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This weeks CES had many new and interesting gadgets, but the ones that are sure to catch the eye of anyone who has an Apple iPod are the new car units that have been announced. In addition to the BMW line of iPod adapters, Pioneer and Clarion have both announced that they will have support for the portable MP3 player using their stereo decks. Pioneer’s deck will allow owners to not only charge their iPod, but also control it using the deck’s buttons. Clarion’s will be a 7” touch screen that mimics the iPod screen. Both are interesting, and if the price is right will definitely be a must-have gear of 2005!
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Appearently, the iPod does make the world go round. Apple has not yet announced a movie capable iPod, so Nyko made one for them. Sometime early this summer we should be seeing the “MoviePlayer”. It has a 3.5” color display and additional media controls for the current generation iPods. Nyko has not yet set a price but is estimating between $199 and $249. Follow the link below for a handful of new iPod accessories from Nyko.
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This is just too hilarious not to post, but while Bill Gates was giving his keynote speech at CES, his Media Center PC crashed! The keynote speech is online at 3 different bitrates. Have fun and don’t laugh too loud.
Keynote Speech - (300k Stream)
Keynote Speech - (100k Stream)
Keynote Speech - (56k Stream)
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Nyko Loves Your PSP, PS2, Xbox, and DS
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: PC / Laptop, Video Games,
Nyko seems to have decided to make excellent accessories for the world’s most desired items. More CES announcements from the company include a bundle package for the Nintendo DS with screen protectors, a lit stylus, a soft case and charger grips with rechargable batteries. The PSP gets a water and shock proof alluminum recharger case in one package and a case and stand with hifi speakers in another package. Xbox users will have a choice of headsets or a pair of wireless controllers with vibration packs (also PS2 compatible). Even PC gamers are included with a convenient port extender which brings ports and jacks to the front of the machine for easier swap outs.
Read More | Nyko
Verbatim has begun testing new media for 8x DVD reading/writing. This will allow 4.7GB DVD media to be read/write in 7 minutes! They have sent out the media to DVD burner manufacturers as well as software suppliers to be used in drive design and read/write compatibility testing. Verbatim expects to ship out the new media to retailers in Q1 2005. Keep a look out for these new drives/media, I’m sure allot of people have been waiting for this type of news to upgrade their drives.
Read More | Verbatim
CES: Interview With Bill Gates
Posted by Hector Martinez Categories: Home Entertainment, PC / Laptop, Portable Audio / Video,
USA Today has a brief interview with the main man at Microsoft. It’s really amazing how much we depend on our PC for all our gear. Anyway, no new information regarding the XBox2, but he does offer some interesting scenarios on the future of video playback, along with why he supports the subscription-based model for digital music. Oh, and there’s no portable XBox in the works, but I guess that’s what our Pocket PC’s are for.
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| USA Today
VoIP provider Vonage said Wednesday it has signed up 400,000 subscribers for its Internet telephoning service, more than doubling its base in less than six months. This helps bring more credibility to the young VoIP market. Vonage has plans to release a VoIP Wi-Fi phone in the near future, making it easy to recieve and make calls whenever you are near a wireless hotspot. If there were more wireless hotspots available in the United States, this would become a very viable means of communication.
Read More | TechWeb
Rio Announces the ce2100 and Carbon Pearl
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Portable Audio / Video,
Check it out, instead of Rio letting the details on the much anticipated Chroma out of the bag, they instead made two small product announcements. First, the Rio ce2100. This player is said to be of a similar design as the Carbon, but with 2.5 GB of disc space. This makes it half the size of the Carbon, but it’s only $50 less. Yippee. They also let it be known that the Rio Carbon will soon be available in a pearl white color. No changes as far as hardware goes. Not that exciting. It would have been nice to hear about more than these simple “Carbon copies”. Heh.
We knew this day would come, but who thought it would come so soon? Hitachi has announced the first half-terabyte hard drive for the consumer. After Hitachi released its first 400 gigabyte drive before any other company, they now also become the first company to release the 500 gigabyte 3.5” desktop drive. These drives can be seen in any of the increasingly common uses for a large quantity storage drive in the household today, such as PVR machines and stereo systems. The 500 gigabyte drive hopes to be released in the first quarter of 2005.
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Sony has created a new PDA, the Sony Clie VZ-90 using OLED (organic light emitting diode. OLEDs are made from organic material and are lighter, faster, thinner, and have better contrast than LCD’s while using less juice). The 3.8” 480x320 screen has a 1000:1 contrast ratio, check that number again, 1000 1 and 3 zeros. The buttons and controls slide out along the horizontal base of the unit, and can be hidden when not in use. Additional features include integrated stereo speaker, a CF slot, memory stick slot, wifi, IrDA and will play MPEG4 video, MP3 and ATRAC3 audio. It is just a shade over 4 inches wide, and 3 inches long and under an inch thick. It weighs a little more then half a pound. It will run smoothly with the included 64 mb of RAM and 128mb of flash, with a little of each given over to the operating system. According to Palm Infocenter, “Sony has announced they will no longer market or release handhelds for the US and European markets.” I guess this means even if you would part with the $820 dollars for a new PDA you would have to take courses in Japanese to use it.
Read More | Palm Infocenter
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