November 2004

Nintendo DS

With its two screens, Nintendo DS instantly shows its innovative face. But capabilities like a touch-screen input, voice recognition and wireless communication set it apart from every other game device, and again demonstrate Nintendo’s passion for groundbreaking originality. Game players need only use their imagination to see how the DS promises to transform the portable [...]

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AOL launches a virus offensive with 9.0

NEW YORK – America Online Inc. is packaging new features to combat viruses, spam and spyware in response to growing online security threats. Subscribers will be able to get the free tools through a software download, known as AOL 9.0 Security Edition.

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“12 Gizmos of Christmas”: #4 – Cell Phones

There was no way we Geeks were going to feature plain vanilla cell phones without a PDA or a camera. With the number of gadgets that a self-respecting geek has to carry around, consolidation is the name of the game, and integrating PDAs with cell phones was a natural merger. Once you get your hands [...]

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RIM BlackBerry 7230 Phone

Now Blackberry users can wirelessly read email, make phone calls, book meetings, and more–in color. The RIM Blackberry 7230′s high resolution 240×160 display supports over 65,000 colors. The popular handheld also includes increased memory for application and data storage (16 MB flash memory plus 2 MB SRAM), and easy integration with multiple email systems, so [...]

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Sony Ericsson T610 Phone

Featuring a high-resolution, 65,536-color screen, this phone supports the Java and Mophun platforms, Bluetooth, infrared, cable, and Apple iSync connectivity, features a handy Quickshare camera, and more. The T610′s four rows of animated menu icons bring a PC-like navigation experience to your phone while still leaving plenty of room for messages, which the phone’s MMS [...]

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palmOne Treo 650

The Treo™ 650 smartphone from palmOne makes it easier than ever to stay connected. It simplifies your life by combining a compact mobile phone with email, an organizer, messaging, and web access.3 There’s also Bluetooth® technology so you can connect wirelessly to other Bluetooth devices. Not to mention an MP3 player, a digital camera that [...]

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Gadget allows skiers track each other

Straight out of James Bond’s Q- Lab: a gadget destined to quash the “noon-at-the-top” mountain-meeting mantra and the ubiquitous walkie-talkie cackle of skiers seeking wayward companions. Skiers will be able to strap on special wristwatch transmitters that allow families and friends to track each other on the mountain.

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“12 Gizmos of Christmas”: #5 – Portable CD Players

Day 5 of the 12 Gizmos of Christmas brings us Portable CD Players! Ever since Sony first introduced the Walkman, portable music players have become a must-have gadget. You gotta have your music with you wherever you go: running, travelling, at the gym, grandma’s… With the advent of MP3 technology, it was inevitable that CD [...]

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Panasonic SL-SX430 Portable CD/MP3 Player with D-Sound

This portable CD/MP3 player provides some unusual benefits along with the ability to play CDs, CDRs, CDRWs, and CDs with MP3 files. The first is “advanced D-sound technology, which is essentially a combination of a digital amplifier, which helps reduce distortion for crystal-clear sound at higher volume levels; S-XBS and digital audio gain control, which [...]

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Sony D-NF400 Psyc ATRAC Portable CD Player with Digital Tuner (AM/FM/TV/Weather)

Spin your commercial CDs, your homemade music CDs of almost any stripe, or listen to the radio, TV, or weather-band transmissions with Sony’s versatile, full-circle D-NF400 Psyc-styled Walkman portable CD player. The snazzy player includes SonicStage software, which lets you take full advantage of ATRAC3plus (Sony’s proprietary music-compression technology) when making custom MP3 CDs on [...]

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