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Detailed review over at DVD Writers of Pioneer’s DVR-A05 DVD-RW burner. The DVR-A05 is the first 4x DVD burner, it can burn a 4.7GB DVD in about fifteen minutes. And for all you pirates out there, it can also burn Xbox and PS2 compatible disks too. Read [Via Slashdot]
TechTV on two surprisingly affordable digital SLR cameras, the 6.17-megapixel Fujifilm S2 Pro, and the 6.1-megapixel Nikon D100 (pictured at right). Read Amazon
Creative’s first MP3 player with USB 2.0. It doesn’t have the sleek styling of the Nomad Zen, but the Nomad Jukebox 2 does have a 10GB hard drive, 16 hours of battery life, and it costs just $230. Read Amazon
CNN.com speaks with CNET Reviews editor-in-chief Janice Chen about growing popularity of portable DVD players, specifically reviewing Samsung’s DVD-L 100 (pictured at right). Of course this completely contradicts a Los Angeles Times piece from just two weeks ago examining the disappointing sales of portable DVD players and pondering why they hadn’t yet caught on with…
The first cellphone running Microsoft’s Smartphone 2002 OS comes out tomorrow – in Britain. Cellphone service provider Orange is introducing the phone, which is code-named “Canary”. Not many other details available. Read
Palm Infocenter has pics of Palm’s new Tungsten T handheld, which has a 320×320 pixel screen, built-in Bluetooth, 16MB of RAM, and runs Palm’s new OS 5. The biggest change though is that the Tungsten T compresses to cover the grafitti area, so that it can fit more easily in your pocket. Comes out on…
Lots of buzz about Creative’s new Nomad Jukebox Zen MP3 player, a very decent-looking 20GB iPod clone. Costs 25% less than a 20GB iPod after rebate (download the rebate form here), will let you share files between computers (something that isn’t easy to do with an iPod), and has both USB 1.1 and FireWire for…
Design Technica review of Sony’s newest PictureBook, the VAIO C1MW, which has a 30GB hard drive, 867 MHz Transmeta processor, 256MB of RAM, and a built-in 640×480 digital camera. With it’s half-size display and weighing just 2.2 pounds the C1MW sorta falls somewhere between a laptop and a handheld, so it’d be a good compromise…
CNET’s guide to buying a digital camera. If you’re in the market for one, it’s well worth the read. Read
For audiophiles who want to ditch their CDs, but don’t want to have to listen to their entire collection as low-fidelity MP3s, Meridian has come out with their 880 Reference Music Server, which can store up to 750 hours of music. Rather than use MP3 for compression, the RMS uses its own proprietary format for…
The world’s first illuminated keyboard, the EluminX from Auravision. Handy, but couldn’t you just turn on a light? Read
Scottish company Electronic Aromas is working on a method for delivering smells over cellphones. Instead of ringing, you could have your cellphone emit a particular scent when someone is calling you. Read [Via BoingBoing]
Nice roundup of Bluetooth products over at Brighthand. Read
Philips has secretly been working on a new storage format that uses a Blu-Ray laser to store 4GB of data on a 3cm rewriteable disc. They unveiled the new microdisc in Japan last week. Until Philips marketing department comes up with a snappy name, it’s known as Small Form Factor Optical. Should be ready for…
The new Revio C2 from Konica, a 1.22 megapixel digital camera that weighs just 70g. Just 13.5mm thick too. Comes out in Japan next month, no word on a US street date. Read
CNET roundup of those tiny palmtop MicroDV camcorders. Topping the list is Sony’s DCR-PC120BT (pictured at right), which take one megapixel still photos and has built-in Bluetooth for uploading MPEGs to a PC. Read Amazon
40-Hour ReplayTV digital video recorders are just $299 at Amazon. These DVRs have Ethernet ports built-in, so it’s possible to share shows with other friends who have ReplayTVs, something that isn’t possible with a TiVo. Amazon
TabletPCTalk has an early review of the Acer C102i Tablet PC. These have already gone on sale in Canada, despite the fact that the official launch date for the Tablet PC is November 7th. Apparently there was some confusion on Acer’s end about when retail channels could start selling these. Read
RIM has two new handhelds on the way, the BlackBerry 6710 and 6720. The 6700 series isn’t a major departure from earlier models though, the biggest differences with the 5800 series are the 6710 and 6720’s intergrated speakers and microphones, backlit displays, and the ability roam globally on both GSM and GPRS networks. Read
Sanyo’s new cameraphone, the clamshell-style 5300, is coming out here next month. It runs on Sprint’s PCS Vision network, has a 16-bit, 65,000 color, 2.2 inch screen, but the really great thing about the 5300 is that it’s 640×480 resolution digital camera has a built-in flash. Read