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While it’s probably best to wait until we see some benchmarks to really give this a thumbs up, the new Voodoo Envy m:515 looks promising. It’s a Centrino machine with PCI Express graphics, which means it might be able to provide both decent battery life and adequate gaming performance, all inside a relatively thin chassis.…
createdigitalmusic‘s Peter Kirn is back with more of what’s new and noteworthy from the world of music tech: this week, it’s USB DJing. The audio interface may soon be a thing of the past. DJs can swap in two computers instead of two turntables using just USB: Numark’s new DJ mixers have USB ports as…
Japanese small form-factor PC vendor Soldam is answering the Mac mini with an attractive little box called the ‘Lepty,’ with a Pentium M CPU and slot-loading DVD burner. And while the Mac mini might win out on size, the Lepty is available in 8 different colors, which is definite one-up. The power supply does sit…
Samsung’s new Yepp YP-W3 is lovely, is it not? We talked about it a bit last month, but hadn’t seen an official announcement or pictures. The player will come with 1GB of storage and run 13 hours on a single recharge. Do bear in mind that the YP-W3 is fairly large—it is a pocket watch,…
Dell’s rumored 24-inch widescreen LCD flat-panel screen is here, in the form of the UltraSharp 2405FP. The new model has a 1,920 by 1,200 pixel resolution and a 12ms response time (that means it will nearly no blur in games and movies or other fast-moving images). In addition to the 4-port USB hub that’s standard…
Someone really needs to start a celebrity database where retail employees can quickly check how much cockitude to expect from big shots. The Apple store draws in its fair share of celebs of various lists, like Screechin’ LeVar Burton, who aimed a pulsating vein in his forehead at an employee when asked to show ID,…
Yet another reason to wake up to pretend you have a reason to live, brought to you by the Timex BT-T244W, an AM/FM clock radio with nature sounds, battery backup, and a smelly discharge of Glade Plugin (Glade actually makes a smell thing of their own). The aromatherapy dispersion feature makes it something like a…
PalmOne is showing off the ‘final beta’ of BlackBerry Connect on the Treo 650. That means we should be seeing the messaging service real soon, unless something screws up or some licensing snafu holds up the process. This is a great new trend—BlackBerry or Microsoft ActiveSync or whatever business-class push email solution you want, on…
21st Century 3D announces an update to their 3DCX stereoscopic motion picture camera. Dubbed the 3DVX.2, the system is essentially two synchronized digital video camcorders, with 24p mode and the ability to record direct to disk. Using two separate channels, the system allows for higher resolution 3D filming than traditional systems which tend to split…
Lord, what a glut of phones. Panasonic has announced like eighty hojillion phones at Cannes, including the X800 (recently FCC approved) [left], the VS series (with an amazing 2.5-inch 24 bit color screen) [center], MX series (with those great screens and killer battery life), the ‘sporty’ SA series (with 2-megapixel cameras), and the low-end SC3…
Motorola’s following up their breakthrough RAZR V3 with the SLVR V8 candybar phone (formerly known under the code-name ‘Royale Blade’). Mobile Files has pictures, including news that the phone will feature an EDGE radio, meaning it’s likely we’ll see this model under an exclusive carrier contract with Cingular, just like the V3. The camera is…
Matt Freedman pointed out this new Epson printer to me and said I should care, which is something I rarely do about printers. So I asked him, why should I care about the Epson Stylus Photo R1800? And since his reply made me—who doesn’t even print anything ever—actually want one, I thought I’d let him…
Nokia and Microsoft are teaming up again, this time announcing support on Nokia phones for Windows Media Audio files (in DRM and unrestricted varieties), as well as MPEG-4 AAC support, via a new media player software from Loudeye. That’s all part of a new “white box” solution from Nokia and Loudeye which is aimed at…
The Nokia 6680 looks very similar to the 6681, although it has an extra camera (for a total of two), and does have the sliding back we saw in the December leaks. That’s more than just protection—opening the door will fire up the imaging software, just like a traditional pocket camera. The 6680 even supports…
Nokia has officially announced the Nokia 6681, a tri-band EDGE phone with the now-standard 1.3-megapixel camera, as well as a very nice 262k-color screen. Billed as an ‘imaging phone,’ most of the multimedia features center around smart software that can do things like adjust white balance or tweak color balance—nothing revolutionary, and certainly nothing that…
Whispers abound about Nintendo’s possible plans for their newly-acquired license for the Palm OS, and their new trademark on the name “Nintendo V-Pocket.” A complete line of personal organizer tools for the DS? Not a bad way for Nintendo to edge out, or at least keep up, with the PSP. Sony has already talked about…
I had to doublecheck what “conspicuously concealed” meant after seeing these ‘DomeWear’ cameras from EXISTech—apparently it means something like “wear something obnoxious and you won’t get mugged.” I don’t even know if these bags, pendants, and brassieres even have built-in cameras, or if they utilize the same technique as used in shopping malls, where there…
Besides announcing Version 3.0 of their Series 60 platform at 3GSM, Nokia has also announced support for Microsoft’s ActiveSync protocol. That means future Nokia devices will be able to plug seamlessly into Microsoft Exchange Servers, allowing them to easily push email, calendar and scheduling information out to their phone. That’s great—lots of businesses use Exchange…
The first Sendo phone, the “X,” took far too long to get to market, and ended up managing to be only a decent phone in a sea of similarly-spec’d phones, instead of the killer candybar everyone had hoped for (and it would have been, had it not arrived almost a year too late). Now the…
Sony Ericsson also announced the K600, an ugly looking candybar phone with a 1.3-megapixel camera, as well as UMTS (3G) support. From the looks of things, it’s Europe-only, just like the also-announced z800i, so even if you like its strange keys and uncomfortable shape, it’s going to be hard to use it in the US…