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So TiVoToGo works on laptops. From this (presumed) slip-up on Tivo.com: TiVoToGo™ now you can transfer all your favorite programs to your laptop, so you can watch them wherever you are… suddenly business travel isn’t so bad. So two questions: when are they going to properly announce it, and will we be able to watch…
M-Audio is starting to rock the low-end audio keyboard market with a bunch of decidedly not low-end products. I’ve been eyeing the Keystation 49e for a couple of months—a 49-note USB bus-powered keyboard you can pick up for just $130—and now they’ve launched another attractive USB MIDI controller called the M-Audio O2 as a follow…
I’m going to presume that Escada is some fashion brand I haven’t heard about (I stopped going to Gawker’s in-house editorial classes “The ABCs of Fancy” sometime around “Ass, Grass, or Blass—Nobody Writes for Free”), but they’ve teamed up with Siemens to offer a “swankypants” SL65 with a pearl and metallic finish (and the ever-present…
Gizmodo brings you late, off-the-scene coverage of basically everything you need to know about the first day of the CEATEC JAPAN 2004 convention taking place in Tokyo’s Makuhari Messe. This includes coverage of Japanese girls with obnoxiously large, red, curly ‘fros. Enough pictures stolen from Impress Watch to sink three ships after the jump. We…
For the last two months, despite my earnest effort, I have not been able to get a single speeding ticket. It was all part of my plan to test the speeding ticket payment guarantee that comes when you purchase (or review) K40 Electronics radar/laser detector, the RD850. In fact, that’s sort of the defining feature…
I think it’s a bit disturbing that Land Rover actually calls their in-car monitor the “central infotainment display,” but at least they’re using it for something on the “info” side with this new Nokia Personal Telephone Integration System, which lets drivers view and select phonebook entries, answer calls, look at call logs and read text…
I have no idea if this actually works, but it’s a brilliant attempt, either way. (Thanks, Vorbis!)
Sony’s Vaio ‘Type X’—the Japanese giant’s so-called Tivo-killer—launches today. A Pentium 4 at 3.60GHz comprises the heart of this beefy PVR, with 1GB DDR and 1TB (4x250GB RAID 0) of storage standard—welcome to the future, where you can simultaneously record up to seven programs at once and store so many of them that you’ll likely…
I’m sure that you’d be breaking hundreds of license agreements and the like to do it, but someone has figured out how to install Mac OSX onto an Xbox and been kind enough to post instructions. It’s no small feat, though, involving a mod-chipped Xbox, image files of OSX, installation of the Pear PC emulator,…
If memory serves, I4U brought us the scoop on the GooRoo Rugboard back in August. Now they bring us a hands-on review of this wireless thin-client based on Tatung’s WebPad hardware. Ships with your choice of operating system (Windows CE, XP embedded, or Linux) and a host of custom apps. Still no hard drive, but…
I just got off the horn with PalmOne regarding their newly-announced alliance with Microsoft—or at least Microsoft’s Exchange. Future Treo products (you know, the one that doesn’t exist) will be shipping with a fully-compliant version of Microsoft’s ActiveSync interface to Exchange, allowing Treo Who Shall Not Be Named to act just like any other well-behaved…
Curitel’s new P1 candy bar phone, currently available only in Korea, is pretty full-featured. With text-to-speech functionality for those too lazy (or blind) to read their messages, a 2 megapixel CCD camera with flash, and a large 1.9-inch LCD, the P1 also has a strange sideways layout, opting for controls a bit more camera-like than…
Once, I was a kid in those days when Reagan was President and Victoria Jackson was hot, and I visited Disney World and experienced then-astounding 3D positional audio from two speakers. It may have been an early tech demo intended for the entertainment of guests, but it was a brilliant illustration of how audio engineers…
NHJ Limited is scheduled to announce a new 5-gig MP3 (and WMA, but that’s it as far as I know) player tommorow at the ongoing CEATEC expo in Makuhari. The NHJ VHD-550 stands apart from previous NHJ offerings due to its higher capacity and the inclusion of Bluetooth for your wireless headphoning pleasure— presumably it…
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Gay over at SorobanGeeks chides us about the new DoCoMo Premini phones: Everybody seems to think that DoCoMo launches only 1 new Premini (the “Sport” version), but this is not correct as 4 new Premini phones see the daylight. In our defense, the other 3 new Preminis don’t look anything like the original, although one…
BenQ has launched their newest phone, a tri-band GSM clamshell with a 1.3-megapixel camera with LED flash and “smooth cinema-like video display quality at 30 frames per second.” Oh, and it has a name: the S700. Other than the aforementioned, it’s not particularly whiz-bang, although it does appear that you can use mounted miniSD cards…
Not going to bore you with all the dirty details—and honestly, there isn’t a whole lot revealed at the moment except the typical mutually masturbatory yapping/fapping of partnership announcements—but Nokia and Symbian have announced plans to support Series 60 on Intel silicon. The long and the short of that means to expect Xscale-powered Nokia phones…
Japan’s “PBJ Corporation” has announced the “Slate” series of touchpanel PCs. PBJ has apparently built these PCs based on the “PaceBook” series from back in 2002. These seem to be competition towards NEC’s new VersaPro tablet – as the Slate series not only function as tablet PC, but touchscreen PC, and “conservative-space PC.” On the…
Hey, folks. Sorry about the long post gap—I felt pretty awful yesterday and stayed out late last night like a real person. I promise I’ll never let it happen again. Now that we’re made up and nuzzling, would you like to know about a new line of portable audio gear from iAudio? It’s a bit…