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It’s light, it’s simple and it’s a perfect portable. I’m liking this Axion DVDMan AXN-6042. Though it’s not real high-tech, it gets the job done. With a 4.2 inch TFT screen and side stereo speakers, it looks more like a portable CD player rather than a DVD player and it’s easy to lug. That’s always…
Update: This is the Nokia 7380, it’s made of metal, mirror and leather, and is on sale through Neiman Marcus for $649. It’s got a 2-megapixel camera with flash, FM radio, MP3 player and video streaming. Works on GSM 900/1800/1900 networks. 7380 Phone [Product Page] Looks like there’s a new fashion phone on the horizon.…
Mike Walters is a musical hardware hacking genius. He built an arm-keyboard for Devo. And a whole bunch of other sound-tastic gadgets that are impossibly beautiful. His latest is this Mellotron keyboard powered by classic Walkmans. The Mellotron was a popular 1960s instrument, and Walters has gutted one and replaced the innards with Sony cassette…
Along with the brand-new UMTS W900 announced yesterday, is this Sony Ericsson MMR-60 FM transmitter. One of the first accessories for the new Walkman-line of phones, the MMR-60 is capable of transmitting music from your phone to a nearby radio receiver as long as its within 10 meters, and will also recall the last used…
Throw out the camera, the MP3 player, pretty much everything but the phone and you’ll have yourself the UTStarcom G1260 slim phone, measurung only 10mm wide. Full measurements are 106 44 10 mm and it weighs in at only 60 grams, so this one really is as close to a credit card as you’re going…
Apple and Eminem have been on-again off-again enough times to merit a headline in OK! Let’s start with the backstory: The rapper s music publisher, Eight Mile Style, filed a lawsuit against Apple in early 2004, claiming the iPod maker used Lose Yourself in a commercial for the iTunes Music Store without permission. The dispute…
Logitech, maker of all things mice, has yet another MX-series mouse out. The MX610 is a $60 wireless mouse that doesn’t use bluetooth, isn’t rechargeable, and has a redundant design. So why bother? I’ll tell you why, because your lazy ass doesn’t want to move off the shitter to see if you got an e-mail…
Let’s see here… U2 gets an iPod, The Black Eyed Peas are owned by Best Buy, and all poor Oasis is left with is Toshiba’s 803T handset. The 3G mobile music player, which gets released in Europe this month, will come pre-loaded with live and exclusive content from the band on a 512MB SD memory…
A Detroit Free Press writer has a huge crush on Tablet PCs. So does Bill Gates. The two of them shared a moment. [Detroit Free Press] Following the lead of Disney, Fox becomes the latest studio to get with the times and commit delivering its films to movie theaters digitally. The money-saving economics of going…
Yes, here’s yet another USB drive, though granted, this one is a bit special. The new Iomega Screenplay has room for 60GB of data and can play back media on RCA or S-Video TV. Basically, that includes all formats,like MPEG-1/2/4, VOB, DivX and even open-source XviD codec. It also, plays MP3 files and displays JPEGs…
The latest addition to Dell’s flat screen LCD lineup breaks today, and this one is mid-upper size and priced at $2,199. The W3706C 37-inch LCD HDTV has mad adaptability, with extensive digital and analog connectivity, as well as VGA and PC inputs of course. There’s Picture in picture which, when you plug your PC into…
Panasonic recently announced a couple of micro stereo systems as well as four audio players that work with each other via the SD memory card format. The two micro stereo systems are equipped with hard drives of 80GB (SC-SX800) and 40GB (SC-SX400) capacities respectively, and are supposedly the world’s first CD and FM/AM audio players…
Nintendo has been making all the moves lately. Now that WiFi for the DS is slowly approaching us from behind, Nintendo decided they needed more fat kids playing DS with WiFi, so they turned to none other than McDonalds. Nintendo has partnered with WiFi provider Wayport to provide free internet access to DS users who…
The people have spoken, and they like their technology like they like their processed meat. On the cutting edge of this trend, a crack team of UK political scientists is hard at work bringing a refreshing blast of usefulness to the USB stick market: a wholly-contained USB key e-mail application. Mobility Email is a Thunderbird-based…
In the same vein as an electronic newspaper, a new portable electronic Braille display has been announced, small enough to fit in your pocket—and can even be rolled up. Basically, it’s “a sheet of tiny plastic paddles that bend in response to a voltage. It is designed to connect to a cellphone or laptop, and…
All that porn clogging up your hard drive and your 500Gb external already full? Well no worries, thanks to this brand new Maxtor OneTouch III that’ll have up to 1 whopping terabyte of storage space. Available in both 600Gb and 1Tb versions, each external drive is really two hard drives in one. The Maxtor OneTouch…
We broke the Samsung SPH-V700 about a week and a half ago but have finally got some more info on the 3GB hard disk cellphone. Created to be an entertainment product as well as a phone, it is said to support MPEG-4/H.264 (for video) and MPEG-4 AAC/AAC+ (for audio). Samsung also says the phone will…
VJing is about to go high-def. Video mixing is usually synonymous with lower resolutions, but Edirol’s new V-440 HD, due in December, is capable of mixing formats up to 1080i. The V-440 HD has full mixing features like Edirol’s other mixers, including chroma-keying. The extra pixels come at a price — $12,995 — but compared…
Looks like we’ve got some grain! Grainy shots of the Sidekick 3, that is. Reader Ncmac sez “BANNED by Hiptop forums!!!” so you know we’re on to something. Don’t people know that by banning something they give it credence?[Thanks, Waverunner et al] Rumor abt sidekick 3 ?? Read on… [AllDeaf] More photos after the jump.
Superstar VJs: now you can mix video on your laptop without looking quite so nerdy, thanks to the Darth Vader-black Edirol MD-P1 video controller. Combined with the Mac/Windows motion dive .tokyo software (screenshot after the break), jamming with video and even Flash animations is simple, and the buttons and cross-fader feel terrific and are thoughtfully…