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http://www.i4u.com/article940.html

I'm really excited about the playstation hard drive Sony recently annoounced. It may not have the video capabilities that the article's device does, but looks like a great appliance type, low cost solution to integrating my mp3 collection to my main audio system. The hacks that will inevitably come with it should be pretty cool too.

http://www.i4u.com/article799.html

talking about Gaming PDA, tapwave zodiac Palm based PDA is the new kid on the block: Tapwave Zodiac is the best Palm PDA

The DiVA 489 which is the first DVD recorder to record using Microsoft's innovative Windows Media 9 Series video compression (WMV9) for digital video recording to DVD and CD disc, as well as playback of streamed and downloaded video. http://www.i4u.com/article768.html

Take that!

http://www.i4u.com/article666.html

• Plays DivX movies on its 4" screen.
  
• Plays DivX movies via A/V outputs.
  
• Records DivX movies via an optional camera addon.
  
• Records DivX movies via an A/V inputs.
  
• Plays MP3s.
  
• Records MP3s via A/V inputs.
  
• Captures still photos (2.1MP) with optional camera addon.
  
• Transfers photos from digital camera flash memory cards to it's own internal sotrage.
  
• Displays still photos on its 4" screen.
  
• Displays still photos via A/V outputs.
  
• A bunch of stuff that I'm sure I've forgotten.
  
• Acts as a standard 40GB portable hard drive with USB2 and FireWire connections.
  

I usually go to I4U.com for my gadget curiosity fix. Link here.

http://gadgetphotogallery.i4u.com/squito/index.php ?menu=photos&photo_id=21

yahoo had the story one month ago. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030807/lath090_1.html story and photos on I4U: http://www.i4u.com/article615.html

amazon.com revised its shipping date to 30th of September. http://www.i4u.com/article489.html

abacus has an SDK for developers to adapt the Palm OS apps to work on the wrist watch. http://www.i4u.com/article425.html

Japanese Transparent Skirts and Optical Camouflage Research> . Now that is what I call cool tech.

Sure I can. Get yours here. It's like a 4" iBook, except that it's smaller and lighter. Flip over for a small tablet/pen-based PDA. And, like Apple, it runs a proprietary window system on top of a UNIX-clone, which is an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on where you are coming from.

According to this link in the article, the Sharp set is powered by an lithium ion battery. This link for the Sony set makes no mention of a battery, which leads me to believe that one would still need an outlet to power the display.

According to this page, Sony will be selling a black 17" widescreen wireless TV beginning May 10th for 210,000 yen ($1,752) and a silver 15" 4:3 aspect ratio model beginning June 1st for 165,000 yen ($1,377). But it does not appear that they are selling any wireless TVs yet (as the article leads one to believe).

And yes, there are some very good reasons to have a wireless television set. The only cable jack in my apartment is in the living room. My only television is a TV tuner in the computer in my bedroom (diagonally opposite end of the apartment from the living room). I had to go buy a 50ft coaxial and run it from one corner of my apartment to the other just to watch TV (not sure why I bothered, really). So yes, if I had a wireless television, I would no longer need to be careful not to trip over a 50ft coaxial when walking through my apartment. Also, a wireless TV set would allow folks to more easily watch TV from the backyard while having a barbecue, or perhaps from a patio while keeping an eye on the kids in the pool (because, if you can afford to spend more than $1,000 for a small TV set, you probably also have a pool).

According to this link in the article, the Sharp set is powered by an lithium ion battery. This link for the Sony set makes no mention of a battery, which leads me to believe that one would still need an outlet to power the display.

According to this page, Sony will be selling a black 17" widescreen wireless TV beginning May 10th for 210,000 yen ($1,752) and a silver 15" 4:3 aspect ratio model beginning June 1st for 165,000 yen ($1,377). But it does not appear that they are selling any wireless TVs yet (as the article leads one to believe).

And yes, there are some very good reasons to have a wireless television set. The only cable jack in my apartment is in the living room. My only television is a TV tuner in the computer in my bedroom (diagonally opposite end of the apartment from the living room). I had to go buy a 50ft coaxial and run it from one corner of my apartment to the other just to watch TV (not sure why I bothered, really). So yes, if I had a wireless television, I would no longer need to be careful not to trip over a 50ft coaxial when walking through my apartment. Also, a wireless TV set would allow folks to more easily watch TV from the backyard while having a barbecue, or perhaps from a patio while keeping an eye on the kids in the pool (because, if you can afford to spend more than $1,000 for a small TV set, you probably also have a pool).

