January 2005

GIZMO: Archos AV420 20GB Media Player

The 20 GB Archos Pocket Video Recorder AV420 is the ultimate handheld digital video recorder that offers TV recording and a portable home entertainment center in one pocket-sized device. Watch videos and view photos on the large color LCD screen, listen to and record music, and transfer photos from your digital camera and data files [...]

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Upcoming Japanese Tech

By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service The New Year holidays are a quiet time in Japan, when few new products surface. However, electronics companies are still developing devices that will debut in the weeks and months to come, and gadget lovers can look forward to some innovations. At the top of the list for cool [...]

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Firefly Solar Garden Art

Harness the power of the sun to beautify your garden! The Firefly Solar Garden Art uses solar energy to glow all night long. During the day the sun charges its included batteries through the solar panel, and the Firefly’s photocell senses the oncoming dusk, increasing its glow as the evening progresses.

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Online addicts can’t imagine life without a Net connection

By Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette More than 137 million Americans spend at least part of their day online, and when it is unavailable, many suffer withdrawal much as they would if they had to go without coffee or cigarettes. They have come to rely on the Web to manage increasingly hectic personal lives, and can’t [...]

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GIZMO: Palm Tungsten T5

PalmOne has integrated 2 very popular technologies in their latest handheld: PDAs and flash memory sticks. The Tungsten T5 is a 160MB flash memory drive! Add to that, the 55MB of free memory and you’re looking at over 200MB of space to store documents, photos, MP3s, you name it. The T5 also has Bluetooth wireless [...]

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Brave new world: Convergence

By: Mukul Sharma What is convergence technology and how is it going to better our lives in the future? Convergence technology is the latest buzzword. This means things like refrigerators that are e-equipped to routinely check foodstuff stored inside them and, on detecting any lack thereof, can automatically order the item(s) using the Internet protocol. [...]

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GIZMO: Atek Super Mini Optical Mouse

Here’s a gizmo that is pretty cool, cheap and totally practical. Work more productively on your laptop. Tired of those hard-to-use touch pads or eraser pointers? Atek’s Super Mini Optical Mouse takes the frustration out of mobile computing and puts the productivity back in.

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Skylink Security Products Empower Home Owners

by Jim Bray, TechnoFile Magazine You’d almost think that with all of the two way home and business security companies advertising you hear these days that there’d be no room for smaller, more personal home protection systems. But of course you’d be wrong. The equipment is from a company called Skylink. They have a bunch [...]

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GIZMO: Carrera Model Car Racing Set

More toys! Combine the high-speed fun of traditional slot-car racing with loops, lane changes and other surprising challenges in this race set from Carrera, Germany’s premier maker of slot-car sets since 1963. More than just a simple oval or figure eight track from traditional race sets, this 37′-long course has hairpin 180° turns, overpasses, two [...]

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BatteryFree Wireless Optical Mouse

A4 Tech has created quite an interesting little gadget with their BatteryFree Wireless Optical Mouse. The mouse uses RFID technology to communicate position and button states to a mouse pad which plugs into your USB port. Even more interestingly, the pad transmits power to the mouse through inductance, so that the mouse needs no batteries [...]

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