This is the Ality PF-T80R Digital Photo Frame, Mustek’s new contender in the digital frame world. An 8-inch active matrix TFT touch sensitive display shows off your media. Other features include: 256MB of expandable storage by way of MMC, SD, CF, MS, and MS Pro memory cards. The frame supports bitmap, JPEG, MPEG-1/2/4 and WAV. Don’t forget the remote, clock/calendar, rechargeable battery, USB, and AV outputs. It will be available on May 21st starting at $299.
Created by HTC, this Smartphone does DVB-H using a 200MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 850 processor. Features include a 1.3-megapixel camera, 128MB Flash ROM, 64MB SDRAM, 2.2-inch LCD, Bluetooth, and microSD. The phone also comes with an integrated NVIDIA GoForce 5500 graphics chip. Watch below…
Data Evolution’s Cathena CX has a swiveling LCD, a growing trend among UMPCs now. Under the hood, a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 processor, 512MB RAM, 7-inch WVGA touchscreen display, and Bluetooth. Additionally, QWERTY keyboard, touchpad, 5-way directional joystick, audio in / out jacks, Ethernet, a pair of USB 2.0 connectors, VGA output, a four-in-one flash card reader, and a Li-ion battery. Comes with your choice of a 40GB, 80GB, or 100GB hard drive. It weighs 2.2-pounds and comes with Windows XP starting at $799.
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Features include quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE, W-LAN, Bluetooth, slide-out keyboard, and 2-megapixel cam. Also, Texas Instruments OMAP 850 201 MHz processor, 128 MB ROM, 64 MB RAM, and a 2.8-inch 65k color 240×320 TFT LCD touchscreen. O2 Germany is selling this for €279.99 ($382) with contract, or €519.99 ($710) with no contract.
Torrey Pines Logic of San Diego is developing the Mirage 1200, a device that uses ‘eye-safe’ lasers to detect the reflective light of a sniper’s gun scope. Watch the video below. Another sniper detecting system in development is DARPA’s C-Sniper system, which not much is known about.
These are great and all, but they don’t seem to have quite the meat iRobot’s RedOwl Sniper Detecting Robot has: “suite of advanced optics including a thermal camera, 300X zoom daylight/infrared camera, infrared laser illuminators, a rangefinder, high intensity white driving light, and voice communication microphones and speakers, all in a package that weighs less than 5 pounds.” My personal favorite sniper detecting method.
The new iSymphony V1BLUEe Bluetooth stereo system does 2x 10W plus 25W (subwoofer) audio, and is a first to be fully A2DP Bluetooth enabled. It features a CD player, FM/AM radio, SD/MMC slot, 64 track program memory, and USB.
Also, TechDigest says “it’s a duplex Bluetooth speaker phone too - if your phone rings, the V1BLUEe will pause the music, play ‘your’ ring tone through the system, display the incoming number and enable you to answer the call using the whole system as a hands-free speaker phone.” It will be priced at around $500 USD, and very worth it.
Ah yes, phones have become so much more than just a bar of plastic that you talk into. NTT-Neomeit announced an inexpensive service that lets you control home devices with cellphones. The service is called “U-Consento†and it’s scheduled for availability this September (in Japan at least). They plan to rent out the home remote control system starting at around 500 yen ($4 USD) a month.
According to Pink Tentacle, the “service is designed to be compatible with a wide range of existing home appliances, so users do not need to purchase new devices or perform extensive home rewiring.” Imagine being able to adjust temperature, control audio and television, while monitoring the status of each.
Internet2, which is run by a consortium of more than 200 U.S. universities, said they have “sent data at 7.67-gigabits per second using standard communications protocols,” - and did 9.08Gbps 24 hours later using IPv6 protocols. The data sent started in Tokyo and went to Chicago, Amsterdam and Seattle before returning to Tokyo. The previous high of 6.96 Gbps was set in November 2005. Read [Yahoo! News]
Another ultra chic looking piece of audio equipment from B&O, their new BeoLab 9. Apparently providing “vocal sound so pure that it causes your eyes to glaze over.” Sounds nice. Each speaker has a big 10-inch bass driver powered by a 400 watt ICEpower amplifier. Product page
