Archive for August 28th, 2007
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Storage, NetworkingIomega, long known for its stream of Mac and PC accessories (in particular the infamous Zip drive) has announced plans to offer a series of low-cost, family-oriented NAS solutions that will make your file sharing life a living heaven, or so they say. The new set of ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Not 100% clear what's going on here, but it looks like a new network Walkman was loosed (or is about to be) somewhere in the world. Cutting through the blur, we see that both players will offer 18 hours of video / 33 hours of ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Gaming
It's not the world's most complicated hack, but you know how we love a good inter-console romance: Jay over in the MaxConsole forums managed to link up a 360 controller with a modded PSP, using a little homebrew magic and the Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver. The instructions aren't ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Ready for it? We've got the release date for Samsung's tasty new Bluetooth media players with FM tuners: the YP-P2 and YP-T10. September. Ok, it's not so much a date as a range, but mark your calendars anyway and get to saving. How much? Good ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: CellphonesThe latest post over at the UniquePhones blog says it pretty succinctly, but the group (which is apparently still in a legal quagmire with regard to the sale of its software) is claiming they've been presented with "incredible changes" today, which will result in a "clear response" and ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Casio just hit us with pair of new face detecting, YouTube-ready Exilim cameras. The EX-Z1080 is little more than their 10 megapixel EX-Z1050 with a bit of their new H.264, YouTube Capture Mode sprinkled in. The EX-V8 then, bumps the ho humly reviewed EX-V7 into 8.1 megapixel ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Hey HC6000, congratulations, Mitsubishi just birthed you a little brother. The HC4900 is meant to round-out Mitsubishi's trio of 3LCD projectors at the low-end. We're still talking 1,920 x 1,080 pixels thrown at 1,000 lumens for bright, "high contrast" images while maintaining that ultra-quiet, 19dB ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Daewoo is set to show their new DPC-8099PD-I portable DVD and iPod player at IFA on Friday. Should you care? Well, you might if you're in the market for a portable DVD player with full iPod integration and 8-inch LCD. You know, if Philips' gear ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Home Entertainment
We've got another from the pre-IFA run-up, this time it's Germany's own Beyerdynamic getting set to launch their Headzone Home surround-sound headphone system. Using their patented "Headtracking" tech, the kit is said to react to the listener's head movements and automatically adapt "the space impression" in real-time. ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video var digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/apple/100_000_offered_to_freely_release_iPhone_unlocking_software'; Hey, that's what they claim: $100,000 in cold hard cash for the right to freely distribute the iPhone unlocking software onto the Nets. Full credit given to the creator(s) of course with a proposed release ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Ricoh keeps on keepin' on with another bump in specs for their R-series shooters. The R7 takes the R6 into 8.1 megapixel territory while maintaining the 7.1x wide zoom lens while tossing in their new Smooth Engine III image processing which should help quiet the noise at ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Laptops, Wireless
Those scouting a sexy new VAIO may be lured a tad closer to the SZ6- and TZ20-series, as Sony has recently announced that select models in both lineups will boast integrated WWAN capability. Dubbed everywair, the specially equipped lappies will reportedly be able to cruise the HSDPA ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Ah, so that's what that FCC approved MET401 is, the new Toshiba Gigabeat T401. That spiffy Windows flag should be your hint as to this player's Portable Media Center roots. A lingering death rattle from this once fertile lineage. The player sports a 2.4-inch, 320 ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe've seen gadgets blamed for increased violence, the fall of contemporary art, and even broken hearts, but the latest study to pin more blame on the gizmos we simply can't do without purports that teens are missing out on crucial sleep thanks to their gadget addictions. According ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/HTC_announces_TyTN_II_Kaiser_for_Europe'; Well it's not quite as good as, say, AT&T informing us that we can walk down the block and pick up one this afternoon, but at least HTC has finally given the Kaiser / TyTN II / 8925 an official place in its lineup. Announcing ...
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