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You can’t go wrong with anything DUAL right? Right. Which is why Samsung brought us this gorgeous SV-TR5550 Dual DVD player/recorder. Having two drives makes pirating making copies of your home movies very easy. Just hit a button and BAM!, it works. It’s even got high speed dubbing too for when you just don’t have…
ShackWatch Cometh By Brendan I. Koerner Admit it: you’ve got a love-hate relationship with your local Radio Shack. The geek in you loves the fact that, whenever you need a pack of rectifier diodes or a D-Sub pin crimper, you know the local Shack’s gonna have ’em. But the human being in you hates the…
Now I don’t know about you, but I once upon a time (and still do) had a Motorola T722i. This phone was pretty basic, but also rocked for it’s durability and simplicity. Now eventually it got old and needed lots of repair. For $25 apparently you can rock all new plastic parts from China and…
What’s wrong with this country? What, a digital TV isn’t good enough for you? DIsappointing, that’s what you are. Now it looks like the 2006 cutoff date for broadcasters to finally shut off their analog signals and only broadcast digital (hopefully high definition) has been delayed. Actually, the law says “either December 31, 2006 or…
Nintendo recently unveiled a new WiFi USB connector as part of their latest attempt to release a line of Nintendo-branded wireless products. As soon as you insert this dongle into your PC (no Mac-compatibility at this time — bummer), a window will open to establish a link between it and your DS. After going through…
Josh Tokash, a sharp-eyed owner of a new Gameboy Micro noted that there was a mysterious jack underneath the Gameboy Micro faceplate when he opened his new purchase up. Tokash says the the “jack is accessible to the faceplate (under the faceplate, above the a button) that says V-5” on the circuit board. He makes…
Okay, so Think Secret decided to be a wet blanket and report that apparently there will be no video iPod announcement next Wednesday. They say that instead, Apple will announce a new iPod with up to 80GB in capacity, and will be smaller than current iPods. Another possible iPod update would be additional colors to…
In this week’s Mossberg’s Mailbox (my favorite part of Thursday), Walt takes a question from one of those disenchanted iPodders who thinks the Nano has a secret love affair with scratches. Turns out that Mossberg’s personal Nano is dinged up more than Lindsay Lohan’s car and he’s now highly recommending you cover up your pretty…
You’ve heard all about them, and now it’s official. Oakley’s THUMP 2 mp3 sunglasses are really, truly going to be on the market by October 28th. With 1GB of storage, and the ability to play MP3, WMA and WAV file formts as well as Apple iTunes files in AAC, you’ll be able to connect your…
Yes, that’s right, once again Asia has handed us our hats with cellular technology. The new Pantech “fingerprint-recognition” phone called the Gl100 will be marketed in Europe, Asia and the Middle East and I’m kinda bummed. Not only is it extremely good-looking and really, really light at 82 grams, but it uses something called (I…
Even more good news for PSP owners: Sony’s CEO Howard Stringer announced at CEATEC that the PSP will soon be able to support Location-Free TV with DVR capabilities. Using PSP’s built-in WiFi, you could potentially watch your favorite TV shows from anywhere in the world. There’ll also be higher capacity Memory Sticks that can be…
Gleefully disregarding the already blurry line between tech reporting and power drinking, Gordon at TrustedReviews posts a tell-all (all that he remembers, at least) narrative of his hops-sodden journey to Munich for NEC’s display junket. The brave publicists at NEC managed to focus their captive, booze-soaked journalists attention long enough to trot out a collection…
Showing their seductively smooth white faces for the first time at CEATEC this week, Splashpower’s Multi SplashPad and Single SplashPad look like promising solutions to the fact that we all constant forget to adequately charge our portable devices. Just toss your portable gear on the flat surface these babies (well, just one device on the…
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen something like this before [You did – JB], but Edge Tech just launched an iPod Dock and card reader combo that has slots for a variety of flash cards including xD, SD, MMC, Memory Stick, Compact Flash, and Microdrive. It’s USB 2.0, and you can hook it up to external…
I love the look of tablet PCs. I’m still not sold on the entire idea of tablet PCs, but there’s not much out there that holds your neighbor’s attention like one of these babies. And leave it to Toshiba to add another beauty to the fold. The R15-S829 Tablet PC is pretty much the same…
Rumors that Samsung and Bang & Olufsen were canoodling surfaced a few weeks ago, and details about the phone they created have now emerged. The Samsung SGH-E910/Serene is inspired by a powder-box, has a trapezium shape that is shorter than the RAZR, and a little over 2.5-inches thick. That’s a navigation wheel inside the circle…
With the lack of a free needle exchange in the world of cellphones, all kinds of viruses are running around causing havoc. So it should come as no suprise that Nokia was all about Symantec hooking all new Nokia Series 60 phones up with anti-virus software. “Whoopty shit. Our phones don’t get viruses.” Motorola CEO…
LG is now using Seagate hard drives in plasma TVs as part of a digital video recorder combo. I’ve seen LG’s combo plasma TV the last few years at CES and I’m always drooling, so it’s good to have a well-known company like Seagate helping out. LGs PY2DR series includes a 160GB hard drive which…
Today’s DAP headlines: It’s portable video making the headlines today, mostly. We kick off with BlueStorm’s A9, a nifty-looking (flash-based) PMP, followed by an amazing look at some Korean guy’s comic-styled review on the iRiver U10. Offering less pocket-friendliness but all the more storage capacity is Archos’ Gmini-402cc, officially confirmed today. Apple’s nano supposedly is…
From the land of the unicorns, where the Sharper Image catalogs roam, comes the iPulse ZipConnect Speakers with ColorSync Light Show. Your favorite music is accompanied by a magical technicolor soundscape… like a new-fashioned jukebox — with multiple red, blue and green LED lights pulsing on and off in sync with the pitch and beat…