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As Americans continue to question the necessity of GPS units in cars, Sony has released a new model in its Linux-based XYZ series, the sleek, touchscreen units that can display most of the streets of Tokyo is real-time 3D. The NVXYZ777 can also be mated to an optional ‘EX’ box that fits in the in-dash…
In Today’s NY Times story about the upcoming console wars, a few details came out about Nintendo’s Revolution console: Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo’s vice president for corporate affairs, said GameCube’s successor would be “very, very sleek.” She described it as horizontal and no taller than a stack of three DVD cases. Unlike GameCube, the new system…
MobileTracker is reporting that Motorola is releasing a CDMA version (in the US, that means Sprint and Verizon) of their popular Razr V3 flip-phone. Unfortunately for us, it’s coming out in Korea first. Motorola has said to expect a CDMA version of the Razr in the US, though, so it’s not unlikely we’ll see a…
Motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte has announced that their mobile phone spin-off, Gigabyte Communications, will launch their first phones sometime this summer. Initially looking to break into the Taiwanese market, their first phones will take advantage of the 3G networks there. The cellular phone market, if not already patently obvious to you, is incredibly saturated, so Gigabyte…
MobileTechReview tries out the Fujitsu LifeBook T4010, a convertible, but still sort-of-lightweight Tablet PC with healthy Centrino innards. Not only is it light enough (4.6 lbs) to be hauled around in a sack, but it has a built-in optical drive, something often lacking in notebooks of this size (rarely missed by me, but good for…
Today’s iPod safety tip: Don’t download the entire back catalog of TOTO when all you really wanted to do was listen to ‘Africa’ once. Your shuffle will thank you. Bonus tip: Don’t be an Australian kid, put your iPod in the washing machine, then go after it with a screwdriver. It will very likely blow…
Woot’s special today could be a good deal—if the SanDisk Connect-Plus Wi-Fi card works in your CompactFlash-slotted PDA (and taking a cursory glance at the internet, it looks like most Windows Mobile units should handle it just fine). They’re shipping the card with a PCMCIA adapter for just $25, while prices online seem to be…
An anonymous reader just got back from an unspecified trade show where he saw this bit of hardware on display from an unnamed company. It doesn’t get any more cloak-and-dagger than this. Apparently, this is something new called a ?net accelerator?. It is a kind of QoS-in-a-box that analyzes your internet connection and the traffic on…
Leather gadget case folks Noreve are showing off their ‘PSP Ambition’ case, which looks quite a bit like the Logitech PSP case, except it has space for MemorySticks and a couple of UMD discs (and also doesn’t flip up as a stand, I don’t think). It looks nice, but like most Noreve products, you’ll pay…
Om is talking about the unlikely technology being proposed by the free thinkers at the Nethercomm Corp., who hope to use technology similar to UWB to transmit high-speed network traffic over natural gas lines. Problem is (as one of Om’s commenters points out), many natural gas lines terminate in PVC pipes, not metal, so the…
With the flood of Xbox 360 information coming out today, here are a few of the rumored technical features it does not have: HD DVD support – It looks DVD is going to have to hold you. [Update: Brian@Kotaku swears Microsoft told him it will support HD DVD, but he also eats paste.] iPod-like MP3…
We first broke news about the Creative Zen Neeon in March, and it looks like our initial image was rather spot-on, if just a titch blurry. The Neeon will come in 10 different colors and lets you choose one of seven screen colors. While color-changing is always a neat parlor trick, Creative’s prepping their Zen…
Xbox 360 is exposed, and unwanted step-blogger Kotaku has all the details. All of them. There is nothing in the entirety of Xbox 360 Kotaku does not have. The Xbox 360 [Kotaku] http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-2/the-xbox-360-103338.php
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SparkFun Electronics, described to me as a “couple guys out in Colorado,” are offering these hand-made rotary GSM cellular phones. They’re not cheap, at $400 a pop, but they’re not easy to make, either, and they’re just doing one-offs as they are ordered. But it is undeniably cool—they operate off of rechargeable batteries, you dial…
iRobot, you have finally broken me. I’ve wanted a Roomba forever—and the new dog had almost cinched it anyway—but when you offer a pink model, for which 20 percent of the $180 purchase price proceeds go to support breasts, of which I am also a fan (okay, breast cancer, but it’s against, not for it;…
Tonight is the big Xbox night, but the leaks are a’flowing, and we see no reason to wait. Here are some scans from a Euro gaming magazine, showing off the machine, the new controllers (still looking janky), and screen shots from the new Ghost Recon game. Mrar! (Thanks, Krys!) Scan 1 [Gizmodo] Scan 2 [Gizmodo]…
Laptop Magazine lives up to their name and reviews the Sony VAIO VGN-T350P—that’s the one with the built-in EDGE modem that works on Cingular’s cellular service. They like it quite a bit (I’m still not sold on paying 80 bucks a month while you can get Verizon’s EV-DO for the same amount), pointing out that…
It’s “I love the 80s” time for fans of the musical sounds of the Commodore 64: the HardSID PCI card repurposes the actual synth chips used in the original C64 (not new chips or emulation), and gives you full MIDI control on your Windows PC or Mac tower. Why would you want use the guts…
I didn’t make it to the Home Entertainment Show this year, mainly because last year’s show, while fun, didn’t have a whole lot in the way of gadgets. Giant TVs and hojillion-speaker surround-sound systems, yes, but not so much with the gizmos. Fortunately, DesignTechnica was not lazy, and has just filed their six-page round up,…