The Game Changer Before iPhone: a History Lesson

The guy above seems to be smoking some sort of bong made of metal, or is it a canon - but which way does the iron ball come out of? The bearded young man in the B & W picture was actually Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the phone. The bong-like gadget he was [...]

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Myvu Personal Media Viewer For iPod Video Goes International

The coolest iPod accessory of them all will now be available outside the U.S. The “Myvu Made for iPod” gives you an equivalent of 27-inch viewing of you iPod Video, way better than the 2.5-inch provided screen. This is the same iPod accessory that iLounge named best “Best Wearable Display” in 2006 and also named [...]

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Mustek PVR-H240 Becomes Yukai

Don’t be surprised if you see the Yukai brand slapped on the multimedia Mustek PVR-H240, which is a PMP (portable media player), video recorder and document viewer in one device. This site asked if this wrong to change labels. As it happens, Yukai is a brand under Mustek of Germany as one can clearly see [...]

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Newman’s New Shiny Media Jukebox M968A

We were much impressed with Newman’s stainless-steel M950A PMP with a camera. Newman has introduced a more streamlined follow up. I don’t know why they can’t take a more decent product photo of the M968A, but I can’t help but express how good this would look outdoors when I pull it out of my pocket. [...]

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Microsoft Surface on a Laptop

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulwA3n8AYM0[/youtube] Microsoft has adopted it’s multi-touch “Surface” table monitor technology on a laptop and the results are, frankly speaking, a glimpse to the future. Though the table monitor concept has met a lot of skepticism, this new Surface mouse-less concept seems like the thing to make me a Microsoft fanboy. Steve Hodges of Microsoft Research had [...]

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Sony PSP’s 3.50 Firmware Upgrade Opens it Up for Full 333Mhz Development

Sony didn’t tell us about thi swhen they announced the 3.50 firmware upgrade last month. Formerly, game developers for PSP are restricted to 266Mhz speed or about 80% of the PSP’s full potential. It’s taken for granted that this saves on power and allows PSP users more gaming time. But now with the full 333Mhz [...]

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Zune Player Crashed and Displays Blue Screen of Death

People who use PCs or laptops running Windows know about the Blue Screen of Death. But what about Zune owners? This guy says he was just scrolling through his audio files when his Zune crashed. Now I haven’t had the experience myself, not with my laptop or my PC. But I’ve seen the BSOD [...]

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Apple iTunes Beats Amazon to Rise to Third Music Retailer

Apple iTunes has surpassed Amazon.com to become the 3rd largest music retailer in the U.S. Apple’s online store is now responsible in supplying 10% of the music market. Meanwhile, according. Meanwhile, according to the NPD Group, CD sales continue to dip as digital music keeps growing. Apple benefited from iTunes Plus’ DRM-less music, which [...]

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New Philips PET835 Portable DVD Player With TNT Tuner

The TNT TV tuner on the PET835 is the Télévision Numérique Terrestre. It uses the same DVB-T standard popular in the rest of Europe and is actually the French version of Freeview (both are very similar). The PET835 has 8.5-inch and reads DVDs (DVD, DVD-/+R, DVD-/+RW, Picture CD, (S) VCD). It’s also compatible with DivX, [...]

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Less is More for iRiver P10

The new iRiver P10 is a delectable-looking full-sized PMP with the motto “Less is More” dictating its appearance, and, yes, its entire being. They’ve only posted pictures of this PMP and some cryptic messages: REMEMBER NUMBER 33 INCREDIBLY SMALL LAUNCH THIS YEAR Did they mean the Jim Carrey Movie? [via anythingbutipod, iriver]

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