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I couldn’t figure out why Kodak wanted us down at CTIA in the first place, but that’s probably because we missed the introduction of the Kodak EasyShare-one at CES. They’re still not ready to launch the product (three to four months, they say), but it does hold some promise. The idea is simple: take four-megapixel…
Wetpixel has a review of both the Nikon D2X 12.4 MP camera and its Subal ND2 underwater housing. The pictures produced by the camera are vibrant and incredibly well-balanced, which you would expect for the $5,000 it costs. Still, reviewer Dr. Alex Mustard says that if you don’t need very large output sizes for your…
Motorola has announced a CDMA version of the massively popular V3 RAZR, which means either Sprint or Verizon users should be expecting the phone at some point in the near future. Engadget played with the new model at CTIA and noticed it has a 1-megapixel camera, instead of the GSM RAZR’s skimpy VGA sensor, which…
Cingular is now exclusively offering the new Samsung P777 (formerly the SGH-P777, I think) as the first in Samsung’s new line of high-speed (EDGE) multimedia phones. The phone features an integrated MP3 player as well as a camcorder which allows the user to send up to 30 second video clips and to record up to…
It doesn’t looks so good in this picture, because the flash catches the fermenting finger oils of a thousand middle managers, but the Newgen 1200 is a lovely little phone. It’s not that it looks high end, exactly, but it’s small and simple, and that’s good enough for me. This model is listed as dual-band…
Newgen is a Korean company showing off some US products, most of which are tiny, shiny models that are more about small size than super feature sets—and they look pretty good, really. There’s no promise that we’ll actually get any of the phones, but some of the designs are pretty fun, including this concept phone…
It might be the fact that I haven’t been in my own home for more than 24 hours in the last two weeks, but my shamble yesterday through CTIA just didn’t knock my rotting socks off. Still, there were a few things that I hadn’t seen, including portable medical testing products from Card Guard, either…
Riding trends as only morning shock jock DJs can, this ‘Pimped Out Shopping Cart’ will be making some hobo out there very happy. Built as a promotional tool for a morning radio show called ‘Lex and Terry,’ the shopping cart is filled with a laundry list of street survival and entertainment options, including GPS, an…
Jim Younkin has completed this fun (if simple) hack to cram an iPod shuffle inside of a pair of $1 thrift-store headphones. The result? An iPod shuffle crammed into a pair of… Anyway, that’s the beauty of flash, Apple or otherwise: it’s so small you can cram it into all sorts of odd places (especially…
The freshest rumors about PalmOne’s forthcoming Tungsten read a little lot like a fairy tale, so we won’t get our hopes up just yet. Features for the T6 (or Tungsten 2005, as the case may be) include Bluetooth, Wavelan, 1GB of Flash memory, a 3 MP digital camera, an ethernet port, iTunes compatibility, an initial…
British designer Jenny Tillotson has developed a line of multi-sensorial clothing that acts as a “Smart Second Skin”. The fabric interacts with the human emotions of its wearer and releases a selection of scents based on your mood. As much of the research in Smart Second Skin clothing includes work with pheromones—the aromatic molecules, which…
Hilton Hotels has announced that they will provide “emergency” cell phone chargers to its guests. Available in the “Pavilion Pantry” of the Hilton Garden Inn chain, guests will be able to buy a PowerMobile universal cell phone battery charger if they find they’ve forgotten theirs at home. I’d prefer the option to simply have a…
So we missed this when Red Ferret Journal first talked about it last week, but shiny shiny just picked it up, bless their hearts. The Underwater Tank is an aquarium with a reverse periscope, allowing you to peer into the hearts and souls of your fish, with a feeder positioned right near the scope’s lens,…
The most interactive laser tag systems to date simply vibrate when shot, but stop short of inflicting any real pain. Herein lies their fatal flaw, and Gadget Shop has set out to fix this error with their Shocking Guns—a laser tag set that shocks the user when shot by an opponent. It offers two degrees…
Joel is out gallivanting across New Orleans and has presumably found his way to CTIA, where he’ll be reporting from soon. Meanwhile, he’s left the lot of you in my (allegedly) capable hands, with this message: Caveat emptor. That being said, let’s get down to it. Plustech Oy (a John Deere subsidiary) has unleashed their…
Microsoft in Cambridge (Britain) is apparently making a GPS clock to track family members ala that one part from Harry Potter. Called the “Family Awareness Clock,” different hands point to the location of the particular family member: Sue is at work, Bob is pouring Mercury into the river, and little Timmy is selling nose candy…
Out of seemingly nowhere emerges the Nikon Coolpix S1, obviously a stab at recent offerings from Casio and Sony (think Exilim and Cybershot T series). But gee whiz, I had no idea a Nikon could look anything like this — it has a 5.1MP CCD and 0.75″ thick aluminum body. Estimated at around 45,000 yen,…
There are two new models of TomTom GO GPS systems on the table, both of which appear to be fairly well-featured. The “700” and “300” follow suit of previous TomTom GO models, but the “700” eliminates the SD slot and adds an integrated 2.5GB hard drive as well as Bluetooth functionality. Hell, it even has…
Finally we have some clarity to that whole PSX production debacle from a few weeks back. Sony has announced two new PSX models: the 250GB “DESR-7700” and 160GB “DESR-5700.” Both are set to go on sale on April 15th in Japan with an interesting new feature: the ability to encode video in the PSP’s video…
The increasingly bizarre 2005 World Exposition is to take place in Japan this year, and the most recent “what the hell” announcement comes from PC accessory maker Buffalo. In cooperation with Chubu University’s “SoLan” solar-powered blimp, Buffalo will provide internet access to expo visitors by equipping the blimp itself with wireless LAN equipment. Four 802.11g…