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Tech NewsBuy a sandwich, get a free Tungsten C. Sort of.
British sandwich shop chain Benugo is giving away free WiFi-enabled Tungsten C PDAs with the purchase of a sandwich. Well, free in the sense that the sandwich will set you back 349 pounds. The whole thing is part of a promotion to highlight the fact that a couple of the shops now offer WiFi. Read
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Windows everywhere
WindowsForDevices roundup of seventy-two different gadgets that turned up at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show running either on the Windows CE, Windows Mobile, or Windows Embedded operating systems. Like the Artista 200E Sewing System, for example, a sewing machine which runs on Windows CE 3.0. Read [Via Slashdot]
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IBM’s Tablet PC
Some photos and details of IBM’s long-rumored Tablet PC, the Xnote LT-20, which, given the branding, looks like it is being built-in conjunction with LG. There are three versions of the LT-20 planned, and the fanciest will come with a 12.1-inch LCD screen, 512MB of RAM, a 1.6GHz processor with Centrino, a 60GB hard drive, … Continued
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The Nintendo DS
Everyone’s abuzz about Nintendo’s announcement of a new double-screened portable game player code-named the Nintendo DS: Nintendo did not release an image of the new product, but it said that the dual screens will let a user view games from two different perspectives, such as an overview map and a close-up of a battle. In … Continued
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HP’s new Pocket PC Phone
Smartfone.net has the scoop on a new Pocket PC Phone from HP, the iPAQ h6300 will be a GSM/GPRS phone with integrated WiFi and Bluetooth, a VGA quality digital camera, a 3.5-inch color touchscreen, 64MB of RAM, an SDIO expansion card slot, and RIM’s BlackBerry email capability built-in. With its attached mini-keyboard, the h6300 bears … Continued
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2003’s most vaporous vaporware
Wired News has put together its annual list of last year’s no-shows — products that were promised for 2003 but never delivered. Among the gadgets rounding out the list (there’s plenty of software on there, too): Griffin’s TiVo-for-radio-like RadioShark, Fossil’s Palm-powered WristPDA (pictured at right), the high-definition TiVo, SanDisk’s WiFi SD expansion card for Palms, … Continued
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Even more from CES: Pics of Sony’s new DSC-T1 digital camera
Also from CES, Rick Urtel has some shots of our next camera, Sony’s superthin DSC-T1, which comes out here soon: Sony’s new DSC-T1 digital camera is a beautiful thing to behold. Very sleek metal body, large, gorgeous LCD display and 5 megapixels! This is one of the most powerful small cameras I have seen.
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Even more from CES: Panasonic
We aren’t quite finished with our CES coverage yet. Morgan of KnitWitology contributes an overview of Panasonic’s massive presence at the show: During his keynote address at CES, Panasonic AVC President Fumio Ohtsubo outlined their new “Whole Life Connectivity” campaign; affordable, simple, and connected products for a increasingly digital consumer. While the “affordable” part is … Continued
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iRiver’s wireless MP3 player
Looks like ReignCom, the company behind iRiver, is working on an MP3 player with built-in WiFi that can wirelessly download music off of the Internet. There’s a lot of speculation that the next version of the iPod (the big one, not the little one) will have some sort of wireless capability. Being able to wirelessly … Continued
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Rugged Notebooks
Popular Mechanics roundup of ruggedized notebooks from, um, Rugged Notebooks. Both the Rough Rider Junior (pictured at right) and the Hawk (who is naming these things?) are designed to withstand a three foot drop onto concrete, and are resistant to water, dust, and sand. Read
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The mind controlling personal video player
We’re not sure what to think about Mpavio’s new DDP-1000 portable video player, which besides having a 20GB hard drive and a 2.5-inch screen, also has this bizarre “Mind Control Program” that, with the supplied glasses, can supposedly help you sleep better, study more effectively, etc. Read
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Text messaging to combat credit card fraud
To combat fraudulent usage, credit card companies in Eastern Europe have set up a system in which cardholders are automatically sent a text messages confirming every transaction, so that if anyone makes an unauthorized purchase you’ll be alerted instantaneously. Having just been the victim of identity theft ourselves, we’d love to see something like this … Continued
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Why DVD-Audio is stalled
Nigel Kendall of the London Times explains why DVD-Audio hasn’t taken off: DVD-Audio sounds fabulous, plays on equipment that many of us already own and the discs cost around the same as a standard DVD. So why aren t we all replacing our CD collections? Because we can t. DVD-Audios are expensive to produce, since … Continued
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The Treo 610
Hate to do this to everyone who just bought a Treo 600, but BargainPDA is reporting on its successor, the Treo 610, which will have a higher-resolution than the current Treo, more memory, and built-in Bluetooth. Supposedly due out March 1st. There has been NO official confirmation about this from anyone, and we’re not totally … Continued
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1.3 megapixel Smartphone-powered cameraphone coming
We just received word of a new 1.3 megapixel cameraphone (with built-in flash) which supposedly will run on Microsoft’s Smartphone 2003 operating system (though in the product shot the phone doesn’t seem to look like it’s running on Smartphone). The EG4000 (or SG4000, it isn’t completely clear whether they’re the same phone or not) should … Continued
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