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The latest TiVo addict is FCC Chairman Michael Powell (who is also the son of Secretary of State Colin Powell). At CES yesterday he very curiously called the new TiVo he got for Christmas “God’s Machine” and said that he wished he could use it to share shows with his sister, something that the television…
Reader Fazal Majid writes in enthusiastically about his new Canon DR-2080C color high-speed document scanner: [It’s] a really neat little scanner (the size of a very compact printer) that can really cut the paper tiger down to size. It can scan both sides of up to 50 sheets of paper at a time, at 20…
Finally, a cellphone for the Slashdot set. Texas Instruments and NEC are backing a project to bring Linux to cellphones. Not many details, but apparently there are four companies set to build Linux-powered cellphones. Read
Memory Stick PRO, Sony and SanDisk’s new high-capacity version of the Memory Stick, is out. PRO theoretically can hold up to 32GB, but don’t hold your breath waiting for that, the first few will have capacities of 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB. But here’s the kicker – Memory Stick PRO isn’t compatible with exisiting Memory Stick…
It’s not from Apple, but the HomePod will let Mac users do something that PC users have been able to do for a while – wirelessly beam the MP3s stored on their computer to anywhere in the house: The HomePod enhances Apple’s digital hub, picking up where iTunes and iPod leave off. Think of HomePod…
After getting sued by them last year for patent infringement, now Handspring is talking with Research in Motion about incorporating the tech behind the BlackBerry into the Treo. Read
The next generation of TiVo will support high definition television. Read Amazon
Alan Reiter, of WirelessInternet.com writes in with a many excellent points about Microsoft’s new wireless data network that’s being rolled out to transmit data to wristwatches: Not one article about Bill Gates’ keynote speech at CES has reported that the entire concept — using an FM radio subcarrier network to transmit data to watches and…
Forget convergence – it looks like there’s an all-out war shaping up over whether TVs or PCs will be at the center of the digital entertainment hubs of the future. In his keynote speech at CES yesterday, Sony President and COO Kunitake Ando made it clear that the television was at the center of his…
SanDisk is bringing out the first CompactFlash and SecureDigital memory cards that combine memory storage with 802.11b. Means you won’t have to choose between either having a memory card or a WiFi adapter in the CF or SD slot on your PDA, you can have them both on one card. Read
The T-Mobile Sidekick mobile communicator (also known as the Danger Hiptop), which you can use for email, instant messenger, and to surf the Web, is just $49.99 at Amazon after rebate. Comes with a digital camera attachment as well. Amazon
You’ll soon be able to connect your TiVo to your Mac via Rendezvous, Apple’s new networking standard for connecting devices automatically. Read [Via Slashdot]
New flagship CLIE handheld from Sony. The PEG-NZ90 has a 320×480 pixel screen, built-in 2-megapixel camera with flash, Bluetooth, and an expansion slot for 802.11b. Ok, so the NZ90 looks great, and is well-designed, but the cost? $800?! For that kind of money you may as well buy a top-of-the-line Pocket PC, which will almost…
Another article about CES, this one with some predictions about the future of gadgets: the price of 50-inch plasma should drop to $9,000; DVD players and TVs will start coming with built-in Wi-Fi; and that the price of DVD players with hard drives should fall to $300 or $400 by the end of the year.…
Six surprisingly stylish new cellphones from Motorola. From right to left, they are the C350, 388c, V600, T725, A835, and the E380. The one that really stands out is the A835, which operates on high-speed 3G networks and has 256MB of memory(!), integrated Bluetooth, and a built-in digital camera for video conferencing. Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]
DVD-Audio has hardly caught on in the home, but that doesn’t appear to matter to Delphi, which is offering what may be the first DVD-Audio system for automobiles. Read
Stereophile sums up Day One of CES. The highlights: loads of new flat-panel displays from Zenith, and a new 52-inch LCD television from Philips. Read
A new half-size laptop that weighs less than a pound and is just one inch thick from Vulcan, a company owned by that other Microsoft billionaire, Paul Allen. The Mini-PC will run Windows XP, and have integrated WiFi, a 5.8-inch screen, a 20GB hard drive, and a built-in mini-keyboard. Read
J.D. Lasica of Online Journalism Review has put together a list of essential gear for any multimedia newsroom. He says: These aren’t pie-in-the-sky gizmos for a futuristic newsroom – they’re practical, field-tested technologies that work together and help news organizations meet the audio, video and text-based needs of their audience today. Among the items listed:…
From Belkin, a stylus with a built-in light, so you can use your PDA without turning on the backlight and draining the battery. Read Amazon