Samsung’s New Laser Printer

Samsung’s ML-1440 Laser Printer receives TweakNews.net’s Top Rank Award, which apparently is the site’s highest accolade. Read Amazon

DirecTiVo Monthly Fee Cut in Half

Missed this news from the other day. DirecTV is cutting the monthly fee it charges subscribers who have DirecTiVo from $9.99 to $4.99 per month. Read Amazon

World’s Smallest PDA

T3 on Sharp’s new Linux-based the Zaurus SL-A300, which at 13x69x113mm and 120g, is touted as the world’s smallest PDA. Sadly, Sharp has no plans for a US release. Read

PlayStation 3 Might Not Come in a Box

We don’t normally cover gaming in Gizmodo, but it’s kind of a slow day for gadgets news. Reuters hints that the PlayStation 3 may not actually be a new box at all, but an operating system that can support games on a variety of networked home entertainment devices. Distribution is the new convergence. Read

Amazon DVD Player Sale

Huge sale over at Amazon on DVD players. Samsung’s DVD-V2000 DVD/VCR Combo is down to $189.99. Amazon

DVR Roundup

CNet roundup of the latest digital video recorders. Read Amazon

Voice Over 802.11b

A new mobile wireless voice communications system from Vocera which runs on top of an 802.11b network. The best part: the voice-activated, Star Trek: The Next Generation-style communication badges. Read

HP’s New Deskjet 5550

HP’s new Deskjet 5550, which can print in over a million colors. Tom’s Hardware is calling it the star of the season. Read Buy

Amazon Deal on Pocket PC Phone

Amazon deal on a Pocket PC Phone from T-Mobile. Just $299.99 with activation and mail-in rebate. Buy

Nokia’s New Camera Phone Hits America

Nokia introduces its camera phone, the 3650, today. It’s the first one to hit the American market with the camera built-in, rather than as a separate attachment. Read

Wearable Computing Sales to Soar

Wearable computing to take off. Venture Development Corporation are predicting yearly sales of over a half billion dollars in 2006 of clothes and accessories with built-in MP3 players and PDAs. The only problem: does anyone really want to have to wear the same jacket every day just to be able to check your email? Read

A Sidekick with a Color Screen?

Danger’s Sidekick Hiptop device hasn’t even hit stores yet, and already the rumors are flying that a version with a color screen is in the works. Read

A Digital Camera for the Pocket PC

The SDcam from Hanvit. It’s a camera that pops into the SD slot of a Pocket PC, though like many of these things, it doesn’t take the greatest pictures. Comes out next month. Read [Babelfish translation from Korean]

A 19″ iMac?

Could a 19″ iMac be on the way? Taiwanese publication Economic News is reporting that Apple has contracted a Taiwanese manufacturer to build them and that they’ll debut in the fourth quarter of this year. Read

Palm Offers Refund for the Color-Challenged m130

Faced with a class action lawsuit, Palm has decided to offer full refunds to m130 owners who feel duped by the fact that the m130 can only display 58,621 “color combinations”, not the 65,000+ colors promised in advertisements. Definitely the right thing to do, even if it’ll cost them a lot of money. Read

CNet Surveys 64MB Pocket PCs

CNet compares the four high-end Pocket PC models that each come standard with 64MB of RAM. Read Buy

A Portable Hard Drive for Digital Photographers

USB Audio

The HiFi-Link, from Xitel, which is basically a USB cable with a built-in 20 bit digital-to-audio converter that connects your PC directly to your home stereo system. There are a few other USB audio output devices like Roland’s UA-30 which do the same thing, but the HiFi-Link is probably the most affordable available. Read Buy

Bluetooth Digital Camera From Sony

There’s a new Bluetooth-enabled digital camera from Sony, the four megapixel DSC-FX77. You can transfer files to your PC wirelessly now, rather than have to connect up a cable. Eventually these cameras should be able to bypass PCs entirely and transfer files directly to little Bluetooth-enabled storage drives. Read

The LCD Screen is Your Speaker

New York Times article on the Sound Window, a new technique from Panasonic for making LCD screens double as speakers. Probably will first appear in PDAs and cellphones that usually lack an external speaker or have one that is so small as to be virtually useless. Don’t expect stellar sound though. Read