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You can turn your PDA into a virtual reality machine now with this mini-display from Interactive Imaging Systems. The Second Sight M1100 attaches to a pair of glasses, making it seem as though you’re looking at a full-sized screen, and connects to a Pocket PC via a Compact Flash or PCMCIA card slot. Read
Well it’s not quite the PacketPC, but Sony has come out with a personal WiFi server that looks like it’s pretty small and easy to carry around. The FSV-PGX1 has a 20GB hard drive, connects to a wireless LAN through 802.11b so others on the network can access its files, and weighs just 390 grams.…
For some unknown reason they’ve ported Linux to the iPod. They didn’t make it so that you could sync an iPod with a PC running Linux. No, all they’ve done is gotten an iPod to run Linux, not that it can really be used to do anything. Even playing MP3s doesn’t quite work, apparently. Ok,…
Amazon is having a sale on all of its digital cameras, including the 2 megapixel PowerShot S200 from Canon (pictured at right), which is just $269.94. Amazon
The-Gadgeteer review of the WIF-0402C from Mitsumi, a new Bluetooth adapter that fits into the USB slot of a PC. Read
They’re a little behind Toshiba, but Fujitsu’s just come out with its own laptop with a built-in DVD-RW drive. Read
CNET likes Samsung’s new cameraphone, the SGH-V205, but doesn’t like how difficult it is to share pictures once you’ve taken them. Apart from that, the v205 looks like a pretty solid camera, with a 65,000 color screen, a built-in swiveling digital camera, and GPRS and GSM. Read Amazon
If you’re having trouble keeping up with the myriad of memory card formats that are out there these days, you might want to enroll yourself in Data Storage University. This does not appear to be a joke. Read
JVC has a new digital surround sound home theater system that automatically calibrates itself to whatever room it’s in. You just sit down at the spot where you plan to watch movies, clap your hands, and the speakers adjust themselves accordingly. Read
ZDNet review of Sony’s latest ultralight laptop, the VAIO PCG-SRX99, which weighs just 2.7 pounds, and has a 10.4″ screen, 256MB of RAM, and a low-voltage 850MHz Pentium mobile processor. Read Amazon
New brown corduroy bag from Orange called the Wearaphone that fits a cellphone and has a built-in microphone and speaker near the shoulder so you can walk and chat to your heart’s content. Doesn’t actually appear to be that useful though: So, what’s it like chatting on a walking speakerphone? Well, aside from the (painful)…
A new robot from Mitsubishi designed to care for the elderly: The robot is equipped with functions to help elderly people and those in poor health send an alarm to hospitals, security firms and relatives when an emergency happens. The Wakamaru responds to voice commands, and has a 10,000 word vocabulary (all Japanese, of course),…
Nokia is going head-to-head with Nintendo’s Gameboy Advance with a new cellphone designed for wireless gaming. The N-Gage has built-in Bluetooth and runs on the GPRS network for data. Games will be supplied by Sega, which recently dropped out of the console business to concentrate on developing titles for other platforms. It’s not likely that…
After hinting last month that it had one in the works, JVC finally revealed the first High-Definition Mini DV camcorder, the GR-HD1. Should be available by May. By the way, don’t know if anyone has been to the JVC home page lately, but it’s gotta be one of the most poorly designed sites on the…
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is sponsoring “The Grand Challenge,” a contest where the goal is to build an autonomous robot car that can win a road race from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. It’s scheduled to take place a year from now, with a cash prize for the winning team of $1…
Good piece by Om Malik on the biggest problem facing TiVo and ReplayTV: that it’s just too darn easy to incorporate what they do into other devices like DVD players, cable boxes, and PCs. Read [Via OmBlog]
You’re probably already tired of hearing about Microsoft’s plan to use FM subcarrier transmissions to update watches and other gadgets that use its new SPOT technology and how it’s already been tried before. All of us here at Gizmodo HQ certainly are. But did you know that in the Eighties Atari had a crazy plan…
Extensive review over at Brighthand of Sony’s new flagship PDA, the PEG-NZ90, which comes out on the 16th and is the first handheld to boast an integrated two megapixel digital camera. At $800, the NZ90 isn’t cheap, but for your money you get built-in Bluetooth, an MP3 player, an integrated keyboard, and a 320×480 pixel…
In a sign that either the company is in trouble or that two new models are on the way, Handspring is dropping two of its mobile communicators, the Treo 90 and the Treo 180, from its lineup. That leaves just the Treo 270 and the Treo 300, and a whole lot of questions about where…
Word on the street is that Acer has two new Pocket PCs coming out in April, the mid-range n10, and a WiFi version of the n10 called the n10w. Read