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24th May 2006 Archive

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  • Apple, Nike partner to produce iPod pumps

    Trainers that talk back

    Apple has teamed up with wingéd Nike, the Ancient Greek personification of athletic footwear*, to offer an iPod Nano add-on that talks to your shoes. The package also contains a separate wireless dongle that fits inside the sole of one of your high-priced trainers and beams data to the iPod, which, using text-to-speech …

    Media players 24 May 2006, 09:04

  • Japanese boffins build breakthrough brain-machine interface

    Works without surgery, training

    Honda scientists have created a system that will translate thoughts into electrical signals that can be used to control machinery. The technique doesn't require the user to undergo surgery or extensive training - a major advance over past thought-controlled technologies, the company said. Researchers at the Honda Research …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 24 May 2006, 09:42

  • O2 readies 'Super 3G' XDA Trion PDA phone

    i-mate to offer it as the JasJam too?

    O2 Germany has posted details of a PDA phone it's calling the XDA Trion but is better known as HTC's 'Hermes' design. Hermes is also set to ship as the i-mate JasJam, if a posting on a US retail website is anything to go by. The Trion is based on a 400MHz Samsung-made processor and ships with 64MB of RAM and 128MB of Flah ROM …

    Phones 24 May 2006, 10:46

  • Reg Hardware's Critical Mass

    Review Round-up

    This week's no-holds barred product assessments from around the web focuses on the big announcement of the last few days: AMD's Socket AM2 processors and Nvidia's nForce 500 chipset series... "So far Socket AM2 seems to bring a bit of an increase in performance, and clearly that is helped by higher clocked 1066MHz DDR 2 …

    Bits 'n' Chips 24 May 2006, 11:26

  • First pictures of the $100 laptop

    In a range of colours...

    Available in fetching orange and yellow, or shades of blue and green, here's the $100 laptop, which was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting yesterday. Almost immediately, pictures of the machine hit the net. Nicholas Negroponte heads up the One Laptop Per Child organisation which hopes to get massive orders …

    PCs 24 May 2006, 11:29

  • Qualcomm sues Nokia - again

    This time in the English High Court

    Qualcomm has brought the patent infringement allegations it has made against mobile phone giant Nokia to the UK. The US company has asked the English High Court to ban certain Nokia products and to force the Finnish firm to cough up damages. Qualcomm's complaint cites two UK patents that Nokia is alleged to have infringed - …

    Phones 24 May 2006, 12:00

  • Firms punt Mac-friendly TV, PVR boxes

    Oddly, analogue only

    Two companies this week launched products designed to turn Macs - the Mini in particular - into PVRs. Miglia's TVMax is the most Mini-friendly of the two, but I-O Data's GV-1394TV/M3 connects to a Firewire port - handy for folk with USB 1.1-era computers. The TVMax, by contrast, requires a free USB 2.0 port. It's styled to …

    Mac 24 May 2006, 12:48