Samsung Electronics will start selling their SEW-5HR127AT model washing machine next month. The main feature is reduced wrinkling and creasing of clothes. Samsung says that steaming the clothes during one of the cycles reduces ironing by more than 70 percent compared to older models.
The steam also helps to remove stains, and [...]

This is a new in-beta service from Google that aggregates and summarizes move reviews and their associated ratings. Enter “movie:Star Wars” into the Google search box to see a window of links to known reviews of Star Wars, as well as an average rating for the movie.
This new feature should stir [...]

Apple announced some changes to the iPod mini and iPod photo product lines today. The base model of the mini stays at a capacity of 4GB (1000 songs), but has a 20% price reduction and a 125% increase in battery life. A new model mini holds 6GB, at the old price point of $249. [...]

Looking to rid the solar system of that pesky third planet? … need some options and a project plan? You’re in luck, someone’s already done some preliminary work in that area. Sam Hughes has a very humorous and a more-or-less science-based approach outlined below. For those who are alarmists, the good news is that [...]

Sony will announce that it will not release any new Clie PDAs and will stop production of all models in July 2005. The last “Communication Linkage for Information & Entertainment” model PDA is thus the VZ90.

Unofficial announcement.

Sony is counter-attacking in the flash-based MP3 player marketplace with some new, lightweight small form-factor models, grouped in 3 product lines. The NW-E405 has 512MB of flash memory, and the NW-E407 series doubles that to 1GB. The NW-E505 is the same as the E405 line, but adds an FM tuner.

The Sony Style [...]

Mobile PC magazine has released their list of ‘The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time’.
The Apple Powerbook 100 (circa 1991) is the best gadget of all time, in their view. The article mainly extols the ergonomic innovations introduced with the Powerbook 100, such as keyboard and trackball placement, as well as [...]

Muzio’s JMH-1000 is a new MP3 player based on a 1-inch 4GB hdd. The device supports MP3, ASF, OGG and WMA formats. A novel but not unique feature is variable playback speed control in the range of 70%~130%.
Weight and size are in the low-medium range.
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The LG-KF1000 mobile phone, announced back in September 2004, was launched yesterday. The KF1000 is positioned as an ‘All in One Mobile’, meaning that it provides both wireless and wired combination service.
The KF1000 is a CDMA 1X EV-DO device with the following features : 1.3 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth 1.2, Speaker phone, stereo speakers, MP3 [...]