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Sonance, makers of the iPort—essentially a docking station for an iPod which allows you to stream its music contents throughout your home audio system—will be announcing video support for its system—even though the iPod doesn’t support video. By taking advantage of the oft-forgotten fact that the iPod is basically just a FireWire hard drive, Sonance…
The Inquirer (whose Charlie Demerjian was just lovely about the time I maybe sort of made fun of him for checking out the Daisy Dukes at E3) spotted lots of good stuff at CES, including this Shuttle XPC in a set-top form factor. One-upping most smaller Media Center PCs is the ability to upgrade the…
SanDisk is starting a new line of ‘Gaming’ memory cards, consisting essentially of neon-colored translucent versions of their existing products. Not mind-blowing, but pleasing all the same, I guess. And unlike the floppy disk, reaching the neon-colored age doesn’t mean they’re about to die out. SanDisk suddenly enters gaming accessory market [MobileTracker]
The WSJ is reporting (according to MobileTracker) that Alltel is buying Western Wireless, making them the 6th largest US wireless carrier. Alltel buys Western Wireless [MobileTracker]
There’s hardly a product category I care less about than printers, but ever since middle school gym class I’ve learned to care about ‘small.’ The new Canon PIXMA iP90 claims to be the smallest “in its class,” whatever that means, but it is certainly a pint-sized printer (although when I tried to fill it with…
Howard Forums’ Mark Morrow got his hands on the very first Bluespoon 5G, the absolutely smallest Bluetooth headset in the world. In this picture, you can see it next to a clear AX. I picked up an AX just a couple of days after Christmas and have loved it, in part for its tiny size.…
Although the Kata R-102 Rucksack is designed specifically for photographers and their fragile equipment, there’s no reason the $125 bag—developed by the same manufacturer of Israeli body armor—shouldn’t be considered for anyone hauling a lot of electronics around. It’s tough, configurable, and well-engineered—I especially like the reversible rain bonnet that flips over to show a…
Memsen was showing prototypes of their new ‘Click ‘n’ Share’ flash memory drives at CES. The concept is simple, but potentially powerful: each flash drive has (presumably) a ‘shared’ folder, and when two flash drives are within range, just a simple button press will wirelessly transfer the contents of those shared folders. It’s only at…
The EcoBlast Signal Horn from Goal Sporting is a rechargeable air horn that can be attached to most bike frames and filled up with a standard bike pump. It even has volume control for those times you want to honk but not harm. It’s no recycled seltzer water, but at just $20 it’s our first…
Samsung’s Q30 notebook is dreamy, with an ample resolution on its widescreen and a bucketload of built-in features all within a slimline profile case. I said we should be “fairly positive” of its release here in the US, but reader Mohammed Rahman tells us to think otherwise: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-q30-notebook-reviewed-28683 Sorry for letting you know this so…
And no sooner than I mention the upcoming Flash iPod, an Italian Apple fansite purports to have seen pictures of the new device at MacWorld, as well as the new Apple catchphrase “Life is random,” lending credence to their reports that the new iPod has no screen at all and will instead focus primarily on…
Thank all that is plastic and shiny that CES is over. It was fun to waltz from vendor to vendor, hoping they would actually be showing off something new and interesting, and not just pushing their products we already knew about in 2004. But I’m definitely glad to be back in Brooklyn, the town which…
Here is part two of my discussion with Microsoft front man Bill Gates, where we talk about the future direction of Windows relative to the rest of Microsoft, and the possibility of Apple launching their own Office competitor. It looks like we’ll be serializing these as I transcribe them throughout the week. If you missed…
I have no idea how legit it is, but someone has posted pictures of a headless iMac, called the iHome. They’re grainy and naturally suspect, but there’s even a video and it looks surprisingly real. More pictures after the jump. (Thanks, Asa!) iHome Pics [TecknoHost] Update: I can’t begin to tell you how many people…
Here’s the new StreetPilot c330, Garmin’s answer to the recently-released TomTomGo. It looks extremely similar in both size and form factor, but I didn’t get a chance to really mess around with it. The “3D” map is still just a 2D map viewed in perspective (like TomTomGo), but it looks like a nice enough bit…
I didn’t expect to find the words, “that’s a badass sewing machine” coming out of my mouth, and from the look on his face, neither did the guy from Brother Sewing. He should be used to it, though, because it’s totally true. The Innov-is 4000D converts any image file into an embroidered pattern—even directly from…
Olympus is totally pushing their two new m:robe devices this year—if you thought it was going to be hard to get one in the US, worry no longer. The m:robe 500 is always awesome, with its 20GB hard drive and touchscreen interface. The problem is, the camera sort of sucks, and I don’t really care…
Somebody is selling a homebrew portable SNES on eBay. It’s like having a Game Boy Advance, except the games are bigger! (Thanks, Ira!) SNESP Portable Super Nintendo – SNES – RARE [eBay]
Netflix has a great new feature that goes live today called Profiles, which allows you to set up separate queues for up to five different family members. You’ll still have the same amount of DVDs checked out at a time, but you can assign a certain amount per Profile (one for your wife, two for…
Memorex was showing off these orange-slice MP3 players in the MMP series. The one on top had a built-in FM radio, while the one on the bottom has an SD/MMC slot for expansion. I swear I’ve seen these before, but I couldn’t find them online.