iriver (yes, the company name is all lower case now) introduced their new Clix2 digital audio player at CES 2007 last month, and plans to start selling it in a couple of months. The Clix2 replaces the well-regarded, but not so well-selling Clix, and improves on the older model in a number of ways…
The display for the Clix2 remains at [...]

History of sorts will be made on Feb 13, 2007 in Mountain View CA when D-Wave Systems demonstrates a quantum computer powered by a 16-qubit quantum processor capable of performing 64K calculations at the same time. D-Wave is plannning to show off the system’s capabilities by tackling the complexities involved in solving a 2-SAT wedding seating problem.
While some [...]

IDC reports that sales of handheld devices are down 28.5% for 2006 as compared to the year before. Palm continues to be the segment leader, moving 1.9 million units in 2006 for a year-over-year decline of 28.3%.
Customers continue to migrate to integrated and converged devices like smartphones and WiFi-enabled notebook computers as well as GPS devices and away [...]

Technology marches on and gives us new stuff like the Apple iPhone, and some measure of relief from hackneyed phrases such as iPod Killer. The newer term iPhone Killer may only be fresh for a short while, as a number of candidates have already come forward to challenge the device - such as the Prada Phone, as well as concepts [...]

If you happen to find yourself at the Olympics and discover that you’re competing in boxing or tae kwon do, then look down at the shorts that you were assigned - if perchance they’re red, then chances are as high as 65% that you’ll win your match. The positive effect of wearing red have been noted by many other [...]

Chateau Samsung, er Samsung Electronics, has just announced their 2007 Bordeaux Nouveau release - i.e.  the new Bordeaux line of LCD TVs for 2007. We last made note of the Bordeaux series back in April 2006. Since then, Sammy’s gone and doubled the contrast ratio to 10,000:1, thrown in some HDMI (3) and USB ports. Response time is quite good at [...]

The New York Times has a new 6-pic photo essay of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at work. While we don’t learn a whole lot about the world’s 24th richest person, we do find out that Steve has a small-ish office, uses an IBM Thinkpad, what seems to be a Sony SDM-M81 LCD monitor and has [...]

We’re looking into this, but in Japan, Microsoft seems to have teamed up with a company called Frepar Networks to deliver what looks like a virtualized 3D communication system.
In the manner of Star Wars, the other party to the dialogue appears in miniature on your desktop, and seems to respond in an appropriate manner.
Seems to be part [...]

Hasselblad, that self-described maker of high-end camera systems, has a new model of digital SLR, model H3D-31, that delivers 31 Megapixels at a resolution of 4872 x 6496 for a price of $24,995. Lenses & stuff like that could run the total cost to over $40K. The H3D is Hassy’s new top of the line, having been preceded by [...]

Well Windows Vista, that new operating system from Microsoft, finally arrived a couple of days ago. Business-types got their appropriately-named Business ($299 .. same price as XP Professional) and Enterprise versions a month ago, and the now the rest of us can officially buy one of Home Basic ($199), Home Premium ($239) and Ultimate ($399 .. ouch).
A quick visit [...]