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Wired News points out a growing issue troubling political polling groups like Zogby and Gallup: they don’t call people on cell phones. That might sound like a positive thing at first, but consider the number of people who use only mobile phones and don’t have a land line (about 3% of Americans at the moment).…
I have a funny feeling that wearing a silver stop sign around your necks to listen to music isn’t anybody’s idea of a good time (as usual, we are exempting RUN D.M.C.). Then again, I don’t know too many people here in the States who are really into these pendant flash memory MP3 players like…
Hitachi Labs has developed a new LCD technology that I’ll just go ahead and call “LCD force feedback.” Using a touch-sensitive screen, the entire LCD panel will “push” inwards 1 or 2 millimeters in response to touching certain regions of the screen. And by “certain regions” I mean buttons. I could think of some other…
Wacom, pretty well known for their desktop-based tablet input solutions, appears to be branching out into other fields. The “W8002” IC is a chip to be inserted in mobile phones to add pen-based input capabilities to the screen. The sensor is apparently embedded behind the screen, enabling it to still keep “100 percent luminous light…
Canon is pulling a mystery product announcement on us, and putting up nothing but a silly Flash animation and a vague phrase. Here’s a picture of what Canon has dubbed “a next generation printer.” I basically drew a blank about what could be “next generation” in terms of printers, but hopefully Canon’s got something up…
I’m having a hard time deciding what it is that suprises me more about this announcement – the fact that it’s about a tape player, or the fact that it’s a new tape player that costs about $80 USD. I didn’t even know they made these things anymore, much less continue to try and innovate…
Lots of people have been looking forward to Alpine’s KCA-420i iPod interface unit for the Ai-NET head units (which is to say, a nice way to hook up an iPod to your Alpine car stereo). Playlist Magazine got a hold of review unit and took it out for a spin, but I can’t say I’m…
So about that HP iPod contest we’re running – I’ve got good news and better news. The good news is that everyone who has entered so far is going to get a free entry into the contest, even if you flubbed a question or two, because I sort of screwed up one of the questions.…
Did you know the new, smaller Playstation 2 was top-loading? No, I didn’t either. Rumor Control: The top-loading, no-HDD, neo-PS2 [GameSpot]
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…