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| Vortex’s wall climbing robot peeks in windows |
| 2007-06-29 15:37:47 |
While not the first wall climbing machine we’ve come across, Vortex’s VRAM Mobile Robot Platform (VMRP) machine weds ascension and undercover surveillance in fine fashion. Aimed at law enforcement tasks, military missions, and fanatical hobbyists, this clinger is remotely controlled with the capacity to add “onboard intelligence and sensors [...]...
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| Iocell’s rugged mDrive: built to last a decade |
| 2007-06-29 15:34:52 |
Iocell’s been known to unleash USB drives that differentiate themselves quite effectively from the masses, and the firm’s latest offering is no different. The ultrathin mDrive reportedly weighs in at just three grams, is available in capacities ranging from 1GB to 4GB, and is built to withstand just about anything [...]...
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| Fujitsu LiberTouch keyboard lets you have it your way |
| 2007-06-29 15:32:08 |
If Fujitsu has its way, typing on a keyboard that you’re uncomfortable with will soon become a thing of the past, and hopefully your children will never have to know what it was like to work on an input device that you wanted to smash against the nearest wall. For those [...]...
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| News From The Front: Storms Ahead for The Brave 40 on 5th Ave |
| 2007-06-29 15:27:51 |
We’ve seen some comments asking for more details about the action on 5th Avenue. Well here it is, as requested. At the fore, of course, is the man who by now needs no introduction. Greg Packer was incredibly amiable, talking to anyone who approached him. He even paused for a moment [...]...
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| iriver M10 / NV PMP navigator in the wild |
| 2007-06-29 15:25:49 |
Until now, we haven’t seen much more than prettied-up press shots of iriver’s NV GPS/PMP unit (previously known as the M10), but the company’s finally let the device loose for everyone to get a better look at, with the folks at AVING.net among those snapping up pics of it at a [...]...
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| iRobot and Taser to produce (non)lethal bots |
| 2007-06-29 15:24:53 |
Another day, another step towards the inevitable robotic resistance: iRobot and Taser announced plans today to collaborate on weapons-capable bots. The first model off the line will be the venerable Packbot Explorer, fitted with a Taser X26 stun gun, to be sold to police departments and the Pentagon. No plans are [...]...
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| ATI Radeon HD 2400, HD 2600 get reviewed and benchmarked |
| 2007-06-29 15:23:47 |
ATI’s new Radeon HD 2400 and HD 2600 series graphics cards might not boast quite the horsepower of the company’s top-end HD 2900 XT, but the folks at HotHardware still found quite a bit to like about them, especially considering their budget-friendly prices. They the Radeon HD 2600 XT, 2600 [...]...
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| iPhones are arriving at stores, being unpacked |
| 2007-06-29 15:22:31 |
Prospective iPhone line standers hoping to start the wave when the FedEx truck rolls up are gonna have to come up with some other plan for glory — looks like iPhones have already started arriving at Apple and AT&T stores, which we can confirm with multiple sources at various retail spots. [...]...
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| Sony VAIO TZ first impressions |
| 2007-06-29 15:20:15 |
Sony’s SSD-riffic VAIO TZ laptop still hasn’t officially made it to North America, but that hasn’t stopped some folks from doing the importing thing to get their ultraportable fix, one of which has kindly put together a few first impressions for NotebookReview. On the whole, the individual (known only as “Outrigger”) [...]...
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| Hitachi’s fall lineup is all 1080 |
| 2007-06-29 15:19:17 |
Hitachi has announced a fall lineup of plasma and LCD displays, with the main selling point that all of the sets include 1080 lines of vertical resolution (although two of the plasmas offer a stretched 1280 x 1080). There are ten new HDTVs in all, with a 60-inch plasma and two [...]...
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| Mini-robot swims through bloodstream |
| 2007-06-27 18:05:09 |
Two Israeli scientists may have created the catalyst for a medical revolution with their new project: a tiny, 1-millimeter-diameter robot which is capable of crawling through human veins and arteries. The bot can cling to vessel walls using small, powerful arms which protrude from a hub in its center. Manned control is accomplished by using a magnetic field outside of the body, and the robot is able to swim against the flow of blood, as well as squeeze through a variety of arterial openings. Right now the doctors don’t know what the medical applications might be, though they speculate that a large number of the bots could be used to fight certain types of cancer. Other ideas on the table include using the bots to exact revenge on anyone opposing their crazy ideas.
