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It’s pretty small, that’s for sure. This Iogear WiFi, the GWF001, is as basic as can be. LEDs show signal strenght and access point status and it’s thin enough to hang off a keychain without blowing out your pleats. Priced at about $29, it’s an easy, if uninformative, way to see if there are open…
Rumor has it that Bang and Olufsen is teaming up with Samsung to create a few cute phones. This concept of melding the old world and the new isn’t huge news—Nokia has already teamed with Carl Zeiss, for example—but to think that Samsung, of all the companies out there, needs design advice is a little…
The 9300 that has been available over in Euroland for a while and will finally be headed over here. The folks over at Mobile Tech Review have a full review available on this candy-bar sized, QWERTY key, flip-open gem of a smart phone. Internet connectivity, Bluetooth, multiple LCD screens, and expandable memory are all nice…
Today’s DAP headlines: C|Net Asia reviews the potentially awesome iRiver U10, Apple no longer allows businesses and websites (other the ones directly related to the actual company) to use the term “iPod” in their respective names and NeoSol slips some data on the upcoming CP-3550 PVR through our window. Meanwhile, a similar device – Cowon’s…
Is It Real? The Trend toward the Authentic in Product Design By Luke Williams This gum, Mr. Wonka went on, is my latest, my greatest, my most fascinating invention! It s a chewing gum meal! In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl toyed with the concept of simulating the authentic when a three-course meal…
LaCie has always made very nice looking hard-disk related products. I myself own a few LaCie drives—so when I heard about their new Carte Orange drive, I was very excited. $149.99 will net you the 8GB version which is about the size of a credit card. It needs no drivers and is USB 2.0 thank…
A newly published patent filing reveals that Apple has been toying with ways to integrate a video cam into the latch of a laptop since 2004. And the company considered the idea again as recently as last year. Which means an iSight integrated PowerBook could arrive sooner rather than later considering that Apple has made…
The Akihabara district is the center of all things electronic in Japan, as you know. Kind of like a swelling, beating heart full of circuitry. On September 16th, the newest and biggest (six levels of underground parking) electronics superstore of them all, Yodobashi-Akiba, opened it’s doors to a huge crowd. People waited in line for…
Why is it that some people just can’t fight fair? Instead of trying to come up with technology that could actually compete with VoIP services like Skype, Monty Bannerman, CEO of Verso Technologies has come up with a “Skype Filtering Technology,” that is also billed as a “carrier-grade applications filter.” Of course, this will also…
This, I love. Not that I have such an immense fear of being caught with my proverbial pants down by any nearby cameraphone, but it’s really the principle of the thing. Georgia Institute of Technology student Shwetak Patel has come up with new privacy tech that will “detect the presence of a digital camera up…
While the hoi polloi are ga-ga over cellphone music downloads in Japan, the wireless industry might not see the same effect stateside because our phones aren’t as sophisticated and our networks aren’t as fast. Also, Japanese consumers seem to be okay with paying almost 4 bucks per downloaded song; we know that won’t fly here,…
Usually when something cool and exciting drops, an oragami version comes out sooner or later for the “budget conscious”. Thus, we bring you the Nintendo Revolution controller—oragami style. Just print and fold and you’ll be on your way to batting around objects on your TV aimlessly in no time. Update: That’s not origami. Origami doesn’t…
The PSP may never rival the iPod in the accessories department. But it’s coming pretty darn close. The Talkman is a USB microphone attachment for the portable gaming system that brings this baby one step closer to VOIP cell phone status (built-in WiFi, remember). Now all that s left is to add a camera with…
Let s face it, there s a lot of crap for sale out there. Especially in the consumer electronics world, there are more knock offs of legitimate devices than actual devices available. Don t Buy Junk is a website combating this problem by aiming to be a resource about worthwhile products to purchase. It operates…
Just days after Sprint announed that Sirius will be available on its handsets comes news that you can get streaming music from Real Rhapsody through PCS Multimedia Vision Service as well. Clever sounding stations such as “Urban Hitz Radio” and of course, “Country” will be available. Also, it seems you can get podcasts from one…
Further destroying the myth that Siemens is dead, BenQ recently launched three new UMTS/3G cameras, the SG75, the SFG75, and the SXG75. The SG75 is a slider that features a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 2-inch display with 262k colors. Next is the SXG75, which has two color displays (an internal one of 2.2 inches), a…
This is an idea that is long overdue. Cell phones are the new wave of communication and the latest and greatest cell phones are a little too much for the non-tech savvy people. This is a phone for those people. Big buttons, makes calls, gets the job done. This is the A101K from Kyocera. It…
You’ve already been teased with an announcement about this Nokia 6630 3G WCDMA phone, but now it’s been re-positioned. The ROKR, for all its faults, has influenced several handset makers to play up the tunes. The Fins are the latest to tweak their marketing campaign. The original 6630 was Nokia’s first 3G smartphone in Europe.…
Due to the untimely demise of TiVo’s outsourced sales unit, TiVo has temporarily halted direct sales of new DVR units. Some posts on the TiVo Community boards indicate that the company that went under was called Metron, and it handled all the direct-from-TiVo phone and Internet sales until recently. TiVo is currently redirecting all DVR…
Oh, look. A gender based toilet seat product. How entertaining, I can hear the “LOL’s” coming already. This device is placed on the inside of the top toilet seat. When the seat is up and it detects motion, there will be a red light illuminating a bulls-eye in the water, you know, for competitive urinators.…