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Typically the Circuits section of the New York Times, which appears every Thursday, is chock full of great gadgets articles, but this week is oddly a little thin. There is one fascinating piece though, about the fanciful and not-so-fanciful gadgets that appear in movies and television. (Pictured at right, the mobile video phone from Minority…
Really great article by Jack Schofield of the Guardian on the prospects for the Tablet PC, which is about to hit stores soon. He hits the nail right on the head when he points out that the biggest market for Tablet PCs is going to be business people who want a computer they can take…
CNET roundup of the lightest cellphones. Topping the list of featherweights: the 2.6 ounce, superslim Sanyo SCP-6000. Just $30 from Amazon with activation. Read Amazon
This one’s only for the true audiophiles amongst us: the AX4B-533 motherboard from AOpen, which comes complete with a Sovtek 6922 vacuum tube for audio output that is perfect for getting that real warm sound that plenty of dudes down at the Guitar Center will swear can’t ever be reproduced by a transistor. Read [Thanks…
ClieSource reports that Sony has two new handhelds on the way that share the form factor of the clamshell NR series. These new models, to be known as the NX series, will have 16MB of RAM, run Palm OS 5, and come with a CompactFlash slot that will take a Sony-branded 802.11b card but curiously…
PC Stats reviews Hitachi’s gorgeous looking new 19″ LCD monitor. You gotta love these huge new LCD displays. Read
Two new gadgets from Sony Ericsson: An inexpensive new phone, the T100, which will have enhanced messaging capabilities and that they’re aiming at the youth market. Read And the HBH-60, a Bluetooth-enabled headset for cellphones that weighs just 22 grams. [Pictured at right] Read
TeleSym has some new software out called SymPhone System for voice communications over a WiFi network that doesn’t just turn your Pocket PC into a fancy intercom, it let’s you make Internet phone calls over the wireless LAN as well. Read
Everything USB trashes the Visioneer OneTouch 9020 USB flatbed scanner. It’s always refreshing to see an honest review like this one. Read [Via Envy News]
ZDnet review of one of the hottest flip phones out right now, the Samsung A500. It has a good-sized 4,096 color screen for surfing the Web and checking email, and runs on Sprint PCS’s new 3G network. Read Amazon
Handy new dual-band wireless adapter card for laptops from SMC that runs both 802.11b and its faster cousin, 802.11a. Dual-band cards like this one are perfect for anyone who wants to be able to easily switch between the 802.11b network they have at home, and the faster 802.11a networks that are increasingly common in the…
CNET’s picks for the best color handhelds. Their top pick? The Toshiba e310, which just happens to be on sale at Amazon for just $249 after rebate. Read Amazon
DIY Gadget Watch: A guy at the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology has figured out how to convert a scanner into a serviceable digital camera. He manages to take some pretty decent panaromaic photos with it too. Read
Dell signs a deal with Lexmark to introduce a line of Dell-branded inkjet and laser printers. Read DangerInfo has an extensive review of the widely anticipated Sidekick which comes out next week. Read CNET takes a first look at Sony’s new mini 1.3 megapixel camera, the Cyber Shot DSC-U10. Read
ZDnet reviews the MN-500 wireless base station, Microsoft’s first foray into 802.11b hardware. Anyone who has used a Linksys wireless access point knows that there is a huge market opportunity for Microsoft to exploit here. Now that wireless home networking is pushing out into the mainstream, there are going to be lots of people who…
Bringing high-fidelity DVD-Audio to the PC: a new soundcard from Creative, the THX certified, 24-bit, 192kHz Sound Blaster Audigy 2. Works with any DVD drive too, but there’s still no way to play Super Audio CD’s in a PC yet. Read
Kodak launches its latest salvo in the pixel wars tomorrow, striking back at Canon’s 11 megapixel camera with the 13.3 megapixel DCS Pro 14n. Retail price: $4000. Read
Multipurpose gadgets that try to do a bunch of different things usually end up just doing all of them badly, but Sony has introduced a display that they claim can satisfactorily handle gaming, television, DVD, and computing: the Personal Entertainment Display (PED) SDM-V72W, a 17″ flat-panel LCD television that doubles as a monitor for computers…
TechTV roundup of the best all-in-one desktop computers. Not surprisingly they like the iMac best. Read Amazon
Three new affordable high-resolution progressive scan DVD players from Onkyo. Not much use unless you have a high-definition television as well, but it’s nice to see the prices for these coming down.Read Amazon