[Thanks, Ralph]...
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| Touchscreen Toot: Next iPhone Video Shows Fast Typing, Even for Fumblefingers |
| 2007-06-27 18:04:13 |
Apple continues to crank out the instructional videos, with this latest episode showing you how to use the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard. Notice the way the guy flies through the typing at the end of the piece. Soon, everybody will be iPhone typing. Those cats will be fast as lightning. In fact, it might be a little bit frightening. Maybe this iPhone touchscreen won’t be so bad after all.
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| Desktop Replacement: Create a Worship-Worthy MacBook Altar with the Floater |
| 2007-06-27 17:59:38 |
Check out the Floater by Balmuda Design, a stand for your MacBook Pro that lets you close up that laptop, holding it up on vertical display for all to see. Connect your keyboard, screen and mouse for the perfect desktop replacement. Carved out of a solid block of aluminum, it matches the MacBook Pro and even helps to cool things off a bit, acting as a natural heat sink.
Fitting only 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros, 17-inch PowerBook G4s and the 13-inch MacBook, it looks a precision piece of equipment, but with a precision price of $305. However, that seems to be a paltry price to pay to elevate that laptop into this way-cool floating position, lifting that Mac up, above the great unwashed where it belongs.
But wait. Snap out of it. It’s just a goddamned computer, okay?
Product Page [Balmuda Design]...
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| Robotic hand presented in Japan: death by Powerpoint |
| 2007-06-27 17:59:07 |
Remember that creepy robotic hand we saw terrorizing Japan last week? Well now it’s on the loose in some conference room picking up eggs, shaking hands, holding a pencil and crushing a cup with its super action Kung Fu Grip. No video of it crushing skulls but we know what’s really going on, we know. Its purpose still isn’t any clearer (manufacturing-only or also prosthetics?), only that its functionality is meant to exceed that of the human hand. See just one of many videos after the break.Continue reading Robotic hand presented in Japan: death by Powerpoint...
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| Credit Suisse: Vodafone likely to carry (3G?) iPhone in Europe |
| 2007-06-27 17:58:06 |
According to a Credit Suisse research note, Vodafone is the frontrunner to carry sole rights to the iPhone in Europe due to their coverage in most European markets. Fine, we’ve heard this before. The difference this time, however, is an accompanying “confirmation” of a mostly done-deal by way of anonymous Vodafone sources to Europe’s Bright Magazine. The story is also being carried by Europe’s mainstram media including reputable Dutch news site, nu.nl. Of course, if Apple’s going to sell 6 million European iPhones in the next 3 years as expected by Credit Suisse, then you can bet that little slab will be sporti...
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| Sarotech’s Cutie Bio portable HDD sports fingerprint scanner |
| 2007-06-27 17:57:11 |
Cute though it may be, Sarotech’s Cutie Bio portable hard drive is downright serious about data protection. Not one to let a lingering stranger peek beneath its dazzling shell, this pocket-friendly drive touts a built-in fingerprint scanner to protect the owner from spying eyes should it become lost or stolen. Additionally, the drive is built to handle drops and shocks as the head parks itself in freefall, and the USB 2.0 connection ensures speedy transfers when in a rush. Inside, you’ll find a 2.5-inch 100GB hard drive just hankering for piles upon piles of juicy information, and this uber-protective device will run you ₩150,000 ($162) whenever it lands in South Korea.
[Via AVing]...
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| This Day In Gadgets: ATMs Were Born Radioactive 40 Years Ago |
| 2007-06-27 17:56:10 |
This is John Shepherd-Barron, the scottish guy who invented the first ATM. First installed 40 year ago by Barclays, it worked with Carbon 14-impregnated cheques, the same radioactive material that is used to date fossils. But fret not: not only it wasn’t radioactive enough but they were soon replaced by cards and now even dogs can use them. The next step according to him:
He says that moving money around costs too much, so ATMs will disappear in just a few years. Instead, he predicts the cellphone will become our next purse for all kinds of transactions.
The ATM also brought other things, like the 4-digit PIN number. Shepherd-Barron thought that he could use his six-figure army number as his password, but his wife thought otherwise: “Over the kitchen table, she said she could only remember four figures, so because of her, four figures became the world standard.”
The man who invented the cash machine [BBC News]...
