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Archive for October, 2005

Flash memory with built-in copy protection (source 1)

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Oh goodie

Posted in: Copyright Issues, Data Storage
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Rent my DVR

Friday, October 7th, 2005

This is the kind of stuff that warms social hackers

Posted in: Copyright Issues, Media Networking
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102-inch glass screen

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Take one of the best LCD projectors you can find, and instead of projecting onto a wall or screen, use a piece of custom-milled toughened glass in sizes up to 102-inches, coated with translucent holographic film. The result is the Claro TV, which can be wall-mounted or set up as a free-standing unit. The coating [...]

Posted in: Digital Media
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World’s smallest MP3 player

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

quotation: The world’s smallest MP3 payer

Posted in: Fun, Gadgets
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Hard disk phone (condensed)

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Samsung has confirmed that its three Gigabyte Windows based SGH-i300 will be in the stores before Christmas – early November appears to be the likely time – well before Nokia’s four Gig N91. full text: http://www.techdigest.tv

Posted in: Gadgets
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Broadcast TV coming to UK cellphones

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Our South Korean gadget overlords friends and others have long known the joys of watching TV on their cellphones. Now the UK is getting a taste with 400, Nokia 7710-toting zombies in Oxford taking part in a jointly-sponsored trial by O2, Arqiva and Nokia. The six month pilot is based on DVB-H transmission technology, offering [...]

Posted in: Gadgets
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Animator envisions sub-dermal displays

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Note to Hart and Huntington tattoo shop: you guys so need to hook up with Gina Miller, a designer and animator who is looking to make your business totally obsolete. Obviously seeing a bright future in implanted devices, Seattle-based Miller, with help from nanotech author Robert A. Freitas Jr., has finished her concept-animation project that [...]

Posted in: Fun, Gadgets
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Microsoft and Intel back HD DVD

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Well it is the news that Toshiba, and its ever so slightly beleaguered HD DVD format has been waiting to hear. The twin big boys of the PC world, Microsoft and Intel have today confirmed they will join the HD DVD Promotion Group. This basically means that they will back the format, at the expense [...]

Posted in: Data Storage
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Audica’s iPod hi-fi

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

quotation: After initially being a tad snobbish about the iPod’s compressed sound it appears now that the whole hi-fi industry has woken up smelt the cash and hopped aboard the MP3 bandwagon. The good news is though that the quality of mini systems designed for the ubiquitous Apple player and its MP3 chums appears to [...]

Posted in: Digital Media, Gadgets
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Samsung’s hand warming mobile

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Samsung was also parading a few protos yesterday including this little gem which it is billing as literally the hottest phone on the market. Developed in Russia, in the Ural State Academy to be precise, the handset features a built-in hand warmer to ensure that even though the Siberian wind might be blowing your hands [...]

Posted in: Fun
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