Reuters has an article about how counterfeit Nokia products are the number one choice for smugglers in Europe. This is my favorite part of the article though: Asked about the terrorism connection, Alexander Wiedow [The EU’s Director of Customs Policy] said a consignment of fake Vaseline intercepted on its way from Dubai to Denmark via … Continued
Speaking of remote controls, The New York Times has a piece on the Harmony remote, which you can program using your PC (it connects using a USB cable) to do all sorts of things with just the press of a single button. From the article: Using a side-mounted thumbwheel, you choose activities, not components, from … Continued
Ever since the HP-Compaq merger it’s been clear that it wouldn’t make sense to maintain each company’s line of handhelds, and in recognition of this, HP decided to discontinue its Jornada line in favor of the better selling iPaq. News.com has a piece about the introduction of the Jornada 928, which will likely be the … Continued
There are probably few peripherals I need as badly as the Streamzap PC remote control. When I moved to New York last year I had to leave my vinyl and CD collection back in storage in California. I took it as an opportunity to free myself from a few hundred pounds of stuff and I … Continued
Sony has decided to go after Palm‘s share of the low-end of the handheld market with its Sony CLIE PEG-SL10, which costs only $149 and has a high-resolution monochrome screen. You can read CNet‘s story on it here, and PalmInfocenter‘s story here. Let’s pray for a price war.
Hot on the heels of Toshiba’s unveiling of its iPod clone, the Gigabeat MEG50JS, e.Digital has just introduced the Odyssey 1000, which looks even more like an iPod than the Gigabeat. The Odyssey 1000 has a 20GB hard drive, a USB 2.0 connection, and is Mac and PC compatible (it even works with iTunes!). Is … Continued
The Gadgeteer has a review of a 1 gigabyte FireWire keychain from WiebeTech, which is basically just some CompactFlash memory with a FireWire port all in a 2.35 inch by 1.75 inch metal box. Hopefully this will mark the beginning of a trend towards using high-speed connections like FireWire and USB 2.0 for these pocket … Continued
Wired.com has a Reuters piece about a new technology that reduces a television to just 50-millionths of an inch thick. You could roll one up and toss it in your bag. From the story: You’re effectively printing televisions,” CDT Chief Executive David Fyfe said. “They can be printed onto thin plastic almost like paper.” Roll-up … Continued
PDABuzz.com is running what is reputed to be a sneak peak at the next-generation Palm, which is code-named “Oslo”. Not much word on what improvements will be made to the Palm OS (besides rumors that Bluetooth will be incorporated), but from the leaked picture that purports to show an Oslo Palm, the major advances seem … Continued
For the last few months I’ve been thinking about buying a PDA, and I think I just found exactly what I’m looking for. It’s called OQO. It’s made by the team that designed Apple’s Titanium PowerBook, who left to form their own company. Their first product is what they’re calling an Ultra-Personal Computer: an iPaq … Continued
A few months ago my Sprint PCS cellphone died while I was on the road, and I was forced in a pinch to buy a new one. I was loathe to replace the faulty model that had stopped functioning (and had never really worked that well in the first place), but I also wasn’t too … Continued
Speaking of Tivo, Moxi announced a big deal yesterday that will have its software incorporated into Scientific Atlanta’s set-top cable boxes. Moxi records your favorite TV shows like a Tivo, but it can also play DVDs and MP3s, stream to other TVs in the house, has Firewire and USB ports for adding extra storage space … Continued