Archive for December 7th, 2007

BenQ announces SP870 business projector

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Filed under: DisplaysBenQ has announced a new projector designed for big conference rooms in the German and European markets. The SP870 is a 1,024 x 768-native DLP sporting 5,000 lumens and a 2,000:1 contrast ratio, with a 33-36 dB noise range and DVI and VGA inputs. The 10.8-pound projector will ...

Omwave’s Windows Home Server-based OMSERVERs

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Filed under: Storage, NetworkingWe've already seen a handful of networked storage devices running Windows Home Server, and now comes yet another option from across the ocean in France, Omwave's one to four terabyte OMSERVER. Both the 1TB and 4 x 500GB 2TB options are based on Intel's G32 chipset, powered ...

LtWV Wrist Vmote Lightglove is one funky input device

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Filed under: Peripherals, Wireless We've seen so many gimmicky input devices -- keyboards, mice, tilt-a-mice, the like -- that we almost dismissed this little gem at first glance. The LtWV Wrist Vmote Lightglove is based on your wrist moment, but not in a vague waving-around sense. Instead, the device uses light ...

Mossberg previews the Slacker Portable

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless The short of it is that the Slacker is an intriguing concept and decent product with some serious bugginess in the prototypes -- which is why it's probably a good thing it's been delayed until next year. Walt Mossberg has been kicking around the "blocky" player ...

RelaxView is back to distract tattoo customers

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Filed under: Displays, Portable Video We've certainly got to hand it to Dutch retailer relaxView B.V., which is making a name for itself by bundling off-the-shelf components together with a "hygiene set" and marketing the package as a distraction kit for providers of painful services. Following the presumed success of its ...

Tanita’s body fat measurer doesn’t require you to get up

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Tanita's been known to mesh gadgetry with health before, but its latest creation really goes beyond the call. This body fat measuring system apparently enables patients to remain firmly glued to the bed / sofa / etc. rather than actually, you know, getting up and moving, when ...

Warner to finally go Blu-ray-only at CES?

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Filed under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentAnother day, another format war rumor. Business Week has a lengthy writeup on the possibility of lone dual-format holdout Warner Brothers switching to Blu-ray exclusively, and how it could affect the outcome of the long-running feud between high-definition disc formats HD DVD and Blu-ray. The rumor ...

iPhone Dev Team releases code for the AnySim unlock tool

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The iPhone Dev Team has been calling their AnySim iPhone unlock tool "open source" from the start, but they've finally made good on their promise and posted the code on Google Code. Have at it, hackers -- not being able to unlock new 1.1.2 iPhones is surely putting a damper ...