an inch thick, weighs just 2.2 pounds, and has a 10.4 inch screen, 256MB of RAM, 20GB hard drive, and both 802.11a and 802.11b built-in. Looks more like a giant PDA than…
The phone Gizmodo’s mom uses, the T68i from Sony Ericsson, is still free over at Amazon with new service activation. The T68i has a color screen, Bluetooth, and uses GPRS for surfing the Web and sending emails, text messages, and multimedia messages. Amazon
Hardware Extreme roundup of their picks for the best new Palm handhelds, among them Sony’s PEG-NZ90 Clie, Palm’s Tungsten W, and Garmin’s GPS-enabled iQue 3600 (pictured at right). Read Amazon
Some pics of Toshiba’s forthcoming e750 Pocket PC have turned up. Looks pretty much like the e740, even the specs (400Mhz processor, 64MB of RAM) seem about the same as well. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
Japan is always on the cutting edge when it comes to gadgets, and apparently the burgeoning world of cellphone porn is no exception. Read [Via Gen Kanai weblog]
Gizmodo is always good for a lust or a laugh, featuring the best gadgets for the nascent pervasive computing market… I have to admit, I think Gizmodo is my all-time favorite weblog. Perfectly targeted, nicely designed…just sweet. I’m jealous that Nick Denton got there first.
Gizmodo made a quick hop across the pond to the UK last week, and was a bit surprised that almost no one we asked had heard of the SPV, that new cellphone from Orange that runs Microsoft’s Smartphone operating system. Well public indifference or unfamiliarity aside, Orange is already poised to release the successor to…
If you’re not entirely satisfied with the forecasts you’ve been getting from the National Weather Service (or paranoid that the government is hiding the truth about the weather from us), you might want to follow in this guy’s footsteps and build your own weather balloon, which uses a Garmin GPS system for tracking,and an Aiptek…
Remember G4noise.com that website dedicated to getting Apple to do something about excessive fan noise in the Mac G4? Well Apple’s actually decided to do something about it, proving that one person with a bizarre fiaxation (and a website) can actually change the world. Read
More than you’d ever you want to know about rechargeable batteries, including proper charging methods, “the secrets of battery runtime,” how to choose the right battery, and “knowing your battery.” Read
Time magazine profile of Jonathan Ive, Apple’s VP of industrial design and the man responsible for the iBook, the iPod, the iMac, and the titanium PowerBook G4. Read
Possibly the weirdest use of wireless technology yet is a new wireless sprinkler system that’s coming out in May from a company called Digital Sun. The X.Sense creates a wireless mesh network using moisture sensors strategically inserted into your lawn that keeps track of when and how much to water. Best of all, the wireless…
A few months ago Linksys came out with the WSB24, a signal booster for its WiFi access points, and a now D-Link has one of its own, the DWL-800AP+ Wireless Range Extender, which can also double as wireless repeater. Read
ZDNet guide to buying the best DVD player for your home theater. Apparently we’re on the verge of a new product cycle, so all the players that are out now will suddenly become last years models, and in a few months should drop dramatically in price. Reassuringly, they also write that, “First thing you need…
Three new pairs of headphones from Sony, each one designed to be listened to with a particular style of music: A.I.R. for hip hop and rock (pictured at right), L.Q.D. for jazz, soul, and R&B, and S.L.d for house and trance. Read