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11th January 2008 Archive

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  • The MP3 speaker jacket

    No headphones here

    The New Year brings about resolutions to get fit and lose weight. So, if you’re still struggling to get up of the sofa, a jacket with built-in MP3 capabilities could be the motivation you need. MP3 Smart Jacket: like jogging with a ghetto blaster Although jackets integrating MP3 players are nothing new, this is the first we …

    Media players 11 Jan 08:02

  • WowWee wheels in Tribot

    CES on Video Your plastic pal who's fun to be with

    Your plastic pal who's fun to be with. WowWee's Tribot is a 'cartoon character come to life...' Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com CES on Video WowWee wheels in Tribot DisplayLink demos multi-monitor USB dongle Guitar Hero gets true air axe WowWee demos FemiSapien robotrix Eye-Fi pitches camera- …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 11 Jan 09:02

  • Best wireless VoIP phone?

    Q&A

    I work on a diving vessel (oil related) and I'm looking to purchase a portable phone which can work on a wireless network. If possible I would prefer if the phone was not LAN connected, and that the actual phone could pick up the wireless signal. The portable phones will be used in a compressed chamber to give the divers …

    Q&A 11 Jan 09:02

  • Samsung YP-P2 personal media player

    Review iPod Touch beater?

    Believe it or not, 'yepp peetoo' is Samsung's preferred pronunciation of the name of their new media player. Thankfully a coterie of Yepp Girls were on hand at the launch of the peetoo a month or so back and they had such lovely thighs, sorry, smiles, that we instantly forgave Samsung its assault on the English language. …

    Media players 11 Jan 11:06

  • Intel to revise mobile CPU naming scheme

    'Montevina' adjustment

    Intel will revise its naming scheme for mobile processors in Q2, a move that will see the old LV and ULV labels dropped in favour of new processor class prefixes to go with the ones already applied to Core 2 Duo chips. Intel currently prefixes some mobile processor model numbers with X, T, L and U. To that it's going to add P …

    Bits 'n' Chips 11 Jan 11:35

  • Samsung rolls out Croix-based F490

    CES The F700's younger brother

    Samsung has waited until the end of this year’s CES show in Las Vegas to secure plenty of attention for its latest mobile phone, the Croix UI-based F490. Samsung F490: touch-operated Croix UI Looking deceptively similar to the existing Samsung F700, the F490 marries quad-band GSM connectivity with HSDPA for downloads up to …

    Phones 11 Jan 12:13

  • Intel readies low-end 'Penryn' Core 2 Duos

    Dual-core Celeron E1000 series too

    With Intel's 45nm Core 2 Duo E8000 series now launched, the first mainstream desktop 'Penryn' processors are on their way. Lesser versions are due in Q2, as the Core 2 Duo E7000 series. Range topping dual-core Celerons will be coming sooner. The E7000 CPUs - the first is expected to be the E7200, according to a report at …

    Bits 'n' Chips 11 Jan 12:13

  • Micro SD spy gadgets spied on web

    MI6 storage

    Flash storage has already seen numerous gadgets shrink in size. But it’s now shrinking the consumer spy gadget market with the development of a belt-buckle spy camera for snooping on your pals. Who'd ever know? The belt-buckle DVR secretes a hidden camera that records content in 3GP format at a resolution of 176 x 144 …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 11 Jan 12:16

  • Microsoft demos Surface multi-touch user interface

    CES on Video iPhone UI clone

    Bill Gates demos Surface, Microsoft's multi-touch finger-controlled UI that sports some rather iPhone-like gesture controls... Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com CES on Video WowWee wheels in Tribot DisplayLink demos multi-monitor USB dongle Guitar Hero gets true air axe WowWee demos FemiSapien …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 11 Jan 12:43

  • Casio readies launch of 'world's fastest-shooting' digicam

    CES But scales back 300fps mode

    Casio finally looks set to launch its fastest snapper yet, the Exilim EX-F1. However, it has cut back on the camera's movie frame rate since unveiling a prototype model at the IFA show in Berlin last year. Casio's EX-F1: 300fps shooter It was originally thought that the EX-F1 would support 300 frames per second (fps) at a …

    Cameras 11 Jan 12:51

  • Toshiba demos Cell-equipped HDTV

    CES What it's doing with the PS3 processor

    Toshiba used the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to explain why it plans to incorporate the PlayStation 3's Cell processor into future LCD TV products. Tucked away in one corner of Toshiba's cavernous CES stand was a prototype Cell-equipped telly running a range of image processing demos. The Japanese giant showed two key apps …

    HD 11 Jan 13:43

  • Bed maker constructs cot for gadget lovers

    Never sleep again

    If you’re always searching for a reason for 'just an extra five minutes' in the mornings, then here it is: a hi-tech bed that combines all the latest gadgetry. The Starry Night Tech Bed The Starry Night Sleep Technology Bed includes wireless internet connectivity, an iPod docking station and a plethora of surround sound …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 11 Jan 14:11

  • OpenMoko preps Linux phone prototype

    CES on Video Wi-Fi, GPS on board

    OpenMoko's open source phone software is on its way, and now there's a handset to go with it, ready for budding coders to begin creating apps for the platform. Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com CES 2008 on Video Microsoft demos Surface multi-touch user interface WowWee wheels in Tribot DisplayLink …

    Phones 11 Jan 14:32

  • Toshiba quietly shows fuel-cell fitted UMPC

    CES Methanol-powered processing

    Toshiba didn't make much of a fuss about its UMPC, claiming the smooth-cornered handheld PC was intended to demo technologies the company develops to potential manufacturer customers. One such technology: fuel cells. Toshiba's fuel cell-fitted UMPC Toshiba didn't want to say what the unit's specification was, but we can say …

    PCs 11 Jan 16:14

  • Showa Denko ships 40GB 1.3in HDD

    Tiny

    Japan's Showa Denko (SDK) has begun mass producing a phone-friendly 1.3in hard drive that can hold 40GB of data - the most capacious product of its kind, the company claimed. Seagate, for one, has 1in drives out there, but they only run to 8GB. Samsung is working on 1.3in HDDs, but hasn't shipped one yet. SDK didn't go into …

    Storage 11 Jan 16:45

  • Panasonic previews monster 150in plasma

    CES 4x HD

    Panasonic demo'd what must be the world's biggest TV, let alone the world's largest HD plasma screen. Its 150in display crams in a whopping 4096 x 2160 pixels more than four times 1080p's 1920 x 1080. Panasonic's 150in TV: monster It's a prototype, of course, but if the one-time gimmick 103in model can become a TV consumers …

    HD 11 Jan 17:40

  • Hackers graft Google Android onto hardware

    As first prototype surfaces

    Mobile phone handsets based on Google's Android platform are due to appear some time in the second half of this year but hackers have already got a cut-down version of the software running on devices. By combining an Android Software Development kit with an emulator and a Poky Linux kernel, a hacker called Cortez has created …

    Phones 11 Jan 19:46