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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
As if stealing Apple’s thunder by introducing a video iPod wasn’t enough, Microsoft has also set out to redefine the wristwatch, with a new smartwatch that can wirelessly connect to a network and download data. Microsoft has built a whole new national wireless data network for the watches, which can download information like text messages,…
There’s a new site dedicated solely to addressing the problem of excessive fan noise in the Mac G4: G4noise.com. Somebody’s got a little too much free time. Read [Via StreetTech] Amazon
CNET has the first review of the latest from Nokia with a color display, the 7210, which comes out on the 31st of this month.. The button layout on this phone is completely bizarre, with the numbers 1, 4, 3, 6, and 9 forming a “U” around the numbers 2, 5, and 8. Read
So as we all know now, Apple isn’t offering a video iPod. But Microsoft is. Sort of. They’ve teamed with Intel to create a portable video player with a 20GB hard drive and a 3.5-inch color screen (some models will have seven-inch screens) called the Media2Go that will play stored video files. They’re just creating…
Blogs are hot. And cameraphones are hot. Irish company NewBay’ wants to combine these two trends with its new FoneBlog software, which will let cellphone users blog on the go by making it easy to automatically upload text and images to a blog. You can already blog from your Danger HipTop, so why not? Read…
You probably have never heard about it, but there’s a competitor to Wi-Fi for wireless networking. Or at least there was until a few days ago. The HomeRF Working Group, which promoted a wireless networking standard based on the Shared Wireless Access Protocol, formally disbanded a few days ago due to lack of interest. Read
AnandTech reviews Windows XP Media Center Edition. Their conclusion: “If you’re buying a Media Center PC to use as nothing more than a PVR, then you’re unnecessarily making one very expensive investment. You can get PVR functionality and identical capabilities out of any set-top box, for a quarter of the price of a decent Media…
Proving that gadgets are not just for the secular: Gadgets for God, a website with all sorts of religious-themed gadgets for sale, like Pet-baptizing kits, musical Last Supper pillows (pictured at right), a box which filters out profanties from television shows, and best of all, a Jesus Christ credit card you can use to pay…
Remember Moto, Motorola’s new line of “hip” cellphones? You wouldn’t know it from all those dumb ads that were everywhere a few months ago, but apparently the phones are selling so fast that Motorola may have edged out mighty Nokia as the number one cellphone maker in North America. Read
There are tons of three megapixels cameras on the market these days, and standing out from the crowd isn’t too easy. TechTV takes a first look at a three megapixel camera, Toshiba’s PDR-T30, that has one unique features that no other camera has: a touchscreen LCD which you can use to jot down notes about…
A pretty good indication that another company is going to go head-to-head with BlackBerry and Danger and offer some sort of mobile messaging gadget, PalmSource has licensed the Palm operating system to HuneTec, a Korean wireless device manufacturer. Read
It’s not quite a video iPod, since it lacks a screen for actually watching video, but the Cinema Disk from Deltron, looks like it might be a decent compromise for anyone who wants to watch the movies and videos stored on their computer on something other than a computer monitor. The Cinema Disk hooks up…
Gadgeteer review of the NextBase 2, a portable DVD player. These are about the size of portable CD players, but lack screens, so are really only portable in the sense that you can carry them around with you until you reach a television. Which sorta defeats the purpose, but if you travel a lot and…
And the last tidbit from Macworld today: the Burton Amp, a jacket from Apple and Burton Snowboards that comes with built-in iPod controls on the sleeve. Just make sure not land on the volume button when you wipe out. Read
It turns out that the AirPort is getting a bump in speed and a new name. AirPort Extreme (one would hope that Apple of all companies would have avoided giving it such a dumb name – but at least they didn’t spell it “Xtreme”) will use the new 802.11g standard for Wi-Fi, which is about…
Not all the news at Macworld today was big, so to speak. Apple took the wraps off a mini G4 with a 12.1-inch screen, which is the smallest laptop Apple’s ever shipped. Maybe your 17-inch G4 could keep the mini G4 as a pet. Read
With the instant analysis over at Slate, Paul Boutin compares the new gigantic PowerBook to a Cadillac Escalade. Read
Apple ups the ante again, with an entirely new PowerBook G4 with a 17-inch screen. That’s right. It’s 17 inches wide, with a resolution of 1440×900 pixels, making it the largest display ever on a laptop. To sweeten the deal, the new G4 also has a backlit keyboard with an ambient light sensor that adjusts…
Asustek, which recently announced it would produce a Smartphone, is also planning to bring out a new Pocket PC, the A710, that will have built-in GPRS and 802.11b. It’s not clear whether this will be a Pocket PC Phone, or just a regular Pocket PC with wireless data capability. Read