Posted on 05 January 2006 by admin
Toshiba has spruced up its Gigabeat line with the model S, a Windows Portable Media Center with a 2.4-inch QVGA LCD display, up to 60GB of storage, and up to five hours of battery life for video playback. The S also includes an FM tuner, and supports MP3, WMA, Windows Media 10 DRM and downloads from Tivo Series 2 DVRs. And, yes, this is one of the players that Bill Gates showed off during his CES keynote, so you know it must rock (or at least must be so well-integrated with Windows Mobile functionality that Bill couldn’t help but be smitten). Expect the Gigabeat S to be out this quarter, with the 30GB version going for $299 and the 60GB one for $399.
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More new gear from this morning’s LG press conference: two portable video players smaller than an iPod or LG’s own PM70. The JM53 (pictured, right) has an 8GB drive and a 1.77-inch OLED display. It measures 3.9 inches high, 1.9 inches wide, and 0.55 inches deep. The even smaller FM30 (left) crams 1GB of storage and the same size screen into a 2.4″ X 1.6″ X 0.55″ package you can wear around your neck. LG claims 30 hours of battery time for the JM53 and 60 for the FM30. Both players will handle MPEG4, ASF, WMA, MP3 and OGG formats.
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What good is a home security system if you can’t check up on your home while you’re out? Hawking Technologies has you covered wherever you are with its HomeRemote system, which lets you monitor a range of home security devices over the internet. HomeRemote works with motion detectors and window/door sensors, which can connect to a home network over WiFi or Ethernet, and can notify a homeowner in realtime via e-mail, SMS and a web-based interface whenever it detects an intrusion. The HomeRemote can also monitor your utilities and trigger lighting and alarms. Of course, if you’re halfway around the world while thieves are rifling through your possessions, you’re still going to have to notify local authorities. But at least you’ll know immediately when your TV and stereo are being carted off.
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Besides trotting out their world’s largest plasma screen again at 102 inches, Samsung is unveiling at this year’s CES the world’s largest LCD screen, coming in at 82 inches of liquid crystal lovin’. Picture quality is all that and a bucket of chicken (yes, that is the proper technical terminology).
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Thomson just debuted their new Acoustic Research Wi-Q universal remote with WiFi to pull TV listings and other such goodies like news and weather. Seems like they could’ve squeezed a bit more functionality out of the WiFi — a certain VOIP capable device comes to mind — since as it stands this is just an informed remote capable of controlling a good amount of devices, but not a lot else. Oh well Thomson, there’s always next year’s CES.
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D-Link and Skype are showing off a new USB phone adapter to let you use those old school phones of yours that you’ve been looking to put to good use ever since phone jacks went out of style. For the $69 cost of the adapter you’d better have a pretty nice handset to protect your investment on, otherwise it seems the new VOIP WiFi offerings or such might be a better alternative, but the D-Link Skype USB phone does have to added benefit of still taking calls from that aging landline of yours, so if you can’t quite shake the legacy yet, this might be your ticket to a smooth transition. The box can also forward Skype calls to other numbers, which ain’t so bad neither.
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Netgear announced their new Skype WiFi phone that needs no PC; Skype, of course, obviously comes pre-loaded since you don’t want to carry yet another phone just because you can. Just enter your Skype name and password and you’re set to call all of your Skype buds whenever you’re in range of some WiFi. What’s that, your peeps don’t have Skype? No prob since you can seamlessly use your SkypeIn or SkypeOut account just as well. We’re guessing that the WiFi flavor is either 802.11b or 802.11g, although Netgear also announced RangeMax to support Skype on their WPN824 RangeMax wireless router. No juicy details on pricing or availability just yet, so keep using that cheesy headset for now.
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