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Oh LG.Philips, you are a cruel cruel mistress. You teased us with your flexible 4,096 A4 electronic paper last year and now you are at it again with a new bendy model of the same 14.3-inch size, now with 16 million colors, 1.280 x 800 pixels and 7,000 hours between charges using a typical battery.…
The Skinny: MediaSmart 1080p LCD TVs are coming of age—both the $1,900 42″ and the $2,400 47″ will have built-in Microsoft Media Center Extender connectivity and an improved higher-contrast panel (2000:1). They have 3 HDMI ports, 2 component inputs, integrated Wi-Fi in A, B, G, and N flavors and Ethernet. Has ATSC and QAM Tuners…
If you lack the wherewithal to afford one of HP’s dandy new MediaSmart TVs, you can get the next best thing, a $300 HP x280N MediaSmart Receiver for your plain old non-connected HDTV. https://gizmodo.com/hp-mediasmart-sl4282n-and-sl4782n-hdtv-with-media-cente-339899 It runs HP’s own MediaSmart interface and can download movies from CinemaNow (with help from a PC), but it also has…
The December 24, 1949 Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, MO) ran an Associated Press article titled, “Authorities Predict Gals Will ‘Rise’ to New Heights by 2000.” An excerpt along with the piece in its entirety appear below. “Nature seems bent on producing a new race of Amazons. Within the next 50 years you’ll find the…
The Skinny: Lenovo’s launching their IdeaPad Notebook line and they’ve got textured magnesium covers, 11.1-inch widescreen, SSD options, weigh 2.5 pounds, have a 1.3mp camera, touch sensitive multimedia controls and face recognition biometric logins. And Santa Rosa chips. Thinkpad heritage FTW. The Catch:No ultraportable can be called great without an LED backlight.
The Skinny: HP updates the HDX Dragon, its beastly 20-inch gaming notebook, with a shiny new gamer-worthy 1080p res screen: The world’s “first 20.1-inch WUXGA XHD Ultra BrightView widescreen display” and a fresh 512MB GeForce 8800M GTS plus newer Core 2s to pump all those pixels. The Drag: It still weighs about as much as…
Hitachi’s upping the notebook 2.5-inch storage game to the 500GB level, which means that you’ll have much, much more space to store all your eBooks and comics to take with you on the go. The Travelstar 5K500 will be available in 400GB or 500GB models, and have optional Bulk Data Encryption for drive-level security. It…
HP is also dropping a pair of updated desktops and monitors for CES. First up, the HP Pavilion Slimline s3330f is a media-oriented machine, now with a sweet Dual Format Blu-Ray and HD-DVD player, plus a TV tuner and GeForce 8500 vid card with an HDMI port to connect to an HDTV. It comes in…
The Skinny: HP’s new tx2000 Entertainment Notebook (really a tablet) sequelizes its tx1000 tablet with a slight design change, a new Wacom digitizer “optimized for hand-writing capture” with a rechargeable eraser pen, updated chips and a snazzier skin. The Catch: N-Trig’s DuoSense tech takes every other tablet down a couple of pegs. https://gizmodo.com/will-n-trig-duosense-power-the-apple-tablet-333083
The Skinny: The mv2120 Media Vault, a junior Linux-based server with the Photo Webshare and iTunes server functionality of its big brother but a much lower cost. (They’ll start at $300.) As for the big guy, he’s getting some much needed updates come February, including server-side anti-virus software from McAfee; improved media streaming to Media…
Click to viewDell has flaunted this gorgeous monitor for a while in various trade shows and press events, always saying that it’s just a design concept and not available yet. That all changes now, because the 22-inch Dell Crystal LCD display is suddenly a real product. Just in time for CES, this beauty is set…
You’d think that most companies are going down the cheap, low-end laptop route (Eee PC) in order to differentiate themselves and bring in more customers, but Lenovo is one brand that still focuses on shoving in as many features as possible. Their IdeaPad Y710 and Y510 laptops are focused at both entertainment and general-use users,…
Click to viewPointui is an app that sits on top of Windows Mobile 5/6 in order to skin it into something actually usable. It’s so awesome that I actually made a movie out of it, including Jesus-style subtitles, so that you guys can see just how awesome it is. (Have I said that it’s awesome?)…
Macscoop is saying that there will be copy/paste in iPhone 1.1.3 firmware. If they’re wrong, Jesus says we get to go to their houses and beat them with an iron bar (they also have to post Jesus’s picture on their front page). [MacScoop via Macrumors]
This rendition of a robot from the comic Tillie the Toiler ran in the October 16, 1933 Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI). See also: Mammy vs Robot (Charleston Gazette, 1937) Donald Duck’s “Modern Inventions” (1937)
Jim Jannard, the rambunctious Oakley founder and Red HD camera revolutionary has taken a leak into his own hands and confirmed that the company’s next camera, a pocketable pro dubbed Scarlet, will be shown at this year’s NAB. Jim: I’m glad you’re pushing the tech toward consumers. This sounds like an interesting dovetail with the…
People love coffee, I get it. But spending $11,000 on a machine that produces one cup of “heavenly” coffee at a time is just plain stupid. It pours water over a bean, people. The device was developed by Clover for cafe owners looking to charge a premium (like $22 apparently) for a 12oz cup of…
We saw this Belkin wireless high definition video streamer in a blurry shot, but had little clue what it was. Months ago, we saw an impressive demo by Amimon of true HD over wireless, up to 1080p using a standard called WHDI, but it was nothing more than parts you couldn’t buy. No more. Belkin…
If you love Doraemon, you will really love this voice activated remote control…controller. Just sync the air pistol up to your remotes and then put the gun on your finger. Every time you say “bang” you can turn on the tv, control the DVD player and more. When not in use, the finger gun rests…
AppleInsider reports that there will be something “super secret” unveiled at a January 16 Final Cut Pro group, held a day after Steve Jobs’ January 15 Macworld keynote. What it is is unknown (obviously, because it’s a secret), but will probably not be the next version of Final Cut Studio. It could be an updated…