Amazon Deal on the Nomad MuVo MP3 Player

Amazon has a good deal on those new Nomad MuVo MP3 Players which plug directly into a USB port with out needing any cables. Just $104.95, plus free shipping too. Amazon

Specs for the New Dell Pocket PC Leaked!

IBM’s Shrinking Desktop

A tiny new desktop from IBM, the NetVista S42, which takes up two-thirds less space than a regular desktop. Reminiscent of the iMac, but from the article on CNET, it doesn’t sound like they’re going after that same market in the way that Gateway is with the Profile 4. Read

Sony’s New Laptops with DVD Burners

Just a few days after Toshiba announced it’s DVD-R/RW drives for laptops, Sony’s introduced three new laptops with the drives built-in. Read

Toshiba’s Shrinking Bluetooth Card

Toshiba’s shrunk the size of it’s Bluetooth SD card which is used in Pocket PCs and digital cameras. Read

Hot and Noisy Hard Drives

The Trouble With Maxtor

Will Sex Save 3G?

Will videophone sex be the one killer-app for 3G? Peter Lewis seems to think so. The cellphone industry better hope he’s right, since at the moment it doesn’t look like there’s anything else that might convince people to upgrade from 2G. Read

Quick Links – Tuesday, October 1st

Flip a Switch for 3D

Sharp’s developed an LCD display that can switch between 2D and 3D viewing, without the need for special glasses. Can’t wait until this is standard issue on laptops. Read

Another Tablet PC Blog

There’s another tablet PC weblog out there, TabletPCTalk.com. They do a pretty good job of keeping up with the ever increasing amount of news about Tablet PCs. One of the handy things they have on the site is a chart comparing the hardware specs of the different Tablet PCs that have been announced. Read

Danger Arrives. Finally.

It’s the First of October, which means that Danger’s Hiptop mobile communicator finally comes out. The first ones will be available from T-Mobile under the name Sidekick. It’s about time. Talk about dragging out a product release. Read

Cutting the Last Cord?

Cutting Out the Middleman

Hardware manufacturers are working on a version of USB 2.0 called USB On-the-Go, which will allow USB 2.0 peripherals to connect to each other, bypassing a PC entirely. Should start appearing by early next year. Read

A Tiny USB 1.1 Hub

A reader points out the new GUH174 MiniHub, a super-slim four-port USB 1.1 hub from IOGEAR which is just 2.5 inches long and 0.7 inches thick. Looks pretty handy for a laptop. Read [Thanks John!]

DVD Burning on the Go

Toshiba’s just released the first DVD burner for laptops, the SD-R6012, which supports DVD-R and DVD-RW. Pioneer is expected to follow suit with its own DVD burner for laptops soon. Read

ViewSonic Takes the Plunge

Hot on the heels of Razor’s Zayo: ViewSonic enters the fray with its own Pocket PC device. The V35 comes out November 1st, and will have a 300 MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, a 3.5 inch color screen, and weigh just 4.9 ounces. Read

Quick Links – Monday, September 30th, 2002

SpyMac reports that a docking station for the iPod is on the way. Read A minidisc player with a keyboard for entering song titles. Read Support Gizmodo! Viking 128 MB CompactFlash memory cards are just $39.99 at Amazon. Amazon

Bootleg Tablet PC Coming Out

Cable Modem + Router + Wireless Access Point

New cable modem from Toshiba, the PCX5000, that has a built-in router and wireless access point. Makes perfect sense, and certainly a lot simpler than my current setup of a wireless access point plugged into a router which plugged into a DSL modem. Read