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The-Gadgeteer review of the iBIZ pocketRADIO, an FM radio tuner for the Pocket PC that fits into a CompactFlash slot. Nice, but when are Pocket PCs just gonna come with FM radios built-in? Read
Today’s New York Times Magazine has its 2nd Annual Ideas of the Year Issue; among them are some pretty nifty gadgets like the Gizmo-Finding Gizmo, the Ambient Orb, Homing Devices for Your Kids, the RoboVac, and the Self-Cleaning Dinner Table. Read – The Gizmo-Finding Gizmo Read – The Ambient Orb Read – Homing Devices for…
Amazing website for The Pocket Calculator Show, a weekly radio show on shortwave radio station WBCQ dedicated to electronics from the 1970’s and 80’s. The boombox, digital watch, and walkman museums are chock-full of descriptions and photos of vintage gadgets, like the TPS-L2, Sony’s very first portable stereo cassette player (pictured at right). You may…
JVC’s HR-XVC1U DVD/VCR combo is selling like crazy at Amazon – sales went up 619% today. Amazon
PC Stats review of the FinePix F402, Fujifilm’s stylish new 2.1 megapixel digital camera. The F402 has Fujifilm’s latest SuperCCD sensor, which supposedly translates images into 4 million effective pixels: The technology behind Fujifilms’ Super CCD revolves around how the CCD sensor is constructed, and how the octagonal photodiodes themselves are oriented in a honeycomb…
Rich Brome of PhoneScoop on what they don’t tell you when you sign up for Sprint’s new “all-you-can-eat” data service: Sprint has a weird policy on the “unlimited” 1xRTT data. They recently made it unlimited, to simplify pricing and drive adoption of new advanced phones (Java, cameras, etc.). But they intend the unlimited deal for…
If you’ve been waiting to buy the world’s highest-resolution digital camera, the 14 megapixel DCS Pro 14n from Kodak which was due to hit stores this month, keep waiting. The camera has been delayed until January to help “ensure optimal customer satisfaction and ‘out-of-the-box product performance.'” Read
AnandTech has an excellent in-depth review of the FIC SlateVision Tablet PC where they actually take the whole thing apart and show you what’s inside and how it works. Read [Via Slashdot]
A lot of buzz at the moment about what phones will be running the Smartphone operating system, now the focus is on a tiny new cellphone called the Neonode N1 that comes with a touchscreen and a built-in 640×480 pixel digital camera. Apparently Microsoft won’t confirm or deny that the N1 will run Smartphone, which…
Media center PCs are turning out to be a hot new category, with tons of new models coming out. Pretty soon these are gonna merit a weblog of their own. The latest one to hit the market is the Digital Media Console 900 from a small company called Yuclid. The Digital Media Console 900 runs…
If last week’s posts about the search for the perfect earbud headphones weren’t enough for you, TidBITS has a a good roundup of your best options for just about every type of headphones that’s out there: earbuds, in-ear, earclips, lightweight, full-size sealed, full-size open, noise-cancelling, and wireless. Aren’t you glad somebody else takes the trouble…
You might have seen one of those indestructible-looking, flexible, waterproof keyboards made out of silicon from Flexis that can be folded or rolled up or just generally abused. Not really the keyboard you’d want to type your novel on, but a good if you just want something portable for the road. Now Flexis, has a…
Sony has a one gigabyte memory stick coming out. The only catch: it won’t work in regular Memory Stick slots. It’s not backwards compatible, since it was impossible to get more than 256MB on the old format. So now we’ve got yet another memory card, Memory Stick Pro, to add to the ever confusing mix…
Microsoft’s new Smartphone operating system is already out in Europe, and due out in the US next year, but there’s still been no announcement of who the handset makers will be or what cellular service providers will offer it. One clue to what might be the first US Smartphone is the fact that just recently…
Check out this new “media receiver” from Sotec called the Play@TV. It’s a box that you hook up to your TV, and then it connects to your PC, either over 802.11b or Ethernet, so you can watch all those movies you’ve downloaded using Kazaalite on your TV. Supports MPEG, WMV and Divx. Read [Translated using…
Apple is selling a limited edition of the iPod that comes with a laser etched facsimile of Madonna’s signature on the back, and costs $49 more than a regular iPod. Is it really worth the extra money? Shoot, I’ll autograph your iPod for free. Read
Canon’s CanoScan D1250U2 flatbed scanner, which has a resolution of 1,200 x 2,400 dpi, is on sale for just $49.99 over at Amazon. Amazon
Several reviews of HP’s new flagship Pocket PC, the iPAQ H5450, by Sprinklerhead, PocketPCPassion, and Infosync. The H5450, which has just hit stores, comes loaded with high-end features: a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, built-in Bluetooth and 802.11b, a 3.8″ 16-bit transflective touchscreen, a Secure Digital I/O slot, and a biometric fingerprint scanner. Read –…
CNET pans Sony’s new 42″ plasma TV, the WEGA KZ-42TS1. With poor black-level reproduction and serious problems with its color decoder, its picture quality just isn’t that great. Read
The Tablet PC has only been out for a month, and already people have figured out an interesting new use for it: geographically-based multimedia storytelling. Go to latitude 34 North and and longitude 118 West in Los Angeles with a GPS-enabled Tablet PC, where a group of artists have created a “GPS Controlled Interactive Narrative.”…