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Seeing as how Kodak is currently being run out of the CEO’s basement and his kids are manufacturing and packing up all the EasyShare cameras, it’s nice to see a little good news in regards to their latest crop of WiFi cameras. This $599 Wi-Fi camera uses a pretty standard 4-megapixel sensor but has great…
This a camera coming from Canon that will support 802.11b. The WiFi has the ability to connect to either a PC or a PictBridge WiFi printer. No let’s do the nitty gritty: this camera is 5-megapixel, 1/2.5 CCD and it has a 3x optical zoom. It uses “Digi II” image processing and has a 2-inch…
The news about the new Samsung m8000 isn’t so much the hardware itself, which is really just an upgrade to the i730 without an antenna, but that it is poised to be the first PDA Smartphone phone to use the WiBro (Wireless Broadband) network. WiBro technology is similar to the WiMax standard here in the…
Gizmodo’s new Norwegian correspondent SilverSnake sends shocking—shocking!—news about Microsoft’s Xbox 360 retail marketing demands. Retailers in the land of King Herald V are each being alloted a supply of 20 consoles, 6 core editions and 14 premium versions. But there is a catch: In order to get all of them, each shop or chain has…
The winner by, technical knockout, is Roberto and his screen-challenged laptop known as the Frankenputer or Franken-PC. He won both the popular vote and the editorial vote for his Gizmodo-like DIY ingenuity. As reader Erzengel put it: FrankenPC.. WOOT! the display is broken? no problem, im sure i can fix it with this very very…
All I can say about the Pet Stroller is that if you’ve bought yourself one, your dog better have three legs or something, because this is really over-the-top. The website touts it as an alternative to those nasty plastic carriers, which I guess is ok if you were taking them on a really, really long…
Here’s another EV-DO phone being shipped by VK Mobile for the US. The VK Mobile 650c is good-looking—white with a spin top—based on the 600c that can be found in Korea. You can also hold the QVGA display vertically or horizontally to watch video and if you’re really keen, there’s a video out so you…
The new Garmin iQue M4 is pretty much the same as the previous model, the iQue M3. A PDA product that comes with the StreetPilot interface, greeting you with “Where To?” and “View Map,” the new M4 now comes with pre-loaded maps of North America, making it easier to just grab and go. No SD…
Could cellphone radiation lawsuits be the next big tobacco? Looks like the Supreme Court thinks so, and today decided against hearing an appeal from cellphone companies like Nokia and Cingular Wireless. This means that class-action lawsuits will indeed be able to go froward, arguing that manufacturers knew about and hid the risks of radiation emissions…
My 1980s Hi-Fi memories go back to my pops scalding me for touching his beloved Zenith. Luckily some Japanese are turning my 80s Hi-Fi frown upside down with this bad-ass robot built entirely from stereo components. This bot has got it all: tape decks, reel-to-reel, equalizers, and record players. It even includes the nostalgic smoked…
Coming soon to a 1986 Monte Carlo down your street at 3 a.m. is the TRW 17 subwoofer. This isn t your grandma’s subwoofer. Hell, this doesn t even look like a subwoofer, but it is. Normal subwoofers pulsate a concave paper cone while also compressing air inside of a box and pushing it out…
The Athena Radar-Responsive tagging system is currently being used overseas by our troops. Developed by the Sandia National Laboratories, along with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Sierra Monolithics, it prevents friendly fire during battles, bombings, and so forth. In a nutshell, it’s like a tagging system for identifying who is who on the field. If…
Check out the link below and click on the green Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory disk. Time to burn your ISOs, kids! Product Page [TigerDirect via Logic & Sanity]
Here’s yet another animal-shaped robot looking thing that was hopefully made for children (but we know adults are scooping up). The Sega iDog is your usual robopet that reacts “emotionally” to anyone touching its sensors but it also comes with a built-in MP3 line-in jack for an MP3 player. The big news, however, is that…
Has it only been a week? Kotaku was crammed full of gaming goodies last week. Our moles confirmed that Best Buy is getting a frighteningly small supply of 360s to sell, so unless you pre-ordered you might want to check out alternatives like Atari’s retro-loving Flashback 2.0. My rants that the Nintendo Micro is way…
Today’s DAP Headlines: So what’s new in DAP/PMP land these days? Well, Median came up with two new MP3 players, whereas Cnet kept themselves busy with reviewing the Truly MP-313X as well as comparing the iPod v4 to the v5. In the meantime, we’ve picked three random examples of what we’d like to call the…
Let’s face it, A/V receivers aren’t really the darling of the CE world these days. Phones, gaming consoles, PDA’s, these are the things we tend to look at when we want to drool. But Denon has always been a favorite of mine. Although its products aren’t exactly exciting to look at, the company always packs…
So what the is the deal this week with PSP and headphones/sets. This is the Summit PSP wireless headset (actually just headphones). Summit is using a workaround way to get the wireless headphones functional by using FM transmission. A device is attached to the PSP broadcasts the signal and the integrated FM tuner in the…
You got to be kidding me Sony. According to my count, this is the sixth Sony Memory Stick version released: Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Pro Duo, Memory Stick Pro M2, UMD, and now the Compact Vault. This isn t completely proprietary. It’s just kind of silly. The Compact Vault is a variant…
This keyboard is being dubbed as a “kids keyboard”, but I beg to differ. As an avid Fisher-Price user, I personally enjoy the fun and exciting colors found on this keyboard. Each set of keys is labeled with a different (and bright) color to seperate things like letters, numbers, and functions. The keys also have…