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Sony will be releasing a two 15 inch WEGA LCD TVs called the “KLV-15SP2” and “KLV-15AP2.” Both use 640 x 480 panels, and should cost no more than 67,000 yen. The “Memo” feature enables you to do a sort of “freeze frame” for live TV programs (while the program continues in the background), presumably so…
Tomy held a press event the other day where they introduced a number of products such as a “girl’s portable audio player” and “golf game for old men” (pictured). It’s sort of a shame about the girl’s audio player because the IC cards it uses can only store like 8 minutes of music. Somehow I…
NTT DoCoMo will be releasing the W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS Motorola “M1000” phone in the near future. It’s sort of out of the loop as far as DoCoMo phones are concerned, with no support for i-Mode, i-Mail, i-Motion, or anything else involving the letter i. But it does run Symbian 7.0, has a TransFlash slot, and…
From Bandai comes a new iteration of the ever-popular “Tamagotchi” virtual pets, called the “Chibi Tamagotchi.” They take after the original Tamagotchis (from 1996) in form factor and characters. But beware of the size — “chibi” is Japanese for something small and cute. Indeed, the Chibi Tamagotchis are 66% the size of the original Tamagotchis.…
It was just back in March that we reported on Onkyo joining the HD DVD Promotion Group. And oops, they today announced they’re also joining the Blu-Ray Disc Association. What do they have planned? “We’ll tell you in September.” Good answer. Press Release [Onkyo]
Some people are, in all sincerity, too smart for their own good. Take this fellow, who MAKE reports on: Exploring my new Siemens MC 60 mobile, I discovered an interesting feature. It has the ability to record small pieces of sound with its integrated microphone and store them as WAV files, so that you can…
In a move sure to encourage youth everywhere to keep their amps cranked up… to eleven, scientists working on a cochlear implant have developed a device that can actually help “reverse the death and degeneration of hearing cells that occurs after prolonged deafness.” A small electric current releases specialized molecules that stimulate the nerve regrowth.…
Japanese school uniform maker Ogo-Sangyo Company has released their newest advancement in uniform technology: GPS-enabled blazers. The GPS terminals, located inside the uniforms, can communicate back to parents (or potential kidnappers, naturally) the location of their children, allowing them to know exactly how many stops at the okashiya they made on their way home. The…
Blimps are great, especially if you don’t fill them full of screaming, burning people. The Marines in Iraq are testing out this new MARTS (Marine Airborne Re-Transmission Systems) blimps as replacements for radio towers, running singals up through fiber-obtic which are then repeated over UHF/VHF. They are a few million dollars a pop, but they…
Tobias Wong has designed the on/off switch: A wireless, metal-plate wall switch that can be placed anywhere and can control any light fixture in your house by attaching its remote component. The range on the Lucite-boxed switch is 100 ft and it’s available now at gnr8 for just $119, shipping included. It’ll make an interesting…
The Samsung SC-X195l MP4—or the Miniket Extreme Sport Camcorder, as it is known—is shipping. That means you can get your solid-state camera, able to withstand the bumps and bruises of X-treme Your Kidz T-Ball Gamez for just $600. The head-mounted external lens is optional, but undeniably cool. Samsung Miniket Extreme Sport Camcorder Ships! [I4U]
Apparently at the Musikmesse show Numark was showing off this prototype iPod DJ mixer, but didn’t want people to take photos. Unfortunately, they hadn’t bothered to mention that until a few days after the show started, so German hip-hop site WebBeatz has some basic information. There’s not a lot to know off hand, but it’s…
Two University of California San Diego scientists have developed a better way of seamlessly handing off 802.11 roaming, making it possible for people from one hotspot to another without dropping connections. That’s important not so much for data, which can handle a dropped packet here and there, but for streaming audio, video, and voice-over-IP. The…
Olympus is offering two new colors of their m:robe MR-100 MP3 player—sort of. The front of the device is still the Knight-Rider-like red-on-black (of which, I must say, I am a fan). The back of the current models is white, but the new models will be available with backs in light pink and light blue.…
Want to know what the pictures from a cameraphone with a 5-megapixel sensor look like? MobileBurn has a review of the Samsung SCH-S250, a Korea-only import that was one of the first from Samsung to feature a high-megapixel sensor (which means no optical zoom like the models announced this year). The pictures are okay, but…
ThinkSecret is reporting the supposed details of Apple’s Power Mac, iMac, and eMac upgrades, presumed to be officially unveiled by the company at the upcoming NAB conference. There’s nothing terribly mind-blowing, mostly because there is still no confirmation as to whether the top-end Power Mac G5s (with speeds up to 2.7GHz) will have a dual-core…
I’ve been told this image has leaked some time before, but I haven’t seen it, so here you go: possibly an image of the Xbox 2/Xbox 360/Xenon/Xhatever. It does seem to fit all previous reports about the console’s look, including color, size, and the weird handle things, but it’s also not very ‘set-top’ looking, so…
The Healthcare Snore Stopper presents a rather interesting, Pavlovian take on preventing snoring by emitting a gentle (“harmless”, they say) electrical signal when it detects your snoring. In theory, your body will learn to stop shocking itself over time in a form of aversion therapy and as a bonus, the device conveniently avoids waking either…
They’re slippers. They’re ping-pong paddles. And so, for just about $33, SolidAlliance sells you the privilege of sticking your hand into your sweaty feet-holes during those times when ping-pong challenges present with an incredible sense of urgency. Available (presumably) in Japan, SolidAlliance also sells the USB Duck, which I’ve included a picture of after the…
Earthlink Wireless is now offering the BlackBerry 7250, probably most notable for being one of the few BlackBerries with Bluetooth. It’s still weird to think of Earthlink as a wireless carrier, but I was checking it out to see whose services they are reselling (it still doesn’t say, although it’s got to be Sprint or…