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We’ve been waiting patiently, and Motorola has finally revealed new details on its RAZR V3x, a similar looking slim phone to the normal RAZR, but with 2-way video calling. Using SCREEN3 technology, it will also give you news, sports and entertainment info. And it has a dual cameras. A 2-megapixel camera with 8x zoom as…
I am so far out of the PDA loop that it’s nice to see that, in a way, I’m not missing much. PDAs are following the same path they’ve always taken—shadow the laptop market as much as possible and dumb things down a bit for on-the-road apps. Amazingly, however, the hx2795 comes with a 624Mhz…
Olympus has just announced a new SLR for under $1000. The EVOLT E-500 has a 2.5-in LCD and is compatible with other Olympus Zuiko Digital Specific Lenses. A successor to the EVOLT E-300, it’s also got 8.1 megapixels but with a much smaller and more durable body (15.3 ounces). Comes with rechargeable Li-ion battery, dual…
Can’t seem to make your dreams work for you? If you’re thinking Jessica Simpson before you pass out, but keep coming up with Joan Rivers, the new Dream Workshop (cleverly, and not surprisingly invented by the Japanese) could be your best friend. It’s a device being marketed to “control your dreams” using sight and smell.…
By no means am I a frugal person at all, but honestly, this phone/PDA thing is out of control. Right now it is looking like this device will go for around $750 to $800. Don’t get me wrong, this is definitely a neat device, but definitely not worth dropping that much dough on. Probably the…
UCal San Diego plays host to iGrid 2005, where engineers much smarter than we are will test the world’s highest resolution video conferencing system that’s highlighted by a Sony 4K digital projector. [NY Times (reg)] Corporate America descends on San Francisco for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association convention, where companies, many not even in…
Although you can count on the news to sound the alarm anytime there’s the slightest hint of a hurricane for the next-well, forever, Oregon Scientific’s fancy pants Weather Station may assuage free-floating weather anxiety. Or just fuel it. It taps into a Cable Free Weather Station, displaying a lovely weather map on a 3.8″ color…
This headband MP3 player—straight from Bespin Cloud City the Japanese company Evergreen—has a 96×64 pixel three color built-in EL display housed on the left hand side of the earphone. The EG-HPM also has a built-in mic for voice recording in either MP3 or WMA format, and a rechargable battery with 15 hours of juice. It…
Ever really wonder how all your US income tax money is spent? Apparently the Navy is training dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico to shoot terrorists and hunt for underwater spies. Armed with toxic dart guns, these dolphins are taught to obliterate enemies that might be attacking military vessels. During the wrath of hurricane Katrina,…
Epson released the EMP-TW520 this week with hardcore video enthusiasts in mind (read: porn viewing). It packs a native WXGA resolution (1280×720 pixels), HDMI input, a high contrast ratio of 4000:1 and it’s brightness is 1400 ANSI lumens. Pretty nice. It’s really versatile too. You can achieve a 60-inch display only 1.5 meters away and…
Here’s a review of the bizarre-looking High Frequency Equalizer wristwatch that’s been bouncing around for a while. The watch, which was reengineered “9 times until perfected,” uses just a new technology with just one LED to fully illuminate the entire face, making it extremely bright. And although it looks really complicated, it seems to be…
My shutterbug pals are always asking me to find a gadget that will let them download photos from a digital camera and replace the laptop that they have to lug on shoots. And since these folks are stationed in places like Kabul and NOLA, they usually have to carry those weighty Toughbooks around. Picture Porter…
Samsung probably didn’t think anyone would notice that its original i300 Smartphone was released way back in 2001, but we’ve finally got some leaked info this weekend on the new incarnation of the phone. Certainly sleeker and more attractive, the i300 has a 3GB hard drive, 64 MB of RAM and is being run off…
iPod Nano is coppin’ a bad rep already with it’s users. Why? Well apparently your LCD is fucked if you even put it in your pocket. Now some of these breaking LCD screens make sense. For instance, you don’t put an iPod Nano in your jeans pocket or whatever and sit down. We all know…
Is it iMate KJam? i-Mate K-Jam? Do we care? Some nice shots straight out of Dubai of the new Windows Mobile 5.0 gear including the KJam. We’ll get a few more shots of each item individually as the day progresses. First Shots Dubai Gitix shows Imate KJam [DavesiPaq]
One of our kind readers sent us this on Saturday or Sunday and I muddled over to the site and was all like “That’s the MobiBlu” and then kind of wandered off into my weekendian stupor. Then, however, I rechecked the site and realized that someone is paying OEM footsie with us. The Q-Be comes…
There aren’t too many cellphones with hard drives on the market, and Samsung’s one of those companies that seem to think there’s a demand for them (Remember the i300?). Samsung just released the SPH-V7900, a twist-flip phone that packs a pretty decent-sized 3GB HDD, along with a couple of LCD screens, a 2 megapixel camera,…
Seeing all these new music phones emerge really makes the ROKR seem rather pathetic. Check out this new Nokia 3250: it has a twisting design that will transform the traditional phone keypad into one with dedicated music keys. The phone will be part of a new Nokia brand called XpressMusic, which will consist of Nokia…
When I first saw this, I thought it was some foot pedal accessory for a driving game. But then I read further, and I find that this is actually a mouse. That’s right, this is a mouse that you control with your feet. One foot pedal controls movement, another controls clicking. This sounds rather nightmarish…
I’m one of those crazy gadget freaks that actually checks out the Craigslist electronics listings every other day. Because you never know when you can get a great deal on a perfectly good device that’s maybe just a few months old (for example, the week the iPod nano was released, iPod minis were being sold…