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tvCompass SR 1500: TV Remote meets cell phone

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
 


Cell phones have been getting rapidly more complex for some years leaving their TV controlling brethren doing little more that they were twenty years ago. Well, that was before the tvCompass SR 1500 Digital Media Remote. This remote makes traditional models look like those brick mobile phones from the 1980’s that ran on car batteries!

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Sony A300 and A350 entry-level DSLRs

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
 


Sony has at last joined the PMA DSLR band-wagon releasing details of the A300 and A350. The entry-level A300has a 10.2 MP sensor (the same as the A200) and a 3fps frame rate. The body has stabilization as opposed to Nikon’s and Canon’s lens-based systems. Perhaps the most innovative feature is a funky two-way tilting [...]


 
 
 


 
 


Samsung G808 pics surface in Hong Kong

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
 


Sogi.com.tw has reported that the Samsung G808 is now available in Hong Kong. This is a slider phone with a 5-megapixel camera featuring a Xenon flash, 3x optical zoom, auto focus and face recognition!

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Laptops to benefit from Nvidia’s SLI

Monday, January 28th, 2008
 


SLI (Scalable Link Interface) enables multi-GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) in the same machine to cooperate virtually doubling or tripling the speed of the system. Recent advances in technology mean that these cards will be spreading from the desktop world to laptops and notebooks in the very near future.

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Drool all over the P-Per cell phone concept (pictures and video)

Saturday, January 26th, 2008
 


The Chocolate Agency have designed a truly remarkable concept for a mobile phone that, visually anyway, could take on the dominance of the iPhone if ever produced. It’s made in such a way that it could be classified as a ‘green’ product as well as being technically ground-breaking and stunning to look at:

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Apple patent suggests the return of the scrollwheel (with light feedback)

Friday, January 25th, 2008
 


Apple has filed a patent which indicates a new generation of iPods equipped with scrollwheels providing feedback using illumination of the wheel itself. The illustration accompanying the patent shows a scrollwheel of the familiar design which glows brighter the greater the scrolling input from the user’s finger.

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Undertow is FREE until Sunday: compensation for poor XBox Live service

Thursday, January 24th, 2008
 


In what appears to be a gesture of contrition Microsoft is offering a free game “Undertow” to gamers unable to access their gaming service. Problems experienced included:

Unreliable connections
Being kicked of games
Inability to log in

You may have experienced the above if you were playing multiplayer games such as Call of Duty or Halo in the last [...]


 
 
 


 
 

 
 
 
 

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