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Korg has announced their latest high-end keyboard today, called the OASYS, and it’s a doozy. The whole thing runs on Linux, with a built-in 10.4-inch touchscreen, 16-track HD audio recording, and the second-generation of its sythesis engine KARMA (which is a blast to play around with if you ever get a chance, even if you’re…
For whatever reason, PalmOne asked Treonauts to pull down their exclusive first pics of the GSM Treo. Who knows why they are so worried about it—It’s basically a generic Treo 650 with a SIM card slot. We’ve decided to host the pictures for now. If you want to see it, here it is. https://gizmodo.com/treonauts-scores-first-gsm-gprs-treo-650-29951 Two…
Product Highlights • Nintendo “Playan” details emerge (Flash video playback for GameBoy) [TechJapan] • New Korean Dictionary with SD [iRiver] • Western Digital to enter minidrive arena [CNet] Business • Sony issues profit warning [TheInquirer] • Motorola shares slip [MobileTracker] • LG in talks to buy Siemens’ handset division [MobileTracker] • LG denies that it…
It’s a strange feeling knowing that somebody somewhere got paid real American dollars to crop out your bad haircut in a JPEG. That’s not the only editing done to my new column in Laptop magazine, thank god, where they’ve taken my spittle and impotent fury and turn it into something readable, as I talk about…
Canon has released the A510 digital camera, an update to its popular low-end A75 camera. The A-series cameras are great entry-level cameras, as they use AA batteries and tend to be very easy to use, while still providing perfectly decent images. The 3.2-megapixel A510 is both smaller and lighter than the A75 and should be…
In December, ExtremeTech—the lone nerdy science officer serving under Commander Ziff Davis as he mines the snowy, ad-rich depths of White Space—started a four-part ‘Display Technology Shoot-Out.’ I don’t know what they were shooting out, exactly, (maybe displays, which would be awesomely unlikely) but it ended up being a great introduction to all the various…
It would appear the Mac mini is shipping. Dan Darato put up a flickr slideshow on his blog documenting the entire unboxing ceremony, as did Matt Kingston (just as I was writing this, in fact). A couple quick calls to Apple retail stores still indicate a retail launch Saturday, so if you didn’t order ahead…
iTunes and Pepsi are teaming up again to give away free iTunes downloads, as well as free iPod mini. Chances are good, too, with 1 in 3 a winner (hopefully we can still do the tip up trick). Even better, the codes will appear across a great portion of the Pepsi line, including Mountain Dew…
DAPreview has a nice review (and the first, I think) of the Olympus m:robe MR-100, the 5GB player from the company formerly best-known for its cameras. I played with both the MR-500 and the MR-100 at CES and have to say that while I was less than impressed with the MR-500 (fun toy, but not…
Using the amazing power of USB, this head massager/space squid can make the average sad office worker so excited she pops her gnome hats right off. You can power the device off of two AA batteries as well, but then how could you expect it to transmit your innermost desires back to the mothership database?…
The great thing about being crazy is that nobody tells you not to do something crazy. It’s just sort of assumed. Like Troy Hurtubise, inventor of the famed Ursus bear suit, who now has claimed his new ‘Angel Light’ invention can see through walls and basic tenets of physics as if they weren’t even there.…
Because so many of you have emailed me to point it out, I thought I’d go ahead and pass it along, even though it doesn’t exactly help us, you know, stay on target. But yes, I want one, too, and would like to buy the person who came up with such a brilliant, simple idea…
If you’ve got something like 10 to 30 thousand dollars at hand, Force Dynamics would like to talk to you about their model 301 “personal motion simulator.” While the 301 has the same 3 axis movement of larger, professional simulators, the model is small enough to fit into a normally-sized room and can operate on…
Surround sound headphones aren’t exactly new—I used to have an old set of quadraphonic headphones with two quarter-inch stereo jacks and four speakers—but they’ve come back into style with the advent of cheap surround sound sources (almost every DVD and videogame around). Trusted Reviews takes a set out called the HCT Portable Home Theater that…
Konami and Takara has released three new ‘TERA’ devices in a Kirby-esque robot shell. The blue TERA AV is a DVD player with a built-in projector in its eyes that can throw a 20-inch screen, while the yellow TERA LIFE is an air purification device, with built-in infrared thermometer and “alcoholic sensor.” Lastly, the green…
It was in October that we last mentioned the Jazz Mutant Lemur touchscreen music interface. At the time I was a bit dubious that a $2500 touchscreen would make it to market at all, even if it was particularly swanky (who doesn’t like the idea of making custom on-screen control surfaces, like knobs and sliders…
Sanyo’s new in-car navigation system is appropriately named. The ‘HD Gorilla’ is packed with features, including an integrated TV tuner, 30GB hard drive, and full-blown GPS with 3D mapping (the real deal, too, not just the tilted-perspective 2D map that the newer GPS units here in the US do). And of course, it’s all stuffed…
Intel has officially taken the wraps off Sonoma, their code-named update for the Centrino platform. Expect new laptops that adopt the platform to support all three major flavors of 802.11 (b/g/a), sport faster DDR2 memory, built-in support for TV out and Dolby Digital 7.1 sound, and faster graphics. Add all that into a faster front…
Corsair’s new Flash Voyager keychain drive looks like a cast off from a Play-Doh version of Star Trek. Fortunately, all that rubber and nubbin isn’t just for show—the 2GB drive is both shock- and water-resistant. The projected price for the USB 2.0 drive is around $190. New 2GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive From Corsair [MobileMag]
Verizon is showing off the Verizon One, a convergence device that combines a DSL modem, 802.11g router, and a 5.8GHz cordless phone into a single desktop unit—and just one calorie. The idea is more than just reducing clutter. The Verizon One acts as a central interface into all of a customer’s voice mail and call…