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After being merely a tease on our senses, the Motorola A1200 has finally shipped with a brand new name. The renamed Motorola Ming is still has all of the same specs that we reported on back in December. The best feature being the 2.0-megapixel camera that includes optical character recognition (OCR) for business card scanning…
If you live in New York, unless you’re incredibly rich or choose to live out in the boondocks an hour’s train ride from Manhattan, chances are very high that your apartment is small small small. Most of us have combination living/dining spaces that don’t really have room for living or dining, so I’ve been trying…
The prize for creating a method to boot Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac has been won. Contest organizer Colin Nederkoorn announced on his website this morning that the total prize money of $13,854 will be awarded to two California men he referred to as narf and blanka, and added that he has tested the…
Just a quick heads-up: ExtremeTech—one of the only Ziff Davis publications we can not only read, but enjoy—is hiring a full-time reporter for their Silicon Valley offices. Considerable experience, we’re sure, is necessary. When ExtremeTech launched a few years ago we were dubious—it seemed a clear attempt by a (relative) publishing giant to co-opt the…
Until now, if you were looking for a clamshell-style WiFi VoIP phone, you were out of luck. But D-Link changes all that with its DPH-540, a phone that lets you make free calls anywhere you can find a WiFi hotspot. This one has a soft phone on board from global Internet telephone provider TelTel, whose…
Here’s a GPS device by E-Ten with a nicely-pixeled 3.5″ 320×240 LCD display, and once this Pathfinder has helped to find your way, you can watch TV on it and listen to the radio, too. In fact, this is almost an Origami tablet, running Windows CE 5.0, with a 400MHz Samsung 2440 processor onboard. Nothing…
Nokia is using its and E60 and N80 (pictured at left)) devices to study whether you really can have it all: voice and data on both fixed lines and on the road. The Finnish phone giant has gotten together with the Deutsche Telekom group and announced T-One, an integrated dual-mode telephony system that’s aiming to…
News Dada Code M MP3 Player Shoes Orb, Wireless Router for The House of Tomorrow Upload CDs Directly to The iPod With The iUpload Logitech io 2 Digital Pen Gets an Upgrade Cellphone Camera Hinders Subway Flasher RoadPro Portable Frying Pan New Colors for Motorola PEBL Eclipse TD508II Time Domain Speakers Memorex Announces FlashDisc MacIntel…
Victorinox has been making Swiss Army knives with USB drives for a while now, but their Swiss Beat MP3 Player has got to be the first gadget that will both let you listen to Michael Bolton’s “Time, Love and Tenderness” as well as slit someone’s carotid artery. Swiss Beat is a removable USB flash-based 1GB…
UK design students Joie de Winter and Michael Leung designed the 72 degrees shelf for a very specific teenage need—the need to secret a porn stash away from the prying eyes of parents, siblings and visitors. The shelf has a secret compartment built-in that can only be opened with a ring. Named after the average…
Samsung announced the YP-F2 media player at this year’s CeBIT trade show, so light at just twenty one grams that you can easily wear it as a necklace with the provided earphones. The YP-F2 plays the MP3, WMA, OGG and WAV formats and has a battery life of twelve hours; it should be available in…
You can get refrigerators with TVs in them these days, so perhaps Dada’s new Code M mp3-playing basketball shoes—the first in their Wireless Footwear System—aren’t too ridiculous. They can broadcast your music to your wireless headphones if you want to keep your music to yourself, or play your music over the built-in speakers in the…
Yeah, the wireless router that you now have in the corner gets the job done, but the Orb will get it done in style. Designed by Liteon Technology Corp., this wireless router consists of two parts: (1) a network home plug that plugs into the wall and sends the network s signal through the electrical…
If, for whatever reason, you really don t like having to use iTunes to rip and transfer songs to your iPod, Taiwan-based Zettabyte may just have what you re looking for: the iUpload connects directly to the iPod (or any other MP3 player) and transfers music in MP3 format via USB that the unit rips…
Logitech has unveiled a nice upgrade to their io2 Digital Pen. The new pen will be priced at $150 and include much improved handwriting recognition. A new gesture system will also be added that will ease the process of transforming notes. The pen can automatically send notes to e-mail or Word documents. The included software…
A 15-year-old girl has taken a step to beating New York City flashers with the help of her digital camera. A man who was flashing on the subway was identified when the girl snapped a picture of him—his face, not his junk. The NYPD has released the photo with hopes of catching the perpetrator. Cellphone…
Not being big on road trips, I could happily do without most of RoadPro’s travel accessories—Pizza in the car? That’s stupid. Coffee maker? I don’t drink coffee.—but something deep within my soul made me fall fast and hard for their portable frying pan. $27.50 for this brilliant gadget that plugs into your car’s cigarette lighter…
Four new colors have been announced for the Motorola PEBL: pink, green, orange and blue. If you’ll remember, they’ve got pink versions of both the RAZR and SLVR out as well—please raise your hands if you ever thought way back in the StarTac era that Motorola would be releasing one pink phone, let alone three.…
Speakers keep getting smaller and smaller as their sound gets bigger, and here’s a pair of swank satellites that fit the bill perfectly, the Eclipse TD508II Time Domain speakers. Successor to the TD508 model from Eclipse, the TD508II offers greater dynamic range by using high-density zinc components inside. You gotta love that bullet shape, too,…
The Memorex FlashDisc takes a USB flash drive (UFD) and engineers it into a familiar disk-shaped form factor. The idea here is to make these as inexpensively as possible, so people will be comfortable giving them away or passing them around. The little disks are just 2.3 inches in diameter, and they re flat, making…