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IBM is making a push for Linux to start being used on PDAs, and have created a hardware reference design with pretty liberal licensing terms for other manufacturers to build them. Right now the only line of Linux-powered PDAs is the Zaurus from Sharp. Unless these are drastically cheaper or somehow substantially better designed, it’s…
Now here’s an idea that sounds great at first. Samsung’s come out with the first camcorder with a built-in hard drive. The ITCAM-7 has a 1.5GB internal hard drive that will hold about an hour of video, and has a USB 2.0 port for high-speed file-transfer when you want to dump your footage to a…
Micah Alpern, a “Human-Computer Interaction Designer,” with a survey of the different virtual projection keyboards for PDAs and cellphones coming from Virtual Devices, Developer VKB, and Canesta. These work by having an LED projecting an image of a keyboard onto any flat surface, and then you just tap away at the images like a regular…
Infamous gadget geek Phillip Torrone checks out the WSB24, one of those new Wi-Fi signal boosters from Linksys, and gives it the thumbs up. Read Amazon
Imaging Resource reviews the five megapixel C-5050 Zoom from Olympus, declaring it Olympus’ best camera yet. Besides the large number of megapixels, the C-5050 has a 3x optical zoom lens and can also save images to either SmartMedia, CompactFlash, or xD-Picture Card memory. Read Amazon
Everyone’s abuzz about 802.11g at the moment – that new wireless Internet protocol that’s faster than, but still backwards compatible with, 802.11b. But the evidence is mounting that now is not that time to switch, since the final standards for 802.11g haven’t been ratified yet. Henry Norr of the San Francisco Chronicle tests out some…
One of the more unusual uses discovered so far for the Pocket PC: as a teleprompter for television reporters in the field. Read [Thanks, Rex]
From Linksys and Zandiant, a prototype of a digital briefcase that turns your car into a moving wireless LAN, and also doubles as an MP3 player that can be loaded up with tunes from your PC, tossed in the trunk, and from there wirelessly beam music to your car stereo. Read [Via Wi-Fi Networking News]
Panasonic has a new four-in-one gadget out that combines a digital camera, an MP3 player, a digital voice recorder, and a camcorder that records video directly as MPEG-4 files and stores it on SecureDigital memory cards. The SV-AV30’s predecessor, the SV-AV10, didn’t exactly find a warm reception, and the SV-AV30, with the resolution of its…
There’s a whole subculture of geeks who dedicate themselves to getting the processors on their computers to run faster than the listed speed. Now overclocking, as it’s called, has come to the Pocket PC. Revolutionary Software Group has a new utility out for HP’s iPAQ H1910 that will increase its speed 50%, from 200MHz to…
For the first time ever, last year DVD players outsold VCRs, by 17 million to 13.5 million, and now the Consumer Electronics Association is predicting that the VCR will be extinct by the end of the decade. We here at Gizmodo don’t even own a VCR, if that gives you any indication of where things…
Gadgets that try to do two things usually end up doing both poorly, but the SCD5000 from Samsung, a new two-in-one gadget that combines a MiniDV camcorder with a four megapixel digital camera, looks like it actually might do both well. At four megapixels, the resolution of the still images is high enough to make…
Tom’s Hardware Guide review of the WAP54G Wireless Access Point from Linksys, one of the first to use the not-quite-yet certified 802.11g wireless networking standard, which is about five times faster than 802.11b .The final standards for 802.11g haven’t been settle on yet, and won’t be until later this year, which means that equipment from…
iRiver’s superthin (16.7 mm) SlimX iMP-350 CD/MP3 player is on sale at Amazon, just $109.94 after rebate. Amazon
Looking for a DVD burner, but a little frustrated by all the competing standards out there? FirewireDirect’s UltraBURN Plus will help you keep your bases covered, it’s the first external drive that will record DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, CD-R, CD-RW. Despite the company’s name, the UltraBURN Plus works with both USB 2.0 and FireWire. Read…
Creative has a released a version of its 20GB MP3 player, the Nomad Jukebox Zen, which uses USB 2.0 for file-transfer rather than FireWire. IGN has a review. Read
A cameraphone from NTT DoCoMo that has not one, but two built-in digital cameras. One on the back for for taking pictures of your friend, and another on the inside for self-portraits. Read [Translated from Japanese using Babelfish]
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