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Tech NewsAnother CES preview
Another CES preview, this one in Wired News: One trend this year will be the convergence of home entertainment technologies into one media hub that can record and play back television and movies, play games and do any number of computing tasks. Technology to network devices throughout the home is also gaining momentum. “It comes … Continued
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Epson’s new digital photo viewer
New portable digital photo viewer from Epson. The P-1000 Photo Viewer has a high-resolution 3.8-inch LCD, a 10GB for storing photos, and a CompactFlash memory card reader (if you want to use it with Memory Sticks, MMC, or SD memory cards you have to get an adapter from somebody else). The P-1000 can also be … Continued
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More miniPod concept designs
Speaking of the miniPod, iPodLounge has a roundup of links to various concept designs of the rumored miniPod that is due out next week. None of them are the real deal (you already knew that), but obviously the mere prospect of a smaller, cheaper iPod has a lot of people buzzing. Read
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Cornice’s new 2GB one-inch hard drive
Cornice has bumped up the capacity of their one-inch hard drive from 1.5GB to 2GB. These are the same drives used in MP3 players like Creative’s MuVo2 and Rio’s Nitrus, so expect to see a bunch of tiny 2GB MP3 players soon (maybe even in those rumored 2GB miniPods?). Read [PDF warning]
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NEC’s compact cameraphone
A new “ladies phone” from NEC. The NEC N910 is a “compact” cameraphone (pun intended) with an LCD screen that becomes a mirror when not in use, a feature which has also turned up in a few of the other so-called “ladies phones” that have come out like Panasonic’s G70 and Samsung’s SGH-T500. The NEC … Continued
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Griffin cancels the iFM Radio for the iPod
Griffin Technologies just sent out an email announcing that their iFM Radio for the iPod has been canceled. Why? Two reasons: First, the iFM for the original iPod relied on the iPod s Wired Remote Control. This part is no longer available separately from Apple for the Original iPods. Although some of the original iPod … Continued
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It begins
Well, the holiday season has come to an end. and we’ve reached the beginning of what is probably the busiest gadget week of the entire year. Both MacWorld and the Consumer Electronics Show are this week, and we’re expecting loads and loads of new gadgets to be announced.
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Roku’s SoundBridge digital audio adapters
Just received a tip that Roku, the maker of the HD1000 high-definition digital media adapter, plans to introduce a couple of nicely designed digital audio adapters at CES next week, the SoundBridge M1000 and M2000 (pictured at right). Not many details available, but if the HD1000 is any guide, both SoundBridge devices are likely to … Continued
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Review of Gateway’s 20GB MP3 player
PC Magazine review of the DMP-X20 Digital Music Jukebox, Gateway’s entry into the field of hard drive-based MP3 players. If their player looks familiar at all, that’s because the 20GB DMP-X20 is actually just a slightly modified version of e.Digital’s Odyssey 1000 player. They actually have some surprisingly nice things to say about it: The … Continued
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The first five SPOT watches
There’s a listing on Microsoft’s website of the five different SPOT, or Smart Personal Object Technology, watches which are supposed to hit stores soon. As you may recall, SPOT uses FM radio subcarrier frequencies to wirelessly deliver information like the weather, news, and stock quotes via a subscription service called MSN Direct. Anyway, we’re not … Continued
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California bans using computers or watching TV while driving
Guess you won’t be able to use that Executive Laptop Steering Wheel Mount we wrote about a few weeks ago. At least not while driving in California, that is, where a new state law that went into effect yesterday bans drivers from “operating televisions and video screens in their line of vision while the vehicle … Continued
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Gateway Connected DVD Player hacks
PVR Blog has a roundup of tips and hacks for Gateway’s Connected DVD Player, the one that can hook up to a home network over Ethernet or 802.11b and stream video and video stored on your PC’s hard drive. Among the tips are how to get the player to support Internet radio streams and high-bandwidth … Continued
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Virtual Laser Keyboard coming from iBiz
iBiz says that sometime early this year they’re going to introduce a virtual keyboard for PDAs where you actually tap onto a laser-projected image of a keyboard. The article doesn’t say, but we suspect that this might be using that virtual keyboard technology from VKB we’ve been hearing about for so long. Read
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Legend’s rotating Pocket PC Phone
From Chinese manufacturer Legend, the first Pocket PC Phone with a rotating screen that flips around 180 degrees and folds down so you can use it like a regular PDA. The Lenovo ET560, which has a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, Bluetooth, a built-in digital camera, an SD memory card slot, and a 320×240 pixel, … Continued
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The Stremium SL400i Wireless Multimedia Link from Philips
A couple of new wireless digital media adapters from Philips. Both the SL300i and the SL400i (pictured right) Wireless are both basically little boxes that let you stream audio and video files stored on your PC and listen to them with your stereo system or watch them on your TV. Read – SL300i Read SL400i
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Review of the Roku
PC Magazine review of the Roku HD1000, one of the very first digital media hubs that can support true high-definition video: Befitting a high-end home theatre component, the $500 HD1000 offers the best fit and finish we’ve seen on a digital media hub outside of some $2,000 devices… Digital video looked great in HD, too—if … Continued
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An iBox from Apple?
We have no way of verifying the veracity of this (and hopefully you’ll forgive me for going over board with all the Apple rumors these days — it is MacWorld time), but MacOSX.com is reporting that Apple is working on the iBox, a standalone digital media hub which is said to have a DVD burner … Continued
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Unhappy iBook owners threatening lawsuit
With MacWorld just days away, a group of frustrated iBook owners are threatening to file a lawsuit against Apple for what they say are defective laptops that the company is refusing to repair: The difficulties stem from the iBook’s logic board, or motherboard, users say in discussion forums and on message boards—including boards on Apple’s … Continued
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