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Digital picture frames, the ones that let you display your digital photos, are on sale for $119.99 (after rebate) over at Amazon. Amazon [Via BoingBoing]
A video has surfaced of what purports to be a prototype iPAQ Pocket PC from HP that has a full-size folding keyboard. Probably fake, but if not, it’s nice to see HP taking some risks with the Pocket PC form factor. Read
Ok, now this is a good idea: an 80GB hard drive with an Ethernet port that connects up to your home network. Read Amazon
Garmin has a new Palm OS-based PDA coming out that has built-in GPS. Details are sketchy, but it looks like the Garmin iQue 3600 will have a 320×480 screen, a virtual Graffiti area, and run the new Palm OS 5.0. Read
A dual-screen laptop from Estari. With two 15″ touchscreens, the 2-VU looks more like two Tablet PCs strapped together, but it doesn’t run Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Read
Wired News article on digital pens, like the io from Logitech (pictured at right) and Chatpens from Sony Ericsson which can wirelessly send emails and faxes. First the Tablet PC, now these, apparently writing by hand has come back into vogue, which is bad news for those of us who long ago lost the ability…
Check out this crazy-looking spherical PC from Japan. Reminds me of those phony photos of a spherical “Mac G5” that circulated last year that was supposed to be Apple’s follow-up to the G4 Cube. Read [Via Slashdot]
Three Japanese universities, along with Matsushita, Ricoh, Pioneer, and Mitsubishi, are collaborating on a DVD that will hold 1.5 terabytes of data. The hope is to have it out by 2010. One can only hope that by 2010 some sort of mega-broadband will have made transporting data on little plastic discs obsolete. But who are…
Linksys has a new signal booster out for its line of 802.11b wireless access points. With one of these and a high-gain antenna, you could conceivably blanket your neighborhood with Wi-Fi. Read
TechTV on updating your Aibo so it can learn how to recharge itself and recognize faces. The obvious pun will not be made. Read
Now this sounds like an excellent way to accidentally get oneself killed: trying to fly around in a jet pack you built yourself. An enterprising German by the name of Andreas Petzoldt has spent the past ten years or so building a personal flying suit that actualy looks like it might work, but that also…
For a while it didn’t look like Bluetooth was going to go anywhere, but now just about every new gadget is coming with it built-in – cellphones, PDAs, keyboards, mice, and hopefully soon, digital cameras. If you’re thinking about taking the plunge, Anycom has a USB Bluetooth adapter that lets you add Bluetooth to any…
Interesting sign of things to come: Microsoft has bought a reference design for a wireless PDA phone from a Canadian company called Intrinsyc that supports the Smartphone OS, and has an integrated GPRS/GSM modem; Ethernet, serial, and USB ports; Bluetooth; a four-inch color LCD touchscreen; digital camera; and Compact Flash and SDIO slots. No word…
Yet another competitor for RIM’s BlackBerry has come out, this one from Good Technology. Good is aiming their G100 email pager mainly at the enterprise market, but regular consumers should be able to get them through Cingular. Looks like a BlackBerry, does exactly the same thing, and costs a little more. Am I missing something?…
CNET has come out with its list of the 100 best products of the past year. Read
Sharp’s Linux-based Zaurus C-700 handheld, which is currently available only in Japan, has been converted into English by nvmax, Dynamism, and the Embedded Linux Developers Group. Hopefully this will spur Sharp into giving the C-700 a proper release here. Read [Via Slashdot]
Overclockers Intelligence Agency review of Solarism’s LM-1711 17″ LCD monitor, which is unusually bright for an LCD screen: One of the key features I would like to touch on here is the level of brightness on this monitor. Solarism rates this display at 600cd/m2 (candela per square meter). This is leaps above the standard 200…
So 2002 wasn’t TiVo’s year, according to Wired News. Demand is still pretty low for PVRs, mainly because most people are apparently too dumb to understand what it is a TiVo does. Read
Things are going to get confusing. There’s Smartphone, Microsoft’s new operating system for cellphones. And then there’s smartphone, which is a generic term that seems to encompass just about any cellphone that can can surf the Web and check email. That said, Kyocera’s new Palm-powered smartphone (with a lowercase “S”) has just hit. The 7135…
3D LCD monitors that work without special glasses or software are on the way from Sharp. They’re even planning a laptop that comes with a 3D display. A few other interesting tidbits in this story, like that Sharp is already selling cameraphones in Japan that can display 3D photos. Read