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Tech News$100 Laptop – No Child Left Behind
The Media Lab at MIT has come up with a brilliant way to make sure children all over the world will have access to technology. Specifications for a $100 wind-up powered laptop were announced today through Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte, though the original proposal was discussed at the Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. Hoping … Continued
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Zevo Touch pad Panel PC
I love tablet and panel PCs. Granted I haven’t really spent a huge amount of time using one yet, but they really do look so cool. And Zevo’s MTP-1501 Panel PC is no exception. At 15-inches, it’s got a 1Ghz CPU, a Smartcard reader, touch screen (of course) two USB ports, remote and optional Bluetooth … Continued
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Titanium Thinkpad Z Series
Yes, that’s right folks, step right up and gaze on the new, improved Titanium Edition of the Thinkpad Z series notebook. Forget the boring black, Lenovo is taking a tip from Apple and giving us some choices in color and style. The Thinkpad Z60m has a 15.4-inch XGA widescreen, is scratch resistant and comes integrated … Continued
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Panasonic Gets Tougher
More Panasonic Toughbooks are ready to hit the shelves for all you butterfingers and adventure seekers out there. The CF-29 and CF-18 both have brighter displays and LCDs with Anti Reflection technology—which let you use the notebooks in direct sunlight. An SD slot was also added, which seems like a pretty weird thing to be … Continued
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Mashboxx and iMesh look to gobble up other file-sharing services to help in their quest to make peace with cranky record companies. [NY Times] Meanwhile, colleges such as American University try to wean kids off of the illegal music downloading crack pipe butsurprise!it’s an uphill struggle.[Miami Herald] Gas is ‘spensive, ergo fancy scooters are gaining … Continued
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EV-DO Laptops On The Way
In a move that gives Verizon an edge over its competitors, Dell, Lenovo (makers of the Thinkpad), and HP, will all manufacture laptops with built-in EV-DO access to Verizon’s cellular BroadbandAccess network. Dell will have it in select Latitude series models starting next year, as will HP (no word on the names of the HP … Continued
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Frog Design Mind
Is It Real? The Trend toward the Authentic in Product Design By Luke Williams This gum, Mr. Wonka went on, is my latest, my greatest, my most fascinating invention! It s a chewing gum meal! In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl toyed with the concept of simulating the authentic when a three-course meal … Continued
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Apple Integrating iSight Into Laptops?
A newly published patent filing reveals that Apple has been toying with ways to integrate a video cam into the latch of a laptop since 2004. And the company considered the idea again as recently as last year. Which means an iSight integrated PowerBook could arrive sooner rather than later considering that Apple has made … Continued
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While the hoi polloi are ga-ga over cellphone music downloads in Japan, the wireless industry might not see the same effect stateside because our phones aren’t as sophisticated and our networks aren’t as fast. Also, Japanese consumers seem to be okay with paying almost 4 bucks per downloaded song; we know that won’t fly here, … Continued
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Arizona State University students think Verizon Wireless text-to-jumbotron feature is kewl; the race is on to see who can sneak something past the obscenity filter. [Arizona Republic (reg)] Stolen UC Berkeley administrative laptop recovered; 98,000 past and present students say ‘whew!’ [San Francisco Chronicle] Welcome to the 21st century, Hollywood: Disney becomes the first movie … Continued
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Physical therapists: robots might take away your jobs. [Chicago Sun-Times] Palo Alto-based Airgo Networks has two Wi-Fi chips in the works that will make your wireless homework a lot faster. [San Jose Mercury News] Parents rejoice: it’s easier than ever to stalk your children. [Journal Sentinel] Windows Vista is still a year away from its … Continued
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Sonnet Offering TiBook Upgrade Service
Sonnet has only been offering DIY CPU-upgrade kits for mac users up until now. If you’ve got an old 550mhz or 667mhz TiBook around and $500 to blow, you’re set. Sonnet will now offer a 1.2ghz upgrade for the TiBook with 512k of L2 onboard cache. Sonnet insists they do the upgrade though do the … Continued
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LenIBMovo Widescreens Launched
IBM used to make a pretty nice machine and it’s nice to see Lenovo is adding a bit of color to the dedicated workhorses that still bear the red, green, and blue. The new Z-series, the 14-inch Z60t and the 15.4-inch Z60m WXGA wide screens, include a wealth of interesting tweaks above and beyond the … Continued
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Panasonic W4 is the R4 with a Moustache
The W4 from Panasonic has been released and it’s basically the R4 with a different name. Different? The W4 has a 12.1″ screen and a DVD-R/RW and RAM burner. That’s all. Same Pentium M 1.2Ghz processor and DDR RAM. Even the hardware and chipset are the same. What gives Panasonic? W4, The Fujitsu T rival … Continued
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Gateway 14″ Widescreen Tablet (Sexy!)
I often consider myself immune to tech news. Please, that new iPod didn t even faze me. But Gateway has a new tablet coming out and I am getting all worked up. This is a 14″ widescreen convertible tablet PC. The Gateway CX200 to be exact. First thing is first, this tablet is starting at … Continued
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The Hummer Laptop X6 Trio Espresso Machine: Caffeine Tech Casio Bath-Toy DVD Players mPower SynCH Universal Adapter IMPAMP: World’s Smallest Tube Amp Turn Your Mac Mini Into A Millennium Falcon Nikon’s New Digital Cameras Vodaphone’s Sexy GPS Phones Biggest Plasma Screen That Will Fit Through Your Door
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Itronix GoBook VR-1 and Hummer Edition
We mentioned the upcoming Hummer-branded laptops by Itronix last week which, like its namesake, is designed to be tough and macho—thus compensating any and all shortcomings its owner may have. Well, now the Hummers have been officially introduced along with the GoBook VR-1, which is more or less the same thing but without the special … Continued
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New Logitech Webcams
Just when you think webcams are dead, Logitech keeps putting them out, thus showing there’s probably still a market for these low-res cousins of the digicam. (We’re guessing for things like video conferencing and naughty NSFW websites.) Logitech just dropped three of ’em: a redesigned QuickCam for Notebooks Pro, the QuickCam Orbit MP, and the … Continued
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Logitech Celebrates Trackman Marble Anniversary with Four New Mice
In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Logitech’s Trackman Marble, Logitech released four new cordless mice today, two of which are from its second generation laser line. All of them have battery light indicators and on/off switches, which allows for better power management. The Logitech MX610 is getting hyped as the “world’s first smart mouse” … Continued
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Sharp Goes WideNote
Weighing-in at 3.7 pounds and setting you back about $1,800, the newly announced Sharp M 4000 WideNote notebook is supposed to be as bright and clear as any desktop PC. It’s got an Intel Pentium M Processor 740 with 1.73 GHz and 2MB of Level 2 Cache. But forget all that, I love that it’s … Continued
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