Is your old watch just telling you the time? Upgrade to an accessory that does more with the MP3 Watch. This 256MB MP3 player is housed in a fully functioning water-resistant watch on a black leather wristband. Its built-in lithium ion battery recharges either via the included AC adapter or through your Mac or personal computer’s USB port, and with USB 1.1 flash-memory data storage, the MP3/FM Player can even be used as a removable USB Flash disk.
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(CBS) Do you want crystals and gems with that iPod?
That choice is now yours, thanks to manufacturers who are taking notice of statistics that show female consumers now account for more than half – a whopping $55 billion – of the annual $96 billion spent on electronics.
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CNET News is reporting that cell phones that double as Internet phones will become available in the United States, Europe and Asia by March.
Distributed by Dubai-based developer i-Mate, the $850 PDA2K and PDA2 cell phones come equipped with voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a software that shifts phone services from the highly regulated and taxed traditional local phone networks onto the unregulated Internet. The VoIP software comes from Skype, a popular Europe-based Net phone provider.
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Popular Science is running an article on how the ubiquitous inkjet printer has become the inspiration for the rather futuristic-seeming 3-dimensional ‘printing’ of objects. Those objects run the gamut from nanomachines to replacement body parts, from plastics to houses and from circuit boards to flexible displays. As the author puts it, inkject technology jump-started the field of microfluidics. PS> Click on the links to see some pictures of the technology and the resulting products.
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Science-fiction films depicting the imagined lives of people in the future have always fascinated us. We haven’t yet reached the stage of living with robots for hire, as in “I, Robot” (2004), but we can already get some help from a small robot that silently roams the house cleaning the floor.
We’re pretty close to cloning pets, although definitely not ready to be replaced by our own clone to complicate our life, as in “The Sixth Day” (2000), or to recycle our memories to live another life in the distant future, as in “Vanilla Sky” (2001). But South Korean technology clearly has reached the level where, as in a scene from “Total Recall” (1990), people can return to their homes to see computer control panels unfold on the living room wall. And the cool “stretch” phone sported by Keanu Reeves’ character Neo in “The Matrix” (2003) is here to stay.
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By Nick Clayton
Not since Sony’s Walkman 25 years ago has one company’s gadget captured the public imagination in quite the same way as Apple’s iPod did in 2004. It is impossible to imagine that any electronic gizmo will enjoy anything approaching the same buzz in the foreseeable future, but that won’t stop the marketing hype.
Even more money will be spent by mobile phone manufacturers and network providers to convince business and domestic customers it is worth buying into third generation (3G) technology. Networks will be hoping to recoup some of the billions of pounds they spent on licences for the new data services. They will be pushing everything from high-speed business information services to video dating and gambling in an effort to persuade people to ditch their old handsets.
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By JAMEY KEATEN / Associated Press
CANNES, France — It’s a bit disorienting: slip on a set of headphones, turn up the volume and, while you move about the room, the music stays put – as if coming out of five speakers stuck on a wall. Software engineers in Germany who developed the widely used MP3 audio file format have taken the technology to a higher level with a next-generation format that delivers cinema-like multichannel audio. The headsets dazzled attendees at the Midem music conference in this French Riviera town, where goateed singers, sharply dressed executives and software designers in tennis shoes have been meeting this week to map out how music reaches ears in the future.
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Technology hungry Norwegians set records as they spent NOK 23.6 billion (USD 3.7 billion) in 2004 on televisions, mobile phones, music systems, DVD-players, stylish radios, computers and other electronic goods.
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MANSFIELD, TX — (MARKET WIRE) — 01/26/2005 — Leading the pack in cutting-edge mobile technology, nTren, a small, innovative company form Mansfield, Texas, won one of the most prestigious awards at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show. Named most Innovative Mobile MP3/Data Storage Device, the nTren MP3 watch is a sleek water resistant Quartz analog timepiece that’s a fusion of high-end gadget and vogue accessory.
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Ingrid Marson
ZDNet UK
A blog has attracted the attention of Microsoft’s lawyers after posting a story about Windows Mobile 2005.
Gadget blog site Engadget.com said on Wednesday it had resolved a clash with Microsoft over a story it published about an upcoming Microsoft operating system release.
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