Friday, March 31, 2006
NeoDigits HVD2085 HDMI Player
This is no ordinary DVD player. The HVD2085 upscales regular DVDs to pure 1080p goodness and offers HDMI out. In fact, this monster has 11 different resolutions, even weird Asian and European ones. No pricing or local availability, but it looks quite promising.
NeoDigits 1080p HDMI DVD Player
Monday, March 27, 2006
Dual Tuner Series 2 TiVo?
No, it's not the HD TiVo that we've all been waiting for, but it is a good start. A few shopping sites, such as Amazon have begun listing the TCD649180, a series 2 TiVo with dual tuners, Ethernet and USB ports for home networking and a 180-hour recording capacity. Listed for US$349, the newest TiVo revision also lacks a CableCARD slot. No word on the TCD649180's release date; the series 3 TiVo is epected to be released later in the year.
TiVo Series 2 Hardware Refresh
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Easy Streaming to the Xbox 360
This may be a bit softwarey for our tastes, but it is a definite need-to-know for any Xbox 360 owners. Previously you had to jump through hoops to just stream an alternatively compressed movie through the 360, even then it required a PC running MCE. Now there is a MCE Video Encoder that will covert those other video types—like DivX and XviD—on the fly for streaming through the 360.
Easy DivX to Xbox 360 Streaming with MCE Video Encoder
Alcatel OT-C850 Music Phone
Alcatel's new OT-C850 Music Phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 65K color 176×220 screen, plays MP3s (256 MB of memory onboard, plus a MicroSD slot) and EDGE, blah blah blah. Let's be honest now: the most interesting thing about this phone that it looks like it was designed by Knight Industries.
Alcatel mobile music phone, looks like a space invader
Jobo Giga Vu Pro:evolution for Pro Photogs
The Jobo Giga Vu Pro:evolution is a portable media player created specifically for professional photographers, with specialized capabilities that will be appreciated by those who create high-end images in the field and need a portable yet trustworthy proofing tool.
SK Telecom LG-SD910 Duo Slider
Two different ways to slide, why the hell not? The screen slides out horizontally to unveil multimedia function keys and the entire face unit will slide vertically in the traditional manner to unveil the number pad. This phone also includes a 1.3-megapixel camera and an MP3 player. This is an exclusive phone through SK Telecom Korea, so no ultra-sliding for the U.S.
Belkin Announces TunePower for iPod Video
If you've got an iPod Video and watch lots of things during a long commute, Belkin's new TunePower rechargeable battery pack might be for you—it promises to add an extra six hours to your iPod's two hour battery life.
Power Your iPod® Longer with Belkin’s TunePower® for iPod video
Philips Launches MPC9350i Media Center PC
Phillips is singing the praises of its MPC9350i Media Center PC, a VHS-looking box with a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of memory and a 250GB hard drive running Windows XP Media Center Edition. The company calls it the ultimate home entertainment center, because it's able to play back music and movies and has PVR capabilities along with wireless Internet access.
Philips turns on feature-filled Media Centre system
Polymer Vision Screen Thin as Paper, in Cellphones Someday
If you're tired of squinting at that postage-stamp-sized screen on your cellphone, Polymer Vision is pimping a 4.8-inch roll-up screen for cellphones, GPS, and mobile entertainment devices, and maybe someday it will make its way to the real world. This fanciful mockup is said to have a 240x320 color screen with a refresh rate of 50Hz. One look at that picture above, and you can see the potential of something like this. Wow.
ECS Our Room PC: Home Theater in One Box
The ECS "Our Room PC" (ORPC) is an all-encompassing take on the home theater PC where the idea is to put everything in one box, including a PC, DVD player and recorder, a PVR, and a 24-bit audio system. It's marketed as a media server, and has a Viiv-compliant Intel Pentium D processor with the 945G chipset inside running Windows Media Center.
The ultimate home digital entertainment hub
Sony Says BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc Player Up For Pre-Order
If you absolutely have to be the first one on your block to have a Blu-ray player, Sony says it's now offering its US$1000 BDP-S1 unit for pre-order starting today. One thing's for certain, we won't be seeing any of these until at least July even though Sony told us at CES the unit would ship in the spring.
