Archive for: September 27, 2007

September 27, 2007

Gateway One review roundup

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

Filed under: Desktops
The first reviews of the Gateway One are starting to trickle in, and while the sexy all-in-one is garnering universal compliment for its sleek, accessible design and innovative potential brick breakout box, it looks like beauty’s only skin-deep in that case: both Computer Shopp…

HP’s DigitalLife booth tour

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

HP had a lot of new product at DigitalLife, what with the refreshed iPaq line, make new notebooks and those Blackbird behemoths. Even Voodoo got in on the action. Such happy times. But don’t take our word for it, check out all the gallery action below.

Gallery: HP’s DigitalLife booth tour

JVC unveils the KT-HDP1 “plug and play” portable HD radio

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

We’ve seen a lot of slick tabletop HD radios hit the market in the past few months, but for those of you just looking to add a little high-res broadcast goodness to an existing stereo, JVC’s KT-HDP1 seems like a simpler solution. The $129 device rocks an AM / FM / HD tuner and a white LCD screen…

Longest-ever space tether fails to deploy, flings capsule towards Earth

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

We’ve seen some pretty wild ideas for space tethers, but it seems like actually executing is a little trickier than public expect — a joint Russian Space Agency / ESA Young Engineers Satellite 2 mission just screeched to a halt as the deployment of an 18-mile space tether went awry. The project…

LC2000 Series Ubuntu Linux Laptops

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

LinuxCertified nowadays announced its next generation laptops optimized for engineering and scientific community. Powered with Ubuntu 7.04, these laptops focus on high performance and scalability. The laptops come pre-configured with many of the common tools used by technical users. The two new lapt…

AT&T talks with new Sling-owner EchoStar said to be “heating up”

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

EchoStar certain seems to be keeping itself engaged these days, with its long-running talks with AT&T now said to be “heating up” just days after it acquired Sling Media for a cool $380 million. According to TheStreet.com, EchoStar is apparently considering splitting the company into two pub…

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iPhoneSimFree-unlocked iPhones require AT&T SIM to reactivate

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

Filed under: CellphonesAs we’ve certain a few readers have noticed, unlocked iPhones upgraded to 1.1.1 nowadays aren’t precisely unlocked anymore. Unlocking aside, the jailbreaking procedure that was used to load pretty much every application onto firmwares of old isn’t working at the moment, so it …

Hands-on with iRobot’s new ConnectR and Looj bots

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

Filed under: Features, Robots
There’s not much to see and feel with these two — iRobots are all about the action — but we got a quick look at the new ConnectR and Looj nowadays. The Looj seems well suitable suited to its purpose, with solid interpretation and a supreme thwap. We saw it running thr…

Mio unveils the C720t GPS at DigitalLife

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

Mio’s not shy about pumping out the GPS devices, and the company tooks the wraps off its latest model, the C720t, at DigitalLife that week. The 4.3-inch widescreen PND hits all the major bases for

KDev intros cameraphone-friendly FoxBox MMS

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

If the original Linux-based FoxBox SMS didn’t boast fairly the capabilities you were looking for, soon after perhaps KDev’s upgraded FoxBox MMS will be increasingly to your liking. Like the original FoxBox, it’ll act as a cellphone-to-web gateway, in that case accepting photos sent from a came…

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Hands-on with Dell’s M1730 “Beast”

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

Beast is right, that thing is just a monster. We’re fairly convinced we’ve held laptop before that are lighter than the Dell M1730’s LCD alone. That said, it can certainly pump out the graphics, and the amBX-esque lighting functions are kind of growing on us. An additional perk to the AGEIA Phys…

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Sony about to release another YouTube-centric camcorder?

Filed under: Review - 27 Sep 2007

We’ve already seen Sony’s first shameless attempt to court the YouTube crowd with the NSC-GC1 5 megapixel web-corder, but a quick look through the instruction manual reveals specs for another model, the NSC-GC3, which apparently cuts shooting duration down from 2 hours to just 29 minutes. We’r…

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