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Philips HDD 100 on sale in Asia
Buried in this Reuters article on Philips’ new strategy to go after the youth market with digital cameras and wearable MP3 players, is the news that its new 20GB hard drive MP3 player, the HDD 100 (pictured at right), apparently is already on sale in Asia, and will hit Europe in July. No word on … Continued
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Bluetooth hands-free system for cars
New Bluetooth hands-free speaker phone system for cars. The DriveBlue has both a speaker and a microphone and pops into the cigarette lighter socket of your car. Compatible with Bluetooth-enabled phones from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Philips, and Siemens. Read
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Toshiba Media Center laptop
Though there are more than a few PCs on the market now running Windows XP Media Center (that variant of the Windows OS designed for recording television like a TiVo, organizing and playing your MP3 collection, looking at your digital photo album, etc.), it hasn’t really taken off yet, mainly because of complaints about its … Continued
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Konica’s teaser campaign is a huge letdown
Talk about a teaser campaign turning out to be a letdown. After a big teaser campaign last week, Digital Photography Review notes that Konica’s new five megapixel KD-510Z digital camera is just its KD-500Z camera with a silver, rather than black, casing. Look, save the teaser campaigns for when you really have something great to … Continued
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Sneak peak at the new Treo 600
One of next-generation Treo mobile communicators, which aren’t due out until September, was spotted at a Sprint PCS user forum in Dallas the other day. The Treo 600 looks like it’s going to pretty different from previous models, and will be thinner and longer than any of the earlier Treos and have a smaller thumb … Continued
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Three new EasyShare digital camera from Kodak
Three new EasyShare digital cameras from Kodak (pictured from left to right), the two megapixel CX6200, the three megapixel CX6330, which also has a 3x optical zoom lens, and the four megapixel DX6440, with a 4x optical zoom lens. The CX6200 is set to retail for $129, pusing the price of a two megapixel digital … Continued
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Samsung’s iPod clone not out until September
Looks like Samsung’s long-overdue hard drive MP3 player, the YP-900GT, has been delayed even further and won’t be out now until September. The YP-900GT, which has a 10GB hard drive, a built-in FM tuner, and an FM transmitter for listening to it on a nearby radio, would have been a great competitor to the iPod … Continued
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Compal Smartphone gallery
Over at MobileBurn, a gallery of photos of the Compal Avenger, the cellphone that Microsoft is including with its Smartphone operating system developers kit. The Avenger isn’t out yet, but it looks like it might be the third phone running the Smartphone OS to hit the market. Read
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Low cost mini hard drive
CNET on Cornice’s new low cost 1.5GB hard drive, which is just 1-inch in diameter. We first reported on this a couple of months ago, when it turned up in Samsung’s “tapeless” DV-4200 digital camcorder, and now it looks like this hard drive is going to start showing up in MP3 players from RCA, Rio, … Continued
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No tablet Mac from Apple
No doubt disappointing a great many people (myself included), Steve Jobs says Apple isn’t working on a tablet computer or a PDA: Interviewed on stage at the D:All Things Digital ‘executive conference’, Jobs said that Apple had taken a look at the tablet – a notebook computer into which data can be entered by writing … Continued
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Sotec’s well-heeled PC
GK, our Tokyo correspondent, tips us off to Sotec’s new all-in-one desktop PC which is made with laptop parts and is designed to look like a high-heeled women’s shoe from the side. The Afina AS7180AV comes with 1533MHz Athlon processor, 256MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, a DVD/CD-RW combination drive, and a built-in TV … Continued
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World’s smallest external DVD/CD-RW drive
To add to today’s previous posts about the world’s smallest fuel cell and rugged Tablet PC, it’s the world’s smallest external DVD/CD-RW drive. The Komodo is just six-tenths of an inch thick and combines a 24x CD-RW burner with an 8x DVD player. Connects to a PC using USB 2.0. Guess it’s a big day … Continued
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World’s smallest fuel cell
Not technically a gadget, but Mitsubishi has developed what they’re claiming is the world’s smallest 1 kilowatt fuel cell. It still sounds a bit big to us (100x60x30cm) but then again we don’t really know much about fuel cells except that we expect to have one powering our next laptop. Read
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Picture passwords for cameraphones
Instead of using a password to unlock your cellphone, a Japanese company called Earth Beat has come up with a way to use a picture instead. You just snap a picture of yourself with your cameraphone, then whenever you want to unlock the phone it uses face recognition technology to verify that the person trying … Continued
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Spy TiVo
Nothing particularly surprising about this, but TiVo is going to start selling information about what its users are watching and (more importantly) how they’re watching to advertisers and networks: [T]he company can monitor viewers’ second-by-second behavior. It can tell how many viewers in a certain ZIP code clicked away at what moment in a commercial, … Continued
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