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Samsung has developed what it calls the first amorphous silicon (a-Si) single chip TFT-LCD panel that can actually reproduce colors in high resolution. What this means for mere mortals is that Samsung can make mobile devices even tinier and thinner, where one chip can do the work of numerous chips that came before it. We’re…
Acer Aspire 17-inch laptops get an update in four iterations, where all have a 1440×900 screen and offer notebook shoppers a quartet of trim choices. The 9400 (pictured above) has an Intel Pentium M processor inside, while its more sophisticated brother, the 9410, and runs with an Intel Core Duo chip. Both have ho-hum NVidia…
When you’re an elite United States Air Force pilot at the controls of an $134 million F-22A Raptor, what do you do if you get stuck inside the high-tech flyin’/fightin’ machine? What? The door won’t open?! That’s just what happened last month to a pilot with the 27th Fighter Squadron out of Langley Air Force…
The Buffalo DriveStation line of SATA USB 2.0 external drives gives you a 7200RPM serial ATA disk at less than a buck-a-gig. They’re available in capacities from 160GB ($159) to 500GB ($449) and are compatible with both Macs and PCs. We like the DriveStation’s auto power feature that turns on and off automatically with your…
Seems like we just told you about a Samsung slider yesterday, but here’s another one today, the Samsung SGH-D520, whose main claim to fame is its support for Bluetooth stereo headsets. The bad news is its USB 1.1 interface and measly 80MB of storage, where it will take you a long time to transfer those…
Inspired by graffiti, t1-12 is a living room chair that integrates healthy postures and spinal stretching into home furniture. As an alternative to lying or slouching on a couch, the t1-12 challenges convention by providing moderate to extreme stretching positions that alleviate spinal compression. A couch potato no more! — Judy Nylen Pratt Show 2006…
Get ready for another round of those kooky self-driving vehicles, where this time the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge 3 will require those robots to do a little more than just a jaunt through the desert. In this next challenge, the contestants will be required to run a 60-mile simulated urban course…
Ending a public catfight where Apple CEO Steve Jobs called various music industry types “greedy,” Apple has signed up again with four major record labels (Universal, Warner Music, Sony BMG and EMI), agreeing to continue selling individual songs for $.99 apiece. The record companies fought the iTunes single-price concept, trying to push Jobs to charge…
Our beloved brothers at Kotaku with all of their stellar sources in the retail world tell us that the Nintendo DS Lite will be available in the US on June 21, which also happens to be the first day of summer. The tipster also told Kotaku the first units will be available in white only,…
ClearOne has come out with surprisingly nice looking, multi-faceted speaker phone that is compatible with a variety of devices. The Chat 50 is a full-duplex (which means you don’t have to take turns speaking to and listening to the other person on the line) USB speakerphone that is usable with VoIP software such as Skype…
You might expect a knockoff iPod to come out of eastern Asia somewhere, but a knockoff iSight from Republican France? Say it ain’t so! Well, monsieur, it is. Introducing the cleverly-named Webcam USB 2.0 En Metal from Pearl Diffusion, a scrappy webcam that recreates the styling of Apple’s iSight without any of the associated quality.…
The makers of everybody’s favorite iPod-compatable alarm clock, the iHome, has released a new iPod docking station designed to accentuate the flair of your kitchen. The iHome iH36W is your standard alarm clock chock full of alarm clock features, such as FM radio, TV audio and those crazy weather bulletin channels, but with the added…
Imation, maker of CD and DVD media, is playing it safe with the next-gen DVD war and releasing both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Similar to the battle between DVD+R and DVD-R in the late 90s, store shelves are going to be full of incompatible DVD formats for a few years before working itself out, much to…
Teen hipsters rejoice as MVNO Helio finally launches! With plans starting at $85, $100, and $135 a month, the service comes loaded with features. Notables: Myspace integration: Post pictures directly to Myspace, write and read mail and blogs, add new friends and view profiles. Unlimited Data: Picture and text messaging, data transfer, 3G network access,…
USB DMB Tuners don’t need to be ugly—case in point, the UbiBro Artemis Q. Looking like a sexy nun with its white and black glossy finish, the USB Tuner seems more like a miniature phone than a TV tuner when it’s docked in the included receiver. Watch and record programs on the road in style.…
Infrared filters like the Kaya Optics PF4 were available accidentally on Sony cameras some years ago, before being quickly taken off the market. Since then, voyeurs have developed an extensive after-market and DIY system for these types of filters that can “see” through clothes. Kaya’s new filter allows you plug and play functionality into your…
Torq’s new GPS enabled device not only allows it to function as a navigation unit, there’s also a receiver onboard that allows it to support Traffic Message Channel (TMC) functionality. This means real time traffic conditions which allow you to make changes to your route accordingly. Other features like GSM quad band (850, 900, 1800,…
Rumor and Speculation Rumor: OS X Leopard To Have BitTorrent Client for iTunes Store https://gizmodo.com/rumor-os-x-leopard-to-have-bittorrent-client-for-itune-170791 News iPod Vending Machine In Action 10 Home Theatre Gifts for Mom 3D Photography with the Horseman 3D Joytech HD 9.2-inch LCD for 360 Napster Sort Of Kind Of But Not Really Free Again Video Spy Glasses, a Surefire Way…
Mac OS Rumors says an Apple insider and long-time regular tipster of theirs has told them the next version of the Mac OS X, 10.5, will have a BitTorrent client built-in: “Leopard” will include a system-level “BitTorrent” filesharing client that can be user-customized to ‘donate’ upstream Internet bandwidth for things like pushing Software Update packages…
We’ll probably never buy anything expensive from an iPod vending machine, except maybe a cable, like if we were on a trip and had left ours at home, but damn if this video of it going through its paces isn’t strangely mesmerizing. Would you ever be comfortable spending hundreds of dollars at a vending machine?…