Since Hitachi’s press conference at CES, we’ve been anxious to get some time with the company’s Hybrid DVD/HDD camcorder. It’s the world’s first camcorder to record both to a hard drive (8GB) and DVD-R (30min), and from what we understand “world’s firsts” are very important things. 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 »
Now here’s a great idea from Addonics: replace a laptop’s 2.5″ hard disk with flash memory, using a $30 adapter that lets you boot from CompactFlash cards. Suddenly you’ve converted that lappy into a solid-state notebook without spending an arm and a leg. That’s what Addonics has done with its CompactFlash Hard Drive Adapters for notebooks, available in both SATA and IDE flavors and accommodating either single or dual CompactFlash cards. More »
Take it from us bloggers who start our travails at cock-a-doodle-dark, way before the sun comes up: We’re going to need all the caffeine we can get. So we tried out some Foosh Energy Mints, looking for just a little kick that might take out some of those cobwebs that won’t go away at dawn’s early light. More »
We have a Nikon D40X ($730, body only) in our hands, and testing it for the past few days has been a joy. The camera is light but not too light, and its controls are perfectly placed. We’re even okay with its menu system, which other reviewers have called “meandering.” It also gives you the overall impression that it’s going to back you up if you do something stupid. For example, its auto ISO setting will reach into its higher numbers, pushing the light through to help you out in a dark situation. More »
Since the iMac, the letter ‘I’ in gadget names has come a long way. Mostly down. More »
Brian Lam just called me to see how posting was going, checking in on how I was keeping up with all the press releases today. “It’s fine,” I assured him. Then we had the following conversation: More »
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