Mon January 10 2005
Low Tech "Hipster" PDA (Humorous) |
09:50 AM by Bob Russell in Miscellaneous | Lounge Ever feel like paper and pencil is better than screen and stylus, but that it doesn't live up to geek status? Well, now you can get the best of both worlds with the Hipster PDA. It's simply a stack of low-tech index cards, but just for fun the author discusses settings and preferences, David Allen's Getting Things Done and gives tips on how to organize your Hipster PDA. Technology is amazing, but good 'ole paper is pretty amazing too! [Edit: See also this article from the USC Faculty Forum Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device; trade-name: "BOOK" ] |
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Sun January 09 2005
Sat January 08 2005
Another Pocketable Screen Projector |
10:45 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones We're always on the lookout for better ways to read on the go. Current pocket devices are much better for reading than you might think, but the idea of a full-sized page on the go from a pocket device is pretty exciting. The latest news about portable display technology comes from the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology in Germany, where they have developed a tiny projector capable of 320 by 240 resolution. It uses a tiny micromirror with springs to draw the picture pixel by pixel. Very fast, of course. The technology will be limited to monochrome display until color lasers become cheap. See also a previous example of this kind of technology from a US lab... Video Projection with PDAs! (via www.gizmo.com.au) |
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Hi-Speed Internet For Your Car |
10:24 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones You will soon be able to get satellite high-speed internet from your car. That will be handy Just in case you want to download a new ebook while riding down the highway on a family vacation. The RaySat SpeedRay 3000 satellite antenna will be available second half of 2005 for a mere $3500 plus installation and internet service costs. And people think it's dangerous to use a cell phone while driving. Wait till they start reading ebooks while driving! (via Gizmodo, which is a very nice site similar to www.engadget.com) |
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BenQ's "Treo-Killer" P50 will appear this spring |
08:16 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones BenQ announced that its P50 will be appearing this spring, with or without a mobile carrier, for somewhere between $650 and $800 street price. You haven't heard of the P50 yet? The P50 is a quad-band GSM keyboarded smartphone, with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular networking, and a 1.3-megapixel camera. It packs an Intel Bulverde PXA272 processor and am SDIO expansion slot, too. It's a bit longer than the Treo, although the keyboard is very similar to the Treo 600's, with similar domed keys. |
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Archos PMA400 video player debuts at CES'05 |
07:49 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video As I promised you earlier, the fabled Archos Pocket Media Assistant PMA400 (official website, English manual) had its first debut at CES yesterday afternoon. It will be available at the end of January for $799; some accessories are already available now. The complete specs: Capacity: 30GB |
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Mobile phones with Toshiba harddrives? |
07:32 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Toshiba announced at CES last week that it will be shipping its mobile phone-oriented 2GB, 0.85in hard drive by the end of January. And according to The Register, a 4GB version will ship mid-year, with 6GB and 8GB drives shipping in 2006. Toshiba is pitching the part at "next-generation mobile digital devices", but it's a good bet phone makers are going to take a keen interest in the drive, particularly given the clear convergence between handsets, PDAs and, increasingly, digital media players. Toshiba's hard drives may enable handset makers to incorporate large storage capacities more cost-effectively than they can with Flash-based memory cards, and potentially reach higher capacities more quickly. I was never a big fan of flash devices, so I hope that PPC vendors will incorporate these harddisk drives soon! |
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Fri January 07 2005
Microsoft ActiveSync 3.8 released |
09:52 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Microsoft just released ActiveSync 3.8 for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and Smartphones. It contains fixes making synchronization more trouble free and includes all the significant improvements brought to you in ActiveSync 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7.1. |
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