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Tom’s Hardware has a very thorough look at PaceBlade‘s new Tablet PC. I’m not sure that many people really need Tablet PC yet, but I suspect in a few years we’ll all be wondering how we got along without them.
Speaking of remote controls, The New York Times has a piece on the Harmony remote, which you can program using your PC (it connects using a USB cable) to do all sorts of things with just the press of a single button. From the article: Using a side-mounted thumbwheel, you choose activities, not components, from…
The Guardian has a review by John O’Mahony of what he terms the “ultimate gadget” – the Archos Multimedia Jukebox.
CNet has a selection of pieces about the pressures that handheld manufacturers are feeling given their slow sales recently.
Western Digital just unveiled the world’s largest hard drive – a full 200GB. You can read the press release here, and get the specs here.
Ever since the HP-Compaq merger it’s been clear that it wouldn’t make sense to maintain each company’s line of handhelds, and in recognition of this, HP decided to discontinue its Jornada line in favor of the better selling iPaq. News.com has a piece about the introduction of the Jornada 928, which will likely be the…
The New York Times has a nice little article here about mini external hard drives. But what’s really hot is the accompanying slide show of a bunch of different mini hard drives. It’s almost like tech porn.
ThinkGeek has a pen for sale that has a light attached that flashes whenever your cellphone is ringing. I have no idea how it works, or if the pen flashes whenever any cellphone rings within range.
There are probably few peripherals I need as badly as the Streamzap PC remote control. When I moved to New York last year I had to leave my vinyl and CD collection back in storage in California. I took it as an opportunity to free myself from a few hundred pounds of stuff and I…
Sony has decided to go after Palm‘s share of the low-end of the handheld market with its Sony CLIE PEG-SL10, which costs only $149 and has a high-resolution monochrome screen. You can read CNet‘s story on it here, and PalmInfocenter‘s story here. Let’s pray for a price war.
Hot on the heels of Toshiba’s unveiling of its iPod clone, the Gigabeat MEG50JS, e.Digital has just introduced the Odyssey 1000, which looks even more like an iPod than the Gigabeat. The Odyssey 1000 has a 20GB hard drive, a USB 2.0 connection, and is Mac and PC compatible (it even works with iTunes!). Is…
The Gadgeteer has a review of a 1 gigabyte FireWire keychain from WiebeTech, which is basically just some CompactFlash memory with a FireWire port all in a 2.35 inch by 1.75 inch metal box. Hopefully this will mark the beginning of a trend towards using high-speed connections like FireWire and USB 2.0 for these pocket…
CNet has a piece about the ten most popular cellphones in Asia. At least according to them. I’m quite partial to the Samsung SGH-T100 myself.
Wired.com has a Reuters piece about a new technology that reduces a television to just 50-millionths of an inch thick. You could roll one up and toss it in your bag. From the story: You’re effectively printing televisions,” CDT Chief Executive David Fyfe said. “They can be printed onto thin plastic almost like paper.” Roll-up…
PDABuzz.com is running what is reputed to be a sneak peak at the next-generation Palm, which is code-named “Oslo”. Not much word on what improvements will be made to the Palm OS (besides rumors that Bluetooth will be incorporated), but from the leaked picture that purports to show an Oslo Palm, the major advances seem…
For the last few months I’ve been thinking about buying a PDA, and I think I just found exactly what I’m looking for. It’s called OQO. It’s made by the team that designed Apple’s Titanium PowerBook, who left to form their own company. Their first product is what they’re calling an Ultra-Personal Computer: an iPaq…
Not to focus too much on Mac-related items (though it is Macworld week), Apple announced that next month they’ll release a line of PC-compatible iPods. It’s about time.
A few months ago my Sprint PCS cellphone died while I was on the road, and I was forced in a pinch to buy a new one. I was loathe to replace the faulty model that had stopped functioning (and had never really worked that well in the first place), but I also wasn’t too…
Speaking of Tivo, Moxi announced a big deal yesterday that will have its software incorporated into Scientific Atlanta’s set-top cable boxes. Moxi records your favorite TV shows like a Tivo, but it can also play DVDs and MP3s, stream to other TVs in the house, has Firewire and USB ports for adding extra storage space…
At the Macworld New York conference that is going on right now El Gato Software are introducing a new product called EyeTV that promises to give Macs all the functionality of a Tivo. Looks cool, and it lets you archive shows to CD-R or share them with easily friends over the Net (something Tivo won’t…