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I took one look at this and started to weep. I weep because this Athens five-screen Bluetooth-enabled monitor is so beautiful, so stunning, and would be so awesome with Doom 3. The resolution is a jaw-dropping 19200 x 2400 pixels with 16.7 million colors. And the whole thing has a depth of only 2.5 inches.…
That is correct kids, the Dell Axim x51v is now being featured on the Dell website. So in celebration we have a slew of mostly fabulous reviews across the web. The general consensus is saying that this new x51v is a lot like its predecessor, but it does feature the new Windows Mobile 5 operating…
If a glowing bathtub isn’t enough to give your bathroom that sexy glow, Whitehaus Collection and Lotus Aquatech now have a new glowing objet to illuminate your loo. The Nymphaea (please try saying that silently a few times first, ok?) is a glass basin that changes color with the temperature of the water using LED…
Push Pause On The Mobile Music Revolution By Carlo Longino The launch of the Motorola ROKR was hyped as a seminal moment for music and mobile phones. While there had been plenty of handsets before that could play music files, the combination of Apple, the iPod and a mobile phone was too enticing to resist.…
Joel Johnson — First, I apologize about a lack of updates, but I’ve been working. I got away from the group for a day and went up north to the house of Miss Gerri, who may be one of the most open, compassionate women I’ve ever met. I could only stay away from New Orleans…
Mashboxx and iMesh look to gobble up other file-sharing services to help in their quest to make peace with cranky record companies. [NY Times] Meanwhile, colleges such as American University try to wean kids off of the illegal music downloading crack pipe butsurprise!it’s an uphill struggle.[Miami Herald] Gas is ‘spensive, ergo fancy scooters are gaining…
In the tradition of their Hardbody cases for the iPod and CD/DVD storage, Slappa has released a similarly sturdy version for the PSP. The new Slappa Hardbody PSP Daily Case has an xEVA outer shell with a patent PVC design, a water-resistant zipper, a storage divider with two net pockets for a couple of UMDs,…
In a move that gives Verizon an edge over its competitors, Dell, Lenovo (makers of the Thinkpad), and HP, will all manufacture laptops with built-in EV-DO access to Verizon’s cellular BroadbandAccess network. Dell will have it in select Latitude series models starting next year, as will HP (no word on the names of the HP…
From the Apple Expo in Paris XtremeMac has announced its new FS1 High Definition Earphones. The poweful little in-ear phones are the result of a partnership with Future Sonics, the leading manufacturer—and creator—of the personal monitors that you see tucked in the ears of, well, every music act that can afford them. Where other non-pro…
More USB news than you can shake a Memory Stick at this morning. The latest is this announcement from Korea-based Ubistar. If you’ve been dying to double up on your tech, this USB memory stick also work as a VoIP phone. You supply the microphone and earpiece, and everything else is ready to roll. Even…
You think you’re a tough guy eh? Not as tough as Apricorn’s new US drive, dubbed “The microkey.” They’re touting it as the toughest, most durable USB key drive on the market. It comes in your usual 4GB and 6GB versions and is loaded to the core with protective features such as special padding, a…
Is Hydrogen the new hybrid? That s what Canadian inventor Joe Williams Sr. wants you to believe. Williams has created a hydrogen generator for cars about the size of a typical DVD player. Simply connect up this box to your existing gas-guzzler and once the hydrogen mixes into the engine, it will burn cleaner, reduce…
There’s not much geeky about the Geekpod from batterygeek.net. It’s really just a li-on battery for your iPod. The draw is that it gets around 100 hours of battery life, which is really sweet if you’re gonna be away from home for awhile. It’s tiny too—the size of a deck of cards. It’s even got…
It may not be breaking news just yet, but someone seems to have found a new Acer Pocket PC floating around the web with a Samsung 400MHz processor, 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM, 3.7″ and VGA LCD. Also with Bluetooth, WiFi, USB host, SDIO/MMC slot and Windows Mobile 5.0. Powerful, slim and easy. We’ll wait and…
More “smart” products coming your way. U3 LLC is readying its new USB drives, based on a “smart computing platform,” allowing you to basically carry around your entire PC on a USB drive—independent of any other storage device, and not tied to any specific computer. Vendors such as SanDisk and Verbatim are looking to supply…
Surely, this is the final nail in ROKR’s coffin. Tea Vui Huang has created a “Windows-based iTunes Add-on for Sony Ericsson Walkman Phones, Sony Clie PDA and Sony Ericsson P900/P910 Smartphone”—it’s called the Mass Storage Synchronizer. Here’s the gist: MSS makes Sony devices show up as a folder in iTunes, and then through some crafty…
You probably remember drooling over the Optimus OLED Keyboard when we first informed you about its user-programmable keys. Unfortunately that was just a prototype, and probably won’t be a reality any time soon. Beating them to the punch, however, is this United Keys 205Pro LCD Display Keyboard. The keys are LCD instead of OLED, are…
So you’re a budding action movie director, and you want to shoot video at 100mph for that all important car-chase sequence. But you don’t want to risk injury by holding your camera out the car window (or spend hundreds of dollars on the car rigs that professional filmmakers use). Well then, the StickyPod car kit…
This came out last week, but it’s still interesting enough to take a peek at. You’re looking at a sample of Windows Media Center Edition on Visita. MS is taking the whole “translucent bezel” idea to its obvious conclusion: “translucent everything.” Sure, you can do it, guys, but SHOULD you do it. I played a…
Not quite a widescreen, but this new Acer runs at full-VGA (640×480) and has a whopping 3.7″ LCD. Specs are pretty sparse but we see a 400Mhz processor, 128MB ROM, WiFi, and Bluetooth—all of which suggest “mini-laptop” rather than PDA. New Acer PocketPC with Windows Mobile 5 [DavesiPaq]