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Finally, a cool voice of reason in the iPod controversy of 2005. The Tech Zone has hired a 13-year-old editor to write a detailed, nuanced review of the Cupertino’s Little White—or Pastel or even Sans-a-Screen—Miracle. An excerpt: You can put the iPod to repeat or shuffle or just regular play ! You just keep listening and…
The Sony VGN-T140P/L is a wee 10-inch Pentium M laptop with an optical drive and what some believe is a passing resemblance to the Gateway M210. We, however, were not fooled. In terms of laptops, we haven’t seen a whole lot coming out of Sony in the past few months so it’s refreshing to see…
At least two sites have information about this VRX MPEG-4 recorder this morning, but neither one have proper links to the manufactuer’s site, so your guess is as good as mine. The ideas seems to be a simple recorder that can write directly to Secure Digital and MemoryStick cards, allowing for quick and easy encodes…
Electronics Weekly has a few more details about Microsoft and Samsung’s ‘hybrid hard drive’ project. The new hard drives combine flash memory and traditional magnetic hard drive technology, using 1GB of high-speed flash memory as a read/write buffer, much like traditional RAM is now used in hard drives today (in much smaller amounts). The idea…
Aaron Tang delivers quite the feisty alarm clock with his Anemone Clock. The Anemone awakens a person using a combination of movement, sound, light and interaction. Somewhat similar to the Clocky rolling alarm clock we covered last month, the Anemone takes things a step further, requiring you to physically wrestle it to the ground and…
The leaked information about the LG VX9800 makes it seem like another mobile messenger device like the F9100 that’s Cingular has been pushing. That’s fine and dandy, especially with a higher resolution screen and a better camera, but I wonder if the EV-DO support means the VX9800 will be going to Verizon—and if that’s why…
Voom, the satellite HD television service, has finally given up the ghost, forcing users to find another HDTV provider by the end of the month. DirecTV is offering Voom customers a $200 rebate on HD equipment, in hopes of snagging some of the tens of thousands of customers now forced to watch television in standard…
HTPC News has a glowing review of the Uneed X15E home theater PC case with a built-in 7-inch LCD touchscreen. At $600 or more, it’s not a good option for someone trying to build an HTPC on a budget, but the attractive finish makes it easy to integrate with the rest of your A/V gear.…
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We have absolutely no idea where it came from [Beyond the SomethingAwful forums (OurColony?) -Ed.], but here is your second serving of supposed Xbox 360 image of the day. It looks a tad different than what we saw earlier, but the other one was a typical “we mysteriously failed to get a decent shot of…
You know your Mini wants it—some hot Mac on expansion pack action. The miniMate sits underneath your Mini and mates with it, adding 3 FireWire ports, 4 USB ports, and up to 400GB of external storage. It matches the Mini (doesn’t everything now?) and adds a few inches to the already tiny Mac. They start…
What are you doing for koninginnedag? Well, I know I ll be cracking open a fat can of Grolsch and then slapping a patented Blikbeugel Bottle Converter on the top of it. Then I ll bemoan the fact that if we legalized weed in the States we d all be making laid-back Can-to-Bottle converters and…
Not terribly exciting news, but it’s important in that true HD-quality, low-cost DLPs are on their way. DLP prices are already falling as we speak, but a massive influx of chips from TI and other manufacturers is definitely going to change things up this summer. Mitsubishi will be using these new chips in a line…
The TryPod is a triple double-speaker iPod tripod (try saying that 5 times fast. I know. It’s easy.) It’s a bit aged, but we’d say that this would be the perfect accessory—aside from a screen—for the Shuffle. A stereo jack on the top can accept just about anything you plug into it, however, and it…
Wha? Perhaps in some strange third dimension IR interference from a plasma might be an issue but I have yet to have any problems pointing a remote at any 42-incher I’ve ever seen. Anyway, NEC’s PX-42VM5FJ TV—which apparently only shows images from past Miss Teen American Karaoke contests—has an IR filter. Who knew? Translated Product…
Jumping out of a plane is a pretty binary operation—you’re in a plane then you’re not. However, HALO jumpers, folks who are jump from so high that they can’t figure out where they are and once they get close enough to the ground they have to pull the ripcord minutes before touchdown, have all sorts…
Thinksecret is reporting that a piece of software called ‘iTunes Mobile’ will be released in June—presumably the same software that will power the Motorola iTunes Phone that has been refused by almost every American wireless carrier. It can be assumed, I think, that iTunes Mobile will be a free download, much like the iTunes jukebox…
Yamaha has a new CD recorder coming out in June which features a space for a rather large hard drive. They’ve crippled it as far as writing to CDs from the hard drive is concerned (you have to “move” instead of “copy”), but with support for drives up to 400GB, that may not bother some…
AudioTechnica will be releasing their first “earplug” type earphones on May 20th in Japan. The “ATH-CK5” model will be available in black, red and white colorings, each costing about 3,675 yen. AudioTechnica is using “LOOP SUPPORT” on the earphones, a small protuberance to prevent them from falling out. Looks uncomfortable to me. AudioTechnica, first earplug-style…
3,980 yen (about $39) is the cost of Evergreen’s new “DN-MP3-SD” SD-slot MP3 player. While $39 really isn’t the cheapest price I’ve seen for an MP3 player in the US, 3,900 yen makes this the cheapest Japanese MP3 player I’ve seen in a while. It also has USB 2.0, so it could probably work as…