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Mark our words: This is the last time we send our Technic space-fighters quietly into that good night. PodBrix are Lego with their own private MP3 players, which means from now on, when we send our minifigs in miniature 4G iPods and headphones to be slaughtered by the fell force of “k*nex,” they’ll be able…
Logitech tries its hand at creating a device resembling the HAL 9000 except they forgot the megalomaniacal tendencies—you’ll have to talk yourself out of your airlock. The new ViewPort AV 100 offers a video camera, integrated microphone with “acoustic echo cancellation” and a Bluetooth wireless headset, all sucking from the standard USB teat. The device…
If you’re going to go after Sony, you might as well go after their sexiest camera. The new FujiFilm FinePix Z1 is a 5.1-megapixel pocket camera available in a satin black [pictured] and brushed silver (although I wouldn’t be surprised to see other color options if it takes off). It’s thinner than a deck of…
FujiFilm’s new FinePix F10 is a 6.3-megapixel camera that includes the new “Real Photo Technology,” an attempt by FujiFilm to mitigate some of the pixel noise one gets when using a higher ISO setting. The upshot of that is that pictures can be taken in lower natural light conditions without a flash, which almost always…
FujiFilm is also upgrading their A-series cameras with the new FinePix A345 and A350 [pictured], 4.1- and 5.2-megapixel cameras that replace the lens cover of the older series with retracting 3x optical zoom lenses. These are the bread-and-butter cameras, so while they’ll launch in March for $250 and $300 respectively, I wouldn’t be surprised to…
To complement FujiFilm’s new line-up of consumer cameras, the company is also releasing the MP-70 portable printer, a fun if somewhat limited-use infrared model that prints to Polaroid-like instant developing film. The prints are just about the size of business cards, so we’re not talking keepsake-quality stuff (less frame, more shame). FujiFilm hopes to see…
IBM, Sony and Toshiba today unveiled the mitochondria that powers their new Cell architecture—set to propel the PS3 to new heights of awesomenosity. Focusing on the ability to spread work out over (as many as) nine cores on a single chip, they bring the migration of the computer industry to a multi-core system to the…
Lifehacker More than one way to tie a shoe Delicious Library personal media catalog New York City walking, subway and bus directions https://lifehacker.com/more-than-one-way-to-tie-a-shoe-32278 Kotaku Game & Watch Emulator Build A Portable Super Nintendo Text Pong http://www.kotaku.com/gaming//game-watch-emulator-032247.php Jalopnik Car Donation Organization Sponsors Ugliest Car Contest Buy a Ford Focus, Get a Computer Senseless Acts of Sensorship:…
Here’s a funny review that points out a problem sure to plague many designers of media phones: how do you a screen large enough to be pleasantly watched in a phone still easy to slip in the pocket? I’m sure it’s an easy enough hurdle to hump, sure to be cleared by some cardboard and…
Toshiba has announced a new “ultimate gaming machine” called the Satellite P35, with a decently-fast mobile Pentium 4 (3.3GHz) and a less-than-cutting-edge ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (optional; the default is the 9000). It looks pleasent enough, with its sexy chrome track star screen saver on its glossy 17-inch widescreen (manufacturers note: removing chrome nudist will…
Interactive Taxi, a spin-off of a New York advertising company, is planning on placing ‘interactive wireless multimedia devices’ in the backs of 600 cabs in Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco (but not New York). The touch-screen systems will have movie trailers, restaurant, and other generic kiosk information, stored on a 2GB flash drive (they mention…
Sony, IBM, and Toshiba are lining up today to take the wraps off the fabled ‘Cell’ processors today, a presentation sure to be filled with shiny videos and strings of chthonic numbers designed to short-circuit your discernment and show off exactly why you’ll need a Playstation 3 or new Toshiba television. But before our eyes…
Mobil.cz sneaks out another pre-release phone—this time a 2-megapixel candybar phone from Sony Ericsson that will likely be dubbed the ‘K750i,’ if and when it hits the streets (for now it’s code-named ‘Clara’). With a slick sliding cover over an auto-focussing sensor as well as EDGE support, Sony Ericsson are sure to push this heavily…
Playlist Mag’s Dan Frakes has a great review of the Sonos Digital Music System (yes, the same one we linked to on Friday, but this review is much more in depth). I think it’s probably safe to say at this point that there’s nothing to worry about with this streaming media platform—if you’ve got the…
Product Highlights • Give a dog a cell phone [CNN] I’m so getting a PetsCell when they come out. • SCommander Freeware [i-Symbian] Norton Commander-style Series 60 file manager. • PlayStation 3 chip to be unveiled [BBC] Later today! • Disposable DVDs at Crossroads [WiredNews] • Texas Instruments Preps 1080p DLP Chips [DesignTechnica] Can’t wait…
Kitundu is a musician tinkerer who is best known as the creator of the Phonoharp, a series of stringed instruments built around record players. This Blue Steel String 1200 Phonoharp, for instance, is built around the stalwart Technics 1200 turntable and features a built-in mixer and cross-fader, allowing the Tanzanian-raised artist to mix in the…
Mysteriously, advertising works. Lots of you sent in this link to the Olympus m:robe 500 ad from last night’s Super Sports Event, featuring a creepy dancing guy with bizarro pop-locking computer-edited grandparents (the second disturbing old people pop-locking video in a month). I don’t think much of m:robe 500—it’s a low-end camera in a too-large…
Dottocomu reports about “something of a fad” in Japan: the printing of seasonal inscriptions on computer hardware. This chip, for instance, resides on the KISS Sweet Memory Premium Edition, an otherwise stock-standard 512MB DIMM of RAM. Nothing says forget-me-not like highly volatile memory chips. DDR memory for your Valentine [Dottocomu]
DAPreview has information about a couple of new audio players from OEM manufacturer Godot, including this nice-looking M8570. The color-screen player features a 20GB 1.8-inch hard drive and even supports OGG Vorbis, as well as all the FM radio and voice recording features that are standard in players not called ‘iPod.’ No price or availability…
Napster to Go’s iPod page is probably going to be less-than-successful—I doubt many iPod owners will click the link and find religion because of a simplistic GIF. But they do have a point: no matter how much money you spend on iTunes or Napster, you’ll never truly own your DRM’d music. Thanks for the reminder,…