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This new Sanyo camera posted on gizmodo.com looks pretty nice. Although I must say, I just found out that my wife is pregnant as well, and wondered about monitoring too. I think I am not going to do it. I will be freaked out enough, this being our first kid. I don't need to be checking every 10 minutes to make sure everything is OK. You know, people have been having babies for like 1000 years, long before technology came about. I think you can do OK without it.

Recently saw this Sony Wi-Fi webcam on Gizmodo. Could be what you're looking for.

Gizmodo ran this story last week. Check out the sample images from the Japanese site Yikes. 16.7 megapixels is a lot! It has some other cool features too, like "The accelerated image processing of DIGIC II combines with high-speed data reading from the imaging sensor to achieve fast continuous shooting at approx. 4 frames per second for maximum bursts of 32 shots in JPEG Large (11 shots in RAW)."

I've been looking at this case for a good couple months now (before there were any pre-production versions available). The dual-processor aspect is definitely enticing; I'd like to run Gentoo on it with Windows installed on a virtual machine so I'm not up the creek when I need to use some Windows software.

What I have a harder time deciding is, do I want to go (dual) Opteron or (single) Athlon64. The market seems to favour the newer Athlon64s for desktop computers, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's what's right for me. If I wanted to use Opterons, this IWill case certainly presents the possibility attractively (tight package, quiet, etc.) but the price/performance/growth numbers are proving a little more difficult to get my head around.

Here's a much more detailed O'Reilly article (err... an O'Reilly link to other articles) concerning Airport Express compatibility.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5024

Follow this link for the full analysis.

More Information from Gizmodo

Japanese Stats

More Information from Gizmodo

Japanese Stats

Read this, the beginning tells you how cool the device it, but the ending is rather startling Here.
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Steve

I've been looking for the same thing as Cory Doctorow, monochrome, USB chargeable. But, because I haven't been able to find it for some time, I've reduced my demands to USB chargeable or AAA battery operated.

For those worried about what it will look like plugged in.

Pic

I'm a little bit dissapointed in you Greg .. your blog is generally pretty good, I don't know why your so off with this post.

HP just proved it does understand basic branding.You just showed you don't understand basic sales/marketing. Ever heard of demographics? Or channels? HP has a) completely different set of users .. and b) has completely different channels to Apple. So explain why HP isnt going to make a little bit of money out of this deal and increase their brand by having the coolest/best music solution associated with it ?

HP just told us it does listen to its customers. Sorry the onus is on you to produce research showing existing HP customers wouldn't buy an iPod. Remember HP customers are in a different demographic to current iPod buyers. They are generally people for whom price is a huge factor, don't have as much of a passion for computers and generally are normal, everyday folk. They won't know what an iPod is, but they will happy to pay a little extra if one is bundled with the new HP computer. All HP cares about is bundling something good so THEIR brand doesn't decrease in value. And all HP users care about is having their computing solution work well for them. iPod+iTunes+HP computers seems like a good fit to me.

Finally, HP is broadcasting the message that it is intelligent enough not to try to compete in every market. Remember HP is still mainly a printing+imaging company. Now they are trying to get into consumer electronics. Unfortunately they DON'T have a brand within this market place. Most people would not be receptive to the idea of ditching their Sony TV and buying a HP one. So reselling iPod+iTunes is a very smart move as it is clearly the best solution out there and will help link the HP name to quality, easy of use and elegance within the consumer electronics space. This will in turn help them sell more TVs or whatever Carly comes up with during Big Bang 3.

The clearest branding message from the hPod? That HP IS the solutions leader and companies like Dell will be the followers as their MP3 players hopelessly fail againt the iPod+iTunes.

Gizmodo has pictures and bit better of a review:

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/archos-gmini-400-e verything-but-a-price-019630.php

Then add some audio

W00T!

Then add some audio

W00T!

To slashad! Where you can read ad copy sooner then anyone else

Well, except that this announcement is, like, many days old. I've come to realize recently that slashdot is not really very timely on these types of things.

See Gizmodo's Report from last Friday.

My 12" iBook is about as small as a computer can go and still be functional.

