The perfect cellphone

MyOrigo is in the pre-production stages of developing my perfect cellphone. The "mydevice" is a tri-band GSM with GPRS cameraphone, with built-in PDA functions such as address books, calandar, and the usual applications. What sets mydevice apart from the...

New PSX Adds Power

Speaking of game consoles, Sony has revealed a hybrid game/tv system based on it's PlayStation2 technology. The PSX combines the guts of the PS2 with an analogue TV reciever, a DVD recorder, and a 120Gb Hard Drive. The PSX...

5MP in a tiny package

Sony has released the new Sony DSC-T1 digital camera. What's the big deal? It's a 5 megapixel camera that is just 91mm x 60mm and only 21mm thick. Despite the small size, they still manage to fit in...

Schmoozing the Hi-tech way

The Pop!Tech conference in Maine last month brought in a new way to help visitors meet and greet each other. Each of the conferences 500 attendees were given an nTag to wear around their neck. About the...
At just 138g, the new Gigabeat G20 is the thinnest, lightest and smallest hard drive based portable music player on the market. It measures a mere 8.95 x 7.65 x 1.27cm, compared to Apple's iPod (10.25 x 6...
The ACCESS project uses a camera to track people in a hallway, then controls an intellibeam and a targetted speaker to freak out unsuspecting targets. Fun to watch, and also a great use of technology!
Toshiba has released a nickel-sized hard drive for mobile phones, PDA's or MP3 players. The disk is just 0.85" in diameter and can hold 2 or 3 Gb of information. Imagine one of these in your Digital Camera....
Back in January, Apple announced their revolutionary new iPhone. It was a great device, but it's ties to AT&T really crippled it. First, their Edge network leave much to be desired. Secondly, and most importantly for...

ATI Powers next Xbox

Toronto-based ATI Technologies has beaten out rival Nvidia to build the graphics chip for the next-generation Xbox. The Xbox contract accounted for 15-20 percent of Nvidia's sales over the past two years yet they have been trying to...
The first big shoe has dropped. Warner brothers has announced that they will no longer support HD-DVD and focus its efforts on promoting Sony's Blu-ray standard as a high definition medium. As much as I would prefer HD-DVD to...

HDMI Standard on the way

In the next year you'll be hearing about HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) which aims to cut down on the clutter of wires behind your television set. The cable standard transmits uncompressed digital audio and video between your DVD...

Handheld Sampling

The Virgin Megastore in San Fransico will be rolling out "the most high-tech music retail environment" on Wednesday. Customers will be given a customised iPaq PocketPC to carry around the store with them. Customers browsing the music selection can...

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