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Disposable Cellphones Coming Soon
They’ve been talking about disposable cellphones forever now, and supposedly they’re about to hit the market. CNN has a piece about Hop-On, which has apparently just won regulatory approval to sell barebones mobile phones, $40 for 60 minutes of air time. They look like crap.
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From the Clapper To a Universal Remote
I swear I never realized just how important the market for these universal remotes has become until today, when the New York Times ran its second piece about universal remotes in just three days. Maybe I should start Universal Remote Magazine to capitalize on what must be the massive interest in these gadgets.
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Not an MP3 Player in Your Pocket. An MP3 Player is Your Pocket
There’s been talk about wearable computing for years now, but with news of a recent deal by Infineon to create chips that integrate into ordinary fabric, maybe we really will see MP3 players built into t-shirts. CNet has the story here. From the story: The most sophisticated prototype Infineon has created is a 1.25-inch-square MP3 … Continued
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Nokia Phones Number One for European Smugglers
Reuters has an article about how counterfeit Nokia products are the number one choice for smugglers in Europe. This is my favorite part of the article though: Asked about the terrorism connection, Alexander Wiedow [The EU’s Director of Customs Policy] said a consignment of fake Vaseline intercepted on its way from Dubai to Denmark via … Continued
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PC Programmable Universal Remote Control
Speaking of remote controls, The New York Times has a piece on the Harmony remote, which you can program using your PC (it connects using a USB cable) to do all sorts of things with just the press of a single button. From the article: Using a side-mounted thumbwheel, you choose activities, not components, from … Continued
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The Last of the Jornada
Ever since the HP-Compaq merger it’s been clear that it wouldn’t make sense to maintain each company’s line of handhelds, and in recognition of this, HP decided to discontinue its Jornada line in favor of the better selling iPaq. News.com has a piece about the introduction of the Jornada 928, which will likely be the … Continued
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A Remote Control for Your PC
There are probably few peripherals I need as badly as the Streamzap PC remote control. When I moved to New York last year I had to leave my vinyl and CD collection back in storage in California. I took it as an opportunity to free myself from a few hundred pounds of stuff and I … Continued
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Sony Introduces a Bargain Handheld
Sony has decided to go after Palm‘s share of the low-end of the handheld market with its Sony CLIE PEG-SL10, which costs only $149 and has a high-resolution monochrome screen. You can read CNet‘s story on it here, and PalmInfocenter‘s story here. Let’s pray for a price war.
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