I've been looking at the 12" PowerBook, and thought the same way. But the Gizmodo people kind of changed that belief with this Panasonic R3 review. (That's a 12" PowerBook next to it in the picture... Tiiiny.)

Sorry, but you're like almost 2 years behind with that comment. New phones have 1.x megapixel cameras at the LOW end. LG and Samsungboth have 3.x megapixel camera phones coming out as well.


Face it - its all getting merged into one device for most people. Within the next 18 months your 4 megapixel camera will be a feature on a camera phone or something similar to a Sony P900 or Treo600. You'd be amazed how far these phones have come - some of them are reasonable replacements for laptops for many people and the processors (currently in the 300Mhz-400Mhz range) are only getting faster.

Sorry, but you're like almost 2 years behind with that comment. New phones have 1.x megapixel cameras at the LOW end. LG and Samsungboth have 3.x megapixel camera phones coming out as well.


Face it - its all getting merged into one device for most people. Within the next 18 months your 4 megapixel camera will be a feature on a camera phone or something similar to a Sony P900 or Treo600. You'd be amazed how far these phones have come - some of them are reasonable replacements for laptops for many people and the processors (currently in the 300Mhz-400Mhz range) are only getting faster.

it is apparently available now

it uses something called e-ink, which is an interesting technology.

it uses hardly any battery power

It's readable in the sun

it takes no battery power to actually run, just change state

Etc.

Pay attention! The only thing that I don't know that it has is the ability to be backed up properly, lack of DRM, etc. as I've not yet seen one myself.

The promise of e-books is simple: they have the promise of using Moore's law to lower costs. Try going to Project Gutenberg. You can download a DVD image that contains 9400 books. It fits in 4GB, which is the capacity of one of those mini iPods. If you could go through one book a day, it would take you twenty five years to go through the contents. And Project Gutenberg is able to process more books every year. It's clear you could never catch up.

What's nifty about this is that any place which has even a modest computer and/or internet link can now be a library. Many classics are available for discussion, distribution, adaptation and just general enjoyment.

The one problem: sometimes you really want a book. Something with a small convenient form factor. That you can slip into your pocket. Read on the bus. Read in your bed. In sunlight. In dim light. Something you can scribble in. Fold the corners over. And something cheap enough that if you lost it, you might feel bad, but it wouldn't be a catastrophe.

Luckily Moore's law will eventually provide a solution to this too. If we set the ultimate price of an e-book to be the cost of a hardcover book, then low-end PDAs are already within a factor of two. Eventually, e-books will be cost effective.

I've taken a circuitous route, but here's the rub: while there is plenty to read, not everything you want to read will be available. The reason? DRM. Sanford writes:

We'll need a great eBook reader with trendy clout and not just livable, but convenient, DRM to really break open the market.

The problem is that there is no such thing as convenient DRM. DRM is always inconvenient. It exists only to prevent the consumer from doing something he might want to do, and gives absolutely no benefit to the consumer. You can look at one person's experience, and imagine it multiplied a million times over.

I'm not paying for that headache, thank you very much.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to store all these dead trees.

Just run over all of the baby segways.

This article has not been slashdotted:
Sidekick 2 Revealed
...and a couple pics here, if you scroll down.

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G. W. Bush says, "You decide!"

Just to let everyone know, the Rio Karma's still alive and kickin', and so is the iRiver H series. Both play Ogg Vorbis files quite well (and as an owner of the former, I'm incredibly pleased with my purchase). IMHO, the Rio Karma's the closest so far towards a true ipod competitor (USB2/Ethernet, 20GB, easy menu system, easy syncing, MP3/OGG/WMA/FLAC), with the notable exception of USB2 not working on mac or linux yet (use the dock's ethernet connection to sync up).

As an aside, an engineer from Rio (name changed in the article) posted his unofficial postulations on why the iPod has yet to materialize with Ogg support to Gizmodo. Essentially, his answer is that the processor originally used in the iPods just aren't powerful enough for it. There's also a rebuttal from a xiph.org guy, so I suspect the answer lies somewhere in the middle. In any case, if the 4g ipods use the same processor as the mini (looking likely) then Ogg support just might be coming yet, though Apple still may not do it for the same political reasons as before (mp3 good enough, aac just the same or better, blah blah blah)

Just to let everyone know, the Rio Karma's still alive and kickin', and so is the iRiver H series. Both play Ogg Vorbis files quite well (and as an owner of the former, I'm incredibly pleased with my purchase). IMHO, the Rio Karma's the closest so far towards a true ipod competitor (USB2/Ethernet, 20GB, easy menu system, easy syncing, MP3/OGG/WMA/FLAC), with the notable exception of USB2 not working on mac or linux yet (use the dock's ethernet connection to sync up).

