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So I think we gave a little remainders blip to the mention of Yahoo’s mobile search function for phones, but a lot more people are talking about it today, so I thought we’d revisit it. The main difference between Yahoo’s and Google’s mobile search seems to be that Yahoo’s is an actual mobile web page…
More details about the new Batmobile are leaking out with a feature in Rolling Stone that details some of the production work and story ideas behind the new Mad Max-style jet-powered bat-thing. Apparently they built three different ones for the movie at a cost of just $1.7 million each. Feature-wise, though, it’s sort of spartan…
This AP review of the Sharp LL-151-3D, the $1,500 3-D LCD flat-panel monitor, mentions an interesting bit of software called ‘3-D DVD’ that converts 2D DVD movies (or anything, presumably) into the sort of faux-3D information flat panels like the Sharp can process. It makes a few educated guesses—and gets a lot of stuff wrong,…
The Korean Ministry of Information and Communication had a wearable computer fashion show yesterday in Seoul, with lots of the typical arm-keyboards and heads-up displays and techno-nipples and the like. These pics on WMMNA are the first I’ve seen, but surely there are more. Send them in if you find some more, would you? Korea…
If you weren’t impressed with their alliteration, maybe you’ll be impressed with these tiny little clip-clocks themselves from Vessel, Inc. Looks like you can conveniently clip them to clothing, and no worries if you lose it or smash it up in a terrible accident—they’re only $14 (per pair) from Unica, or $13 direct from Vessel…
Obviously, Apple was the last to the party with a color screen, but now that they’ve emphasized photos over video, you can bet everyone else will, too. Case in point: Gateway’s new MP3 Photo Jukebox, a smart-looking 4GB hard disk-based player (no 5GB?) with a 1.6-inch color display. The highlight features look very nice: MP3,…
A couple of you have complained about all the iPod coverage this week. While I feel your pain, it was a launch week for two new models, so you’ll sort of have to get over it. Still, I’ve got a bit of iPod news here, and as a concession to your pain—and to assuage my…
Jens of Sweden has announced this new edition of the MP-400 flash player called the ‘Excentrique,’ available in a gloss black and 24-carat gold chassis. The 1GB player can be yours for just $1,100; available in mid-November. And it even plays OGG Vorbis. Open-source ruggish, on the real. Product Page (Swedish) [JensOfSweden]
Everyone that I had spoken to about the Logitech Cordless Headset for Xbox was pretty excited about it, perhaps a little bit unreasonably so. It is, after all, just a headset, and it’s not like a lot of people are playing games on Live while doing aerobics or hiking into the mountains or something, so…
A company called Gabrielor is pitching a rounded keypad design at CTIA to various equipment manufacturers, ostensibly because it’s… more efficient? I don’t know, really. The idea is that you can hit every key with a single finger, but you can already do that with T9 keypads, and on other thumboards, using both thumbs at…
So, you bought an iBook a while back. Lacking foresight, you said to yourself, “I need not this tooth of Blue,” and opted for the $50 cheaper, Bluetoothless version. After all, what would you use it for? Then, when you picked up that Bluetooth phone, you had to pick up an external Bluetooth adapter. “Damn…
I think the Oakley Thump MP3 sunglasses look like a second-grade art class project, but if you’re looking forward to them, this little anonymous tidbit might be of interest: On November, 6th the Oakley Thump will be set up in Circuit City stores with a black drape covering the whole thing. On November, 20th the…
Despite having two cameras (1.3 megapixels for photos and 110K pixels for videocalls), Bluetooth, and USB 2.0, the Z800 isn’t exactly that special, but it is only a prototype. And it’s UMTS, which everyone knows means Uber Mad Telephone Skillz or Ugly Mark Trains Salamanders (or a fast data networking; don’t remember which), so it’s…
Product Highlights • AMD offering blueprint for $185 PC [CNet] • GlucoBoy – Blood Sugar Monitor for GBA [Interguidance] • New system ‘sees’ crimes on audiotape [Eurekalert] • Eclipse Solar Gear s Solar Backpack Charges MP3 Players, Phones, PDAs [ChaitGear] • Nokia 7710 size comparison with N-Gage. [GodMode] • Bejeweled 2 [ClieUK] Business • Yahoo…
Marc Hedlund, the guy at ORA who basically first made a bunch of noise about Sprint’s boneheaded decision to cripple the Dial Up Networking portion of the Treo 650’s Bluetooth stack, just got an update from one of Sprint’s PR executives telling him that a post-launch patch will re-enable the phone’s DUN capability. Sprint maintains…
These iPod mini Wallets from MacAttire/Acme are rather attractive, folding over like a day planner or a diary, and covered in Italian leather dyed to one of three mini-matching colors. If you’ve got a Blue, Pink, or Lime mini you can pick one up for £38 (apparently the other three colors aren’t chic enough). There…
It’s an idea so obvious that it’s probably been around for years and I’ve just missed it. Dremel, makers of the “Tool Most Likely To Destroy Something That Was Working Fine Already,” is selling a translucent orange pumpkin carving kit, with templates and tools to carve your own intricate designs. It looks like it’s available…
Here’s another color-screen portable music player that’s pimping its photo-viewing capability: the Asono Elio. The 20GB player doesn’t have TV-out abilities like Apple’s new iPod Photo, but it does better it in at least two ways. First, it has a built-in SD card slot for copying photos and data over from other devices; It also…
Japanese game console accessory maker Hori will be releasing the “DragonQuest Slime Controller” to unsuspecting Japanese audiences on November 27th, which is in the unforgettable slime shape popularized by the DragonQuest series of role-playing games. Supporting Dual Shock 2, the controller also has a wind-up cable, meaning the slime can be displayed as a sort…