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I got into the MP3 player market a little late. I was in high school during the early years of the
digital music revolution, so I couldn't really afford the players of the time. My very first foray
into MP3 hardware was with a very, very poorly made RCA MP3-CD player. I upgraded from that to a
Creative Muvo2 with the microdrive ripped out and a 512MB CompactFlash card installed. I never used
it much, because the interface was clunky and annoying to use.
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| DropZone HangTimer |
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Recently, Katie at a href="http://blastoutdoors.com/" title="Welcome to Blast Media"BLAST Outdoors/a sent Julie one of a href="http://www.dropzonecorp.com/" title="Dropzone Corp"DropZone Corporation’s/a new a href="http://www.hangtimer.com/" title="Hangtimer"HangTimer/a extreme sports watches for review. Of course this review required the services of The Gadgeteer’s extreme sports and aberrant behavior specialist – a href="http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/bikeboard_ag_bikeboard_offroad" title="The Gadgeteer - Bikeboard AG Bikeboard Offroad"Seth/a (my son). Seth gravitates towards activities known to cause skin loss, bruises, and the occasional broken bone. In a nutshell – he is nuts.
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| iwave cube Portable Microwave |
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I don't know about all of you, but the first thing I do after getting seated on a flight is to open the seat back pocket to find the latest issue of the a href="http://www.skymall.com/" title="SkyMall Shopping Magazine | Online Catalog Shopping | Online Shopping Mall - SkyMall"Skymall/a catalog. I didn't change that habit on my last trip when I went out to San Francisco for a href="http://the-gadgeteer.com/article/macworld_expo_2008" title="The Gadgeteer - Macworld Expo 2008"MacWorld Expo/a. One of the more interesting items that I saw in the catalog was the tiny iwave cube portable microwave from a href="http://www.icubedesigns.com/" title="Welcome to icube designs"icube designs/a. Coincidently, a few days after returning from the trip, I was contacted asking if I might like to review this mini appliance. Of course I said yes. Let's take a look...
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| I wish I had one of these last spring when raccoons were digging up my lawn. It's a motion activated lawn sprinkler, for the express purpose of scaring away garden pests such as raccoons, dogs, cats, and other animals. When triggered by its infrared day-or-night motion sensor, it sprays a forceful stream of water at the intruders.
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| Casio Atomic Time Watch |
| I've seen so many watches lately that record and display all sorts of data that I'd forgotten what a watch is really for: to tell you the time. But how do you make sure your watch has the right time? With Casio's atomic time watch, you don't need to worry about it.
The watch receives radio signals from five atomic clocks across the world, thus ensuring that your watch will tell you the correct time for the next 30 million years. Other features include the usual multiple alarms (4), timer, stopwatch, and solar power!
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| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:01:00 EST PSPgo packs a 480MHz processor, probably not crossing 333MHz mark |
Officially, Sony's PSPgo is only clocking in at 333MHz like the rest of its brothers and sisters, but as the gang at Sony Insider found out in the FCC filing, the internal processor actually maxes out at 480MHz. What that means for gamers is probably nothing in the near future, since the firmware'll underclock it to standard speeds and we've seen absolutely no sign Sony's interested in releasing software exclusively for the UMD-less iteration at this point. Of course, the opportunity to capitalize on the upped hardware is gonna be there, and we still remember a noticeable difference in the technical quality of games released after Sony bumped its original PSP's clockspeed from 266MHz to its max 333MHz, but for now, it's just something to keep in the back of your mind.
