Are you a businessperson needing a bit more power, intrigued by yesterday’s HP ProBook s-series unveiling but not impulsive enough to spend your business’s hard-earned money without a full review? Better fire up that expense report, because according to Laptop the ProBook 4510s is a solid investment. Its styling and performance get high marks, and [...]
See that? This dowdy looking sedan is the very symbol of hope for GM and perhaps the US auto industry as a whole. Although this Volt prototype is technically a mule — an engineering hybrid that crosses the body of a Chevy Cruze with the Volt’s Voltec powertrain — it still gives “an 80-plus percent [...]
Nissan’s EVs are coming, but if people are really going to buy them in droves they’re going to need somewhere other than the rusty outlets in their garages to charge them. So, the company has been working like mad forming partnerships with municipalities around the world, from California to China, to get city-wide charging stations [...]
We don’t have a formal unveiling for Motorola’s Verizon-bound A4500 world phone just yet, but an operation manual and some snapshots of its dress rehearsal from the FCC should suffice in the interim. From what we glean, it supports CDMA for VZW’s network and quad-band GSM for SIM-packing Vodafone customers and other overseas roaming needs. [...]
Vinyl has been on the verge of a big-time comeback for ages now (and for some of us, it never ceased to be the format of choice anyway), so we’re pretty happy to see that even the land of zany iPhone / iPod apps is no longer immune to its charms. The spinning vinyl app [...]
Sensitive Object, a French startup best known for its louche, Gitanes-smoking engineers and its love of cocktail jazz, has just announced the development of Anywhere MultiTouch, a Windows 7-compliant platform that brings touch sensitivity to glass, aluminum, and plastic, through the use of piezoelectric sensors. This product is an extension of the company’s ReverSys technology, [...]
Back when we were growing up, we had three cassette players all our own (one in the bedroom, one in the playroom for dancing, and one kept by the back door for travelling) which were tiny, pink, and had the audio quality of of a GBV record cranked thorough a baseball park sound system — [...]
With the economy in the tank (still) and the heat on, cost and profit margins are more important than ever to companies hoping to stave off the inevitable, apocalyptic doom of recession. Well, iSuppli’s released an estimated report of how much its costing Palm to cobble together the Pre — about $138, as it turns [...]
It’s hardly the first product of its kind, but we’re guessing there’s still plenty of folks out there ready to jump on OWC’s new USB 2.0 display adapter, which will let you add up to six monitors to your Mac or PC. As with similar products, however, you will be slightly limited in terms of [...]
Just two weeks after the last revision went up, Apple’s released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 to the developer community alongside an iTunes 8.2 pre-release. No word yet on what has / hasn’t been updated, but we do know the new iTunes is required to activate beta 4. More information as we get it.
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It’s still a little ways from an actual release, but it looks like the folks at Ennova Direct just couldn’t help themselves from announcing that they’ve received a patent for a newfangled biometric USB flash drive that packs a built-in OLED screen. Even better, that OLED screen apparently actually doubles as the fingerprint scanner, which [...]
After being let down by the Atom 230 processor in our review of the Ion-based AspireRevo, we’re comforted by NVIDIA’s promise of more Atom / Ion configurations on the horizon. Forty of ‘em by the end of the year including some based on the beefier dual-core Atom 330 processor just like this ASUS reference design [...]
It’s no coincidence that Samsung named its external USB hard disk “Story” as it attempts to woo consumers away from Western Digital’s My Book series of backup devices. The brushed aluminum slab with “passionate red lines” (groan) plays host to your choice of 500GB, 1TB, or 1.5TB 3.5-inch disks. The Story Station can backup your [...]
While avoiding the juicier questions surrounding the mystery of Project Pink and its potential ties to Verizon for maximizing Pink’s launch, a Microsoft spokesperson has issued new comments that reiterate the stance Redmond has held from time immemorial: there’s no Zunephone, and furthermore, there won’t be any Microsoft-branded phones.
Of course, the devil could lie in [...]
AMIMON, the company behind the wireless HD technology (WHDI) in Belkin’s FlyWire (among other devices), has just introduced its second-generation chipset. The device, which utilizes video modem technology operating in the 5GHz unlicensed band, consists of the new AMN 2120 transmitter and AMN 2220 receiver, both of which are angling to slip into set-top-boxes, HDTVs [...]