Gadgets Technologies

by Paul Miller, posted Apr 24th 2008 at 9:06AM
Nokia’s having a bit of trouble keeping its E71 QWERTY business phone under wraps, with that initial sighting in January, and now another couple in-the-wild shots to keep us interested. If anything this serves confirm those previous shots, but it’s nice to see some autofocus on this 3.2 megapixel puppy. (Read the full post about ‘Nokia E71 sneaks into the wild once again’…)

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Don’t think USB charger connectors are overrated? Maker of Bluetooth headsets JayBird does. That’s why it has implemented a new kind of charger for its new JayBird JB-200 Bluetooth headphones. The patent pending JayBird charging design consists of a “small flat metal charging material on the inside surface of the right ear piece, which when sliding the headset into the custom slot on the charging dock connects the headset to the power supply” for charging. And other than this novel new feature, this funky looking pair of Bluetooth headphones will do you good for 5.5 hours with music and 6.5 hours during calls. (Read the full post about ‘JayBird JB-200 headphones let you experience cheap A2DP pleasure’…)

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Acer isn’t content with just making PCs and notebooks now I guess, as they have expanded their focus to include smartphones as well. The Taiwanese company has slated the end of this year at best or early next year at worst to release its first Windows Mobile smartphone, hoping to make smartphones contribute up to 10% of the company revenue. After purchasing E-Ten in March, Acer will stop producing PDAs and focus just one smartphones entirely, taking a different marketing strategy as well as it sells Acer smartphones via wireless carriers instead of at retail stores. How much success do you think Acer’s foray will achieve? (Read the full post about ‘Acer to come up with Smartphone’…)

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Dean Kamen is the inventor of the Segway and he has been working on something that is arguably much more useful: a water regenerator powered by cow dung. The dung generates energy and uses it to start a vapor condensation distillation process to generate up to 1000 liters of clean (distilled) water per day, per machine from any “wet” source (sewage, sea water, mud…). Dean’s point is that there’s a looming water shortage and according to him, 50% of human diseases could be averted by having clean water for all. I don’t know if his numbers are right or not, but it’s hard to argue that there’s no need for clean water. (Read the full post about ‘Water Regenerator from Segway Inventor’…)

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VTech has announced the retail and online availability of its latest phone systems, where the 2008 line up will feature the trend-setting LS6117 that spearheads VTech’s effort, touted to be the first cordless phone which is capable of delivering creative control over the phone’s aesthetics with customizable graphics. Other additions in the DECT 6.0 family are also stylish, providing the marriage of both form and function for your living room. According to Matt Ramage, senior vice president of product management, VTech Communications, “The 2008 lineup addresses what consumers want today — stylish designs with advanced technology features. (Read the full post about ‘VTech launches latest phone systems’…)

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Samsung today announced two new portable devices called the Samsung S2 ‘Pebble’ mp3 player and Samsung S3 Slim Portable Media Player. The players have been developed to fit comfortabley in your hands, they are also are offered in many different colors (black, white, red, green and purple) and are the perfect fasion statement for on-the-go entertainment. The main feature in the product is Samsung’s Digital Natural Sound engine 2.0 (DNSe) technology which provides High-Quality acoustics that are optimized for playback through a set of earphones. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung S3 and S2 Slim Portable Media Players’…)

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Challenge a developer and get a new app, at least that’s how DupeDeDupe was born. A question came up in the Mobius group about the best software to use for de-duping your contacts in Windows Mobile. Instead of answering the question, Paul from Modaco whipped up his own application that does a “down and dirty” job of comparing your contacts based on the following fields: File As, Email, and Home / Work / mobile phone fields. If they all match, it’s a dupe. You can then decide if you want to remove the dupes.

I’ve enjoyed my fair share of duplicates in the past since I switch between different devices.

(Read the full post about ‘Dedupe your Windows Mobile contacts for free with DupeDeDupe’…)

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The Nokia 5000 is a candybar phone offering a 1.3 megapixel camera as well as the following features:

* dual-band GSM (900/1800MHz or 850/1900MHz)
* Bluetooth
* 2″ QVGA resolution main display
* Nokia’s S40 user interface
* available in Cyber Green, Neon Blue, or Perfect Purple

Via MobileBurn.

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Once you have yourself a NES On a Chip (NOAC), any classic Nintendo mod is as much a feat of imagination as it is of engineering. And that is exactly why we love French hacker Retrotaku’s NES-in-a-NES-Cart. He took the notoriously dodgy NOAC and slotted it into an original Mario Bros game cartridge. The tight squeeze called for some dremel work, and the result is a truly fitting home for the 8-bit wonder machine. The only thing that would be better is a SNES-in-a-cart running Super Mario Kart. If you need any confirmation as to the poor quality of those grey market chips, check the picture below to see how it handles the colors for Super Mario Bros. 5. Hold on. When did they make No.5? (Read the full post about ‘Retro Recursion: NES Mario Runs On NES Mario Cart’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Apr 23rd 2008 at 7:57AM Nearly a year after the innovative (albeit not-entirely-practical) Nintendo Fan Network went live at Safeco Field in Seattle, the powers that be have decided to nix those pesky access fees and give every DS-toting guest access gratis. That’s right, folks who show up to catch a Mariners game can now check out other MLB scores, dig deep within player stats, order up grossly overpriced grub and even watch a terribly pixelated version of the game they’re currently at without handing over one red cent. (Read the full post about ‘Nintendo’s DS-accessible Fan Network now free at Safeco Field’…)

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