Samsung shines a little LED-goodness on their monitors…At CeBIT2007, Samsung announced their new 30-inch SyncMaster XL30 LCD monitor that comes equipped with an LED backlight, for better color reproduction. The new backlight system provides 123% of the NTSC color gamut, and is especially good with greens and reds…as compared to conventional CCFL backlighting.
The monitor itself has [...]

Watch-makers Bell & Ross seem to have some nice-looking new watches, including this one, which is model BR01-92. Its got a carbon-finish steel case with a cool black and orange dial.
The specs for the watch, available at the above link, describe the BR01-92 as being a “watch with genuine military specifications”. That’s nice to know, [...]

TecnoVISION S.p.A of Italy has on display at CeBIT2007 an LED display measuring 205 inches diagonally, to which they have attached the label “The World’s Largest TV - 205″ “. TecnoVISION seems to be a manufacturer of outdoor signage geared towards sporting events, trade shows, traffic and the like, so they seem to have brought one [...]

More news from CeBIT2007, this time about the E-Ten Glofiish X800, which made its premiere there today. The X800 is a 3.5G smartphone with GSM/HSDPA/W-CDMA connectivity, 2 cameras- the back one is 2MP, Windows Mobile ver 6, GPS and what looks like a nice VGA screen…GPS+VGA is always good. 
The E-Ten press release for the X800 indicates that [...]

CeBIT, the world’s largest computer show is now on in Germany and runs Mar 15-21. One of the items that will debut at CeBIT2007 is the next-gen Samsung Q1-Ultra UMPC, a follow-on to the moderately successful original Q1 that was launched at CeBIT2006.
The new Q1 Ultra Ultra Mobile PC (so nice, they named it twice) now runs Windows [...]

Although it seems like everybody is suing everyone else for patent infringement these days, it’s interesting to note that the number of patent suits (at least in the US) is not all that high. The stats indicate that there were only 2720 such actions in 2005, with plaintiffs winning about one-third of the time. While the volumes [...]

Archos, that maker of portable media players, has just announced their latest model the Archos 704-WiFi. The 704 plays most media such as music, photos and video, has WiFi (802.11g), a very nice 7 inch 800×480 screen and a 80GB disk. Specs are at this link.
A “media player” it may well be, but the attribute “portable” [...]

Well, the TED conference for 2007 just ended March 10th. TED is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design, and their stated goal is to ‘bring together folks with ideas of incalculable value’. Past conferences have often consisted of a bit of Technology, some Design and end up being mostly Entertainment. Social activism at the venue has increased over the years, prompting some to [...]

MacRumors is reporting that some graffiti artists draped an advertisement for the forthcoming Apple iPhone on the side of that nice Apple Store on 5th Ave in NYC. Shocking what these vandals think they can get away with…uh, wait a minute, this might be an inside job…never mind. 
Apple iPhone Ad on the NYC 5th Avenue Store - [...]

Here’s another nice device from Ambient Devices. The new Weather Watcher provides a 5-day forecast for 5 cities.
The data is sourced from accuweather.com and delivered via radio networks to the device.
Ambient Weather Watcher - product website