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Qwest quietly rolled out their ‘OneFlex’ voice-over-IP service last night, offering a basic plan of $30 a month and cheap US long distance that caps out at an additional $20 a month. That means $50 for all-you-can eat long distance, which isn’t exactly the cheapest thing in the world, but is pretty reasonable if you’re…
One of my pet obsessions is the Sony chamois. It’s the little piece of material Sony puts into most of its higher end gear that you use to wipe the dirt, effluvium, and grease off of the screen. Well, take that love of cleanliness, order, and protection to the next level with the PSP Pouch.…
Fancy that… a company that is not only making fuel cell powered vehicles but it’s also creating a relatively intelligent infrastructure for distributing hydrogen fuel. Pacific Fuel Cell Corp’s two models, the ZES IV and IV.5, are powered using a system of hydrogen tubes. They’re also building a series of smaller fuel cells for electronic…
We’ve been following the path of these MPEG-4 OLED flash players with great interest. A few more photos surfaced on a Chinese MP3 player site showing these tiny things displaying colorful fish and, in what must be some sort of horrible cultural miscommunication, Bon Jovi track information. I guess an angel fish’s smile is what…
As someone pointed out on the Tapland boards last night, I guess I am sort of queer for the PSP. I’m not ashamed—it’s the best mobile gaming platform yet. There are a couple of stories floating out there in internet that hold even more promise for Sony’s platform, though, especially from the ‘relatively cheap hacking…
Like OPEC, LCD manufacturers know they’ve got a good thing going. In the past year, LCD costs have dropped to record lows and manufacturing techniques are so efficient that there was a glut of low-priced panels flooding the world market. Now, however, there’s a mysterious dearth of 17-inch monitors, which is a nice size for…
Priced at $249, this 6GB update uses a replaceable, rechargeable battery (unlike most other MP3 players) and weighs about 3.4 ounces. The specs are pretty standard: color LCD screen, runs on Windows Media Player 10, and supports Napster to Go. It’s also apparently PictBridge compatible or acts as a native flash card reader because you…
The PS2 and XBox are more ubiquitous, in some places, than cable or satellite TV boxes. Do you think Bill Gates is going to let that little fact slide? In a conference aimed at business journalists, Gates described the new XBox as more than a gaming system—it’ll be a media center. It’s a PC, it…
Kodak has also laucnhed a trio of low- to middle-range consumer shooters in the EasyShare ‘C3’ series, the C360, the C330, and the C310. The C360 obviously tops out the range, with a 5-megapixel sensor and 3x optical zoom and all the normal things you’d expect from a nearly $300 camera. The C310, on the…
Kodak has quietly launched the EasyShare Z760, a 6.1-megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom. It also has an “all-glass Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon” lens, which sounds both awesome and totally incomprehensible. Perhaps it’s like the Carl Zeiss lenses that Sony and Nokia are always on about—nice bits of flare for marketing, but in the end not…
You can imagine your in-car tracking computer always speaking to you in a faux British accent, like a tiny robot Mr. Belvedere, would be pretty annoying. That’s what the Magellan Roadmate 300 is like for Stu over at Pocket-Lint, except the other way around—the Roadmate defaults to an American accent out of the box and…
Look. It’s late, I’m tired, and I’m probably not able to form much in the way of a coherent idea, but since a few of your have flipped your lids about today’s earlier Tapwave Zodiac post, I’m going to ignore my usual policy of calling you all retarded and having another beer and respond. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/pdas/palm/index.php#tapwave-gives-up-on-zodiac-102171…
In an interesting turn, the UWB/WiMedia folks are teaming up with the Bluetooth folks to create a next-gen Bluetooth that is backwards compatible. It’s actually kind of difficult, reading this, to figure out where Bluetooth will stop and UWB will start. Obviously there are a number of Bluetooth devices and Bluetooth fans out there, and…
The MediaGear is really marketing this thing very specifically. It’s essentially a tiny USB card reader that can grab stuff off of any kind of card. So far so good. But they’re pitching it as something that you can use with all your old CF and SD cards that are just lying around like so…
So apparently there is an issue with first-generation iPod photos and RF remote controls—something inside the iPods causes an interference in the same band in which the wireless remotes work. iPodlounge has a in-depth report from a peripheral engineer explaining the details, but suffice it to say, if you’ve got one of the first 40/60GB…
This 8-megapixel point and shoot looks pretty sly. 4x optical zoom is pretty skimpy but 8-megapixels is nothing to sneeze at. No pricing info, but the specs look clean: 1.3 second start-up, SD card support, and available lens adapters make this a very high-resolution digicam without the SLR look and feel. You’re really pushing it…
The StealthSwitch is a clever little device that requires a certain level of deviousness in the buyer. It’s essentially a footswitch for flipping between unauthorized windows and more authorized windows. Say, for example, you were playing a game of Doom 3 in the office and Shelly Levene comes over and asks you for the Glengarry…
What is it about the sweet, buttery goodness of a cupcake? Is it the cake? The frosting? The paper cup? Perhaps it’s all of the above. In the spirit of maintaining absolute cleanliness and protecting our precious pastries, we present the Cup-A-Cake. Sure, the let that other guy get his cupcake all dirty on the…
This company has been around for a while but the idea is sound and they have two new versions of their hardware available. The Kaleidescape is a DVD jukebox. You drop your DVDs into the slot, it rips them to a disk array, and then transmits the picture to entertainment servers around the house. Never…
I’ve been trying to get one of those new Toshiba Libretto U100s by hook or by crook, but everyone is either sold out or sick of answering my telephone calls every day. That means I haven’t been able to launch the one-finger wallet wilter and must instead entertain myself considering alternatives, like this Fujitsu LifeBook…