Maxian, that Korean maker of portable media players and the like, has a new model PMP dubbed the D900. The D900 has a good set of specifications such as a 4.3 inch WVGA screen and support for many if not most popular audio, video and pic formats.
Maxian D900 - Maxian Press Release, Oct 28, 2006

The Times had a look at 6 newish smartphones, and thought most highly of the HTC Hermes. They compared the Hermes to the Nokia N73 , BlackBerry 8700 , Palm Treo 750v , HTC MTeoR and the Sony Ericsson P990i, and decided that the Hermes had the best overall blend/compromise of features including design, keyboard, [...]

Windows XP, released on October 25, 2001, turned 5 years old a couple of days ago. Despite a spate of bad publicity a while back, and numerous naysayers, we’ve not had many significant problems with the operating system and its been relatively stable for us here at GadgetManiac HQ. And so, happy 5th birthday to [...]

The ray gun, or directed energy weapon as they like to call it these days, continues its remarkable ex-migration from the pages of science fiction…we mentioned the Airborne Laser (ABL) a while ago - it’s designed to shoot down ballistic missles during the launch phase. Boeing’s new Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) achieved first light this [...]

If you buy a Nokia N93 cell phone over the next little while, Nokia will throw in a 512 MB miniSD card, that’s preloaded with the movie Mission: Impossible III, for free. This seems to be an effort by Nokia to show off the multimedia capabilities of their Nseries of phones.
Now, you too can watch [...]

Here’s another view of the “World’s Most Beautiful Sports Car” for 2005 this one in Verde Faunus…

Microsoft Flight Simulator X has just been reviewed by Eurogamer, and they gave the game, er, past time, a lame 7/10. While they liked the new features and the much improved resolution, they felt the game itself was boring but playability could be improved by equipping each plane with nuclear-tipped missiles.
For a more upbeat review, [...]

The Everingham Rotating House in Australia is sort of like the Suite Vollard, which is a rotating apartment building located in Brazil, only smaller.
The ERH can pull a full 360 degrees in half an hour — faster than Suite Vollard’s sluggish time of one hour.
Everingham Rotating House - website

Well, it came as a surprise to us, but apparently the mythical iPod killer is already here, and it’s none other than the Sony Play Station Portable, at least acccording to an article in MP3Newswire.
The piece offers the following evidence to support their claim: Sony currently sells 1 PSP for every 2.3 iPods, and the [...]

Newsweek interviewed Steve Jobs recently in a kind of retrospective on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the launch of the iPod which is on Oct 23rd. Steve holds forth on why other companies have not been successful in the music player segment (no talent), why the iPod did so well (its holistic [...]