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"The new "#ID" music service is provided by San Francisco-based Musicphone in cooperation UK-based Shazam Entertainment, which operates a propriety recognition database of more than one million recorded songs. AT&T Wireless customers can trial the music recognition service at no charge beyond standard airtime charges when they first dial "#ID." Afterwards, the service costs $.99 cents, plus standard airtime charges, each time they use it." -mobilemag.com

With the advent of electronic paper, you'll be able to store the news on one scrollable sheet of paper. You can download content using your computer, or you can pay at the newsstand for them to load today's news onto your sheet.

Like this? http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C3497/

You may even save a few $$$!

Again, wrong. SVG documents are considerably larger than equivalent SWF files - the SWF file format is designed to be extremely small and is now compressed (and yes I know SVGZ exists, but it STILL doesn't beat SWF).

There is a lot of hot air coming from the Flash camps about this, but I never see anyone bring up a real third-party assessment of the two file formats.

I had a dig around Google to pretty much no avail, the only thing I found way this little article which had SVGZ showing smaller files than SWF. But trusting one article obviously isn't enough because different types of picture might have different sizes, so it would be good to see some real, major, and most importantly independent studies on this, comparing the file size for the same image, for several different types of image.

Just how many standard SVG viewers are there on all major operating systems

Do you need more than one per operating system? Why?

In any case, there are at least two SVG renderers I know of on Linux, and that's just counting those generated from the GNOME and KDE child projects.

As for mobile phones, there was at least one phone released last year with support for SVG out of the box, and these guys have an SVG viewer that runs on J2ME so you can run it on any J2ME-enabled phone.

So I would reflect your question straight back at you, with the two reversed. Just how many Flash viewers are there on all mobile devices? I would say the answer might be "one", which seems pretty pathetic now, doesn't it? :-)

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You call that a slashdotting? You should be ashamed.

Personally, I think the laptop fuel cell mentioned in the article is a million times more interesting than this battery. Available as soon as 2007, they say, with capacity about four times higher than conventional batteries and of course the ability to be refueled instantly.

Can be found here:
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/333/C2797/

If youwanted that, buy a Terrapin Mine it runs linux *shudder*, plays mp3s, and works as portable storage for digital cameras

It's been done: Soniqcast Aerio (for you) Omnifi (for your car)

Here's what I've always thought would be the perfect combination:

A "smart" cover/spine combination with several (think, like, 25 or so) pages of e-ink type flexible material bound into it, see: Link from Forgery on Slashdot

I'd like it to work like this:
You grab the book from the shelf and open it up. If you want to change subject matter, you select the new subject from the inside of the front cover, then close the book and open it again: like magic, it's the book you need at the same place you left it.
Here's how the pages work. Each page is bound into the spine, and refreshed according to your own selective algorithm.
Simple set: The first page is contents. Selecting a chapter sets the other pages to that chapter. Browse away!
Or: The book remembers where you stop reading. The middle page is set to your current page, other pages back and forth are set accordingly. When you get to the last page, flip back to the center to keep going.
Or: A catalog has each page set to an overview of the items in that section. Browse to the page you want, press a button, flip the the front: The whole book expands to that chapter.
Or: A newspaper has each section on the second-nth pages (First page is Front page material and index) Flip to the page and press the expand key. All of the pages are now that section - Read away.
I envision a system where you can electronically earmark pages, then group them together at the front or back of the book, add or remove pages, take e-notes on the page with a stylus using generic markup language and carry the notes along with you.

(Okay, I'm a little excited about this stuff)

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/102/C2393/

Doesn't this lose the main advantages of USB: Devices drawing power from the bus
Someone ought to tell them that the most successfull USB devices are:

• Keyboard light
• Fan, Fan again
• Coffee mug heater
• Vibrating thingy
• Hello kitty USB hub
• X-mas tree
• Germ filter

Motorola has at least one phone (a 3G phone, the A920) based on Symbian. I like it so far, the interface is pretty well done. But does this mean Nokia will soon be pushing Motorola away from that as well? Motorola's has released phones with their own OS, Symbian, Linux, and one of microsoft's OS too, so I guess motorola has all sorts of alternatives.

The scroll wheel is amazing, and I'm angry at Apple for patening it.

Well, tough shit. Know what I'm angry about? Twenty years of people pooh-poohing Apple products, and then turning around and cranking out shit-ass knockoffs of those same Apple products so cheap people can delude themselves into thinking what they bought is just as good.

If anyone deserves to use patents to defend distinctive features of their products from being ripped off by shifty competitors, it's Apple.

The best watch that I have EVER seen:

The CEC F88 (alternative story). I would be trying to get one right now if it wasn't $1000. I hate carrying a phone around, stopped wearing a watch because I had to carry a phone - but this is perfect (except that I'm left handed and wear watch on my right wrist).

Also - there's a competitor from DoCoMo but it looks far more clunky.