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| New HP Pavilions, Presarios announced |
| 2007-06-27 17:53:31 |
Something must be in the air this week, at least when it comes to announcements. Almost in tandem with Dell, Hewlett-Packard has entered the fray to show off its phantasmagorical selection of desktop-delights. Nothing groundbreaking here, but a decent cross section of models to choose from, including the small-form-factor Pavilion Slimline s3100n and s3120n, mid-range models a6110n, a6120n and a6130n, and two new media center Pavilions, the m8100n and m8120n. Also on offer are the Compaq Presario SR5110NX and SR5130NX, on a more budget-friendly tip. The majority of these feature the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE integrated graphics chipset and Windows Vista Home Premium. Here’s a long list of specs to sink your teeth into:
Pavilion Slimline s3100n - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000, 1GB of RAM, 250GB hard drive
Pavilion Slimline s3120n - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200, 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive, TV-tuner, FireWire
Pavilion a6110n - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 CPU, 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive
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| Yet Another IPhone Review: Newsweek’s Steven Levy Loves the iPhone |
| 2007-06-27 17:52:40 |
Heavy weather and an unexpected overnight stay in Pittsburgh gave Newsweek tech whiz Steven Levy ample time to play around with the iPhone. How’d he spend his time? Doing what anyone would do, really: e-mail, get help negotiating downtown, check the weather, keep tabs on some sports, listen to music, and, of course, check out YouTube. And all on a single battery charge. He did find some faults, but not much that the other guys hadn’t also caught.
Levy found the controls to be pretty intuitive. Without consulting the manual, he managed to find his way around the phone well enough. The only obstacle he came up against was typing, which “requires some concentration,” though Levy admits he’s not much of a two-thumb typist.
Another concern, the battery life, passed Levy’s test, as he said it only wound down noticeably when he watched videos or browsed the web heavily. When he didn’t, the iPhone was good for the day, with a recharge overn...
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| Sony unveils colorful C3, M10 mice for road warriors |
| 2007-06-27 17:51:50 |
Just in case Kensington’s recent onslaught of mice didn’t float your boat, Sony is hoping that one of its colorful SMU-C3 or SMU-M10s will garner a bit more of your attention. The two-color USB C3 is available in white, green, pink, and black color schemes, sports an 800dpi optical sensor, “wide scrollwheel,” integrated wire storage, and plays nice with OS X, Windows XP, and Vista. The less vivid SMU-M10 features a “slimmer, more compact design with a built-in groove allowing the user to wrap the USB cable around the device for transport,” and does manage to come in subtle black, white, and blue motifs. Both lineups should be available on European shelves as we speak, but we’ve no idea what kind of pricetag you should go in expecting.
[Via AkihabaraNews]...
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| Google CEO says look forward to more Google/iPhone announcements |
| 2007-06-21 20:06:29 |
At ZDNet UK, Andrew Donoghue writes that at a Tuesday event in Paris, Google CEO Eric Schmidt promised further developments of Google and Apple cooperation, particularly regarding the iPhone. Schmidt said to “[E]xpect other announcements from the two companies over time.” The iPhone, he said, is a particularly good platform for apps that Google has been building.
After May’s introduction of Google Gears for Webkit and the WWDC keynote that emphasized Web 2.0 development for the iPhone, one can only guess that Google may be ready to provide the off-line data component so far missing from the iPhone development picture. Google Gears provides a way to take web applications offline so you can use those applications without being actively connected to the Internet.
[Via iLounge]...
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| Fruit-picking robots closer to reality |
| 2007-06-21 20:05:13 |
It looks like Vision Robotics’ would-be fleet of agriculture robots is getting a little closer to reality, with the previous crude 2D sketches of ‘em now replaced with slightly less crude 3D models (among other developments). Last we heard from the company, its scout robot was still a long ways from hitting the farm, but Wired News is now reporting that Vision expects to have a prototype of it ready sometime next year, with the larger harvester bot expected to follow two or three years after that. As before, the company plans to have the scout robots plot out the best fruit-picking route, which the harvester would then follow, grabbing hard to reach fruit with the utmost delicacy — no doubt picking up a few humans’ jobs along the way....
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| Life Bank One Coin Counter, Tallying Up Your Escape from Poverty a Penny at a Time |
| 2007-06-21 20:03:55 |
Here’s an idea: Instead of just dropping your spare change into a gigantic bottle and putting off all that tedious counting for another day, why not just screw the Life Bank One coin counter on top of that bottle, and you’ll know how much money is in there all along? It gives you a running total in its little odometer-like readout.