Verbatim Announces 4GB and 8 GB Store ‘n’ Go HD Drives
Verbatim announced 4GB and 8GB Store ‘n’ Go USB 2.0 drives which have a 1-inch hard disk inside and weigh just shy of 2 ounces. That makes for an easily portable form factor that's just 2 inches tall. They are preloaded with Verbatim's Mobile Launch Pad, which lets you plug the drive into a guest system and run your applications from there, and when you unplug, you leave without a trace.
Griffin iTrip Debuts for PSP
Griffin has released an iTrip add-on for the Sony PSP. This iTrip is same as its iPod counterparts and allows wireless streaming audio to any stereo device capable of picking up FM frequencies. The integrated PSP speakers are a little weak.
E-Ten Pathfinder GPS, TV and Radio, Too
Here's a GPS device by E-Ten with a nicely-pixeled 3.5" 320x240 LCD display, and once this Pathfinder has helped to find your way, you can watch TV on it and listen to the radio, too. In fact, this is almost an Origami tablet, running Windows CE 5.0, with a 400MHz Samsung 2440 processor onboard.
E-Ten GPS with PMP, DMB, and all those other great acronyms
Nokia Announces T-One: Voice and Data at Home and On the Road
Nokia is using its and E60 and N80 (pictured at left)) devices to study whether you really can have it all: voice and data on both fixed lines and on the road. The coolness here is that once this is available, you'll be able to access exactly the same voice and data connections wherever you are, at home or out there in the real world, by using a WiFi hotspot.
Logitech io 2 Digital Pen Gets an Upgrade
Logitech has unveiled a nice upgrade to their io2 Digital Pen. The new pen will be priced at US$150 and include much improved handwriting recognition. A new gesture system will also be added that will ease the process of transforming notes. The pen can automatically send notes to e-mail or Word documents. The included software also gets an upgrade by allowing users more customization by adding words to the dictionary.
Logitech Updates io 2 Digital Pen
The DSM-520, D-Link’s High-Def Media Player
Streaming high definition content seems to be the new pink this year, so nobody should be surprised to see D-Link jump into the fray. The DSM-520 is a new member to the MediaLounge family of media streaming devices, the difference being that it plays back HD video in either Windows Media Video 9 or MPEG4 format, topping out at 1080i.
Panasonic Skype Phone
This plain-looking phone allows you to connect to Skype users via VOIP without a PC. Apparently, it hooks up to your landline and a wired connection and can connect to online Skype users without external hardware. Nice styling, as well.
Get your Skype on without Wi-Fi, a PC, or router
Sony Offering Up Stale Blu-ray Titles for May 23 Launch
Sony announced the first Blu-ray disks will be available on May 23, the same day the first Blu-ray player goes on sale. There will be a scant few titles offered up, including such cinematic masterpieces as 50 First Dates, The Fifth Element, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, A Knight's Tale, The Last Waltz (MGM), Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and XXX. That the whole list, folks.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Samsung SCH-V910 Moneta Handset
This is a pretty standard slider with Moneta functionality, which allows you to pay for items by waving your phone around. It's an CDMA2000/EVDO phone with video-on-demand, MP3 player, and a motion sensing GUI. Your phone is motion sensing as well, you know—try dropping out a car window. It will definitely sense that motion.
Samsung Introduces SCH-V910 Moneta Handset
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Upgraded PSP for Christmas?
Ain’t It Cool News seems to have confirmed rumors that Sony will be releasing an updated PSP in time for Christmas. Details are light and there is no corroboration yet, but the redesigned PSP2 will reportedly be lighter, thinner, have a camera and 4Gb of memory.
Sony Introduces MSVR-A10 Memory Stick Video Recorder
Sony introduced its MSVR-A10, a digital video recorder that records video from a TV or DVD player via composite or S-video and analog audio inputs, recording the signal directly onto a Memory Stick Pro Duo for playback on the Playstation Portable (PSP).
