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Turntablist PC , (Jacobsen, 2004) Interview/Article by Jonah Brucker-Cohen As technology gains ubiquity in popular culture, the rules and contexts that govern its use have begun to draw our attention. From lawsuits against Napster to federal hearings about Microsoft s Internet Explorer, the problem of digital rights management is becoming a mainstream phenomenon. Exploring this…
A Space.com article took at look at Doug Beason’s book, The E-Bomb: How America’s New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Wars Will Be Fought in the Future, shorten the title of that book for sakes. The Space.com article is reporting that the book says that the U.S. is close to deploying a new…
In response to the rapid increase in the number of mobile phones being used as music players in Japan, NEC Electronics has developed a dedicated SLI chip for audio. This is a companion chip made specifically to enhance audio in cellphones. It has a CPU dedicated to music play, a digital signal processor and a…
Fathers of teenage daughters, listen very carefully to us. There is a service called iText. It will allow your daughter to text message for free. Still with us? Haven’t fainted? Good. iText works by downloading its Java-based program to your mobile phone and allowing you to text message with it for free. Of course, you’ll…
The Coby V-ZON portable DVD player was made, as you can see, basically for kids. With just a 3.5-inch LCD and shockproof technology that plays DVDs, CDs and MP3, it’s easy to tote, simple to use and comes with a rechargeable battery that will last 6 hours for music and 2.5 hours for movies. Nothing…
Three new 3G mobile phones from “au” are coming on the market in Japan in February. The first is the compact and basic model A5518SA that carries a 1.3 megapixel camera, FM radio, infrared communication function, miniSD card slot and a dispersion type sound recognition function for “input by voice” (this is known as Hallo…
Sheesh, MacWorld hasn’t even cooled off and ArsTechnica is already pushing rumors about the next big thing from Apple. Specifically, they are getting everyone all hot and bothered for the iCell. This heavy breathing is based on a trademark filing submitted by Apple on January 5. “According to the filings, Mobile Me relates to a…
Here’s another couple of cameras shown off at CES. Pentax had its compact Optio A10 with 8 megapixels and a 1.8-inch CCD with its own “shake reduction” technology. Whether any of these motion-stopping technologies work is still a mystery, but I guess it’s good to have it in there just in case. Though if your…
PSP fans, you are oficially allowed to rejoice now. Sony has announced it will now start manufacturing 4GB and 8GB MemoryStick Pro Duo cards. The only other use for these will be VAIO owners not looking to cart around an external hard disk with them. At least now you’ll have plenty of room for both…
Blancier, a sexy little watchmaker in Germany, offers completely custom mechanical watches via a Flash web interface. You pick the bands, the face, the hands, and you can even bling it out for a little over $560 a pop, more for the gold stuff. Anyway, they just came out with a new face, the Regulator,…
If you’re the guy who is still in love with his Nokia 2110, we’re pretty sure an “upgrade” to this will make you feel right at home. Meet the TelePaq A8, a mini-sized, triband GSM phone with zero frills. It’s got a camera for taking pictures, but only at .3MP. Yikes. It’s also got a…
Some of us like to listen to our iPods quite a bit despite the stereo being in the other room. Eventually the iPod battery runs out, we cry, and life ends. Well no longer shall we suffer with XtremeMac’s MicroPack, a battery and awesome dock for your iPod. It adds up to 80 hours of…
The Motorola V300 has come a long way since it debuted and now it’s taken the form of the V361 which just got approved by the FCC. It’s got a digital audio player that plays MP3 and AAC files which is quite a nice feature for a non-ROKR phone. Could this mean it will be…
Here’s yet another LCD TV to gander at. You may not have heard of Syntax-Brillian, but the company’s been in the HDTV game for about a year now, and have brought out a line of LCD HDTVs with 1080p resolution. Called the Olevia&Signature line, the LT42HVi and LT47HVi are 42- and 47-inch TVs (respectively) with…
In a show of solidarity for the digital movement, Japanese camera maker Nikon has decided to pretty much cancel all film camera production—except for a very few professional products, like the F6 (and its manual interchangeable lenses). Believe it or not, with Nikon’s targeted approach to cameras, it is one of the only companies in…
Students at SUNY Morrisville college are soooooooo stoked. Looks like All Season Services has brought Shop24, an automated convenience store, to the US and plopped it right down in the middle of their campus. Forget Turkey Hill or 7-11, this baby is open 24 hours a day and can provide you with almost anything your…
Realizing that GPS cellphone technology can do more than show you the closest Starbucks, Kyoto University has partnered with the research arm of Japanese cellphone carrier KDDI to see how mobile phones with GPS could be used to help with evacuations in a disaster area. Using about 30 students equipped with GPS phones, a computer…
In one of the boldest attempts to blame technology for their problems, a poll by Developing Patient Partnerships (DPP) in Britain showed that more than a third of men, and just a quarter of women, turn to booze when their computers crash or cause them trouble. I mean, wow. Almost a third of folks said…
Coming soon to an airplane near you: Fast Internet connections and low-cost phone service. That’s right, there’s a good chance you won’t have to watch that terrible movie starring Queen Latifah on your next cross-country flight. Instead, you’ll be able to surf the web using broadband—or even make use of those silly expensive phones always…
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