Only trouble is, it counts Japanese yen at this point, but it’s a cool enough gadget that we’re hoping someone will convert it to US currency. Then you’ll be able to go ahead and manually count out $8 in change and plunk it down for this helpful little doo-dad, saving you the trouble and keeping you informed of your vast riches at the same time. – Charlie White
Life Bank One change counter [UberGizmo, via Sci Fi Tech]...
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| Yoto MVP-800 Media Player, Almost Too Thin and Cheap to be True |
| 2007-06-21 18:50:05 |
We hadn’t heard much about Yoto before—all we’d seen from the Chinese company was a $13 bare-bones MP3 player—but now it’s busting out a beautiful little personal media player that’s just 9mm thin. The Yoto MVP-800 has a 2.8-inch 320×240 screen, and it can even play XviD files. It’s available in 2GB or 4GB capacities, and you can also put up to 2GB of TransFlash memory in there, too.
But here’s the real stunner:
That lowest-end 2GB model costs just $52. It has other little niceties on board, too, such as audio recording as well as an eBook reader that you can use even while you’re listening to music. But judging from the size of that 2.8-inch screen, you’d better have eagle eyes if you want to do some heavy reading on it.
There’s no word on whether this will ever make it out of China, but if it does and it has reasonably good quality, that $52 price could shake things up around here. – Charlie White
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| Police fatally taser gasoline-soaked suspect |
| 2007-06-21 18:49:25 |
As we’ve reported before, tasers might not be as safe as their makers like to claim. Juan Flores Lopez, a Texas man who had doused himself in gasoline, became the latest unfortunate taser-related casuality when police used the stun device (which sometimes emit sparks) during his arrest. “We don’t know what ignited the fire,” perplexed officers admitted. The case is currently being investigated by the Texas Rangers.
[Via Digg]...
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| Musical Tesla coil plays Super Mario Brothers theme |
| 2007-06-21 18:48:42 |
After the robotic giraffe, a Mac running XP and this guy’s second Zune tattoo, you probably thought there was nothing left to see, but then along comes a giant Tesla coil that creates a “resonant frequency” and plays the SMB music to a crowd of onlookers. No word on if it knows “Signs” or not. Check the video after the break.
[Via Make]...
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| MyDean’s FX-1 seven-inch navigation unit does DMB |
| 2007-06-21 18:47:00 |
Another day, another Korean-based DMB navigation system — but MyDean’s FX-1 does manage to differentiate itself just enough to keep it from completely blending in. The stylish black frame and thin design emphasize the expansive seven-inch LCD, and while it features the same DMB TV tuning and media playing abilities as everyone else, we can’t fault a firm for tryin’. Per usual, you’ll find a built-in speaker, car mounting options, USB connectivity, an SD slot, stylus, integrated GPS antenna, a wireless remote, a few games thrown in for good measure, and an FM tuner to boot. Sure, there’s nothing here you haven’t seen (multiple times) before, but the ₩199,000 ($215) pricetag sure looks attractive nonetheless.
[Via NaviGadget]...
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| Pleo ready for US pre-order: $349 for your eventual destruction |
| 2007-06-21 18:45:50 |
Check it US Pleo hopefuls, UGOBE is now taking pre-orders for the hotly anticipated dinobot. The price? Well, it’s not $250, or even $300 as we were originally told. Rather, the cuddly killer is now pegged at $349. Pre-orders can be executed directly from the UGOBE website or via the usual array of on-line retail partners. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait a few months before your Pleo can “inspire mystery and awe as a companion” — it doesn’t ship until October. Plenty of time to ponder the threat of inviting a robot and dinosaur into your home. Now head on over to Pleoworld for plenty of hot, groaning, dino-on-dino action.
[Thanks, Vladimiro]
Read — Press Release [warning: PDF]
Read — Pleoworld [warning: moaning robots, crank down the volume]...
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| EMI: Initial DRM-free sales results “good” |
| 2007-06-21 18:43:37 |
Ok Fair Use advocates, listen up. EMI senior VP Lauren Berkowitz has just given her initial sales report following their much ballyhooed DRM-free launch on iTunes Plus last month. The results? Well, “good” is the word she used to summarize sales. During the first week of availability, sales of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon were up 350 percent. Even now, after all the initial excitement, sales remain 272 percent higher. To a lesser degree, other EMI artists are also riding the DRM-free, download bump; even while their respective CD sales have tailed off. For example, downloads for Norah Jones’ Come Away with Me are up some 24 percent while CD sales have dropped 33 percent. Still, the DRM-free tracks were launched only three weeks ago which is far too early for any kind of proper trend analysis. We also don’t have any correlating data to demonstrate an increase (or decrease) in piracy — something the record labels will likely weigh ...