The bad part of all of this is that they don't have dates for availability in North America or Europe

From i4u:
On May 15th Sony starts selling the SCPH 50000 model of the PS2 in Japan. The biggest improvement is the support of DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R und DVD+RW. DVD-RAM. Additionally the annoying Fan noise was reduced significantly (30%). The TV Output supports progressive scan now for better screen quality on high-end TV-Sets. The updated remote control (SCPH-10420) features an eject button and can also power down the console. No date available for the US release of the SCPH 50000. In Japan it will sell for 25,000yen.

Sony SCPH 50000

New Ugly Humanoid Robot

<quote>It supports continous talk-time for 120min. and 200 min. standby.</quote>

- Cut and pasted from the site, so either it's a typo, in which case they really need to proof-read, or it's accurate, in which case it's pretty useless.

Did anoyone else feel sad after looking at the picture of the group of Sony SDR-4Xs? They already have them looking like N'Sync! Damn Japanese popculture.

There is another contender in the Linux-based PDA arena: the Motorola A760.

It is also a GSM dual-band cellphone, supposedly coming out in late 2003.

I believe I read something on slashdot.org about it earlier, but can't find the URL. Here are other URLs with text on the device:

• Motorola press release;
• Geekstreet;
• I4U;
• BargainPDA;

ma2oliveira

And the photo in this screenshot is from an amateur sex site banner ad running on various TGP sites. Or so I've heard... :)

Wonder why they don't show the whole picture?

On the whole, I have to say that I absolutely despise the disgusting flash site and it's absolutely pathetic attempts to be "c00l" and its broken Engrish. I thought the dotcommers had grown out of that crap, even here in Sweden.

Hello. Are you going to school today? Mom

NO! I am going to John's place

OK. See you later :)

Wish my mom was that understanding...

Cute, but most of the 'features' they list are just gimmicks, a list of reasons a guy can use to justify the purchase to his wife. "But honey, it'll, uh, protect the children! From terrorists!" The Roomba, on the other hand, has a practical application. I'll probably get a second generation one assuming some good improvements are made.

These people aren't trying to make anything useful, they're trying to make an expensive toy similar to the the robot dogs. A robot that was self-sufficient and could learn things (like how to operate my refrigerator door) would be worth the price. And no, I don't want my robot to look like some kind of astronaut. Have you seen Honda's asimo bot? If I was sitting by myself at night and turned around to see that thing I'd probably piss myself, it looks like an evil midget in a space suit, or HAL 9000 with legs... creepy.

Just give me a robot with enough memory and the right software to learn things, I'll do the teaching myself. "Robut, fill the humidifier." "Robut, take out the trash." "Robut, clean the toilet."

And another thing, who wants their robot to have 'emotions'? There's only one emotion I need from it; humble servitude. I don't need another expensive and emotional toy, I already have a girlfriend. (Ba dum, ching!)

Nope that was the WQV-1 wrist camera. It was larger, stored 100 monochrome images. The resolution is about the same on both ~ 25K pixels, and the screens are both 4-bit grayscale.

But I guess it's not /. news until they can be sure to be the LAST to report it! Hmm.. Ya, but those wireless microwaves... Wooo doggy, uber geek, but... Ah, nevermind, it is sort of cool, just a bit more pointless. Just glad there are at least one or two other sources of Geek news than slashdot...

...another comment from Michael Tandy.

...another comment from Michael Tandy.

Hm... I suspect this was "inspired" by a post over at Ars Technica. Their article links to this page as well, which has a review of Casio's wrist watch with built-in digital camera. It's pretty cool, too. 20 kpixel 16-level grayscale, 100 pictures storable in the watch. Syncs over IR to a serial-port connected mini-dock thingie. Not comparable in power to IBM's Linux watch, and it doesn't run Linux, but it's still a very cool thing to have on your wrist, IMO. Being a consumer product (~$200 in the US), it has seen a bit more design effort, too. ;^)