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“Wouldn’t it be great if you could just take a CD and throw it on your iPod? You could put your music straight onto this device.” Phillip Torrone presents a Make Magazine presentation on how to convert video for the iPod. “We’re used to being able to do that. But people ask me, ‘When I…
What looks more like a controller for MS Flight Simulator is really a new mouse designed for people who have carpal tunnel syndrome. It allows your arm, shoulder, and hand to relax, kick back, and let your wrist and fingers do the work. Wait a sec. Isn’t that a bad thing? Not necessarily. It allows…
SanDisk is trying to take on the DAP market with their Sansa e200 MP3 Player. A very nice-looking player, it’s got that thin form factor everybody is nuts about right now and comes in three sizes: 6GB, 4GB, and 2GB using microSD. This caters to a broader range of people who may not need 2GB…
So Apple goes and says that the new MacBook Pro is going to have an ExpressCard slot. So of course all the PC Card manufacturers will chant Apple’s name and will start releasing more and more ExpressCards, especially since Dell and HP plan to incorporate ExpressCard slots in their laptops soon. This is the first…
Perhaps your parents or relatives are into tech and grew up on all things nostalgic. Dr. Who, Disney cartoons, Howdy Doody and such. Now’s the time to score them a vintage-styled USB drive with Mickey and Minnie Mouse themes. These excellent-looking drives look right out of the 1950s and even have fake stiching and accents…
What makes an iPod more EXTREME? Of course, adding a convenient voice recorder to it. XtremeMac announced its MicroMemo voice recorder at Macworld. This is designed for the fifth-generation iPod and it takes full advantage of the hi-fi audio capabilities for 16-bit recording. It includes a flexible mic or allows for external mics to be…
This is the latest and greatest iPod accessory to come from Griffin. At first glance the TuneCenter may appear to be an ordinary looking dock, but plug that sucker in and the magic comes to life. The TuneCenter can turn your iPod into a complete home media center. Your television screen will become the new…
If you’re in the market for a new digital camera, give the new Ricoh Caplio R30 a try. The cheaper follow-up to the original Caplio R3 camera, the R30 looks to have lots of great features. You’ll be getting 5.13 megapixels with this bad boy and 5.7x optical zooming capability. This camera includes a newly-developed…
My OGs over at Revolution Report have an interview up with ATI’s PR Manager John Swinimer regarding ATI’s place in development of the Revolution and other ATI Revolution-related goodies. It’s a good read to learn about some differences between the console and PC manufacturing of graphical chipsets. Here is the highlight quote from the interview:…
With a name that sounds like it came out of American Gladiators, the Logitech S530 Keyboard and Mouse are designed specifically for the Mac. You’ll be getting that totally awesome all-white finish, as well as decent peripherals for your money. The keyboard comes with dedicated iTunes controls and a totally insane battery life: 6 months.…
For MP3 player junkies like myself, I nearly befoul myself when my phone rings and I’m trying to take out the headphones, get out my phone, check the caller ID and finally answer it. myTalker is solving this age-old problem with a handy little device that can interact with your cell phone to turn your…
The concept is nothing new here, but the Plustek OptiCard 820 does have a different form factor from most portable USB scanners. Plus, the company claims its product is easier to use with just two buttons (Scan and Business Card Reader) and comes with I.R.I.S Cardiris 3.5 software, which organizes and manages the data into…
Give Pixound Jam Studio an image or video, and it creates a soundtrack. Granted, a soundtrack that comes close to Aphex Twin rearranging John Cage, but it’s listenable if you fiddle with your settings. Jam Studio follows your cursor over an image and translates color channels into sound channels. When I played with it, I…
Forget all those silly iPod carriers, you know you’d be the only hipster toting your iPod in this baby. The Rock Steady Stereo Beat bag comes in 7 color combinations and includes a 2.1 XPA stereo system and bass boost subwoofer—all powered by 4 AA batteries. And yes, it works with any MP3 player, but…
You may feel a little squeamish about going through this body scanner, but that’s the way things are going these days. And though it may dig into the whole privacy thing, you’ll find this piece of test equipment up and running at London’s Paddington station. Now it’s not just bags that will pass through it,…
So if you didn t already know, Nintendo is planning to make the Revolution almost universally backward compatible. They are doing this by offering a downloading service. IGN has some glimpses of one of the possible GUI mockups and some information how this downloading service will work. Right now there are three consoles being proposed:…
Still Waiting for that Precious Beep By Brendan I. Koerner To my tremendous chagrin, these friends of my mom bought me a Christmas gift—a hopelessly ugly porcelain plate rimmed with shells and starfish and other nautical tidbits. As if lugging the blasted thing across three time zones weren’t pain enough, I also felt compelled to…
Remember Total Recall, with good old Arnold—when he was still a moviestar? The first scene showed this real cool digital wall/mega-TV thingy I will never forget. Visiting the future zone at the ground floor of the Panasonic Center Tokyo was a flashback to that scene. In the special presentation room is a wall-size, huge screen…
Macworld Senior Editor Chris Breen hosted “MacBrainiac Challenge V: A New Beginning,” where two teams competed to see how much Mac info they had stored in their highly specialized brains—or Googled on the team Macs and ganked an answer from Wikipedia. Team Smart Folders, headed by Jason Snell, vied with Team Force Quit, led by…