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Asus Eee PC Goes Touch Screen

19. December 2007

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Suddenly Asus little 7-inch-screen laptop becomes as cool as the iPhone. Just owning an Eee PC already makes you as cool as an iPhone owner, so it is only fitting that someone modded an Eee PC to have a touch screen. This particular mod works very well on an Eee PC running Windows XP. Firefox [...]

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Tomato D-18 is Only 8.5mm

10. December 2007

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What’s unbelievable about Tomato’s new device is not that it is 8.5mm thin, which is almost unbelievable, but what truly boggle the mind is that it uses a 1.8-inch Seagate HD with 60GB of storage capacity. Now, that is mind-boggling. The Korean manufacturer has come up with a very stylish device here encased in brush [...]

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Samsung Yepp P2 Gets Better With Multi Cradle

9. December 2007

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4spLisKv-kQ[/youtube] Samsung has put WiFi connectivity, FM transmitter, MicroSD slot (SDHC) and a mono speaker into a small PMP cradle that slides into the bottom of the Yepp P2. The P2 is a remarkable product from Samsung and we’ve also commented on its sleek iPod-like user interface. The dock has its own LED screen, which shows [...]

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Slacker Portable Coming Next Year

6. December 2007

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Those who have pre-ordered the Slacker Portable are in for a major disppointment. The Slacker Portable player will be delayed. It will not be shipped at the target date of December 13. Instead shipment will be moved to January 31 of 2008. The portable Internet radio player isn’t quite as perfect as Slacker hopes. Remember [...]

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New Nokia Slider Patents Give Us 6 or 8 Megapixels

4. December 2007

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  A little dubious about what the Chinese are offering in the megapixel category? Well, the world’s biggest handset manufacturer comes to the rescue with a couple of recent patents for slider phones possessing a 6 or an 8 megapixel (Carl Zeiss optics) lens. One of the sliders slide up to reveal the keypad and the [...]

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Pogo Stylus Works on iPhone and iPod Touch

1. December 2007

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  I’ve always wanted the iPhone to have stylus input. Not that I am shy to smudge the screen, I am more interested, more than anything else, in having a handwriting recognition application bundled with the iPhone so I can write copious notes without having to take out a PDA or a real notebook. [...]

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Greenpeace Angry at iPhone

15. October 2007

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Steve Jobs has been promising a greener Apple. Greenpeace was pleased, but what about the iPhone? Is it as green as Steve Jobs promised? Nokia phones are PVC free. Sony Ericsson has removed the most environmentally harmful chemicals. The iPhone? Greenpece found out in their lab tests that the Apple phone is made up of [...]

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Wireless USB 1.1 and USB 3.0 Coming

23. September 2007

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USB 3.0, which promises a wired delivery rate of 5Gbps is reported to be available in the first half of 2008. The USB 3.0 transfer rate is ten times faster than the transfer rate of USB 2.0. Also approachingreality is Wireless USB. WUSB is much faster than current Bluetooth 2.0 technology and is comparable with [...]

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IEye Concept Aims to Increase PMP Functionality

21. September 2007

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What with the fast pace of technology today, it doesn’t take long for gadgets to become obsolete. But what if there was a way to extend their functionality instead of selling them to the junk shop? This is the idea behind Thomas Miller’s IEye concept. He entered this idea into the “Create the Future [...]

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Chinese CH-DVD to go Against Blu-Ray and HD DVD

9. September 2007

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China just plunged into the High-Def controversy by announcing its own CH-DVD standard. The news came from Optical Memory National Engineering Research Center (OMNERC), an optical lab at Tsinghua University. CH-DVD is based on HD DVD and has the full backing of the Chinese government. This is supposed to demonstrate that Chinese-manufactured optical discs are [...]

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