Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Portable Audio, Portable Video
In case you're not swimming in Apple gear just yet (wait 'til the kids come...), Griffin Technology has just released a more modest solution to charging "just" a pair of iPhones / iPods or one of each. The two-port PowerDock 2 features a ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Filed under: Robots
We got a chance to spend a bit of time with WowWee's Tri-Bot way back at CES earlier this year, but the folks at RobotsRule recently got a chance to put the bot through all its paces in advance of its summer release, and they've now churned out ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Ah, bugger. Just days after Apple Core began offering its aTV Flash on a foolproof USB stick, the outfit has officially pulled the software. Apparently there have been a few "questions arising regarding the fair use of a particular file present on the aTV Flash, and ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Filed under: Gaming, HandheldsNot much else to say beyond the title of this one -- MWeston has recently confirmed over at the GP32X boards that Bluetooth will indeed be included on the forthcoming Pandora mega-emulator. He noted that BT was added because of an exceptional deal they landed and to ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Filed under: Gaming
It's not the first time we've seen a controller hacked for use with the PSP, but this mod by Acidmods member Blizzrad takes things a bit further than most, with it relying entirely on hardware modifications in order to work, meaning it can be done on any PSP ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Filed under: Storage
Iomega's getting quite fed up with listing those GBs, and thus, it's exceptionally thrilled to be offering up a brand new 1TB model for your consideration. Fittingly christened the Super eGo, the external hard drive you see above packs a single one-terabyte HDD, USB 2.0 port and a ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Filed under: Desktops, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Media PCs
Your options are fairly limited when scouring the market for a twin-CableCARD HTPC, but thanks to a new partnership between Cannon PC and Microsoft, yet another rival will be jousting for your business. Here soon, the outfit will be offering its Home and ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless
As always, Apple is busy at the patent office this week, with two recently uncovered filings to make life just a little bit easier for Mr. Joe Person Man. The first of these is a system to track how far away you are from a cell tower, ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
AT&T was running a disaster simulation here in Chicago a few weekends ago, and they invited us to their site to check out how they practice dealing with total network failures in times of disasters. AT&T says with some confidence that it's the only telecom provider in the world with ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment
Nothing too exceptional here, but Panasonic has just released its new LB80 series of LCD projectors. The PT-LB80NTU, PT-LB75NTU and PT-LW80NTU beamers (and the widescreen counterpart, PT-LW80NTU) all tip the scales at under 7-pounds (that's the "lightest in their class," so we're told) and feature built-in ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Oh yeah, we've seen dedicated battery pack extenders for a plethora of the most popular gizmos, but IOGEAR's looking out for the run-of-the-mill crowd with its GearJuice Rescue Charger. Essentially, the wee device accepts any 'ole AA cell, and upon plugging it into your mini-USB-equipped PDA / ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Filed under: Peripherals
Think that keyboard on your subnote is cramped? Try blasting out 115 words-per-minute on this thing. I-O Data has just revealed an absurdly diminutive new keyboard with built-in Bluetooth that has a real thing for hooking up with handsets. Nah, it's not nearly as cool as having a ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Filed under: Handhelds
At All Things D today Mossberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos had a little discussion about digital media, which had a couple of decent nuggets. Check it out:
On Kindle 2: "There will be a second version, a third version, a tenth version. ... but a ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Filed under: Robots
It looks like France's Robosoft is keen on getting its robots into as many places as possible, with it now following up its RobuCab and RobuDog with a service robot designed to help the elderly and disabled. Like the RobuDog, this one makes heavy use of Microsoft Robotics ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Filed under: Displays, HDTV
The D conference is in full swing, and the next heavy hitter on deck is Sony CEO Howard Stringer, who's rumored to have a new Sony OLED display for Unkie Walt to play with. We're assuming it'll be a little bit bigger than the XEL-1, but Silicon ...
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