1.3 MP ain’t bad, but if you’re giving a cameraphone a huge telescoping lens with it with a 3x zoom optical, you might want to aim for a higher pixel count. China only, and thankfully, only $130. UPDATE: Forehead slap. Obviously, this is not a DSLR, mechanically speaking. [Slashphone]… Continue Reading»
Springtime’s Bike Dispenser allows you to rent a RFID-equipped bike from one vending machine, ride it to your destination, drop it off at another vending machine, and walk away. The Dutch company won an award at the 2007 Spark Design & Architecture Awards for their idea, which is perfectly suited for an urban environment. Unfortunately, the bikes won’t do much for your cool factor. [TrendHunter]
OK, we’re calling it: this is the year of the sound bar, those long, slender speaker boxes that you see freakin’ everywhere. (Today alone we mentioned three companies introducing a total of six new models!) When our very own Brian Lam was at CES this past January, he heard the editor-in-chief of a top home Audiophile/Videophile magazine tell one of his lead sound gear writers “audio is just dead.” That kind of talk is not unexpected—it’s about as shocking as a French wine critic calling Australian shiraz “the end of civilization.” We all know sound… Continue Reading»
Today Epson rolled out its entry level line of printers with a few surprises: the $149 CX9400Fax, a super-valued all-in-one with a truly functional fax, a fast-as-hell $90 printer called the Stylus C120, and two more multifunctions (without fax), the $70 CX7400 and the $100 CX8400.
All-in-ones are plummeting in price. I remember when you couldn’t get anything decent for under $300, right about the time when fax features started vanishing, so it was crazy when Epson described the Stylus CX9400Fax—including the all-important auto document feeder for multi-page faxes—priced at $149. It’s not the Claria… Continue Reading»
We’ll be straight with you: under no circumstances should you give this villainous “hack” a go outside of one serious round of perfectly legal Capture The Flag. That said, a Hollywood-inspired individual figured that he’d rig up the next great security camera deactivation scheme for the 007 writers the world over to take note of, and if you’ve got a scope, a laser, a spare cellphone (and quick thumbs for SMS-ing), and a bit of wiring knowledge, you too can piece together a dubious hack that you’ll likely never utilize. ‘Course, if… Continue Reading»
The best design of iRiver I have seen, iRiver NV feature a 7-inch, 800 x 480 screen, a 1.3-megapixel camera, a “dual core” processor, runs on Windows CE 5.0, and supports OGG, MP3, WMA, XviD, AVI, AAC, and so on for media playback. The player also boasts T-DMB, a SiRFStar III GPS chip, two SD slots, stereo speakers, and USB connectivity. But the most unhappy thing about ot is that it is only to be lauched new korea for 498,000 Won, or about $536. let us hope the launch it in… Continue Reading»
With the rapid decrease in the size of mobile phone and other Gizmos which keep reducing their size, it become necessary for Scientists to make a really thin battery which will further decrease the size of batteries. Thats what they have done, make it papper thin. If you remember those motorolla Slim phone, battery is the only thing that makes them thinner. Now let us see what this new technology can do to the size of mobile phones. The best thing about this battery is that, it is biodegradable(Now we can say we are doing something to overcome the pollution)and… Continue Reading»
