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First 15″ LCD monitors plummeted in price, now even 17″ LCDs cost less than $400. Amazon is having a sale on the MP704B from Cornea, which is going for $369.99 after rebate. Amazon
Legend, one of the biggest PC manufacturers in China, is planning another Pocket PC. This one has a 400MHz processor, 32MB of flash ROM, 64MB of RAM, and something rarely seen on a PDA – an eight-way directional pad in the bottom left-hand corner of the device, which looks it’d be handy for gaming. Read…
A remote controlled tank from Plantraco called the Desktop Rover. Has a built-in infrared laser tag system for battles against other Rovers, and an optional wireless video camera for snooping around the house. The Desktop Rover also has the somewhat dubious distinction of being the smallest radio controlled tracked vehicle ever to be equipped with…
A new transmitter that’ll let you listen to your iPod on any FM radio. The iTrip is powered by the iPod itself and comes out this Spring. Read
There’s a big change coming to the Palm platform. PalmSource is ditching Graffiti, it’s handwriting program, and is going to use CIC’s Jot character recognition software from now on. The new name for the handwriting system? Graffiti 2. Very clever. The new system is supposed to much easier to learn than the original Graffiti. Read
CNET picks for the best gadgets of CES this year. Among them: Hitachi’s new Pocket PC Phone with the built-in keyboard (pictured at right), Sony’s new CLIE PEG-NZ90 (have to disagree with this one), the SPOT watch from Fossil that uses that new wireless data network Microsoft is building, the RCA Lyra Audio/Video Jukebox RD2780,…
Dan’s Data has a primer on wireless networking that tries to make sense of the often confusing world of Bluetooth, 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g. Read
The ultimate Warchalking accessory: the credit-card sized WiFi sniffer from iDetect that can tell you with the press of a button whether a wireless networks is present. Nice, but a Pocket PC with Mini Stumbler installed is even better, since it can identify multiple networks and tell you how strong their signals are. Read
From Sony, the first ultraportable laptop with a Pentium 4 chip. The V505 comes out February, and has a 2.2GHz processor, a 12-inch display, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, DVD/CD-RW drive, and weighs just 4.34 pounds. Read
Amazon is having a big sale on handhelds. The Sony’s CLIE PEG-SL10 (pictured at right) is $119.59, the Handspring’s color Treo 90 is $269.99, and HP’s iPAQ 1910 Pocket PC is $275.99. Amazon
In his most recent Letter From the Editor, Rosecrans Baldwin, co-editor of The Morning News, recounts spotting none other than Steven Spielberg buying an iPod at the Apple store in Soho: I’m in the Apple store down in Soho with Glen to buy a Bluetooth USB thingie so my cell phone can talk to my…
One of the coolest features of that new 17″ PowerBook (besides the screen, of course) is the backlit keyboard enabling you to type in the dark. NeonTrim has DIY kits that’ll let you do this with any keyboard. Assuming you have the technical skills,. You actually might want to not do this yourself. Read [Via…
Lengthy review at PocketPCThoughts of a new Pocket PC available only in Europe, at least for the moment. The specs on the Medion MDPPC 100 are suspiciously similar to those of the Mitac Mio 338 and the ViewSonic V35, as it has 64MB of RAM (only 36MB of which is useable), a 200MHz processor, and…
Almost missed this in the gadget avalanche that is CES: The new LYRA Audio/Video Jukebox from RCA. The RD2780 has a 20GB hard drive, and a 3.5-inch LCD screen. For audio it supports MP3, MP3Pro, and Windows Media Audio, but it doesn’t say what kinds of video files the RD2780 will play, just “multiple video…
Recent Wall Street Journal editorial by Om Malik on how the era of Microsoft competing against the other titans of the tech world – Oracle and Sun – is over, and that Redmond’s new competitors are really the cellphone of Scandinavia and the consumer electronics companies of East Asia. Read
There’s more info and a photo available of that new Media2Go personal video player designed by Microsoft and Intel. The Media2Go can store up to 175 hours of VHS-quality video, and has a battery life of six hours, and runs on the Windows CE .NET operating system. Read
Garmin has the first cellphone out with built-in GPS navigation. You can upload maps on to it and receive turn-by-turn directions to help you get to your destination. Doesn’t look like it’s going to be released in the US though. Read
Currently the number one selling item on Amazon is the new 802.11g wireless router from Linksys, which is on sale for just $133.99. 802.11g, as you may recall, is five times faster than 802.11b (54 versus 11Mbps) but is still backwards compatible with its slower cousin. Amazon
Sony’s new DV camcorder records directly to 3-inch DVD-R and DVD-RW discs, which can hold about sixty minutes of video on them. The DCR-DVD100 should be out this summer, and Maxell will sell the 3-inch discs for between $8 or $9 for a DVD-R, and between $10 or $11 for a DVD-RW. Read
One of the biggest complaints about Windows XP Media Center Edition, new version of the operating system which has TiVo-like functionality, is that DVDs burned using it aren’t compatible with most DVD players. Sonic Solutions has come out with some software the “corrects” this problem, and lets you burn DVDs that will play on any…