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Hitachi Shows off PJ-TX300 Cine Master 720p LCD projector

Hitachi rolled out its PJ-TX300 Cine Master projector, an 720p LCD box aimed at the home theater market. Rolled out in Germany at IFA 2006, it’s packing some serious specs, with a 10,000:1 contrast ratio, an HDMI socket, 10-bit video processing and three LCDs shining at a brightness of 1200 ANSI lumens. With its rounded…

Tech News Charlie White

PS3 Delayed In Europe Until March 2007

Sony has announced that the PlayStation 3 will not be released in Europe until March 2007, some four months after the original November launch date. Citing production problems involving the console’s Blu-ray disc drive, outspoken Sony bigwig Ken Kutaragi insisted that it will still be released on time in Japan and North America, the company’s…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Ferrari-Skinned Becker Traffic Assist Pro 7929 GPS

You know GPS navigation devices have achieved commodity status when you see one all gussied up like a Ferrari, but that doesn’t mean we’re not lusting after this Becker Traffic Assist Pro 7929 GPS with the Ferrari logo skinned all over it. It looks a lot like the Becker Traffic Assist 7914, and includes what’s…

Gadgets Charlie White

JVC Quietly Intros Everio Hard Disk-Based HD Camcorder

In the back rooms of IFA Germany, JVC quietly rolled out the latest addition to its Everio line of camcorders, and it’s a pocket-sized HD model, said to be the first hard-disk-based HD shooter. It will use a 3CCD sensor to record its yummy HD at 1920x1080i. Pricing and availability weren’t forthcoming yet. JVC Everio…

Tech News Charlie White

Korean Air Bans Dell and Apple Laptops

Joining Qantas, Korean Air is banning both Apple and Dell laptops on all its flights. The ban affects all Dells, but only iBooks and Powerbooks, not MacBooks and MacBook Pros. The good news is, if passengers take out the battery and place them into checked luggage, Korean Air says everything’s hunky dory. The other Korean…

Tech News Jason Chen

PSP Download Service Launching Simultaneously With PS3

The upcoming PSP download service that’s going to allow you to watch movies and play Playstation 1 games on your PSP is launching simultaneously with the PS3. Sony’s head of platform development says there’s no problem running the PS1 games on the PSP using an emulator, which is good news in a time where bad…

Tech News Jason Chen

LightInSight Wide Angle Windshield Lens Lets You see Traffic Lights Easily

When you’re first in line at a light, it may be hard to see what the traffic lights are without straining your neck and leaning forward like a giraffe in heat. LightInSight solves your problem by sticking onto the top of your windshield, refracting light in such a way so you can see when red…

Gadgets Jason Chen

HTC to Make Phones More Music Friendly, Remove IR Port, and Possibly Use Symbian OS

Everyone knows I’m the resident HTC fanboy around here, so it’s no surprise that I’m bringing you news that HTC is going to add more internal flash memory to its phones to make them more music-friendly. Whether they’re going to do that by embedding an internal music player besides Windows Media Player or add some…

Tech News Jason Chen

Gisele Stars In a New Apple Ad

We already know that Victoria’s Secret Models like MacBooks, and now we know why. Gisele is featured in a new “Get A Mac” ad as a, we guess, visual representation of how Macs are so much better looking and skinnier than PCs. An unfair characterization, but it is funny to see Travis finally getting an…

Tech News Jason Chen

Samsung SGH-i600 Is Yet Another Motorola Q Contender

The Samsung SGH-i600 runs Windows Mobile 5, just like the Motorola Q, but is tri-band GSM instead of Verizon’s CDMA. Other notable features: EDGE, HSDPA (yay for Cingulites), 320×240 TFT display, 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM, microSD expansion slot, and a TI OMAP 1710 processor that goes up to 220MHz. I personally enjoy WM5 phones, even…

Gadgets Jason Chen

UTStarcom F3000 WiFi VoIP Phone Works With SIP, Not Skype

The UTStarcom F3000 WiFi Phone doesn’t work on Skype, but it does the next best thing, SIP. It supports SDP, RTP/RTCP, RFC2833/inband DTMF, and supports the G.711 and G.729 codecs. Both these codecs are higher quality codecs than standard landline phones, which means there’s actually a benefit in using VoIP other than for the cost.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Pantech IM-U140 Auto-Popup Sliding Phone With DMB

This Pantech IM-U140, which looks quite similar to my T-Mobile MDA, has an auto-popup screen that moves up to a 30-degree angle when users press the button. The screen is 2.6-inches wide, is QVGA, and plays back DMB TV. The phone itself has a 3 megapixel camera and PictBridge, so you can print out the…

Tech News Jason Chen

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Nokia’s NYC Disco-Store

Want to know what it’s like inside the Nokia flagship store in NYC? Take the disco floor from Saturday Night Fever, slow the color changes down to “mellow” and put it on two long walls. Underneath the disco-floor walls place a long row of screens playing videos of replicants in repose. And beneath that line…

Tech News Noah Robischon

myFairTunes6 Strips DRM Off iTunes Tracks

If you enjoyed sticking it to the man with the FairUse4WM WMA DRM stripper, you’ll love myFairTunes6. This software strips DRM from your iTunes Music Store songs without re-encoding. This makes it a hell of a lot easier than the previous method of burning and then ripping your songs, which causes a bit of quality…

Tech News Jason Chen

HydraCoach: Nags You Til You Drink

HydraCoach isn’t the Drill Sargeant of some evil military organization. It’s not the beast master of a mythical multi-headed serpent. No, its a polycarbonate nalgene-type bottle that calculates how much water you should be drinking, reminding you to sip throughout the day until you’ve met your quota. Shows your daily intake in terms of percent.…

Tech News Brian Lam

Dealzmodo Supplemental: Buy a $24 iPod Car Charger, Get 20 Free iTunes Songs

If you’re looking to buy a car charger or PocketDock adapter for your iPod, grab one at SendStation for $24.95 ($22.95 for PocketDock Adapter) and get 20 free iTunes songs. If you were going to spend $20 on iTunes anyway, you’re getting a pretty good deal on the charger. If you don’t use iTunes, then…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Verizon’s Nokia 6215i Is The First US OLED Phone

The 6215i is the first cellphone in the US with an OLED display. Why is that important? Because it’s the tip of the OLED spear, a display technology which may just replace LCDs in cellphones sometime within the next few years. This phone has two displays, one 128×128 and one 96×64, that are both OLED.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Xbox Live Vision Camera Hands On (Verdict: Rockin’)

Kotaku’s Crecente has got his hands and face all over the Xbox Live Vision Camera, taking it for a Crecente-ride in the Crecente-room. His Crecente-thoughts? Easy to use to set up a personal gamerpic. A few steps and some manual dragging and focusing later, his Crecente-mug was up as his gamerpic. He didn’t get a…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Hitachi Shows off PJ-TX300 Cine Master 720p LCD projector

PS3 Delayed In Europe Until March 2007

Ferrari-Skinned Becker Traffic Assist Pro 7929 GPS

JVC Quietly Intros Everio Hard Disk-Based HD Camcorder

Korean Air Bans Dell and Apple Laptops

PSP Download Service Launching Simultaneously With PS3

LightInSight Wide Angle Windshield Lens Lets You see Traffic Lights Easily

HTC to Make Phones More Music Friendly, Remove IR Port, and Possibly Use Symbian OS

Gisele Stars In a New Apple Ad

Samsung SGH-i600 Is Yet Another Motorola Q Contender

UTStarcom F3000 WiFi VoIP Phone Works With SIP, Not Skype

Pantech IM-U140 Auto-Popup Sliding Phone With DMB

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