Sling Media’s Slingbox product has been in the works for some time now — indeed, its been almost a year since we last made note of it. Well, it was finally launched today, and it seems to have been worth the wait. Slingbox is a device that uses streaming video to redirect images [...]

Elecom has launched a new spreadsheet-oriented mouse called the M-DWUR. The mouse has a 2nd scroll wheel, this one for the thumb, intended to facilitate navigation around large spreadsheets, and the like. 800dpi. Elecom M-DWUR [...]

Today’s New York Times has an article on the nature and enigma of that thing called time. The piece presents a kind of rambling retrospective of past and current thinkers on the subject of time, touches on string theory, delves into that morass called time travel and the grandfather paradox, and ends by saying that [...]

Pocket PC Dubai has some information about the rumored / unannounced / leaked Motorola RAZRberry. The Franklin, as its also called, is a quad-band mobile phone running GSM/GPRS and EDGE, has Bluetooth, and uses the new Windows Mobile 5 operating system. Memory-wise, the RAZRberry has 128MB of flash, 64MB of RAM, [...]

Well, its not actually a shower phone … its a way to use your phone in the shower. The product is basically a plastic zip-lock bag for cell phones … objective being to use the phone in a wet environment (without damaging the phone). The Aqua Talk Flex Plastype, as the product is called, [...]

As the product name suggests, Logitech’s new “Logitech Wireless Headphones for iPod” sends digital music from an iPod to a set of headphones and does so without wires. Its based on a Bluetooth 1.2 adapter that plugs into almost any iPod. Playback is controlled via buttons on the side of the headphones. The product [...]

In the long-term, somebody, somewhere, will develop a Theory of Everything. TOE will provide a complete description of how our universe works, and hopefully, result in a boatload of some really funky gadgets … I’m thinking parallel universes, anti-grav, disentropy machines, quantum entanglement in time and superluminal communication. …but hey, what do I know?
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Samsung has just released the SPH-V7800, which is a 5 megapixel camera phone. The V7800 includes many features found mostly in higher-end digital cameras, such as : a 3x optical zoom, auto focus and flash, manual ISO setting, automatic exposure bracketing, manual white balance, filtering and 16:9 widescreen . It also plays music [...]

KT, the South Korea telecom company, will soon launch a family / security / helper robot dubbed the “Nespot Ru”. Basically, the unit rolls around the house under remote control, keeping an eye on things. It can monitor alarms and transmit video of seniors or the handicapped over Wi-Fi. I’m wondering [...]

X-bit Labs has an article comparing 2 office notes : Sony VAIO VGN-FS115ZR and HP Compaq nx8220. So what is their conclusion after 13 pages of charts & graphs and detailed feature-by-feature comparisons? … these two notebooks seem to be fairly equally matched. Their bottom line recommendation is that if [...]