ATIZ has developed an automatic book scanner that is of a somewhat-reasonable size. There are a couple other automatic book scanners out there but they are huge machines according to Art Sarasin, president of ATIZ. This machine uses a page-turning mechanism. It connects via USB 2.0 and all you do is designate how many pages you want to scan and it does the rest of the work. If you want the ease of this, you will have to pay for it. They are currently taking a preorders and it will be available next month for a hefty $35,000.

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This is a cool portable digital photo album from Foci called Pitcure Porter Elite. The Pitcure Porter Elite is packed with some hefty storage options ranging from 40GB and 80 GB hard drives and a memory card reader. Foci’s Pitcure Porter Elite also comes with a 3.6″ LCD screen for easy viewing. Supposedly, the Pitcure Porter Elite, allwos you to save and view all you digital stills and video on its large available hard drive where you go. Thus, you can keep snapping pics and according to PDAToday, “stop worrying about limited memory card space on your digital camera.

Also, According to PDAToday, “Picture Porter Elite works with all popular media card formats, including CF I/II, MD, MMC, SD Card, Memory Stick, MS PRO, and MS Duo, and MS PRO Duo.” Thats a nice line of media card formats. This is one hefty Digital photo album.

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 From Ntronics

I heard Asus was releasing a 3G smartphone a couple of months back, but not much news surface up about it since then, until now. ASUS previewed a compact 3G smartphone the P305, at the 3GSM World Congress. The P305 is a Windows Mobile 5.0 powered 3G smartphone, which offers powerful multimedia and productivity features, that allow the user to be more productive and truly experience a mobile lifestyle.

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Pantech’s SKY IM-U110 Jukebox phone ships with a whopping 1GB on-board flash memory to hold more than enough digital music to keep you occupied for hours. Features include a spectrum equalizer, 17-pi stereo speakers, 3D sound and a QVGA 260k color TFT LCD. External music controls are touch sensitive for easier accessibility. Its not all music as the IM-U110 sports a 2-megapixel autofocus CMOS camera as well.

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From UberGizmo

Here is another device from 3GSM. In some ways, the new SP310 is similar to the moboDA 3360 that was unveiled at Computex in 2005. This device has an Intel PXA270 520MHz processor, 64MB RAM, 64MB ROM (plus extra 128MB/256MB?), 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 1.2, integrated GPS, a 2.0-megapixel camera, an SDIO slot, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, and Windows Mobile 5.0. Unlike the moboDA 3360 though, the SP310 has a full QWERTY thumb-board.

From pocketpcthoughts

Logitech Wireless Music System for PC. This kind of thing isn’t new; it basically streams media from your PC to a stereo wirelessly. Whereas most media receivers send tunes over WiFi or Ethernet, the Logitech avoids the traffic jam and configuration headaches using a widely-known wireless PAN technology – Bluetooth. And over this 2.4Ghz frequency, Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (aka. A2DP) is the only option to transfer stereo audio from the USB transmitter to the receiver. Full Review

From GeekBlue via ubergizmo

 

If you’re not quite up to springing for an Airport Express or a Squeezebox to wirelessly send your tunes across the house, Nathan True has a guide for how to build your music player on the cheap complete with display and large rubber band. He’s based the system around a Netgear WGT634U router running OpenWrt Linux, which gave him a USB 2.0 port to add an audio adapter, and plenty of wired and wireless connectivity to get his music from his PC. There are a few hardware hacks involved, but he gets most of the system running from a few shell scripts and, well, one expertly place rubber band.

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