Archive for September 21st, 2007
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio
This isn't the most complicated hack in the world, but London designers Conran and Partners' entry into the Deptford Design Market Challenge is still pretty sweet -- the firm mashed up an iPod speaker system and an old classical guitar to create one of the prettier iPod ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
RAmos has gone out of its way to make its PMPs and DAPs atypically noticeable in the past, and while the V150 is certainly not the most glamorous we've ever seen, it certainly doesn't look half bad. The sleek, Bluetooth 2.0-equipped device features a 2.4-inch ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Peripherals
Korea's Chosun Ilbo English language site is reporting that Apple will be the exclusive retailer of Samsung's "world's slimmest monochrome laser printer" ML-1630 and multi-function SCX-4500. Otherwise known as the "Swan" and "Logan" respectively, they are expected to hit shelves starting will remain Apple exclusives until January 2008 ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
If the $150 white Zune was too rich to Woot, then how does 30GB for $130 sound Zune boy? Yup, $129.99 to be precise, which leaves you with half of the 2 cents required to sound-off in the comments. In a tip of the hat ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Desktops
There's rugged computing, and then there's rugged computing -- and the new Ruffneck PC from GE Fanuc's Computer Dynamics subsidiary is ready to handle just about anything you can throw at it. The unit sports a 15-inch touchscreen LCD that can be used with gloves on, a 1.6GHz ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Wireless, NetworkingIt's been some time since Airspan kicked out a new device enabling laptop (or desktop, for that matter) users to hop on the Mobile WiMAX highway, but that's changing thanks to its recently-unveiled MiMAX USB. This USB 2.0 dongle "turns any laptop into a high performance Mobile ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video
var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Meizu_s_MiniOne_M8_GUI_exposed_hello_Chinese_iPhone'; Ok Meizu, seriously, with your M7 announced a week after the iPod touch and your CEO J.Wong just posting these new interface shots of the M8 to your user forum, how can we or any straight ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
We aren't saying that this is a widespread issue just yet, but a (rightfully) annoyed tipster has informed and shown us that his "refurbished" 8GB iPhone seems to have the same "negative black issue" that some iPod touch owners are currently grumbling about. Granted, he admits that the photo makes ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Laptops
While there's only a select few that would even consider a laptop that weighs nearly twelve pounds and costs updwards of $5,000, those that fit that description now have a bit more information to inform their purchase, with the folks at ComputerShopper offering up their take on XtremeNotebooks' ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Peripherals
Looking for a totally elaborate, complicated, and kind-of-ugly dock for your iPhone or media-playin' mobile device? You're in luck, because iHome is about to deliver the goods... big time. Enter the iHC5, a remote-controlled, Bluetooth-equipped, 4-speaker-sporting pile of accessory goodness. The system -- which is made ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Robots
It looks like the moon could soon become a relatively crowded place if even half of all these robots and rovers we keep hearing about actually get off the ground, the latest of which comes to us from Carnegie Mellon University. Dubbed the "Scarab," this four-wheeled bot is ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: CellphonesJust over eight months after the USB Implementers Forum completed the micro-USB specification, the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) has recommended that the protocol be accepted as a universal standard for charging and syncing mobile devices. Reportedly, the "OMTP's paper recommends that the micro-USB standard" be adopted across ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: DisplaysWe suppose a pair of higher-end business projectors just weren't enough for one day, so BenQ has apparently decided to offer up even more options for those satisfied with an 800 x 600 (SVGA) resolution. Sure, the MP612 and MP612c both sport a less than flattering native res, ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Peripherals
Fuji Xerox has come up with some unique copying systems before, and it looks like its latest photocopier is no exception, with it promising to take a Japanese document and spit out a English, Chinese, or Korean translation on the fly (or vice versa). That's done by networking ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Displays, HDTVViewSonic's Diamani DUO lineup claims to be a couple of widescreen HDTVs at heart that just handle monitor duties on the side, but we don't see any reason to neglect these two displays just because you don't have television on the brain. The 19-inch NX1932w offers up ...
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