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A white leather iPod case would be a recipe for disaster for me, because I’m a filthy pig who often comes home from sorties into Manhattan covered in mysterious fluids and oils (some of which I don’t even pay for). But if you’re a preener, it doesn’t get much more swanky than the iAlbea, an…
We don’t normally talk about actually electronics components, but this Parvus 104+ has some interesting potential for embedded applications. There’s not much to it—it’s a 4-port USB hub that outputs two amps of current to two of its ports instead of the standard 500 mAmps. That means a lot of traditionally non-bus-powered devices like printers…
This is the future of portable media? Live Digitally reviews the Eyetop DVD system, a portable DVD setup with a pair of glasses with a bulbous ‘virtual 14-inch’ display mounted over the right eye. Live Digitally is pretty generous to the system, calling it a “well-made product,” despite also calling it “hard to watch” and…
A quick reminder to send in suggestions to our steadily-growing 2004 Gadget Gift Guide round-up. I hope it’s been useful—it seemed like a minimum of effort for a maximum of handiness. Also, I racked my brain all weekend to think of a way to win this Weblog Awards thing we’ve been nominated for without begging…
This product is so simple, you’ve got to wonder why nobody thought of it sooner. Oh, that’s right, the iPod has stolen the entirety of the accessory industry’s innovation, because some people apparently need laser pointers attached to their MP3 player. Owltech offers a keyboard called the “OWL-KB109PBX” which has—get ready—storage space underneath. In fact,…
It takes a certain something to be able to pull off brown, but dapper Toshiba spin-off RealFleet continues to fuze the wood-paneled elegance of the ’70s with the glowing TRON interfaces of the ’80s to create something that is wholly, well, probably still the ’80s, actually. But nice looking, for sure, and who had portable…
And as the second as in an unintentional UK Holidays theme, this year’s Tate Britain Christmas Tree by Richard Wentworth (an artist commissioned by Tate Britain, which I gather is a corporate art collective specializing in preserving the cultural heritage of the British) includes a Bluetooth antenna and receiver to which passers-by can leave ‘gifts’…
A UK company has set up ‘Portabible,’ a service which lets you pull down verses from the King James Bible via SMS. If you live in the UK, dialing ‘verse’ (or 83248) followed by a command (such as ‘judges 4:21’) will net you an SMS back within a few minutes with the specific verse, or…
Monday November 29th, 2004 Samsung Anycall Theater Samsung’s Culture of Design Outdoor LCD Television Gundam Guitar II: Heat Hawk Olympus mju Digital 500 Cedar Monacca Bag SonyEricsson Premini SO213iS Limited Launch Supplies for Sony’s PSP LG’s OCR Cameraphone: LG-KP3800 More Windows Treo Rumors, Special Guest Star: Dell Vodafone’s VK 530: Small and Pink “Weightless” Headset…
We’re going to drive around with the TomTomGo this weekend—the same one we’re going to give away, so you better hope I don’t get angry and kick it—and will post up a some hints about of where we’ve been. Then, once our trip is over Sunday, you can send an email to our Gmail account…
What was I saying about the Japanese being just like us? I don’t remember—I must have been too busy staring slack-jawed at these new robots unveiled today by Toyota. I guess technically they aren’t robots, but mechanized mobility suits. The one of the left is called ‘i-foot,’ and is designed to help the disabled to…
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Electronic Arts’ CFO seems pretty confident that the next generation videogame consoles will all feature wireless technology inside. Jenson was quoted as saying “in every living room, we’ll have a wireless hub,” when referring to plans from Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. He would know, I guess (and hopefully we’ll know about the Xbox 2, at…
Remember when we hid all those codes for the DiscHubs a few months ago and you all went nuts trying to find them? Welcome to Round Two. We won’t begin in earnest until next week, but we’ve got ten codes for today that we’ll placing in various sneaky places around the site. Each code today…
When asked what my favorite gadget is, I pretty much always answer my portable, rechargeable headphone amp. I don’t use terribly fancy headphones as a rule—just a pair of Sony earplugs—but just a little bit of amplification really changes the sound, rounds it out. But the worse part is trying to run all the wires…
These ‘Shocking Remote Control Tanks’ definitely live up to their name. Each remote control has electrodes (I’m guessing) that will give you a mild electric shock each time your opponent’s tank scores a hit. Set the shock to high and you’ll get double the firepower for being a risk taker. These $50 toys look to…
RCA has another ‘Nostalgia’ product—this time it’s a stereo. While at first I was disappointed the CD player didn’t use the turntable on the top, they more than made up for it by including an actual three-speed turntable. Add to it an AM/FM radio and a wooden case and you have a recipe for something…
Product Highlights • Sony selects 25 March 05 for Euro PSP launch [TheRegister] • Intel Plans Centrino-Like Brand for Desktops [PCWorld] • BlackBerry 4.0 Trickle-down [MobileWhack] Business • 3G phones ‘bad value’ says Which? [BBC] • Samsung Faces Concerns Over Margins [Reuters] • Nintendo DS Game Player Makes Strong Japan Debut [Reuters] • Sales of…
Samsung has actually released the SPH-V5400 in Korea, the clam shell phone with a 1.5GB hard drive inside. To my knowledge, this is the first cellphone with a hard drive to ever make it to market—let’s see how it does. I’m pretty on board the whole convergence train that leads to a future where all…
Bill Machrone over at PCMag writes about the lack of serious, OS-level support for TTY/TDD support in smartphones and PDAs and points out a couple of software options hearing-impaired users can add to make things a little more accessible. Lormar Logic apparently offers something called Lormar Internet TTY for Sidekick, BlackBerry, Treo, and Palm that…