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If you thought there were enough flat panel TVs on the market to choose from, here’s just one more to boggle your mind. Fujitsu is announcing a line of digital cable-ready 50-series HDTV plasma TV, perfect for anyone who wants an all-in-one product and including QAM tuners, Cable CARD slots and external, side-mounted speakers. Comes…
This digital not-quite-SLR packs a whopping 10.3 megapixels, has a 35mm-equivalence ZEISS zoom (24mm-120mm) lens. And what’s the sticker price on this beauty? Just $1,000. Integrated live previews while shooting make it less likely that you will miss the moment (or whine about slow refresh rates). And the 2-inch LCD screen is foldable, which means…
I love Marantz audio products. Can’t afford them, but I really love them. So it’s nice to see the company bringing out even more stunningly expensive stuff this week at CEDIA. My favorite is the TT-15S1 ($1,700), the first turntable Marantz has bothered developing in 20 years. It has a magnetic anti-skating system and anodized…
One of the worst hassles about having a tripod is that you have to carry it around everywhere. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have too much space in my messenger bag for a decent-sized tripod. The Pod, from the tripod experts at Bogen, aims to solve that by providing a simple and…
We all know that when it comes to the mobile phones that come stateside, it’s the carriers who hold all the cards. So it’s nice to see that Cingular is letting us have a cool phone (that of course, has already been out in Europe) right here in the US. An e-mail sent to developers…
Apple’s got a new iPod? That is like so yesterday’s news. Today it’s all about Sony, a company that will not stand idly by while Apple turns its famous Walkman brand into a nostalgia piece. Well, actually, that is pretty much what they’ve been doing until now (although Sony’s audio equipment business has become profitable…
Despite having the same invisible OLED display, the flash Walkman doesn’t pack quite the same ‘wow’ factor as the hard drive model. There are three sizes, 512 MB, 1GB and 2GB. There is a built-in FM tuner, clock and jog dial. Sony is boasting 50 hours of play time (at 132 kbps in power save…
Where’s the screen? The organic EL display blends seamlessly into the body of the player (omfg). The two models are slightly different: NW-A3000 20 GB capacity 2-inch screen Violet and silver skins Around $320 NW-A1000 6 GB capacity 1.5-inch screen Violet, silver, pink and blue skins About $270 New functionality, and accessories after the jump.…
Gizmodo is breaking the latest and greatest news regarding a product that is exploding onto the market. This is the Xbox Velocity, a mobile take on the modern Xbox. Sweet graphics, nice controls, touchpad, big screen and I bet it even plays Doom! https://gizmodo.com/itplaysdoom-com-is-live-116865 I’m just messing with you people! Did you honestly think our…
Sprint recently launched both Garmin Mobile and TeleNav for select Sanyo 3G phones that have built-in GPS functionality. Both services provide turn-by-turn directions to your destination, thus no longer giving Sprint users with such phones an excuse for not finding their way. And no, the old dog-eating-the-phone excuse won’t fly this time. Garmin Mobile offers…
I often consider myself immune to tech news. Please, that new iPod didn t even faze me. But Gateway has a new tablet coming out and I am getting all worked up. This is a 14″ widescreen convertible tablet PC. The Gateway CX200 to be exact. First thing is first, this tablet is starting at…
Panasonic released what seems to be the most compatible DVD burner ever today…over in Japan of course. So why care? Aside from it’s sleek and tiny design, it can burn nine different types of discs from DVD-RAM to CD-RW. Panasonic needs to hurry up and bring something like this over here now for cryin’ out…
I am noticing a trend in digital cameras similar to that of razors. Don’t get me wrong, my Gillette Mach 14 Enhanced Super Turbo Plus Exclamation Point razor gets the job done, with all 35 blades and seven moisturizing strips, but enough is enough. Two or three blades tops is all you really need in…
CUWireless’s Will Hawkins helped set up a 20-PC lan today in the Astrodome. Check this out: We do not have an official network connection for this lab, but we are using my laptop to bridge into a wireless network for connectivity. This is definitely a shoe-string operation, but I cannot believe that within a period…
Although most people have had a mere three microseconds to test Apple’s mana from heaven, and they are making snap judgments faster than you can say ‘Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.’ The one person who got to spend more than his fair share of time with either of the devices is the cookie monster himself, that…
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Stack the iPod Nano against the ROKR and which would you take? My pocketbook is voting for the Nano right now. It’s thinner than a no. 2 pencil and weighs 1.5 ounces. But it’s also got a color screen for displaying photos. It uses the same 30-pin connector as my old iPod, which means it…
The Motorola ROKR E1 is here. And it’s the image we’ve been seeing for months. I liked the fake iPhone images better—how about you? To clear up the first big question: 100 song capacity, and it uses an iTunes-like interface. It’s a tri-band GSM phone, color screen, built-in camera with stereo speakeres and a mobile…
We noticed a troubling thing in our stampede to the Apple Store today: The iPod Mini is gone. That’s right, no longer accessible. Where did it go? The Apple store in the sky.
A gadget like this is begging for lawsuits across the board. This is the Genius Look 312P, a webcam placed inside the nose of a plush stuffed dog. The webcam only supports USB 1.1. And it can only film hot voyeurism at a mediocre 0.3 megapixels, and 1.3 megapixel stills. By the way, I am…