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| Augmented reality relationship game plays with your emotions |
| 2007-06-21 18:41:45 |
If you couldn’t quite make it to the last Wii marriage counseling session, there’s still good news coming from Georgia Tech. Thanks to a group of engineering minds at the university, a new augmented reality game (dubbed AR Facade) is placing you in the center of a marital spat with nearly limitless options. The program apparently runs on a back-worn laptop and utilizes an oh-so-tacky head mountable display, and developers suggest that being placed in the midst of an “interactive drama” allows you to choose sides, attempt to mediate, and basically “define your own way to win” as you try to talk some sense into the flustered couple. Interestingly, there’s even talk of bringing such games “onto mobile phones” and into the workplace, but it looks like they’ve got a bit of hardware trimming to do first.
[Via The Raw Feed]...
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| Evergreen’s network TV tuner streams content to your web browser |
| 2007-06-15 17:54:28 |
While it’s not apt to replace Sling anytime soon, Evergreen is hoping to give the Japanese market a taste of network TV tuning with its JTV-100-F-PJ. The device — which happens to resemble an external modem circa 1998 — accepts both coaxial cable inputs and composite video sources and converts them to MPEG4, which can then be streamed to a network TV server or viewed on your web browser. Notably, it even allows you to view the content in a trio of resolutions depending on the bandwidth available, and it boasts a maximum bit rate of 1.8Mbps. So for those still yearning for a placeshifting box over in Okinawa, Evergreen’s alternative is available as of today for a respectable ¥19,999 ($163). Jump on through for a shot of the rear.
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| Sprint explores options for WiMAX, ponders Clearwire deal |
| 2007-06-15 17:53:50 |
Looks like Sprint’s feverish approach to WiMAX just swallowed a chill pill, as the firm is reportedly “exploring new options for financing its ambitious plan.” In a presumed effort to “soothe investor concerns about the cost of the WiMAX plan,” the company is actually investigating a partnership or joint venture with Clearwire in order to simultaneously remove a potential competitor and gain access to the critical Clearwire markets in the southeastern US. Of course, Clearwire isn’t one to shy away from high stakes partnerships, and the FCC nod for a WiMAX-class laptop card that it garnered just last month could fit in quite well here. Still, Clearwire is refusing to comment just yet on whether this possibility is even feasible, but the mere mention of a spinoff likely means that Sprint isn’t feeling all too peachy about future WiMAX profitability. [Warning: Read link requires subscription]
[Via InformationWeek]...
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| Keepin’ it real fake, part LX: Nokia N800 gets ripped |
| 2007-06-15 17:49:28 |
At this point the knockoff wizards in China will copy pretty much anything, so we’re not going to claim to be surprised at this blatant rip of Nokia’s N800 “Internet Tablet.” The GPS unit runs Windows CE 5.0 and features a 4.3-inch touchscreen with handwriting recognition, WiFi, Skype, email and MSN support, document viewers, and a media player. It also features an NES emulator for that added dose of IP infringement — they’re really starting to go for the gusto overseas.
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| Montreal to get WiMAX services soon |
| 2007-06-15 15:23:28 |
Our neighbor to the north will soon boast its own WiMAX-based WiFi rollout, as Montreal is already set to become the “first Canadian city to deliver wireless Internet and mobile IP telephony to residents.” Apparently, Radioactif and Nomad Telecom are joining forcing to deploy the network across the metropolitan area, and it will be made first available to the oh-so-lucky residents of Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood. By 2009, however, the network will blanket nearly 300 square kilometers of Montreal and service “around 90-percent” of its citizens, but those targeted for the first wave can expect the luxury to cost them “under $30 per month” when it launches in September.
