Product Highlights • Another (Four-Wheeled) Treo [WirelessDoc] • OMWAVE EH1 A/V Component Sized Media PC [eHomeUpgrade] • New Atari Flashback Retro Game Console [I4U] • ADA s New Flagship A/V Receiver (with XM Radio) [Mavromatic] (Wow, that is nuts!) Business • Sony shakes up PC strategy [ArsTechnica] • Intel’s President Talks Up Multicore, WiMAX [ExtremeTech] … Continued

I’m going to have to put the Pepper Pad 2 down as a “Huh, weird,” product. A 624MHz Linux-based tablet PDAesque machine with a split QWERTY keyboard? It could be the best interface ever and I don’t think anybody would want to buy it. It does, at least, have built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, as well … Continued

I don’t use webcams, because I am ugly. But once upon a time, I was a pretty princess of a man, and had a pretty good time playing around with basic video chat and periodic Brady Bunch groups of pictures on webpages. And while I think it’s sort of the received wisdom that all webcams … Continued

If you find remembering all your various logins and passwords difficult and don’t feel comfortable leaving them saved in your browser, MetaPass’s new M500 Digital Key might be an option. Essentially a USB thumbdrive with some fancy software, the M500 lets you store all your passwords and logins in a single, encrypted application, which you … Continued

You guys should know by now I’m a big advocate of integrated QWERTY keyboards. I just never got into Graffiti and the like, and typing up articles on my Revo while everybody else was scratching around with a stylus pretty much convinced me. So when it’s clear that the new Nokia 9300 Communicator is taking … Continued

So finding out you have a dead fan on your videocard is sort of bittersweet. It sucks because it kills your machine, but hey! New video card, right? (Actually, I just got a replacement fan, but I now have a reason to eye those upcoming Nvidia 6600 GTs.) But I was over at Newegg buying … Continued

ITmedia reports from the floor of the 58th Annual Tokyo International Gift Show about stuff that glows. We do of course have an abundance of glow sticks, “Lumipads” and flashlights that automatically turn on when power to the charger is interrupted, but perhaps the most interesting item are glowing balls, like soccer balls and golf … Continued

Joel asked me to post this image of a Japanese Sony model holding that sexy new Sony HDR-FX1 camera – the one that records to 1080i. I guess he’s just considering how many more HDTV amateur pornos/nature documentaries can now be created in a quality like never seen before. He’ll need to wait until at … Continued

Despite the ever-present push towards “smaller,” there’s nothing small about Sony’s new “DCR-DVD301″ DVD Handycam’s screen. At first glance, it appears to be a standard DVD Handycam – same 1.4GB 8cm DVD writing, and more or less the same specifications – but when you look twice, you realize this new unit is equipped with a … Continued

Sporting “the industry’s highest color count” is JVC’s new single-DIN CD receiver, the “KD-SHX929?.” This is quite a headunit – you do of course get a 32,000+ color organic EL screen, but also the ability to play movies and still images on it (the screen) while driving. Furthermore, you can download images onto the unit … Continued

My goddamn Windows machine is dying, which is less than awesome. Hopefully I can get this out to you before it decides to reboot itself again. Anyway, MSNBC’s Krakow took the new BlackBerry 7100t out for a spin – available only on T-Mobile – and it looks really nice. Not only are the internals decent, … Continued

Some days I wish I lived in LA, where everything is sunshiney and every confusing bit of gadgetry can be shrugged away as “magical,” like the new DVD players being issue to Academy members that are supposed to help prevent the Oscar screener discs from being copied. Brother blogger Defamer attacks the issue in typical … Continued

I was never really into the Newton, but I hadn’t realized they made a combination phone device like this Siemens NotePhone (probably because it was Europe-only). Not only did the NotePhone have a 336 x 240 screen (still decent), the unit added telephony and voice mail to the Newton itself, which could also be removed … Continued

Double A rechargeable batteries are by far the most commonly used, but there are definitely times when C-cell and D-cell batteries would be handy to have around. Rather than provide rechargeable cells in a variety of sizes, Sanyo’s Family Battery Charger Kit comes with four AA batteries and a set a ‘FlexBat’ adapters, hollow plastic … Continued

Here are a couple more pictures of that new Samsung phone with the built-in hard drive. Even if the girl’s hands aren’t as small as they appear, that’s still a pretty hefty phone. Full press release after the jump. Look – Full Sized Picture [Gizmodo] Look – Another, Similar Picture [Gizmodo] Related Samsung SPH-V5400: First … Continued

Brighthand is reporting that Dell may be considering entering the consumer cellular market next year, citing an anonymous source that works with Dell. It’s funny, but whether or not you find this notable can probably be determined on how you frame this news. “Dell building cellular-network PDA hybrid,” doesn’t really give anybody a softie. “Dell … Continued

This article in The Observer about the upcoming trend of girl gadgets happens to interview our buddies over at Shiny Shiny, which couldn’t be a better choice, really. And by ‘upcoming’ I mean ‘already eclipsed male spending,’ at least in the US, with 14 percent more money being dropped last year by women than men. … Continued

The new 2004 Confederate F124 HellCat is a hand-crafted, limited run, New Orleans-built motorcycle that puts 130 horsepower to the ground in over-the-top American style. Each of the V-Twin machines are assembled in batches of five or less and stripped of any extra needless ornamentation (well, they never put it on in the first place). … Continued

The Eva Solo tea set comes with a neoprene ‘tea shirt’ and lets you brew in two different ways: you can dump your leaves directly into the flask, letting them infuse the tea as fully as possible, then strain them as pouring; you can also put the leaves into the filter directly, which will allow … Continued

ExtremeTech gives a very positive review to Syntax’s Olevia TV, a 30-inch LCD flat-panel that can be had for as low as $1,700. While it has a few quirky cut-corners, like only one of the two available inputs accepting progressive scan signals and an oddly sized 15:9 screen, overall it looks like an excellent piece … Continued