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The iPod Shuffle page is up, as well. That’s a small bit of something else—I have no idea how well it’s going to do, but I think I’ll buy one just to find out. Tons of accessories coming out soon, too, all for $30. Product Page [Apple]
The Mac Cube lives, albeit at half height. Apple has the page for their new Mac mini online, with all the information. You have to love the picture at the top in the ‘Choose a Mac section.’ You can barely see the mini. Product Page [Apple]
And the new flash memory-based iPod Shuffle, available in 512MB version for $100 and a 1GB model for $150.
Here it is, the new Mac Mini, available in G4 flavors for $500 and $600.
MacWorld Keynote has started. Updates as we get them. MacMerc has a Live Feed Page, as does MacRumors. PowerbookCentral has major coverage, too. New iMac is best-selling Mac. No Tiger update to OSX today. Have to wait until Q2 2005. Jobs has live, onscreen bug. Somewhere, Bill Gates cackles. Quicktime 7 has HD support, surround…
LG is showing off a new 3D gaming phone that they purport to be 5 times faster than its competitors, yet mysteriously has a tiny, postage stamp-sized screen. Even stranger is news that the phone has a built-in accelerometer, allowing gamers to tilt and shake their new handset to control their games on-screen. Fast mobile…
In an attempt to promote the sales of front-projecting displays (‘projectors’), some companies will be selling combination projectors/DVD players this year, such as this Cinego D-100. This D-100 isn’t a super-high-end product, but it does have all the connections you need to hook it up into a full home theater system, while retaining built-in speakers…
My frustration with the recent spate of keyboarded smartphones has almost convinced me to pick up a Windows Mobile device without QWERTY keypad. Near the top of the ‘under consideration’ list is the i-mate JAM, one of the smallest slate-styled Windows Mobile phones out there. Mozongo picked one up and seem pretty impressed by it,…
AnandTech got some more hands-on time with the Sonoma Media Center XPC from Shuttle, a box that we mentioned briefly yesterday, but I’m starting to suspect we’ll hear a lot more about. While it’s not the first Media Center PC to take the set-top form factor, Shuttle has a special gift for cramming lots of…
This YP-W3 MP3 pocket watch is a lovely bit of kit—it’s a bit surprising to see it coming out of Samsung. The flash player supports a variety of formats (including OGG Vorbis), and switches between a watch face and a navigation screen as needed. There’s even plans to sell a gold-plated version with a diamond…
Seeing that Segway with spinners made reminded me that I still had this picture in my camera of this heavily modified Scion (?) Celica from CES’s car audio hall. Yes, those are missiles in the back, and there were a few on the rear quarter-window as well. It was so Yo Joe I think I…
Josh Rubin got this snap of a company at CES, MTX Audio, who put spinners on a Segway. Wouldn’t it be funny if the breakout market for those nerd sleds ended up being the car modding market? A Seg’ would be a perfect control platform for one of those crazy bass booming competitions. Segway Spinners…
F-Secure is reporting another variation of the Bluetooth Cabir worm, this time different enough to warrant its own name: Lasco.A. The main difference here is that the malware is inserting itself into any .SIS executable file on Nokia Series 60 phones, so that just swapping software with someone else can cause them to be infected.…
I love you, too, Chang Hong. Company Page [ChangHong via SorobanGeeks]
The web on your iPod? PodSites are sort of like AvantGo for your iPod, except each special webpage downloaded to your iPod must be formatted to work within the fairly limiting framework of the Apple iPod’s Notes. The idea, of course, is to allow people to easily get content off the web onto their iPods,…
The Keyspan Digital Media Remote for Airport Express has finally shipped, just a couple of months after we first expected it. The remote can be plugged into Apple’s Airport Express Wi-Fi access point and used to control streaming AirTunes music, or can be connected directly to a computer and used to control applications. The $60…
Two new bits of Mac hardware from Griffin—the AirPort Express stand and the SmartDeck. The former is a plastic bit designed to prop up Apple’s mini Wi-Fi access point, ostensibly to give it better range. An additional light makes it easier to tell if someone is connected to the Airport, as well. Strange, but only…
Ronin No Sakurakai Softronics has developed “iPSP,” a bit of OSX software that allows you to automatically sync music, pictures, and more to your Sony PlayStation Portable. They have a free demo which you can download (and which I have not tried, since I could not be convinced to part with $600 when Sony will…
Speck Products has a new collection of iPod cases called ToughSkin, designed to provide ruggedized protection to Apple’s music player. All of the shock-absorbing, rubberized cases are for click wheel iPods and iPod photo, although an iPod mini case should be on the scene soon enough. They’re ugly, but they look tough—can’t have one without…
From the people that brought you the relatively good-looking PaperHub comes the TrestleHub, an “Art-Techno” USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 hub constructed of aluminum and glass designed to perfectly complement your collection of Klingon battle dildos. Available in a variety of sassy colors, the TrestleHub is the culmination of years of toil, made manifest by…