Archive for: January 5, 2008

Filed under: CES
It looks like Lenovo isn’t the only gang of techno-hooligans launching an MID that year at CES — word on the street (and in official PR) is that BenQ’s entry to the relatively new category will be making a showing before you know it. According to the company, the device — which we…

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Filed under: CES, GPS
Garmin really didn’t hold back on the releases that year, what with the new nüvi navigators, Forerunner 405 watch and Colorado handheld. We got a chance to handle a few of these, and we must saw we’re pretty impressed by the the thin structure factors and sharp touchscreen…

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Filed under: CES, Displays, HDTV
Pulse-Link and Westinghouse displayed their UWB-equipped wireless HDMI LCD, streaming 1080p goodness from an attached Blu-ray player. The JPEG2000 compression showed no trace of artifacting as the video passed three, shoot, possibly four feet without the aid of such …

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Filed under: Cellphones
HP’s Oak makes an appearance in the relentless binge of new handset insanity that is the Vodafone roadmap. The HP Oak delivers many of the baubles we’ve come to expect from Windows Mobile devices, things like 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, quad-band GSM, qwerty keyboard, a touchscreen, and …

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
We were still kinda settling in with the businesslike E65 slider, a phone that feels like it just found its way into widespread commercial availability a few months back. Ah, that’s considering it did! No bother, though; moment marches mercilessly on, and Nokia’s a…

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Filed under: GPS, TransportationThe folks at BikeGPSTracking have what they claim to be the first “low cost” GPS tracker for motorcycles and other small vehicles of death. The MC242 weighs in at $349, and allows you to track your bike anywhere, anytime in the US or Canada as lengthy as you keep up w…

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
The currently terrestrial Bill Gates and his former (and space-faring) Microsoft colleague, Charles Simonyi, have donated a cool $30m to a project that aims to build “the world’s largest survey telescope” (cleverly) called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. On Thursday, …

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Filed under: Robots
The mad scientists from Touch Bionics are at it again. After delivering their i-LIMB bionic hand final year, they’re moving on up the, uh … body and are announcing their sophomore effort: the i-LIMB bionic arm. Like their bionic hand, the arm is controlled via learned muscle mo…

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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsIt’s been a while since we had an update from the exciting frontier of microbial fuel cell technology, but researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute report a recent breakthrough in understanding precisely why bacteria seem to enjoy donating their electro…

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Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets
Emtrace makes a return to CES that year with their Photoskins, new WiFi WidgetStation version 2, and more importantly… launch details. Unfortunately, the WidgetStation 2, which appears to be the more useful of the two knowledge appliances with that big, segment…

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Wow, look at what Palm and Vodafone are bringing us now via the good humans at Boy Genius Report, the Palm Wanda. Terrible name (please tell us it’s just a codename!) aside, the specs are looking pretty decent with triband GSM and HSDPA covered as well as GPS for your navigational needs. The s…

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Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio
considering we’d love to stuff our iPod earbuds just a little deeper into our ear canals, a 3M spin-off called Hearing Components has developed a plastic and foam accessory that snaps onto the buds and promises to both keep them in place as well as improve so…

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