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The major reason cellphone cameras blow chunks is because no one wants chunky cellphones, so we’re stuck with slim, wide-angle lenses. Some researchers at UCSD have come up with a way using mirrors to increase a lens’ focal length, resulting in some telephoto magic in a lens that’s “seven times as thin as a traditional,…
EVDO Blackberry Pearl coming to Sprint [Gearlog]
WThe HTC Touch, with it’s gesture based UI tweaks on top of a WM6 OS was a cute concept, but flawed. Sprint’s picking it up, giving it CDMA/EVDO superpowers, doubling the processing speed from 200MHz to 400MHz to deal with Bill’s Bloat, and eventual revision A. speed, and assisted GPS, once they software update it.…
The Sprint Tech summit happened today and Palm unveiled the Palm Centro to analysts today. Gearlog has a hands on, saying that it runs on EVDO, is targeted at youngsters, and has a QWERTY and touchscreen, as we could have gathered from the leaked shots and carrier. The price? An unbelievable $99, and supposedly, it’ll…
It’s just an AM/FM radio. It doesn’t go “Doh!” or “WooHoo!” or sing “Spiderpig, Spiderpig!”But somehow, this giant Homer head radio, almost a foot tall, is good enough to make me think about buying it.
Kay Eye Es Es Eye En Gee. [ContactMusic]
Here are some UFOs flying over the beaches of Hawaii on August 6th. Here are some experimental Air Force planes passing by. Ah, the wonders of (amazing) computer graphics and brain implants. [Thank you, CIA, DoD, Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer and Fox News] https://gizmodo.com/cia-vatican-fox-news-undercover-agents-alter-wikipedi-289853
Samsung announced the launch of their new AV-R720 receiver that will be on display at this year’s IFA Expo. In addition to its 850 watts of juice, the receiver boasts 1080p support, 7.1 audio, 2 HDMI in/out jacks, along with the standard fare of component, composite and coaxial inputs. There is no photo as of…
Samsung’s putting itself back in the game with these YP-S5 and YP-T10 digital audio players. Joining the other DAP official at IFA, that YP-P2. Like the P2, these two have Bluetooth for we’d assume audio streaming purposes…and according to that image above, at least the S5 can work as a Bluetooth dialpad and headset mixer…
The new Samsung YP-P2 will be at IFA 2007 as expected, in all its slim sleeky glory, wide 480 х 234 pixel touch-screen, new DSNe sound system, calendar, radio and Bluetooth connectivity. We will be in Berlin to lick it in September. You can drool over it again in the video after the jump now.…
Not quite as groundbreaking as Wang Computers‘ word processor, XtremeNotebooks is offering the first Quad-Core Intel processors in laptops at a price of over $10,000 per unit fully stocked. The XTreme 917 has a Core 2 Quad Q6000 processor with dual NVidia processors and almost 1TB of hard drive space, which means that unless this…
The LE46F84BD Samsung F8 LCD TV has two notable features. First is of course, the 1080p support. Second is its 100Hz support, which isn’t quite 120Hz, but it’s something. Whether that something is good, we don’t know, but at least there’s 3 HDMI ports, a 25,000:1 contrast ratio, and “superCLEAR” panel coating. [Samsung] https://gizmodo.com/the-trouble-with-lcd-tvs-motion-blur-and-the-120hz-sol-290237
The Fin clamshell is Helio’s best looking piece of hardware, bar none. (And pun intended.) Samsung’s Ultra designers made sure of that, giving the phone an 11.4mm thick profile, OLED external screen, and sturdy magnesium shell, making it almost as thin as an iPhone, but not quite as slim as a candybar like the Sony…
Wireless Info took the T-Mobile Hotspot@Home Wi-Fi + Cellular service into their own Batcave (similar to ours when we played with it) and subjected it to all sorts of tests. The result? Equally good sound quality on both the cell network and Wi-Fi, but a slightly glitchy handoff when going from Wi-Fi to cell (cell…
This was an off-the-shelf Optimus Prime model – “was” being the operative word – before a model-modder by the name of Pairadocs painstakingly repainted and modified it to create this “Optimus Prime Protoform.” It’s an amazing piece of craftsmanship and a straight-out badass model. Hit the jump to hear how he made it. I saw…
It’s a green time for the electronics biz and today Sony has announced that they want to leapfrog the competition with their Sony Take Back Recycling program. They are teaming up with Waste Management’s WM Recycle America division to recycle your electronics, but this deal makes customers go to one of 75 physical locations—the bulk…
The slightly thinner PSP 2000, or PSP Slim, is up for pre-order now on Amazon. The ship date is September 2007, so if you don’t want to fight the crowds in stores buying all those crazy good games for the Xbox 360 coming soon, you should probably order up now. [Amazon via Gay Gamer via…
Hold the new Brando MP4 Watch II like Dick Tracy and watch movies, record conversations, listen to music and even read e-books until you go blind. Hold its new 1.8-inch screen like Conan the Barbarian holds his shield and you will be able to defend yourself against all kinds of attacks. Jump for full specs…
If you’re looking for another reason why Japan looks upon us like we look upon third world countries, take crane games. We have a robotic crane we control with a joystick, but Japan has a robotic ROBOT that they control with buttons. Players move the robot around to collect one of many cute dolls—one of…
Toshiba’s Gigabeat U-Series player is tiny—tinier than a Meizu, which is already pretty tiny. It holds 2 gigabytes of songs, has an FM Radio, comes with 30 days of free Yahoo Music and costs only $100. Not too shabby, eh? Check our gallery to see some close-up shots and how it stacks up with the…