DVR + DVD-R
The latest version of Sony’s CoCoon digital video recorder, the NDR-XR1, can record up to 90 hours of television programming, but here’s the kicker: it also has a built-in DVD burner that you can use to archive shows that are recorded on the hard drive. TiVo doesn’t have the guts to put out a box … Continued
One megapixel cameraphone coming in May. In Japan.
One of the biggest downsides of cameraphones is that the resolution of the built-in digital cameras are woefully poor, usually a third of a megapixel at best. Now J-Phone and DoCoMo are working on phone with a one megapixel sensor that should be out by May. Of course emailing those larger pictures to friends will … Continued
Spy TV
We love TiVo, but we’re not terribly pleased that our digital video recorder might rat us out someday: Under the USA Patriot Act, passed a month after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the feds can force a noncable TV operator to disclose every show you have watched. The government just has to say that the request … Continued
The coming Smartphones
We’ve discovered the hard way that there are no T-1 lines in the hotel rooms here at Euro Disneyland. So updates are courtesy of the WiFi LAN they’ve set up here at Mobius in the conference room. So far we’ve gotten a look at some of the new Smartphones that are coming up, including the … Continued
Epson Rio PhotoPC Player P-10
New portable digital photo viewer from Seiko Epson. The Rio PhotoPC Player P-1000 comes with a 10GB hard drive, a 3.8″ LCD screen, a slot for copying files from Compact Flash memory cards, and the ability to print photos directly to Epson printers. Read [Thanks, Christopher and Robert]
iBox: the unauthorized Mac
It’s been six years since Apple stopped letting other manufacturers build Macs, but a guy in Minnesota is building a flat, pizza box shaped “iBox” that will run Mac OSX. The only problem is that Apple hasn’t changed its policy regarding third-party manufacturers, so the iBox might be the first unauthorized Mac: Fraser hopes to … Continued
Anil Dash’s personal panopticon
Anil Dash wants an iPod that will give him a complete audio record of his day, kind of like a TiVo for real life: Having a complete audio record of my day, indexed by time, would allow me to refer back to a moment in conversation when quoting it later, or when I needed clarification … Continued
New palm-sized digital camcorder
Now this is what the movie studios should be worried about: an absolutely miniscule new digital video camera from I-O Gear that weighs less just 110 grams, and can store up to two hours of video on a 512MB SD memory card. The AVMC211 also doubles as a 3.1 megapixel still camera. The catch is … Continued
Banning cameraphones at film screenings
Despite the fact that no one would even want to watch a film pirated with a cameraphone (and that’s even assuming it could be done at all), along with all their other anti-piracy measures (such as checking for camcorders) several movie studios have already started banning cellphones from press screenings of new films. Read
Live from Mobius Europe 2003
As totally bizarre as it sounds, for the next few days we’ll be blogging live from Euro Disneyland. Microsoft is having its Mobius Europe 2003 mobile computing conference here, and they’re giving us (and the editors of a whole bunch of other websites) a sneak peak at some of the new gadgets in the pipeline. … Continued
Popular Mechanics’ Best Products in Technology
Popular Mechanics picks for the best gadgets out right now, like Shure’s E Series earphones, Sharp’s Zaurus SL-5600 PDA, Canon’s four megapixel PowerShot S45 digital camera (pictured at right), Nokia’s 3650 color cameraphone (a choice we quibble with), Universal Electronics’ 6-in-One universal remote, Onkyo’s TX-SR800 THX Select audio/video receiver, and HP’s Media Center PC (another … Continued
No hybrid DVD/CD discs for now
A new multi-format audio disc that would work on any CD, DVD, or DVD-Audio player is turning out to be a huge failure: The problem is that existing DVD players, which are designed to play both DVDs and CDs, get confused when faced with the hybrid disc. Half the DVD-Audio players used in the tests … Continued
USB drum set
That whole Eighties revival may have already peaked here in New York, but the rest of the country can still feel comfortable pounding out electro beats on the DrumXtreme, a new programmable electronic drum set from Pacific Digital that plugs into the USB port of a PC. The DrumXtreme comes with five drum pads, a … Continued