Solid Alliance creates the limit for expensive flash memory with their $800USD flash drive called the Mottainai. It’s got 24K gold and crystal settings from Satsuma Kiriko (a who’s-who glass maker in Japan). Although gold is the shinny layer on the outside the enclosure is mostly made of bronze. The heavy weight goes along with the heavy price. Aren’t flash drives inertly designed to be light-weight and portable?
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Pulling-out-all-the-stops is Creative’s MO for product release and it’s no different with their new Live!Cam Optia USB web camera. Besides the cool factor and sexy look the small, stylish Live!Cam is stuffed with usable features. Although 1.3MPs isn’t the best webcam spec we’ve seen it does have auto lighting and brightness level settings. There is greater viewing flexibility with the multi-axis swivel arm
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E Ten has the slim-jim phone Pocket PC lovers would,…well,…love. The Glofiish X500 is a very thin Pocket PC based off E Ten’s internal antenna design. The improved ergonomics of the phone are just for starters. You also get GPS and Wi-Fi built in and integrated two hot-keys. The Glofiish features 2 quick application buttons that offer one-thumb navigation of Pocket PC applications, 2 dedicated phone function buttons and several user-configurable soft-keys that will allow for customization.
Future products will incorporated Bluetooth, multimedia video and audio capacities and a 2.0MP camera.
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Gizoo has a USB Volkswagen Street Mouse which also works as a Skype internet phone. It’s naturally a perfect fit as the ergonomic round design of the Beetle works well as a USB mouse. This little jalopy also has speakers and mic for wire free VoIP calling and for private conversations the back wheel is your headphone jack. Street Mouse includes fully functional LED headlights for that oh-so-real feel.
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Mimoco supply a full breath of USB storage products and bring them to life with their artist rendition gadgets. Their latest is the Star Wars Chewbacca mimobot. If you’re into this kinda thing, then preorder your drive now as only 2,500 are being made.
The limited edition mimobot will also carry exclusive Star Wars content. Mimoco must have one heck of a connection to get exclusive content from control freak George Lucas. Capacities range from 1GB to 4GBs and prices from $79 to $170USD respectively. So belly up with a non-refundable $10 deposit and book your 2 3/8in. Wookie.
Samsung, in conjunction with eidicom, have presented the new EW-700 WiFiFone Smart phone that uses their new co-developed Post-PC multimedia processor.
It has a fairly impressive list of features with everything from a web browser, MP3 player, IM client, movie player, 2MP camera and integrated Outlook Data Sync. That’s all very well, but it’s the VoIP we’re after
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Experience a new realm of TV viewing on your Mac with the Miglia TVDuo, a dual channel digital miniantenna and recording system. The unique thing about the TVDuo is the dual antennas available. This is a big plus if you are experiencing a poor signal as setting both antennas to the same channel will greatly enhance reception and viewing, which is the point of HDTV.
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It seems like every 3 days or so there is another VoIP phone product being released. To keep on par with that trend, yesterday US Robotics turned out a new Skype VoIP phone. The USR9630 includes a touch-pad phone and base unit. The base unit connects to both the handset (plus 3 more) and your standard land-line. The USR9630 is not PC free however,
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3Com is leading the charge for SIP VoIP cell phones. SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol and SIP enables call-management functions to be embedded in the phone itself, rather than in the network infrastructure. Although this looks almost exactly like the D-Link DPH-541, the new 3Com wireless 3108 VoIP phone is geared towards government facilities, doctors, nurses and college campus’.
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With curves like a classic Ford Mustang the Banshee surround sound iPod speaker system adds that touch of style that wont diminish the look of your sleek looking gadget from Apple. The Banshee is a one-and-only surround sound listening station fit into a single enclosure. With the Banshee secret sauce patented audio technology
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USB flash drives continue to pave the way on how people use solid state memory. First we had the simple replacement of the floppy via USB thumb drive, then our beloved U3 platform for portable applications, now we see bands releasing music on flash drives. I don’t think we’ll ever see that from Compact Flash or Sony and their Memory Stick.
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Typcially a professional grad microphone runs through some sort of preamp to get the full rich sound of a broadcast quality pickup. However, MXL Microphones, a division of Marshall Electronics, has a USB mic which delivers the same quality of sound as traditional studio designs without the preamp.
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Solid Alliance creates the limit for expensive flash memory with their $800USD flash drive called the Mottainai. It’s got 24K gold and crystal settings from Satsuma Kiriko (a who’s-who glass maker in Japan). Although gold is the shinny layer on the outside the enclosure is mostly made of bronze. The heavy weight goes along with the heavy price. Aren’t flash drives inertly designed to be light-weight and portable?
Continue Reading
E Ten has the slim-jim phone Pocket PC lovers would,…well,…love. The Glofiish X500 is a very thin Pocket PC based off E Ten’s internal antenna design. The improved ergonomics of the phone are just for starters. You also get GPS and Wi-Fi built in and integrated two hot-keys. The Glofiish features 2 quick application buttons that offer one-thumb navigation of Pocket PC applications, 2 dedicated phone function buttons and several user-configurable soft-keys that will allow for customization.
Future products will incorporated Bluetooth, multimedia video and audio capacities and a 2.0MP camera.
Continue Reading
Gizoo has a USB Volkswagen Street Mouse which also works as a Skype internet phone. It’s naturally a perfect fit as the ergonomic round design of the Beetle works well as a USB mouse. This little jalopy also has speakers and mic for wire free VoIP calling and for private conversations the back wheel is your headphone jack. Street Mouse includes fully functional LED headlights for that oh-so-real feel.
Continue Reading
Samsung, in conjunction with eidicom, have presented the new EW-700 WiFiFone Smart phone that uses their new co-developed Post-PC multimedia processor.
It has a fairly impressive list of features with everything from a web browser, MP3 player, IM client, movie player, 2MP camera and integrated Outlook Data Sync. That’s all very well, but it’s the VoIP we’re after
Continue Reading
Experience a new realm of TV viewing on your Mac with the Miglia TVDuo, a dual channel digital miniantenna and recording system. The unique thing about the TVDuo is the dual antennas available. This is a big plus if you are experiencing a poor signal as setting both antennas to the same channel will greatly enhance reception and viewing, which is the point of HDTV.
Continue Reading
It seems like every 3 days or so there is another VoIP phone product being released. To keep on par with that trend, yesterday US Robotics turned out a new Skype VoIP phone. The USR9630 includes a touch-pad phone and base unit. The base unit connects to both the handset (plus 3 more) and your standard land-line. The USR9630 is not PC free however,
Continue Reading
3Com is leading the charge for SIP VoIP cell phones. SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol and SIP enables call-management functions to be embedded in the phone itself, rather than in the network infrastructure. Although this looks almost exactly like the D-Link DPH-541, the new 3Com wireless 3108 VoIP phone is geared towards government facilities, doctors, nurses and college campus’.
Continue Reading
With curves like a classic Ford Mustang the Banshee surround sound iPod speaker system adds that touch of style that wont diminish the look of your sleek looking gadget from Apple. The Banshee is a one-and-only surround sound listening station fit into a single enclosure. With the Banshee secret sauce patented audio technology
Continue Reading
Typcially a professional grad microphone runs through some sort of preamp to get the full rich sound of a broadcast quality pickup. However, MXL Microphones, a division of Marshall Electronics, has a USB mic which delivers the same quality of sound as traditional studio designs without the preamp.
Continue Reading
