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Axis Communications will be releasing the “AXIS 206M Megapixel Network Camera” shortly, which, as you could probably tell by the name, is a network camera that supports resolution up to a megapixel. In fact, it’s more—1280 x 1024 is closer to 1.3MP. My first question when I saw this announcement was what framerate the camera…
PCMag reviews the Audiovox SMT 5600, a Windows Mobile for Smartphones SE-powered candy-bar phone that gets high marks all around, especially considering the price—just $200 through AT&T Wireless. The ‘SMT’ in the name presumably stands for ‘SMART,’ as the 5600 easily syncs all your PIM information over USB, provided you’re using Outlook, and keeps your…
We recently saw this PC Gameworld review of Saitek’s somewhat new backlit gamer’s keyboard. One can imagine the sheer glowy blueness of it adding an element of sci-fi creepiness to those long nights of fragging. Perhaps more importantly, you can sit in a dark room and actually see what keys you’re hitting. It’s got a…
Sometimes we link things not because they do something new, but because they look particularly good doing it. Being shiny, I’ve found, goes a long way to catching my easily captivated attention. This Brionvega TS522 folding radio was designed by Marco Zanuso, part of the collection currently carried by German office decor store Topdeq. You’ll…
A study in Sweden has found that 10-year users of analog mobile phones have about twice as much chance of developing acoustic neuroma than the average person. The acoustic neuroma are benign tumors on the auditory nerve that occur normally at a rate of about 1 in 100,000. Researchers are unsure if newer, digital mobile…
The Talby isn’t the only nice Japanese phone announced by KDDI today—this Casio-made WIN AU phone is a nice looking handset, as well, with a rotating QVGA screen and a two-megapixel camera. We’ll never see it in the West, but it’s fun to torture ourselves now and again with a look at what we’re missing.…
It looks like those really attractive “Talby” concept phones from KDDI are going to be released as an actual, for-purchase product in Japan. They’re going to show up in Decemeber for around ¥15,000 (around $140 American Dollars). Design concept “talby” [SorobanGeeks]
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According the NPD Group research firm, Apple now holds 68 percent of the portable music player market with the iPod. And that’s not just hard disk-based players—they have an 82 percent share there—but includes flash-based players, as well. I doubt they included MP3 CD players in that mix, but even still, that’s seven out of…
Olympus is tearing up the press release bin today, this time announcing their ‘Easy Imaging System’. This system, long overdue in my opinion, is a portable digital photography lab, complete with 4 mexapixel camera [IR-500, pictured], high quality photo printer [P-S100], 40GB hard drive [S-HD-100] and eventually, a DVD burner to top it all off.…
In a natural progression from solo Game Boy music mixers like 8BitPeoples, a polish sextet called the “Gameboyzz Orchestra Project” is touring Europe, using six Game Boys (both new and old, it would seem) to play live, electronic music. Although I think it’s safe to presume that much of the work is pre-sequenced, they do…
Here’s the other m:robe player announced by Olympus, the MR-100. This is another one of those now-common 5GB hard disk-based players, except there’s nothing very common about the sexy red-on-black light up interface. It’s sort of like the iPod mini’s evil twin. Its Karr to its Kitt, if you will. Olympus Announces MR-500i and MR-100…
Olympus Imaging Corporation, manufacturers of fine cameras since 4,000 B.C., have announced a new line of products that have little to do with cameras or imaging. The MR-100 and MR-500i are both hard drive-based players, with the 500i being the feature honey: 20 gigs of storage for images and music, and a 3.7-inch VGA screen—touch…
It was something like five years ago that I first wrote about the OQO, I think, and after a couple of years to no-shows, it’s finally available for sale (or pre-ordering, I guess; it’s shipping next month). And while the little device is certainly slick, I think the $1,900+ purchase price is going to doom…
Although I don’t see anything about it on Voodoo PC’s website, Om Malik has information about a new Windows XP Media Center 2005 combo from the high-end PC manufacturer who has been most known in the past for making performance-oriented gaming machines. Called the ‘Vibe Media Center,” it’s comprised of a matching PC and Xbox,…
A wireless internet service provider in Tempe, Arizona has retrofitted these two-seat electric cars as mobile Wi-Fi repeaters, allowing them to temporarily shore up holes in their network by deploying the carts to problem areas. WAZ Tempe’s Mobile WiFi Carts [TianCC]
You’ve got to hand it to Segway—I didn’t think they could make anything look goofier than the Segway HT. This four-wheeled Centaur concept, though, has all the sex appeal of an over-sized baby carriage. Plus, mentioning that maneuvers that would normally be dangerous on an ATV would be safe on the Centaur is a bit…
Creative officially unveiled the Zen Micro yesterday (the player we sort of spilled the beans on last weekend). Obviously a counter to Apple’s iPod mini, the 5GB player is sort of an odd duck, especially considering that Creative already had a 5GB player in the MuVo 2. That being said, the Zen Micro does look…
SanDisk, of all people, have release three new portable flash-memory players, numbingly-entitled the “Digital Audio Player’ series. They appear to share all the same chipset as most of the other modern flash players, with integrated voice recording, FM radio, and USB 2.0 connection. The best part is the price: $200 for the top-end 1GB player.…
Anyone who grew up mail-ordering copies of the Anarchist Cookbook and True Methods of the Ninja probably shares my fascination with the little shops that sell strange equipment and mild weaponry. If you’re the type that prefers a folding grappling hook over, say, a nine-millimeter handgun, or something like this Dynamite Clock over something easier…