Archive for December, 2009 - Page 2

National Geographic Magazine, the popular American magazine covering geography, history and archeology has released all of their issues from 1888 to 2008 on a portable 160GB hard drive. Each issue is presented in high-resolution .pdf format and NatGeo has promised updates as the years go on.

A tipster (presumably within Google) leaked web design documents that show off the upcoming storefront for the Nexus One (aka – The Google Phone). Google will be asking a steep $530 for the unlocked phone, or $130 for a two-year T-Mobile contract. T-Mobile will be offering only one rate plan [...]

A French online retailer has prematurely put up a listing for a new Samsung N220 netbook, leaking the specs of the machine early. While most stats of the netbook are fairly standard, it comes with another one of Intel’s new Atom Pine Trail processors, which are more energy efficient than [...]

A new Kindle clone has come out of Shenzhen, China. The Indsream SX601 eBook Reader is very, very similar to the Kindle in appearance and design but features a few noticeable differences. The SX601 doesn’t use the propitiatory e Ink display that was popularized by almost all other eBook Readers on the planet, and [...]

Catalog company Hammacher Schlemmer is offering “The Picture Scanning Digital Photo Frame”, a small digital photo frame that as a vending machine style slot that will scan your pictures and automatically add them right to the internal memory of the Digital Photo Frame. As for the photo frame itself, it [...]

More and more USB 3.0 gadgets are starting to come out and PQI has introduced one of the first USB 3.0 flash drives. The PQI U366 Cool Drive features a 3.0 USB connection for super fast data transfer rates, and the storage sizes of the flash drive are bigger than [...]

Anybody who upgrades their own computer is familiar with when their power supply can’t keep up with their new multi-core CPUs or multiple graphics cards. Huntkey is developing a new PSU (power supply unit) called the X7 900 that will pack tons of power and rails for high-end gaming and [...]

Recently we covered Cydle’s new PMP and GPS, and on the heels of Samsung’s announcement of a commitment to Mobile TV in North America, Cydle announces they are planning to bring a new P29 PMP to North America that will be Mobile TV ready.

Going undercover and need to get video of some illegal criminal activities? You may be interested in the Concord Keystone pocket camcorder. Concord Keystone is planning to officially unveil the pint-sized camcorder next month at CES. The small camcorder weighs just 3/4ths of an ounce and is just 2-inches long.

Watching TV on your cell phone or a PMP via a receiver has never been popular in the United States, but LG electronics hopes to change that. The Korean electronics super-giant is planning to introduce some new products for the American market that they hope will get Americans hooked on [...]