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Tech NewsCellphone charger plus sterilizer
Perhaps we underestimate how germophobic people are these days, but is there really that much demand for a cellphone charger that sterilizes you’re phone while it’s being recharged? If you’re the only person who uses your phone, what’s the big deal? Read [Via SmartMobs]
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More on SEDs
Anyway, a quick search for information about surface-conduction electron-emitter displays turns up this definition on searchWin2000.com: The surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) is a flat-panel, high-resolution display currently under development by Canon and Toshiba. It is expected to gain wide acceptance for use in television receivers. Some SEDs have a diagonal measurement exceeding one meter (approximately … Continued
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Canon TV
First Gateway, then Dell and HP, now Canon is jumping into the flat panel television business. They’re starting a joint venture with Toshiba to build surface-conduction electron-emitter displays (yeah, we’d never heard of this either). The first Canon SED TVs should hit stores in 2005. Read
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Time-Warner’s HD DVR
Time-Warner is introducing a high-definition version of its cable box/digital video recorder. At least in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that is, where they appear to be testing the Explorer 8000HD from Scientific Atlanta before they roll it out nationwide. The press release for this announcement is curiously bereft of details, like how many hours of high-definition … Continued
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Locked phones making number portability a pain
Surprise, surprise, some people are finding out the hard way that when you switch carriers, you can take your number with you now, but usually not your phone. Besides the incompatibilites in networks (Verizon and Sprint use CDMA, Nextel uses iDEN, and T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless, and Cingular use GSM) most carriers lock their phones so … Continued
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Sanyo’s new video phone
A new Sanyo video phone from Sprint. The VM4500, which has both a 2.1-inch internal 65,000 color display and a 1-inch 65,000 color external display, can record video clips up to 15 seconds in length that can then be emailed to friends using Sprint’s new Video Mail service. It’s built-in digital camera (with flash!) can … Continued
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China Telecom to use Calypso’s WiFi cellphones
And in a similar vein, Dottocomu points us towards an article about Calypso Wireless and how they’ve just sealed a deal to provide China Telecom with combination GSM/WiFi cellphones. The handsets in question are undoubtedly Calypso’s C1250i, which you may recall them unveiling to some skepticism back in May, and from the looks of it, … Continued
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DoCoMo’s 3G/WiFi phone
Confirmation that DoCoMo has a combination 3G/WiFi cellphone in the works that is set to go on sale next April. The idea is that people would be able to use wireless Voice over IP at the office and then roam on the 3G cellular network everywhere else. We’re assuming you’d also be able to use … Continued
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Robotic walking chair
Japanese researchers at Waseda University and manufacturer Tmsuk have built a prototype two-legged robotic walking chair which can carry a person and walk up and down stairs. Sort of reminds us of the iBot 3000, that motorized wheelchair invented by Dean Kamen (i.e. Mr. Segway) that can also climb up and down stairs. Though without … Continued
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Gateway’s new Media Center PC
New Media Center PC from Gateway that does all the things you’ve come to expect from a Media Center PC, like record TV shows. Fortunately, they’ve finally ditched the standard PC form factor and the 901 Family Room Media Center looks exactly how you’d want a PC for your living room to look: like a … Continued
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Cameraphones edging out digital cameras
Ok, so cameraphones are hurting sales of digital cameras, we buy that. But an analyst with research firm iSuppli claims that Japanese consumers are buying high-resolution cameraphones and then cancelling the service to just use them as cameras. If you’ll excuse our incredulity, we’ve never heard of anyone doing this, and besides why would anyone … Continued
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The Professional Disc for Data
Sony’s new high density disc format, the Professional Disc for Data, is about to hit. Not to be confused with the new HD DVD format that was recently adopted, the first PDD drive, the BW-F101, uses a blue laser to squeeze as much as 23 gigabytes onto each disc. Apparently the drives cost a ton, … Continued
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Getting fit the gadget way
MSNBC roundup of fitness gadgets that are supposed to help you get more out of your workout, like the Fitlinxx, a line of networked gym equipment that lets you punch in a PIN and find out how many reps your supposed to do on each machine, the Timex Bodylink system that we mentioned the other … Continued
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Adaptec’s USB 2.0 TV tuner
Anyone who has ever used an external USB TV tuner to try and watch or record TV shows with their PC has probably discovered how the relatively slow speed of USB 1.1 translates into relatively low-quality video. This probably isn’t the first one of these on the market, but there’s a new external USB 2.0 … Continued
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