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It looks like the end-of-year round-ups are upon us—it is the end of year, I guess—and Laptop Magazine has their “Gear of the Year” up, with some no brainers I think we’ll be seeing a lot of this week, including the Motorola V3 Razr and the JVC Everio camcorder (something I’ve seen a lot of…
Sometimes these things just write themselves. From an interview with Kaden Harris on Sensory Impact: I really want to know how you first got into this. I m sure you didn t wake up one day and decided to sell miniature Guillotines. Fine Contemporary Craft meets Medieval Technology [SensoryImpact]
In Om’s very positive review of the Sprint Audiovox 6601 Pocket PC phone, he writes, “I personally feel that Microsoft should stop trying to get into all general purpose phones and instead focus on these high end devices which make life easier for the ‘enterprise user.'” That made me wonder: is Microsoft marketing these devices…
Lars at Wireless Watch Japan has a short and fun video interview with Tokyo-based cell phone customizer Syouji Koyama, who operates a boutique in Shibuya where he mods Japan’s already attractive phones with banks of LEDs and other solderific goodness. And if I was doing the translations in my head correctly, Koyama’s work isn’t even…
Good morning, internet friends. Another Christmas has come and gone, and yet, I am still without a Nintendo DS. If my attempt to find one in a store yesterday was any indication, they’ve been a big hit—both games and systems have been impossible to find. Fortunately, my little brother’s arms are very pliable, enabling me…
According to this article posted yesterday on CNET, Apple has applied for a patent on technology which would allow an iPod (or other device) to detect when it is falling and shut down the hard drive, minimizing the potential damage to drive and data due to impact. How soon this technology will find its way…
Sharp’s going to have a new network media player on their home turf early next year, the CE-MR01. Supporting both wired (10 and 100mbps, no gigabit) and wireless networks of the a, b, and g varieties, the unit is capable of playing back MPEG-1 and 2, MP3, WAV, and WMA, as well as displaying various…
It has been called to my attention that T-Mobile’s Blackberry users may be getting the big stinky shaft when it comes to using third-party apps. There’s extensive discussion on the topic at HowardForums and PDAStreet, but the message seems pretty clear: customers aren’t getting what they’re paying for, and they’re mighty peeved. The issue seems…
The first thing that comes to mind when seeing Sony’s DCR-DVD7E is that it looks rather like a Discman, but this is of course only because it must make room for a DVD-R, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW to use as recording media. The unit, announced yesterday in Europe, has a 2.5-inch LCD viewfinder on the back,…
With Joel out experiencing the Great American Christmas Road Trip, the news posting responsibility has fallen on me for the day, with our friend Brian from Kotaku pitching in when he can. I was supposed to be able to check Joel’s email for whatever juicy bits might come to us through that avenue, but unfortunately…
This is a shocker: The Phantom Game Service will be demonstrated at the upcoming CES in the Microsoft Booth in preperation for going live in 2005. I always assumed that the Phantom would live up to its name and go down in a flaming streak of screaming investors. The device will use Windows XP Embedded…
The folks over at PSP411.com pointed me to their nifty PSP Price Watch. The indictor on their front page gives you the most recent price of the PSP from the Internet s most popular PSP import vendors and it’s just in time for all of that Holiday lucre you’ll be raking in. PSP Price Watch…
The server gremlins decided to wreak a little havok with Kotaku Wednesday and the site is currently down. We’re moving domain registrars so hopefully everything will be up and running by Monday morning at the latest. Until then Gizmodo has been kind enough to let Kotaku hang out in the corner and mumble about gaming…
There’s a bit of a scare story on Florida Today about criminals using cameraphones to steal personal information from you, like credit card numbers or ATM PINs. While no arrests have been made—in fact, it’s all speculation!—there’s an important lesson we can learn from all of this: pay for everything by trading bales of home-spun…
Mavromatic points out this lovely Windows Media Center PC from Italian company OnCinema. The TEATRO D1 has a built-in VGA touchscreen (with 1,280 by 720 pixel resolution!), DL-DVD burner, and a 500GB hard drive. On top of all that, it has all the usual input and output bits, including integrated Wi-Fi. TEATRO D1 – The…
The EStone Ripper is an in-dash CD player for your car that can rip CDs directly to its internal hard drive. After filling it up with 5,000 songs or so, you can pop out the hard drive and back it up to your PC. As usual, the interface is the key—that’s a lot of songs…
Bob Kohn has responded to yesterday’s comments from Rip Digital founder Dick Adams regarding the potential illegality of the CD ripping service. Let me sum it all up: Kohn thinks they might get sued; Adams thinks they won’t; I think the RIAA is a misguided organization at best, whose current command of logic and decency…
Nokia has updated their blogging software for Series 60 phones, “Lifeblog,” to version 1.5. Improvements include the ability to back up you data to a CD or DVD (using your PC, of course, not your phone) and an improved interface for looking through your content and making edits. Technically Lifeblog is a Euro-only application, although…
Once a week, createdigitalmusic‘s Peter Kirn highlights drool-worthy music and audio creation equipment, from essential to oddball. This week’s computer audio control surface, invented by a former magician and priced like a yacht, hits the oddball end. Finally, an audio control surface that looks like it belongs on a spaceship: the Smart AV Smart Console.…
If you had an itch to pick up the Clio NXT from Data Evolution, they’re running a special preorder program for $800 instead of the regular $1,000. They don’t actually expect to ship the Windows CE-powered laptop thingy until April, though, so don’t feel you have to tie your money up just yet (especially since…