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TechTV review of Panasonic’s four-in-one SV-AV10, which combines a digital camera, a digital video recorder, a digital audio player, and a voice recorder. Sounds like a disappointing gadget all-around – low-res 640×480 still pics and it won’t play MP3s, only files converted into a protected format called SD audio. Read Amazon
While Microsoft told us at Mobius 2002 that they expected Tablet PCs to be priced from the “high teens” up to $3,000, Cabin Five is offering what it calls the Rosetta Tablet PC for just $999. The Rosetta runs the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition OS (not Windows CE), have an 800MHz Transmeta processor, a…
The DBT-120, a tiny USB Bluetooth adapter from D-Link that works with both PCs and Macs. Amazon has them for just $39.99. Read Amazon
It’s not a true Tablet PC, since it’s not running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, but Frontpath’s discontinued Progear 1050HX, which runs Linux on a Transmeta processor can be found now for just $600. Original cost: $3,199. Speaking of the Tablet PC, apparently some online retailers are already selling the Acer Tablet PC. Anyone seen…
SpyMac reports that Apple has discontinued its 15″ Studio-Display, which apparently wasn’t selling too well. The 22″ Cinema Display is still available. Read
Gateway is going to start selling lots of gadgets besides PCs at chain of retail stores, including printers, digital cameras, camcorders, and MP3 players. And next month they’re introducing a 42-inch plasma television, which is a huge departure from their core business of selling computers. Read
Palm Infocenter on a WiFi SD card for handhelds that should be available next year. Read
The latest from Japan: the VL-DD10 digital ViewCam from Sharp, which is a combination DV camcorder, 4.2 megapixel digital camera, and portable television. Different parts of the DD10 snap together and recombine depending on what you want to do. Read
CNet’s picks for the ten must-have gadgets of the moment. Not surprisingly, the iPod tops the list. Read Amazon
Tom’s Hardware Guide review of the world’s smallest desktop PC, the Jadetec Micro System, which has a 2.4 GHz processor, a 30GB hard drive, and 512 MB of RAM packed into a box that’s just 6″x6″x1.75″ big. Kinda skimps on the video memory though. It has just 4MB, which is worse than most laptops these…
Several readers wrote in about a very large new gadget, LG’s Multi-Media Refrigerator, which is sure to be find a place in the kitchen of any extremely wealthy gadget freak. It’s a full-sized 25.5 cubic feet refrigerator with a 15.1″ LCD display on the front for watching TV or surfing the web (not sure though…
A very cool looking MP3 player from Bantam that comes with a 1.8″ TFT screen for displaying digital images. The BA800 comes with 256MB of RAM, but also has an SD expansion slot for uploading pics directly from a digital camera. Read
Sometime in the middle of last week Gizmodo had its 100,000 page view, just a few days shy of the two month anniversary our launch. A big thank you to everyone who has visited us, blogged us, written to us, or otherwise supported Gizmodo these past few months. The site has been a success far…
Finally arrived back in NYC after attending the Mobius 2002 conference in Seattle, where Microsoft gave me and the editors of a few dozen PDA and cellphone websites a sneakpeak at what Redmond has on the horizon for mobile computing. We got to check out the new Pocket PC Phone edition, Tablet PCs, and Smart…
So it actually didn’t turn out to be live from Mobius. Believe it or not, none of the Ethernet ports worked in the room where the conference is being held. WiFi is no use, since Microsoft uses 802.1x, a more secure variant of WiFi that no one can access. Apart from a rather unconvincing presentation…
Gizmodo’s blogging live today from Microsoft’s Mobius 2002 mobile computing conference in Redmond. It’s a chance to get a first look at what’s on the horizon for Pocket PCs and Tablet PCs. Full Disclosure: Bizarre as it sounds, Microsoft actually thinks enough of weblogs in general, and this weblog in particular, to have sprung for…
Now this is my dream monitor: Samsung’s flagship display, the SyncMaster 241MP, which has a 24″, widescreen, 1900×1200 resolution screen. It’s got a built-in TV tuner, is HDTV-ready, and even comes with speakers. The price tag: $4,500. But are you really all that shocked? Read [Via EnvyNews]
ZDnet reviews ViewSonic’s Pocket PC and declares that with a retail price of just $299, this lightest of Pocket PC’s might prove to be a very serious rival not just to the rest of the Pocket PC market, but to Palm, Handspring, and Sony as well. But don’t count the Palm platform out yet. Apart…
Now here’s where being cordless comes in handy: a wireless, folding keyboard for PDAs from Micro Innovations. Read Amazon
A nice, but not particularly in-depth, survey of the dizzying array of options out there when it comes to mice these days: corded, cordless, optical, etc. I’ve recently just made the switch to an optical mouse (Microsoft’s Wheel Mouse Optical, pictured at right), but can’t bring myself to buy a cordless one just yet, especially…