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Here’s that picture of the Olympus AZ-2 Zoom we promised you. I bet it looks better in person, but it looks sort of junky here. I think it’s that weird little lens in the corner. Related Olympus Evolt E-300 DSLR and More [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/olympus-evolt-e-300-dslr-and-more-22103
While we’re on the camera tip, Olympus has announced a fistful of new cameras, including this Evolt E-300, an 8-megapixel DSLR that “is not bound by the conventions of traditional SLR film camera designs” and has a “radical new body shape…that gives the camera its unique “flat-top” appearance.” I think that means Olympus just created…
I’ve been a bad man. Fujifilm lent me a couple of cameras well over a month ago for review and I’m just now getting around to writing up my impressions of them. Normally I dawdle on these sort of things because I don’t want to write them, usually because the product is so poor or…
So something happened to me while I was watching this video of the Sony PSP from the Tokyo Game Show. I think it was in the middle of the Darkstalkers game that I realized that all my worries about battery life, size, and durability were sort of moot, because I want to play portable games…
Product Highlights • AutoGK 1.60 Stable [AutoGK] Business • Apple addresses PowerBook display problems [MacMinute] • Verizon EV-DO in Puerto Rico? [VerizonWirelessPR] • Microsoft Media Players to Boast Bigger Drives [eWeek] Reviews • ATI Radeon X700 XT – Reference Board [TrustedReviews] • Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player [IgwanaRob] • Motorola MPx200 [NewsFactor] Culture • Testing…
eWeek wins the non-story award of the day for this piece unveiling Microsoft’s plans to, you know, do futurey stuff. A hardware designer for Microsoft reveals that Microsoft plans to someday include bigger drives in their Portable Media Center devices (which are a different ball of wax altogether than the generic Portable Media Player terminology…
Here’s another picture of that mystery “Nokia 7710,” the Series 90 device that we basically know next to nothing about. I’m still hoping that it’s a real device and not just some one-off prototype that Nokia forgot to incinerate. A nice new big fat pic of the Nokia 7710 [GodMode via Mobile-Review]
I’m not a big fan of Mad Catz products, as a rule, but they do have the minor distinction of being the first company to announce peripherals/accessories for the upcoming Nintendo DS handheld, including a hard case, screen protectors, game cases, a car charger, AC adapter, earphones, replacement styluses, and ‘DS Kit’ and ‘DS II…
Here’s another pic of that Toshiba Gigabeat F60, the 60GB hard disk-based player coming out soon. The suggested price, though, is quoted at $575. Maybe that’s why Toshiba isn’t offering a version of the Gigabeat in the US: we’re all too cheap and/or not insane. GigaBeat F10/20/60 range announced: first 1.8″ 60GB DAP won’t be…
Olympus and Fujifilm have announced a 1GB version of their proprietary xD-Picture flash memory card format. As you can see from this probably-way-too-big-considering picture, it’s really not that interesting, but it is now larger. That’s probably the main thing I dislike about xD, actually; you have to wait on Fujifilm and Olympus to come out…
Car Phone Warehouse is a pretty major mobile retailer in the UK who tends to get a hold of the latest phones fairly quickly. According to an email sent to one of our readers today, they’re expecting the Motorola V3 Razr as soon as next week for £500. There was a “may be released” qualifier…
Alright, we’re finally good to OGO, I guess. Not much in the official press release that we didn’t already know, but it’s good to get official word of the pricing and what not. Looks like there’s no IMAP email connectivity – that’s a downer – although they mention email from “other select Internet Service Providers,”…
Griffin Technologies has quietly put up the iBeam on their website (without the usual accompanying press release) of a pair of plug-in accessories that add a flashlight and a laser pointer to your iPod or iPod mini. The $20 pair of plugs (you can only use one at a time) come with caps for easy…
Okay, it would seem we have a serious problem. I love flash drives as much as the next guy (I use them when I need to, sure, but only when necessary), but when one of our nation’s most precious resources – college football players – start shoplifting from Wal-Marts just to feed their portable data…
You know what you’d like to be able to do? Control WinAmp or iTunes from your Pocket PC over any network connection. You know what will let you do that? The newly-released version 2.0 of Remote Amp. You know why? Because you’re really, really lazy and Cheetos are really, really delicious. Product Page [SmashCasi]
There is a certain poetry when Apple and Bose team up in offering the new SoundDock digital music system. It’s basically yet another dock with a pair of speakers attached to it, something we’re not in the least opposed to, but it does set one to wonder what happens when blowhards like Bose work with…
Toshiba has announced new models in its Gigabeat series of hard disk-based MP3 players, including the new F models that come in sizes up to 60GB with a 2.2-inch color LCD screen. These players use 1.8-inch hard drives, as well, so we are definitely talking iPod-sized devices. It’s a shame that Toshiba doesn’t really promote…
I’m a little bit torn. On the one hand, these hand-crafted USB flash drive lockets are beautiful – much more appealing than the standard plastic bug shapes. On the other hand, no matter how attractive they are, I still don’t think I want to wear one around my neck. Still, the choice is yours; Emily…
Although there’s still not an official announcement from OQO, it does look like the upcoming handheld PC will be launching in October for $1900, available via their retail website. Is it wrong of me to think that’s about $900 too expensive for anything but nerd niche penetration? (Hottt!) OQO price and release date [Handtops]
Planon has a new pen-shaped scanner called the DocuPen R700 that can capture whole 8.5-inch-wide pages at a time – that’s the good part. The not so good part is that it only has 2MB of on-board memory, scans in monochrome, and has a maximum resolution of 200 dpi. If it weren’t obvious, though, the…