[Via Sony Insider]Filed under: Gaming PSPgo packs a 480MHz processor, probably not crossing 333MHz mark originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments |
| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:16:00 EST Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time |
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Looks like the Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet has made it out of the labs (and controlled show floor settings) and into the hands of Crave UK, where that seemingly-amazing resistive touchscreen continues to impress -- so much so that they initially thought it was a capacitive unit. We actually pinged Crave ed Nate Lanxon to find out what was up, and the real story appears to be a mystery -- either Archos PR is mistaken in telling everyone that it's a resistive screen, or the company has somehow improved the tech to the point where it's virtually indistinguishable from a capacitive display. Given our experience with previous Archos resistive touchscreen devices that felt like mush, we've got to say we're going with Occam's Razor on this and that it's really capacitive, but we're definitely ready to be proven wrong -- hey Archos, you feel like sending us a new toy to play with? Filed under: Tablet PCs Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments |
| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:25:00 EST LG eyes number two phone maker spot for 2012, premium brand in the works |
 Sitting pretty as the number three cell maker in the world would make many of the bigger names happy -- not to mention the usurped Sony Ericsson and Motorola a bit green -- but not LG, as it's now gunning for spot number two. In an interview with Yonhap, LG's president of its mobile business, Ahn Seung-kwon, stated that the company hoped to bump Samsung to the wayside by 2012 with the help of a serious new set and a premium brand. While the gaudiness of really expensive handsets disturbs us at times, we'll admit that mention that LG's looking at a foray into the über high end of the spectrum -- with the likes of Nokia's Vertu -- piques our curiosity a good deal. And what about that serious new set we mentioned? Apparently in Q4 of this year, LG will launch a new Black Label-branded device to compete directly with iPhone, which when coupled with dreams of more success from yet another Prada device (and if we're super fortunate, some more Transformers-branded stuff) is part of the master scheme to start down the path. Will they crack it? Well, if we were betting types, we'd lean towards not likely as long as the Samsung juggernaut's standing in the way -- but we're all for watching them try.Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds LG eyes number two phone maker spot for 2012, premium brand in the works originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments |
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| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:30:00 EDT With a Name Like 'Luminotherapy' It Hardly Sounds Seedy at All [Furniture] |
| pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/luminosity3_rect540-1.jpg" width="500" height="408" style="display:block;" /Philippe Boulet's "luminotherapy" bed is supposed to help you sleep. But since when does light shining in someone's face help them sleep?/p pLoaded with a variety of multicolored LEDs, you can change the hue of the luminotherapy bed with the touch of a remote. The resulting colors, such as pink, blue and green will make your lover glow with all the vibrancy of a Star Trek Original Series alien babe. Well, that, or they'll give you night terrors of being stuck on a Cylon base ship (before they got all lovey hippie on the humans) or a painfully hipster sushi joint. [a href="http://english.philippebouletcreation.com/index-en.php?page=bed#"phillipe boulet/a via a href="http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/lighting/philippe-boulets-luminotherapy-poesy-bed-088973"Unplggd/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:00:00 EDT Self-Portrait Machine Forces Your Hands Into Drawing a Pretty Picture [Robots] |
| pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/selfportraitmachine.jpg" width="425" height="283" style="display:block;" /No artistic ability? Let a friendly robot force your hands into drawing a realistic self-portrait of yourself./p pJen Hui Lia's a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged SELF-PORTRAIT MACHINE" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/self_portrait-machine/"Self-Portrait Machine/a takes your picture and then guides your hands into drawing your own portrait. You slip your wrists and index fingers into the straps, hold a pen and the machine does the rest./p pIt's sort of gimmicky now, sure, but imagine the next generation of this thing: instead of a picture as the source, it uses your brainwaves to put down whatever you're picturing in your head on paper. Who needs talent? [a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/07/selfportrait-machine.php"We Make Money Not Art/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:54:29 EDT Apple's Future iPhone Patents Show Fingerprint ID For Different Gestures, Plus More [Patent] |
| pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/apple-fingerprint.jpg" width="500" height="477" style="display:block;" /MacRumors found three interesting patents that point to various new interaction techniques. The most interesting is the fingerprint ID directly on the screen so that the iPhone can see which finger you're using and accept gestures appropriately./p pThe fingerprint ID also, of course, can theoretically act as a security device so that only you can activate your phone. There's also haptic (physical) feedback when you're hitting things, as well as using the touchscreen as an RFID reader. None of the three are really mindblowing in themselves, on the surface, but if implemented intelligently might make for a big step forward in the iPhone product line. [a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2009/07/02/haptic-feedback-fingerprint-identification-and-rfid-tag-readers-in-future-iphones/"Macrumors/a via a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/07/02/new-apple-patents-include-tactile-haptic-feedback-fingerprint-id-and-rfid-tag-readers/"Boy Genius/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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