Actually Napster has teamed up with some companies to produce Napster-branded MP3 players. You can read some details here. I think this was reported on Slashdot recently, too.

I'm suprised there's no mention of the Burton Amp Jacket with sleeve based controls for your iPod. mmm.. me like.. They only mention this goofy looking jacket. Looks like he's got a PCB up his sleeve by the outline of the control surface surrounding the buttons. Burton/Apple did a better job IMHO.

Alchemy-based? Does that mean some medieval folk at AMD put some copper and lead powder together in a conical flask and boil it in an attempt to make Gold and they ended up with a reference design? On a seperate note; the AMD device reminds me of Dell's recent Digital Music Jukebox. The oblong buttons along the bottom and the white rounded rim certainly have a similar appeal, although both lacking the style of their rivals (the iPaq and iPod respectively).

Here are some very cool modules.. not mods but i doubt anyone could make one of these themself

Game Boy Advance goes wireless

Gameboy Video Phone Module

Here are some very cool modules.. not mods but i doubt anyone could make one of these themself

Game Boy Advance goes wireless

Gameboy Video Phone Module

That's not a review! That is quite literally a cut-and-paste from the Nokia press release!

Here's the original

Here's the copy.

Spot the difference.

If you look, they even include the asterisk from the Press Release, without copying the footnote it links to!

Clickable link Why did they just do a laptop? why not a develop a seperate monitor?

Check it out either on MSNBC, the MobileMag article, or the company site (Korean).

Here are some articles of merit about this PDA.

Here

Here

and here

I think all these companies have the wrong idea. Here's my idea. You build a ultra small form factor PC that has no display, no cdrom. Just wireless, VGA maybe some USB and a great battery. Then you buy one of these nifty goggles and figure out some kind of input device and you are money.

now, if only some one kind find me one of these ultra small form factor PC's ... I found something called the Mini-PC-EX1 which is 450g (pretty light!) but it has a CDROM and is still a bit clunky...

So, the question i ask is this? Anyone know of a truly ultra small form factor displayless pc? (that runs linux)? And, anyone know how I could input into this device with enough speed/accuracy to code?

Just imagine entire corporate headquarters transforming into parks where people wander around with eyeglass mounted displays, and pocket size pc that are wireless connected... No need for small stuffy offices or cubicles...

If you know anything please contact me with information...

I think all these companies have the wrong idea. Here's my idea. You build a ultra small form factor PC that has no display, no cdrom. Just wireless, VGA maybe some USB and a great battery. Then you buy one of these nifty goggles and figure out some kind of input device and you are money.

now, if only some one kind find me one of these ultra small form factor PC's ... I found something called the Mini-PC-EX1 which is 450g (pretty light!) but it has a CDROM and is still a bit clunky...

So, the question i ask is this? Anyone know of a truly ultra small form factor displayless pc? (that runs linux)? And, anyone know how I could input into this device with enough speed/accuracy to code?

Just imagine entire corporate headquarters transforming into parks where people wander around with eyeglass mounted displays, and pocket size pc that are wireless connected... No need for small stuffy offices or cubicles...

If you know anything please contact me with information...

then wheres the proof? That editors note is rather convenient, but it doesnt prove anything [note: yes it does] , which is easily done by providing a link or two to sources of smaller devices.

Just kidding. Google doesn't know for sure what the world's smallest printer is, but here, here, here and here are a couple possibilities. Really convincing is the line "World's smallest printer IN THE WORLD!"

Hope I've helped.

He means there is a half-size piece in the center, and two quarter-sized pieces on each side, that can fold in to cover the half-size. His nomenclature assumes that the center piece is equivalent to a 'full sized' display, and the two 'wings' are half-sized, and on either side.

• Hitachi is more expensive, more parts, requires more power
• Cornice is more 'dumb', less capacity, smaller (mounted to PCB) and non-removable

The big issue with this Archos will be whether its manufacturing feels as flimsy as their earlier models. Archos usually seems to be well ahead of the curve in features and price, but usually far behind in appearance, construction, and usability...

RCA LYRA RD2780

- 20GB HD
- 3,5" LCD
- 5.2 x 3.14 x 0.98 inches
- MP3, MP3PRO, WMA, MPEG4, JPEG
- USB 2.0 or flash card
- video in/out
- 15 hours battery time
- Available in summer 2003
- $399 in suggested retail price

Picture + specs

Preview:

Pressrelease from RCA

Pressrelease from thomson

pics

The design is of course not at nice as with ipod, but still quite nice compared to archos. The screen is by far better than the one on ipod and is larger than the one on archos. I would go for this gadget because of the big screen and the overall design.

From the blurb:

"Also, by using the PW-60 high efficiency 12V DC-DC converter (also available at mini-box.com), the M-100 can run for about 12 hours from a single 12V/7ah battery."

hahahaha. thought you had a cool idea and did some googling:
beam me up scotty

It's freakin huge!