Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Straight from IFA 2007 in Berlin comes Daewoo’s surprise entry into the Blu-ray camp with the company’s first player, the DBP-1000. Interestingly, even though Daewoo is probably more well-known for their Trutech ODM devices — or even their autos — this player supposedly supports the full 2.0 Profile for Blu-ray Disc, […]
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Storage
New Medium Enterprises has been trying to get its VMD platform for high def optical discs out the door since late 2004, but we haven’t heard much solid. In the grand tradition of vaporous, cut-rate consumer electronics, NME’s publishing some puffy PR with terms like “The New Definition of High […]
Filed under: Robots
Apparently looking to show off the dexterity of its “Airic’s_arm,” automation firm Festo recently put together a slick promotional video that appears to show the robot arm writing “HELLO” on a touchscreen monitor. It seems that the arm may have had ideas of its own, however, as the writing appears to spell out […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Hope you’re not tired of Coolpixes yet, cause Nikon’s got another bundle of compact cameras for us, including two new models in its L series and two in its S series. As the model numbers suggest, there’s not a whole lot of difference between the L14 and L15 (on the top above), […]
Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras
High-tech foreign criminals may have hacked into retail security systems in order to remotely monitor customers and employees in the course of at least 12 bold robberies in as many states during the past week, officials say. FBI agents are seeking an individual or group of conspirators who have been calling […]
While an earlier report today claimed that Volkswagen and Apple were working on integrating Apple products into future Volkswagen models, reader Chris Bangle notes that Apple may have been working on control interfaces for at least one upcomin…
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Filed under: HDTV
Yesterday there was Monster Cable’s Speed-Rated HDMI cables and today, Honeywell’s CURxE self-healing cable. Sounds like someone in the marketing department decided that the error correcting built into the HDMI spec wasn’t good ‘nough and told the engineers to incorporate a little chip into the cable. Of course brightly colored LEDs were added […]
Filed under: Cellphones
We talked to Helio today and confirmed the reports that the MVNO is laying off about a hundred people from its workforce of about 700. According to Helio, most of the employees being let go were needed during its initial launch period (remember, Helio went official early 2006); about 80 jobs in regional […]
Filed under: GPS
Looking to keep all its bases covered, TomTom’s now followed up its just-announced high-end Go 920 T navigator with the decidedly lower-end TomTom ONE 3rd Edition. From the looks of it, the big additions this time around are support for TomTom’s Map Share technology (previously seen on the company’s higher-end units), a new […]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
If you’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the sleek little Archos105 PMP to slide your sweet music and video collection into? Well, this won’t technically get you any closer to ownership, but the folks over at ArchosLounge have put together an enticing selection of photos which should have fans […]