Sony MSVR-A10 Memory Stick video recorder
One More UMPC: Founder MiniNote
More fallout from CeBIT as we see one more UMPC, this one the Founder MiniNote from China. It pretty much sticks to the script with a 7-inch display, an Intel ultra low voltage (ULV) Pentium M 1GHz processor and an Intel 915 GMS chipset.
Samsungs’s SPH-B5200 Gaming Phone
While details are scarce (read: non-existent) on this Samsung cell phone at the moment, we do know that it comes with an MP3 player, a two-inch QVGA display and a DMB receiver for TV reception. All this, plus the phone looks like a portable gaming system of some sort. N-Gage, anyone?
Samsung SPH-B5200 Gaming Phone
Monday, March 13, 2006
Sony Ericsson Black Diamond
Singaporean industrial designer Jaren Goh's mocked up an extremely stylish concept for a Sony Ericsson cameraphone he's calling Black Diamond. The polycarbonate mirror finish skin, metal detailing and form factor are all rather sleek, but the coolest feature has got to be the OLED borderless screen. Very sexy!
Moodoofree Plus Kit Helps You Park
Not quite the same as the Siemens ParkMate that will park your car for you, the Moodoofree Plus Kit is a Bluetooth-enabled rearview mirror replacement that has a set of parking sensors attached to your car’s bumper that show your distance from an obstacle or another vehicle. It even tells you in which direction that obstacle lies. This is a versatile device that's trying very hard to be helpful as it gives you caller ID information from your cellphone, and also functions as a speakerphone.
The Mirror Has Eyes: The Modoofree Car Kit, With Parking Sensors
SlingPlayer for Origami Announced
Soon after Microsoft’s Origami and its Ultra-Mobile PC platform were officially revealed, Sling Media announced a SlingPlayer for the platform. When the UMPC products are delivered, and nobody is mentioning any dates yet, users will be able to remotely view their cable, satellite or PVR programming using this re-worked software.
Press Release
CeBIT '06: Asus R2H Keyboard Interface
The Intel booth was also featuring the Asus R2H UMPC. Luckily we got a chance to take a look at the unique keyboard interface that has been oh-so-talked about. There was a button that brought the keyboard interface up. A traditional keyboard "click" noise was made when a key was pushed on the interface keyboard. We have video of the keyboard functionality in action and it will be up and running shortly.
[Gizmodo]
Microsoft Ultra-Mobile PC
I think someone over at Microsoft decided to have some fun in anticipation of the Origami/UMPC launch.
[Gizmodo]
Fashion Origami
Two things this form factor is perfect for:
1. A portable movie player -- it's about the same form factor as a portable DVD player, only you can rip a bunch of DVDs and store them all on board.
2. A web surfing device. As WiFi and other wireless platforms get increasingly ubiquitous, you'll be able to carry around one of these and look up anything online, wherever you're at. The screens on PDAs are a little too small to be good at this, phones are worse, and conventional lightweight notebooks are utterly useless for something like this.
[Gizmodo]
Origami Has Custom Pen-Friendly Launcher
The above image is in fact a screen shot of the emulator MS has been providing to their software partners - which also look similar to the reference design MS created.
The interface under is not windowblinds as one commenter posted, but is program launcher that will ship on the devices. This does not replace explorer or the standard XP GUI, but just runs as a startup app (by default) to give easier 'touch' access to apps.
[Gizmodo]
Belkin TuneTalk Update
We've got next-to-nothing when it comes to technical details, but an anonymous source sent us this image of the as-yet-unannounced update to the Belkin TuneTalk. The real question is whether or not Apple has let Belkin record sound to the iPod at a decent bit-rate.
[Gizmodo]
CBS, NBC Take Shows and Go Play at Someone Else's Video-On-Demand Party
In a move that blatantly rides on the video iPod's coattails, CBS and Comcast, as well as NBC and DirecTV, have made deals that will let you to watch current primetime shows just hours after they're played over the air. Shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Law & Order lead the pack of programs that will be available.
