The netbook–a small inexpensive notebook–has been around for months now, but we are still seeing significant progress in the products that are coming out. New manufacturers are entering the market, some of which are able to distinguish themselves against well established products like the Eee PC and HP’s Mini-Note 2133. Some off the new offerings are inevitably me-too products, but others are worth getting excited about. This second group just might be enough to pull in people who have so far been resisting the urge to pick up one of these secondary systems. MSI’s Wind is a 10-inch netbook, designed to compete with the Asus Eee PC 901/1000/1000h as well as any number of similar products that are now available. (Read the full post about ‘Review: MSI Wind Notebook’…)
Just imagine what you have on your mobile phone right now. Besides the contact listm which would be a huge pain to reproduce, there’s probably a good chance that you also have some photos, videosm and even music. That being said, it’s a nightmare when you realize that your mobile phone has been lost or stolen. That’s why there are services available like Yougetitback.com. Yougetitback.com is a service which works toward the recovery of your mobile phones or portable devices including PDAs, cameras, iPods and laptops. If for some reason your device can’t be recovered the company even offers a premium service which will replace the device. (Read the full post about ‘Secure your data and recover your phone’…)
NES games are phat as they have enough staying power to hang around for many a decade, and it is no wonder that plenty of emulators for it have been created to date. One of the more recent ones would be FireNES, a Firefox plugin that allows you to play a whole gamut of NES titles (up to a hundred or so of them to date which has been converted to accommodate this plugin) right on your browser. I’mnot too sure about the framerate, but it ought to be decent enough for you to complete a run of Super Mario Bros. Tags: gizmos, tech, speakers, gear (Read the full post about ‘FireNES Firefox Plugin’…)
Fancy a phone that passively detects vehicle threats around you and alerting you of potential dangers? Well, Oki has done such a thing with their new phone which issues alerts to pedestrians whenever they’re near a DSRC-based automotive communication device-equipped vehicle. The same alert will also appear in the vehicle as well so that drivers are much more aware of the situation around. Since it relies on DSRC for communications, there won’t be any communication charges involved so you don’t need to balance your budget yet again. Sounds pretty cool, but what happens when every Tom, Dick and Harry have one of these? Stopping by a red light could end up to be a really noisy affair as tons of peo (Read the full post about ‘Oki Phone Alerts Pedestrians’…)
Bruno Oro’s creepy bear-shaped Dilus is many things, not least of which is its ability to scare hospital-bound children.
Conceived as a distance learning tool, the Dilus is intended for children who are on an extended hospital stay and cannot attend school. The skin of the bear-thing is a a conducting polymer which can change color and display pretty much anything, from web pages to games to, we guess, schoolwork. Oro calls this display “holographic”, but we’d say that it is more correctly a kind of 3D.
But why a bear? Well, according to Oro, the bear shape will console the poor lonely kids and become a friend.
(Read the full post about ‘Creepy Plastic Bear Comforts, Educates Kids’…)
PCMag reviews the LG Vu CU920 and writes, “The 2-megapixel camera isn’t great. It’s got autofocus and a 320-by-240 resolution video-recording mode, but at 9 frames per second, videos are jerky, and stills are sometimes blurry, with bright highlights blown out. Its best use may be for AT&T’s unusual Video Share service, which lets you beam live video to a friend in the middle of a phone call. For it to work, your friend also needs to have a Vu, a Motorola Z9, or one of several Samsung phones on AT&T, and you need to pay at least $5 per month for an additional Video Share subscription.” Read more about the LG Vu. (Read the full post about ‘LG Vu CU920 Review - PCMag’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 22nd 2008 at 6:16PM It was inevitable. We just knew Gemei couldn’t hold its own forever, and now it seems the resistance to copying other interfaces has finally failed. The all-too-familiar X780 comes equipped with a 3-inch 400 x 280 resolution display, 4GB of internal memory, a miniSD expansion slot, FM tuner, built-in microphone, TV output and an unspecified emulator for gaming it up. As expected, this thing can handle just about every format known to man including WMA, APE, FLAC, MP3, WAV, ASF, MPEG, AVI, FLV, VOD, PNG, JPG, etc. (Read the full post about ‘Gemei gets saucy with the touchscreen X780 PMP’…)
Lets play guess. What is black, with a tinge of orange and solely dedicated to bringing music into our lives? Has to be Sony Ericsson’s W302. It is no hidden fact that Sony Ericsson is definitely getting obsessed with music phones and are in no mood to change even if we tell them their phones are not all that great. But W302 is quite a surprise package. Not only does it look neat, the phone can be quite an attention grabber. On the music front it offers you to choose track or play your songs randomly and also create your own playlists. You can also tune into the radio and listen to the latest news or your favourite radio station whenever you feel like it. Just plug in the handsfree, turn on the FM radio and tune in. Source All in all its a decent phone that you can purchase and probably change in a few months. Till then have fun with your very own Sony Ericsson’s W302. The only grudge- Who uses a 2 megapixel camera now since 3 and 5 megapixels are easily available at not very exorbitant prices. [ Source ] Tags: design, cool gear, tests, mobile phone (Read the full post about ‘Sony Ericsson’s W302 is music mania personified!’…)
The September* issue of will have an e-ink cover. 100,000 of the total 720,000 print run will be assembled by hand, with parts criss-crossing the globe before ending up newsstands, jumping out at your eyes with shifting images. Esquire first thought up the idea eight years ago, but the technology was still too clunky. Since then, the Kindle has gone on sale, and the same company that invented the tech used in Amazon’s device — E Ink — is making the covers. The price, although undisclosed, is prohibitive, and Ford has been brought in as a “sponsor”: A moving car ad will appear on the inside cover. Esquire even had to design a battery (a “six-figure investment”) that was small enough to fit into a magazine and keep things running until the mags are sold. (Read the full post about ‘Esquire Print Mag Will Use E-Ink Cover’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 22nd 2008 at 7:02PM Okay, okay — we get it. So maybe there’s just not enough room in a genuine Zapper to fit all the necessary innards of a Nintendo Entertainment System into, but it’s just a bit weird to see the Big N’s antiquated console crammed into some other light gun. Similar to the NES-in-an-NES-controller mod we peeked earlier this week, this unit includes a plethora of games and all the controls you need; just plug it up to a TV, pop a few batteries in there and you’re golden. (Read the full post about ‘NES gets crammed into third-party light gun, plans a 187 on Bowser’…)
