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Tech NewseMusic Live: Finally A New Use For Flash Drives
eMusic’s new service ‘eMusic Live’ lets music fans bring home the live music just performed, recorded instantly onto a $20 flash drive. An eMusic Live kiosk is installed in each venue and records each show—presumably with a human operator (e.g. stoned indie rock ‘sound guy’), although the AP story doesn’t say—and afterwards fans purchase the … Continued
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DVD Burner Showdown
Seems like when we weren’t looking DVD burners went from being a luxury peripheral to a commodity. And hey, that’s great, but if your machine isn’t one of the (relatively) newer ones that came with burner installed, which one should you get? TrustedReviews invokes that hardware review stalwart, the shootout (always disappointingly bereft of any … Continued
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CU928 Smartphone Up Close and Personal
Slashphone got their hands on one of those CU928 Windows Mobile phones with the sliding keyboard and took some up close shots, including these side-to-side comparisons with the XDA II. The best thing about the CU928 (at least from an American perspective) is that it has the capability to operate on Sprint and Verizon’s CDMA … Continued
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Fun-Killing DVD Player On Sale at Wal-Mart
Looks like Wal-Mart will be carrying a DVD player with the ClearPlay-developed technology that strips nudity, violence, and foul language from DVDs. There is a catch, natch: the $70 DVD player doesn’t detect the moral transgressions as they play, but instead uses pre-loaded filters that must be purchased from ClearPlay, from $20 for unlimited access … Continued
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TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Belt-Driven Masterpiece
Inspired by high-performance racing engines, the engineers at TAG Heuer have constructed the world’s first drive-belt transmission-powered watch, the one-of-a-kind Monaco V4 Concept. Displacing traditional watch design innards for a four-barrel sapphire and platinum linear oscillating mass system, the V4 throws almost 300 years of watch design out the window, rethinking entirely the way that … Continued
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FCC Requires Firewire on All Cable Boxes
As of April 1st, cable companies are required to provide a Firewire-enabled cable box to anyone that asks, as per an FCC interpretation of Section 304 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. What this means to you is that easy ripping and recording of HDTV streams is just a phone call to your cable company … Continued
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AMD’s $200 ‘Emma’ Internet Appliance
AMD CEO Hector Ruiz dropped word Monday of a new project code-named “Emma,” an integrated chip designed for use in an cigarette pack-sized internet appliance that they hope to sell for less than $200. The tiny computer would have ports for keyboard, monitor, and ‘internet connection’ (presumably Ethernet), and would likely utilize some sort of … Continued
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Other Bits
Product Highlights • Oceanic DV-64, MP3 Flash Player for Scuba [DESWorldwide Thanks, Kat!] • 400GB Hard Drive in Stores [XbitLabs Thanks, Johan] • GPRS/GPS Receiver [GPSPassion] • New Free WiFi Hotspot Directory [HotSpotHaven] • Swarming Traffic Cones [Thanks, Sleepy!] • CuWin, OpenSource WiFi Swarming Mesh Software [WiFiNetNews via BoingBoing] • New Mess of Samsung Printers … Continued
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Swingin’, Blingin’
If you’re going to drop a ride, playa, then you drop that ride. I don’t know any of the details, but when my pal Matt sent me these pictures of a blinged out golf cart, I immediately pawed at my chest, and sure enough, this shit was right off the chizane. Look – Bling Cart … Continued
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Panasonic G70; Concerning Pigtails and Inkwells
Our buddy Mark sent us these pictures of the Panasonic G70, the compact phone that’s for the ladies, now available in his native Kuwait. The G70 isn’t a new phone, but I’d yet to see anyone—male or female—use one in person. Despite the fact I am a misogynistic woman-hater, raised exclusively on a diet of … Continued
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iTunes Improves as Russians Sell By The Pound
Apple has released an update to iTunes, adding a new Party Shuffle mode that lets you aggregate different playlists into a live, dynamic mix, lossless encoding via the ‘Apple Lossless Codec’ (which is hopefully a FLAC implementation, and not just a high bit rate version of AAC), new links into the iTunes Music Store, CD … Continued
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IBM Thinkpad R50 Review
While it isn’t the powerhouse the T41P is, the IBM Thinkpad R50 is a solid notebook with a great screen, ample processor, and well-rounded connectivity via WiFi and Bluetooth. If you need a bullet-proof $1,600 laptop (and don’t have any need to play the latest games), the R50 might be the black slab of computing … Continued
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Mouse Grips, The Truck Bed Liner of Peripherals
Nothing says Summer like scraping hand salsa out your sweaty mouse crevices. I’d say just suck it up and wash your hands more often, but if you’d like to throw some technologickal arts at it, consider Mouse Grips, a set of neoprene traction pads that stick on to your mouse to provide better purchase (because … Continued
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Holographic Storage: Help Me Optware, You’re Our Only Hope.
A company known as Optware has debuted a holographic storage prototype which they expect to release in a retail version by 2006. The device uses “polarized collinear holography” that coordinates both blue-violet and red lasers in combination to record between 200 to 300GB of data on a single 12cm disc. I wonder how similar this … Continued
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Possible Playstation Price Drop, Xbox 2 PowerPC or Bust
The falling sales number of the Playstation 2 may signal a price cut ahead as the Xbox takes a units-sold lead for the first time in the console race. The Xbox is currently selling for $149, while the Playstation hovers at $179. It’s not unrealistic to expect a price-drop announcement from Sony at this year’s … Continued
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Space Toast, Broast to Roast
For those of you candy asses too sissified to roast your bread over open flame (my landlord hates this), a new UK-based company’s invention may be finding its way into The Toaster of the Future. The newly patented system monitors sugar and carbon particles in the bread with a sensor, precisely detecting the effects of … Continued
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Iomega Rev Review
Pocket-Lint has a review of the Iomega Rev, the new 35GB/90GB removable disk drive from the people that brought you the Zip (click click click) and Jaz formats. Stuart seems to like the Rev well enough, so if you’re in need of that sort of storage, I suppose the Rev merits a spare gander, but … Continued
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Iraq Sneakers
It’s a little outside our bailiwick, but we’ll go all Josh Rubin here for a second to mention these Dsquared ‘Iraq’ Sneakers, similar in style to the Canada or Brazil sneakers that you people without metal stumps for legs get such a kick out of. Now you can support the war effort/make derisive political statements … Continued
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