Archive for December 7th, 2007
Friday, December 7th, 2007
Filed under: DisplaysBenQ has announced a new projector designed for big conference rooms in the German and European markets. The SP870 is a 1,024 x 768-native DLP sporting 5,000 lumens and a 2,000:1 contrast ratio, with a 33-36 dB noise range and DVI and VGA inputs. The 10.8-pound projector will ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Filed under: Storage, NetworkingWe've already seen a handful of networked storage devices running Windows Home Server, and now comes yet another option from across the ocean in France, Omwave's one to four terabyte OMSERVER. Both the 1TB and 4 x 500GB 2TB options are based on Intel's G32 chipset, powered ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Filed under: Peripherals, Wireless
We've seen so many gimmicky input devices -- keyboards, mice, tilt-a-mice, the like -- that we almost dismissed this little gem at first glance. The LtWV Wrist Vmote Lightglove is based on your wrist moment, but not in a vague waving-around sense. Instead, the device uses light ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless
The short of it is that the Slacker is an intriguing concept and decent product with some serious bugginess in the prototypes -- which is why it's probably a good thing it's been delayed until next year. Walt Mossberg has been kicking around the "blocky" player ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Filed under: Displays, Portable Video
We've certainly got to hand it to Dutch retailer relaxView B.V., which is making a name for itself by bundling off-the-shelf components together with a "hygiene set" and marketing the package as a distraction kit for providers of painful services. Following the presumed success of its ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Tanita's been known to mesh gadgetry with health before, but its latest creation really goes beyond the call. This body fat measuring system apparently enables patients to remain firmly glued to the bed / sofa / etc. rather than actually, you know, getting up and moving, when ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Filed under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentAnother day, another format war rumor. Business Week has a lengthy writeup on the possibility of lone dual-format holdout Warner Brothers switching to Blu-ray exclusively, and how it could affect the outcome of the long-running feud between high-definition disc formats HD DVD and Blu-ray. The rumor ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
The iPhone Dev Team has been calling their AnySim iPhone unlock tool "open source" from the start, but they've finally made good on their promise and posted the code on Google Code. Have at it, hackers -- not being able to unlock new 1.1.2 iPhones is surely putting a damper ...
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