Hasta La Gadget!

Nokia’s N95 superphone is complicated, taking days for even the most experienced gadget journo to digest. That’s why lots of reviews I’ve seen so far are either extremely light or 10,000 word stunners: This is one of those long ones. It’s likely easier to pore over the phone yourself in our hardware and software gallery walkthroughs, and come up with your own opinion. But If you want the text heavy version, here’s what’s great and terrible about this phone. More »

Do you miss holding that CD jewel box in your hands, kicking back and listening to music while you peruse the album art and liner notes? Here’s a concept by David Friedman for a digital jewel box, sitting on its charging stand next to your computer and connected to your Wi-Fi network. It synchronizes with iTunes, and then when you’re listening to your tunes you can take the little display with you and read the album notes and art it’s downloaded. More »

Yesterday, in the dead of the night, Nokia launched the N95 superphone in its Chicago and NY Stores. I celebrated by giving you a tour of its hardware, as if you just plucked it from the box. Today, I ditched the Easter bunny to give you a rundown of the entire N95’s complicated and rich inner workings. That’s love. More »

Shock Absorber sports bras are a great innovation for the ladies and maybe even some guys with man breasts, especially for marathon runners and intense exercisers, who cite examples of conventional bras actually cutting into them. More »

I just won’t shut up about Sony Ericsson’s new phones, so friends at Dynamism sent me a W880, their flagship Walkman. The best thing? Not the slim case, but the extremely useful TrackID system. Basically, you can play this phone a song, and it’ll take a sample by microphone, compare it to digital signatures on Gracenote, and come back with track, artist, and album info that you can save for later or send to friends. This phone can name that tune. And, it works well. More »