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I’m starting a petition to extend the hours of the day to 32. Once we get 6 billion signatures, we’ll fire them into the sun. iRiver has announced two of their much talked-about flash players officially into the US market, the iFP-900 and the N10. Both are solid players, but a bit on the pricey…
Toshiba and MemoryTech announced a dual-format disc yesterday with both DVD and HD DVD layers. This isn’t something you should flip out over, but it’s a feather in the cap of HD DVD. We reported on a similar development from the Blu-Ray crowd a couple months back, but that was just a CD/Blu-Ray hybrid. There’s…
Not much to say about this Pretec i-Disk II 8GB that can’t be explained by the name. It’s here, it’s clear—get used to it. Pretec isn’t even making the flash drives yet—they enter production next month—so there’s no suggested price. My guess is ‘painfully, laughably expensive,’ but that’s how all these things are until they’re…
And would you know it, two iPod Flash mockups in the same day. I’m still falling in the Gruber camp—I don’t think it’s going to happen, but a flash player built entirely around the scroll wheel interface itself is sort of brilliant. That said, I think the chances of Apple making a pendant-style player are…
Even in the midst of my second or third daily personal crisis of self, there is a certain satisfaction that comes from knowing I’m getting paid (or as we call it, “weighing it out”) to do a Google Image Search of the term “tight pants phone.” A survey of Swedish retailers has shown that tight-fitting…
Here’s a mock-up (from TheMacMind.com if you couldn’t put that together) of what is reported to be the new iPod flash (or were before they got Slasdotted). I just don’t see it—an iPod with no screen? You’d just go through all the songs in order? Doesn’t sit right with me. Engadget is quoting $100 for…
Once a week, composer/laptop performer Peter Kirn of createdigitalmusic spotlights gear for musicians and DJs, from the essential to oddball. For his inaugural shining, he’s showing a little of both, starting with this week’s Essential Pick—the Alesis Photon X25. ESSENTIAL: ALESIS PHOTON X25—Live music performance software has evolved at breakneck speed, but keyboards look basically…
Sealegs is a rigid-inflatable boat with a handy feature: the ability to drive itself onto land. Retractable, powered wheels raise and lower on the outside of the boat, allowing pilots to drive directly in or out of the water without dealing with troublesome trailers. Of course, it can only putter about at around 10kph, but…
As much as I think virtual reality glasses are sort of silly and awkward, at least they have a reasonable chance of staying strapped to your dome. This Digital GE DG-TGVD300 from a Chinese company (Digital GE?) appears to hang from a pivot over your forehead and looks neither comfortable nor secure. You’ll have to…
It only took like eight million years, but the satellite radio wars are finally heating up. XM has announced a new partnership today with Toyota to offer XM radios from the factory in new Toyota, Lexus, and Scion cars, starting in 2006. It’ll be more than just traditional radio programming, with unspecified ‘data services’ being…
Anti-virus software developer Trend Micro is giving away a free version of their new ‘Mobile Security Version 1.0’ software for Windows Mobile- and Symbian-based smartphones. The anti-virus software protects from the two relatively benign trojan applications already out in the mobile world, but interestingly also acts as an SMS spam filter. Only the Windows Mobile…
The LightSpin bicycle light lets you add a human-powered headlight to your ride without worrying about it going dark every time you stop pedaling. It uses an electrical storage “battery” to store up the extra energy from your pedals, powering the light for up to 45 minutes at a time when fully topped off. It…
Although when it comes right down to it, whatever company wins the contract to provide the graphics silicon for Sony’s Playstation 3 isn’t that important to we end-users of the product, well, it’s Nvidia. Rumors suggested that Nvidia hadn’t finished its work on the original Xbox on good terms with Microsoft, which made the selection…
In all that mess that was the expensive, bamboo-plated “amadana VP-110” portable DVD player yesterday, we somehow forgot to mention how it has a cheap Chinese knockoff (like most Japanese products), the HSD706. Sure, you won’t get the SD slot, and you can’t get all Art Nouveau with a fusion of bamboo and blue lights,…
It’s official: I have to buy a motorcycle. I’m already about fed up with my car and my two-month intervals between driving it. Of course, I might not ride a bike any more often than I drive my car, but at least I can wear one of these rad Bluetooth motorcycle helmets that are definitely…
So everybody knows about flash memory cartridges for game consoles at this point. While they can certainly be used for good ol’ piracy, lots of mobile gamers use them with their Game Boys in lieu of carrying around 50 different cartridges with all their favorite games, which might not be technically legal, but is certainly…
There’s no price yet, but these Zeus Series 1-inch USB Hard Drives from Behavior Tech look nice—small, simple, and attractive. There’s no shock protection—it’s basically just a tiny hard drive in a USB enclosure—but if you take the least bit of care with it, it would probably hold up just fine. No drivers necessary on…
Lik-Sang has pictures and a little information about this new phone from Legend of China/Lenovo, which might look a little bit familiar to fans of Sony’s upcoming PSP handheld gaming console. It’s even using the button designs from the Playstation, which has to be a little bit something-infringing, but hey, it’s China. If it isn’t…
I’m always proud of iPodlounge for their analysis of Apple’s business strategy with our favorite little love/hate music brick. For a place that wears their advocacy on their sleeve, they seem to do a really good job knocking Apple when it deserves it, like the snotty behavior earlier this year towards Real Networks that, tactically…
An upcoming Indian “campus caper” film called ‘Rok Sako To Rok Lo’ will be the first full-length feature film to premiere on a wireless cellular network. Subscribers to India’s Airtel service will get to watch a streaming version on their Edge-capable phones on December 9th, in an attempt to generate buzz for the theater release…