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iRiver’s Story eReader has taken its sweet time making a stateside appearance, and as of today, it’s still not here. But it’s coming! Sometime in January, to be “specific.” But will it be as comically expensive as its European counterpart? https://gizmodo.com/iriver-story-reviewed-nice-but-no-kindle-or-reader-5417004 Hopefully, no. But probably? Yes. The Story has reviewed fairly well, with testers citing…
The Viliv n5 touchscreen netbook looks a lot like the Vaio P, but let’s hope it’s not priced like one. Either way, I don’t see much of an advantage here over a traditional smartphone. https://gizmodo.com/the-vaio-p-is-now-as-fast-as-average-netbooks-5299875 I mean, it may not be touchscreen like the 4.8-inch Viliv display, but the 8-inch screen on the Vaio P…
Laptop speaker meets laptop fan, in the shape of Logitech’s Speaker Lapdesk. The N700 can support up to 16-inch models and is powered solely by USB. The 2-inch stereo speakers are actually positioned on the outer edges of the lapdesk so you can have a non-tinny musical experience, with the fans on the top half…
The Sony Walkman A845 is a scant 7.2mm thick and gets a reported 29 hours of audio playback on one charge. It’s perfect for the next time you want to listen to Wagner’s Ring Cycle in one sitting. Twice. The A845 also touts an impressive nine hours of video playback on its 2.8-inch OLED display,…
A recently released patent by Apple shows that they are one of several companies dabbling with the idea of a 3D mulitouch interface. In this case, a “touch screen device, method and graphical user interface for manipulating three-dimensional virtual objects.” Will we see this sort of technology on upcoming Apple products like the tablet? Probably…
The Vizio TV I’m most interested in: Their 58-inch 21×9 Cinema Wide TV with a resolution of 2560×1080. Like their other XVT sets, it’s got wireless HDMI and built-in Wi-Fi, though is only 120Hz. No price or hard ship date. 58″ Cinema Wide Display Taking a major step forward in enabling viewers to experience a…
The various flavors of Office 2010 are beyond mere mortal blogger comprehension, so here’s the full press release. Choose your poison, and choose it wisely. With Office 2010, the lineup of products has been improved to make it easier for people to choose a version that is best for them. Office 2010 will be offered…
Witness convergence in its dumbest form: the Pure internet radio that has Facebook and Twitter integrated right in. You know, for when the world needs to know that you’re really fiscally irresponsible. Do you know what else is an internet radio with the ability to post to Facebook and Twitter? Any computer with speakers. And…
There isn’t a whole lot we don’t already know about the Boxee Box, the set-top box developed by D-Link and media center software company Boxee which stands to basically ruin the set-top box party for every other player. Except, that is, the price: Initial reports had it pegged at $200; now a needlessly cryptic press…
[Voice=”Barry White”] When I first saw you, girl, I knew I had to make you mine. Now, I’m in the mood, baby. In the mood for…the Belly Love…Belly Love…oh yeah…I want to hold you…on that gloooowing light. You know… the Belly Love… No, really, you know the one I mean, don’t you? Yeah, the sofa…
Looking for a portable projector with a built-in Blu-ray player? Who isn’t? Well, Sony’s new BDPorter is just that. This rollable cabinet comes stocked with a Blu-ray player, a WXGA projector, surround sound headphones, speakers and a 60-inch screen. It’s aimed mostly for corporate use as a presentations machine that can be carted around to…
We loved the Promise SmartStor NS4600 when we reviewed it over the summer. Now the Promise SmartStor Zero NS2600 has streamlined the process of connecting multiple devices even further, and made it a lot more affordable to do so. https://gizmodo.com/promise-smartstor-ns4600-network-storage-with-time-mach-5310196 Like the NS4600, Promise’s new NAS supports DLNA standards that make it easier to share…
Now this makes sense—an HDMI cable with a connector that can be positioned within a 180 degree radius. That will be a big space saver if you are trying to run cords in tight spaces. Of course, the cables would have been more effective if both ends pivoted. For the life of me I can’t…
I want to spend two weeks working with the new fan-less, VIA EPIA-P820 pico-ITX board—with full 64-bit support—and matching VIA Amos-3001 chassis to create a full HD home theater in my car. Thankfully, I don’t have a car. But it’s a perfect base for a custom home theater in any case. The board has a…
Yesterday, I told you about a new Consumerist investigation into the huge ripoffy nature of Best Buy’s computer optimizations. But hoo boy, $40 to enter a username into a new Mac? That’s tough to justify. https://gizmodo.com/best-buys-optimization-is-officially-a-huge-evil-scam-5439590 Just what do you get when you give the Geek Squad $40 to optimize your new MacBook Pro? As…
Apple has spent $275 million to jump into the world of mobile advertising by acquiring Quattro Wireless. It remains to be seen what changes Apple will make, and how they plan to compete with ad giants like Google. [BGR]
Marvell’s ARMADA chips hope to power everything from Blu-ray players to ebooks to smartbooks to digital picture frames, but the most interesting are the 600 series smartphone chips with a strong claimed 3d performance. Says Sascha Segan: According to a Marvell press release, the ARMADA 610 can render 45 million 3D triangles per second and…
I’m sure the model holding the new Samsung Digital Photo Frame 700Z 7-inch OLED photo frame at CES2010 will have a lot less clothing than this one. The frame comes with 4GB of memory and Bluetooth support. [DA via Oled-Display]
Heyzeusrollerbladingchrist. Apple has sold one billion apps since the two billion September 28 mark, reaching three billion in 98 days. That’s 30,612,244 apps per day, 1,275,510 per hour, 121,043 per minute, 350 every second. Freakingnuts. https://gizmodo.com/itunes-apps-reach-2-billion-downloads-5369268 Apple’s App Store Downloads Top Three Billion CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that more than…
It’s just a calculator. But a very nice one, designed by Canon’s camera group, and it uses recycled PowerShot lenses for the glass elements. It’s thirty dollars. Lake Success, N.Y., January 5, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the addition of the X Mark I calculator to its lineup…