Toshiba Transformer Laptop - No Decepticons
Design takes on a whole new meaning with this beautiful 17-inch laptop from Toshiba. Made from metallics and coated with a fiery red paint job, style was the first priority when creating the Red Transformer laptop.
Tokyo Decadence: Microsoft Xbox Lounge
As part of the Xbox 360 marketing extravaganza — or what I like to affectionately call “The Green Campaign: lessons in how to spend shitloads of cash in short amounts of time” — Microsoft has snapped up a very expensive piece of land in the snazzy Harajuku / Aoyama area of Tokyo and created the Microsoft Xbox Lounge. You could call this an exercise in passive marketing;
[Gizmodo]
TiVo Now Prevents Overlaps
TiVo's 7.2.1 software update will now include overlap protection, which will prevent you from missing the beginning of a show if it overlaps with another, less important, show in your schedule. Big deal? Kind of. This essentially solves the problem of TV programmers tacking on an extra minute or so to foil PVRs and piss off TiVo owners.
TiVo Adds Overlap Protection
Wireless PSP Headphones
So what the is the deal this week with PSP and headphones/sets. This is the Summit PSP wireless headset (actually just headphones). Summit is using a workaround way to get the wireless headphones functional by using FM transmission. A device is attached to the PSP broadcasts the signal and the integrated FM tuner in the headphones picks up the signal. Lets hope it can work with any kind of FM tuner.
Voodoo PC ARIA Media Center
Got a ka-jillion dollars, then maybe, just maybe, you could afford this monstrosity of a pc. Here are the specs, prepare yourselves, 7 inch integrated touch screen, AMD Athlon FX-57, 1GB of ram, 400GB hard drive, GeForce 7800GTX, dual-layer DVD burner and one of those new-fangled Logitech remotes. In Voodoo fashion this PC comes in a bright, blinding red sure to stick out like a sore thumb in any home theatre setup. All of this can be yours for a mere $5,000US.
Nokia 6282 - The Secret Slider
A new Nokia just peeped up over the hedge. The 6282 is a UMTS slider runs Symbian Series 40 and has a 2.2” 262k colour display, 2-megapixel camera, and a second camera for video conferencing. Can rock on both GSM and WCDMA, which is good for us Americans and they're supposing this is coming out to support Cingular's roll out of 1900 Mhz UMTS.
iPod Vending Machine
This is a electronics vending machine, primarily Apple related products such as the iPod and the Shuffle. This vending machine was spotted at the Atlanta airport.
Boogie Down With Your Treo
You know you've been emailing people all day long on your Treo 650. You just want to walk in the door, mix up a Slippery Nipple, and relax to some Dean Martin. Well now you can.
Treo 650 Music Dock [Palm Addict]
Elle Brings On GlamPhone
Here's yet another phone for the ladies. Looks like the cellphone industry has finally come to their senses and realized that women, gasp like to spend money on fashion. To take advantage of this glitch in the female brain, Elle magazine has announced its own GlamPhone, a lipstick red clamshell phone that opens to a mirror, making it both a phone and a compact.
One Elle of a phone! [gadgetcandy]
New Sony VAIO All-in-one Media PC
Sony has just released a new all-in-one PC bundled with an LCD TV. The VAIO VA TV-PC is available in a couple models: the VGC-VA10G and the VGC-VA11G. You can watch live TV on the 20-inch LCD screen, or if you want, you could record those shows on to the 250GB/320GB hard drive via the included Windows XP Media Center edition. VA TV-PC Series Related...
Sony A Series MP3
Check out the Sony A series, limited edition NW-A1000. A 6GB player in jet black, it's small, smooth and retro looking and has a 128x128 pixel OLED. Measuring 55x15x88mm it weighs in at just 109 grams. But here's something odd, it supports MP3, ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus, but for WMA, you'll have to add an upgrade which won't be released til December. Plays about 20 hours of music on a full charge and costs $280.
Sony A series NW-A1200/B with 8 GB storage [New Launches]
[Gizmodo]
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