Tech-News & Others

The Rundown: The Cowon A3 PMP looks to be a full sized PMP (5 inches across its long side) competitive in nature with its 4-inch, 800 x 480 screen and industry standard features including generous DivX support among other formats, text file viewer, photo viewer with support for huge files and USB host mode, audio recorder with built in mic and MP3/OGG/AAC music support.
The Catch: At $350/$400 for 30/60GB, this much PMP doesn’t come cheap.

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We’ve certainly heard of (and heard, too) cellphones pretending to be something they’re not, but Shoogle ups the ante by adding a level of utility that we wish was already widely available. By utilizing accelerometers, vibrators and internal speakers, the creators of Shoogle have conjured up software that enables users to check their mobile’s battery life and for unread / unheard messages by just shaking the handset. … continue reading this entry.

The Xbox 360 backward compatibility team’s just pumped out a batch of new updates, this time adding support for many older sports games, driving games and Batman games. … continue reading this entry.

Today the WSJ reported that Google may bring a Gdisk to the world so you can store your files in their gigantastic servers. … continue reading this entry.

If you think that you saw the last of Britney’s finely shorn beef garage —think again. Fortunately for us, we only have to endure a tiny plastic version this time around. … continue reading this entry.

Musician and Game Boy modding guru Joey Mariano has developed an eight headed, foot pedal monster that allows users to control the buttons of a Game Boy color with their feet. … continue reading this entry.

MacLife spent some time wondering what it would be like if Apple forayed into other gadget sectors and came up with a few concepts, including my favorite, the iEye camera. … continue reading this entry.

GSMhelpdesk.nl has some renders of what could possible be (but probably isn’t) the Nokia N96. These renders show a 3.2-inch, 16 million color touchscreen display, a dual-sliding QWERTY keyboard, and a one-way sliding dialpad keyboard. … continue reading this entry.

With 3200dpi gaming mice becoming de rigeur, Razer needed to step it up to 4000 to keep the pissing match going. Even though a 3200dpi mouse is already too fast for some, I4U’s reviewer says that Razer’s 4000dpi Lachesis “is very accurate and tracking is great,” particularly in Crysis. But, most of you probably aren’t twitching around a 30-inch screen like the reviewer.
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Samsung, which has a couple of good players discs Blu-Ray, already have ready to go to market its bid for the player as dual solution to the war of formats. As such LG, the Korean firm did not want to risk more of the account in April and already met its intention to submit a player that would help us discs Blu-Ray and HD DVD.
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