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Will keyboard players finally get some love from their bandmates if they can record them in multitrack splendor? Alesis has built a high-end hard disk recorder right into the Alesis Fusion keyboard synth. They’re certainly not the first to do that, but what they’ve done is remove the sticker shock: this instrument was already a…
BenQ Mobile’s just announced six new phones at CeBIT ’06, including the P51 smartphone at left. It runs Windows Mobile 5.0 OS, has a 2.83″ QVGA TFT color touchscreen (240×320 pixels), Bluetooth, Push email (like the Blackberry), a 1.3 megapixel camera, USB and an integrated GPS receiver. The first phone in BenQ-Siemens’s new P Class…
The Toshiba Satellite M100 Series Notebook PC is now available, and it’s got pretty good specs, especially considering its lower-than-usual price. Inside is an Intel Core Duo T2300 chip running at 1.83GHz. Its 14-inch diagonal widescreen display has a native resolution of 1280×768, and it also includes 512 MB of DDR2 SDRAM and a 60GB…
NVIDIA is stepping up to the next level in the graphics card wars, set to announce its latest weapons, the Geforce 7900GTX (pictured above) and its slightly less-capable sibling, the Geforce 7900GT. The GTX core runs at 650MHz while its memory zips along at 1600MHz. By comparison, the lesser GT has a 450MHz core speed…
In the comments for yesterday’s Origami revealed post, strangeweather said: https://gizmodo.com/origami-revealed-its-a-7-inch-tablet-pc-platform-158988 Two things this form factor is perfect for: 1. A portable movie player — it’s about the same form factor as a portable DVD player, only you can rip a bunch of DVDs and store them all on board. 2. A web surfing device.…
Here’s another Origami-compatible computer; this one is the Samsung Q1 which was shown in a preview at CeBIT. It has a 900MHz Intel Celeron chip inside with 500MB of RAM. It s also packing Bluetooth, WLAN, and WiFi 802.11a/g. More information is forthcoming from our intrepid reporters now on the ground (but not yet in…
Just when you thought USB drives were as small as they could get, along comes the ATP Electronics Petito USB 2.0 drive that gives new meaning to the word tiny. To be offered in capacities up to a gigabyte, the thing even has a hook on the top, where you could thread a chain through…
The day where you can say goodbye to lame laptop batteries draws near, as a preproduction unit of the UltraCell XX25 micro fuel cell system was demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum. The power source s methanol fuel can keep a laptop going for two days. These fuel cells are hot-swappable, too, so they could…
If you’ve spilled one too many brewskis all over the poker table, you need the Drink Hold em, a better way to keep that drink out of harm’s way while you bluff that sucker across the table. It has an adjustable sleeve to accommodate a variety of sizes of cans, bottles glasses and cups. This…
No kidding, this brain-to-computer interface will be shown at CeBIT this week, and it uses 128 electrodes placed on the scalp to translate thoughts into cursor movements on a computer screen. The project is being run by the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology in Berlin. The concept is still in its infancy,…
Now that we know Origami is nothing but a glorified media player with DRM slathered all over it, it’s time for other media players to come out of the woodwork, such as the Elentec iubi blue Compact Bluetooth PMP. This one has a 4.3-inch LCD (take that, video iPod), and it claims to support music…
The Memory Ball Alarm and Radio from Uncommon Goods lets you change stations by moving a metal ball onto different sections of the grid on top. You can program nine FM stations and nine AM stations on its grid, and it either uses batteries or you can plug it in. Now if they could just…
Looks like Thanko has put its USB-powered ash tray goofiness behind it and created a peripheral that’s actually useful, a stealthy USB foot switch that lets you switch applications quickly without jumping for those alt/tab keys. Now you can quickly jump away from all that porn and into something seemingly productive in a split second.…
Old enough to remember thinking Star Trek 3D Chess looked really cool but, you know, you just really weren’t into chess? You’ll get a kick out of the Zocker Toys 3D Pool Table. Three levels to play on, you start on the top level and try to get your balls into the bottom pockets—the tricky…
Seagate will launch a wireless USB portable hard drive at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week. The company revealed a prototype of a 1.8-inch wireless USB drive at CES in January, and surprises us with this 2.5-inch portable wireless USB hard drive that it will be showing in the next day or…
An anonymous reader writes: [The above image] is in fact a screen shot of the emulator MS has been providing to their software partners – which also look similar to the reference design MS created. The interface under is not windowblinds as one commenter posted, but is program launcher that will ship on the devices.…
CeBIT, the world’s largest technology show, is getting ready to head into full swing, so start expecting many more biggest/smallest device announcements over the next few days. Case in point: LG.Philips’s newly-announced 100-inch LCD panel. LG.Philips is claiming a resolution of 6.22 million pixels, which puts it well over the resolution necessary to support full…
E-TEN has announced the G500, a Windows Mobile 5 smartphone with a built-in GPS receiver that foregoes any external antenna. Using a quad-band GSM radio—which means it should work just about everywhere in the world—the G500 also supports Traffic Message Channel (TMC), a service that allows updates regarding traffic congestion to be broadcast to the…
Palm Infocenter is running a rumor from one of their readers that details the specs and release date of the Palm OS-based Treo 700p. Saying he was shown an internal Sprint webpage with the information, the reader says to expect the launch of an EVDO-capable Treo 700p in May or June, running Palm OS Garnet…
Intel has videos up showing more Origami/UMPC prototypes and scenarios in which they’d be used (including, thank heavens, a model with a sub-notebook/tablet design). Lots of happy, beautiful folks use their UMPCs to instant message, watch videos, sync up videogame save states, and respond to email—all using an interface that looks considerably different than regular…