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| Sony mulling production of mylo 2 handheld? |
| 2007-06-15 15:23:02 |
expected,” which possibly means that there’s more where that came from. Although surveyed retailers expressed mixed results in regard to sales, Sony “considers the mylo the forerunner to a new category of devices that cater to kids who want to replicate their PC online experience in a portable,” and reportedly mentioned that the “next-generation model would include new partners and expanded capability.” Now, we’re not sure if WWAN or WiMAX connectivity could be headed to the not-yet-confirmed mylo 2, but it’s pretty safe to assume that While you may have given Sony’s hard-to-categorize mylo little chance at surviving in the market, a recent report seems to show that sales were “exactly as Sonycompetition in the converged device market will have heated up quite intensely for the second iteration.
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| Sharp’s uber-white 14.1-inch Mebius PC-CW50T laptop |
| 2007-06-15 15:21:48 |
With all the Santa Rosa lovin’ that’s been going on of late, it’s easy to overlook the AMD-powered bunch, but Sharp’s latest Mebius shuns the more popular Intel chip and relies on a 1.6GHz Sempron 3400+ CPU instead. Additionally, this 14.1-inch machine sports a WXGA panel, up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM, ATI’s Radeon Xpress 1100 graphics set, an 80GB hard drive, 802.11b/g WiFi, and a dual-layer DVD burner. Around the edges you’ll find four USB 2.0 ports, a 4-pin FireWire connector, PC Card slot, SD card slot, Ethernet, audio in / out, and a VGA output. Unfortunately, it sounds like you may be disappointed in the paltry 1.3-hours of battery life that the Li-ion reportedly provides, but at least you’ve got more than a few alternatives to run to for ¥150,000 ($1,228).
[Via AkihabaraNews]...
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| Hands On: Mini Blu II Bluetooth Headset Gets Even More Outlandishly Small |
| 2007-06-15 15:21:19 |
FoneGear has shrunk its Mini Blu Bluetooth headset, making it even smaller and lighter, and now it’s called the Mini Blu II that’ll be shipping in September. No question about it, this is one of the smallest Bluetooth headsets we’ve seen.
It’ll run for about eight hours on a battery charge, and if you’re looking for a bit more ostentation, you can get it with those goddamn Swarovski crystals. Maybe that’ll help you spot it when you drop this tiny bugger between the seat cushions. We’re not that crazy about this pinkish color, but it’ll be available in other hues. Anyway, it’s that improbably minuscule size that’s got us going.
So how did it sound, and does it fit on the ear nicely?
It’s so small and light, it actually works better without that earhook you see pictured here. We tried one out, and it hangs in your ear Lieutenant Uhura-style, and is perfectly comfortable. It actually works well, too, not soundi...
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| Oral-B Triumph intelligent toothbrush makes sure you brush correctly |
| 2007-06-15 15:20:05 |
Proving that adding an LCD screen and a radio transmitter are sure-fire ways to improve even the lowliest of products, Oral-B has unveiled the latest in its Triumph line of intelligent toothbrushes. The multi-head brush, which has 4 programmable cleaning patterns, communicates with a mirror-mounted LCD display that instructs you on where and how long to brush, and warns you if you’re brushing too hard — just like mom. The handle keeps track of data if you step out of range of the dispay and re-syncs when you come back to spit, so you’ll never miss a stroke. Apparently these go on sale in September for $150, but we’re going to stick with our Tooth Tunes — what’s a little less polish when you can brush up to The Clash?
[Via SlashGear]...
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| Student creates 3D Aztec suspended-flythrough for master’s thesis |
| 2007-06-15 15:18:51 |
California State University multimedia student Tommy Lothian has come up with quite the master’s thesis: a virtual flythrough of an imaginative Aztec world wherein players don 3D goggles and strap themselves into a harness that suspends them horizontally, enabling them to interact with objects and complete tasks, including stabbing a monster with a jade stone, scaling an active volcano, and, uh, not hallucinating
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| Amazon presells Leopard, says release 10/07 |
| 2007-06-15 15:17:59 |
Reader Elizabeth D sends a note that Amazon.com’s Leopard page has been updated (from the sparse set of details that we first saw there). It’s now available for presale, as well, and buyers haven’t wasted any time– as of this writing, it is the number one bestseller on the Software list.
Now, Elizabeth noted that the release date was supposedly slated for October 31st, but I don’t see that anywhere on the page. As far as I can tell, Amazon is just saying “October 2007.” That’s not real different from what we’ve heard before, and between you and me, I wouldn’t make any major plans based on Amazon release dates alone. Then again, it’s just another brick in the wall of evidence– the odds are better all the time that we’ll see this cat by Halloween.
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