As an aside, an engineer from Rio (name changed in the article) posted his unofficial postulations on why the iPod has yet to materialize with Ogg support to Gizmodo. Essentially, his answer is that the processor originally used in the iPods just aren't powerful enough for it. There's also a rebuttal from a xiph.org guy, so I suspect the answer lies somewhere in the middle. In any case, if the 4g ipods use the same processor as the mini (looking likely) then Ogg support just might be coming yet, though Apple still may not do it for the same political reasons as before (mp3 good enough, aac just the same or better, blah blah blah)

Even smaller USB flash drive.

Though I've seen one that's even smaller, actually as flat as a creditcard.

Google is my friend and give me this link : http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/muzio-jm200-flash- player-with-twocolor-oled-017186.php
i want one. Period. here the texts :
A new Muzio from Korean manufacturer Jungsoft (promoting the hot new band, "Man and His Cymbals"), this one called the JM-200. Besides being sort of ugly, which is probably not a bullet-point feature, the Muzio supports USB Host functionality, SRS (some sort of surround sound magic?), OGG Vorbis support, FM radio, aluminum body, and recharging via USB. Plus, it has a two-color OLED screen, which probably isn't too much to get worked up over, but there you have it. I4U has some information, and apparently a test model, so expect a proper review in the next few days.

Damn, missed a spot. I meant Muzio AND Eratech

Try for the Muzio and for the eratech (much Kanji, though).

Ye who speeds, cuts people off, and winds through traffic, is the first to reach the red light.
... and is the first person to reach for the red light override button.

Nope, according to these posters, an iRaq is something a bit different.

Here's one of many links.

By looking at the amusing and clever jabs at Microsoft from Apple. It appears that Apple seems to think of Microsoft as more competition than linux ...

Either that, or Apple is just having some good old fun (something the PC industry is in dire need of).

Sunny Dubey

Believe me, Apple is running that joke into the ground (note the picture).

banner pictures

Actually I think Apple are already on to this: See here

except the wavelengths that the projector produces

LCD projectors use dichroic mirrors to split the white light from the (incandescent) bulb (which does emit more or less not just the entire visible spectrum, but also the adjacent infrared and ultraviolet frequencies) into red green and blue - in theory, the result of recombining those behind the LCDs should again be white light with a continuous spectrum. Now, which part of that does the screen absorb?

I also find the jpeg describing species filters quite irritating, as the "white" light should also contain red, green and blue and should be partially reflected.

Here you can find an article about iPod vs Ogg Vorbis.

Don't let your appliances run Windows 9x. Pic 1 Pic 2

Don't let your appliances run Windows 9x. Pic 1 Pic 2

Looks like LabRat007 is a plagiarist.

I thought I recognized the submitters text from somewhere.

...you have enough to worry about without even considering online banking...

Bring a few of these badboys into the theater and I don't think the night vision will be terribly effective.

"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"

Too late. Sony will profit from that.

If result of Step 1 is: No detonation then most likely, there's no TNT.

Of little on topic relavence: Have you seen what a blended metal bullet does to a potroast?

Solar panels are not, themselves, reflective - it's just that the ones you've seen on houses, highway signs, etc., are covered with tempered glass. CIGS cells are small, flexible, nonreflective, and easily integrated into fabrics...enough to provide standby "vampire" power for a host of electronics, which should reduce overall battery requirements.

12th was when it got posted on other sites i saw this 4 days before on Gizmodo

Actually, this page was slow yesterday (5.24.04), after the flood from a Gizmodo listing.

and you think it is no different than say? Gizmodo?

Extended comments at Gizmodo makes it clear that this is 99% rumor/FUD. Does anyone bother chacking the facts on these things before they're posted?

OK,
- B