Personal Devices Category - Page 4

Yes, you’re reading that title as correctly as I can make it–the folks out at Beseto Japan claim that their DP1000 digital recorder can go for a week on just four AA batteries.  That’s a pretty lengthy run time no matter how you slice it (the fact that it’ll play [...]

The folks out at Hanvon are going to get a bit of short-term cachet pretty soon here, announcing that preorders will be taken on their new e-reader. Where does that cachet come from, you ask? Simple–it comes from being the first ever device to offer E-ink in a Triton base.

While e-books have not replaced paper books as the top choice for readers just yet, those who do use e-books are spending lots of money. One research firm claims that sales of e-books is going to close in on $1 billion by the end of the year.

Let’s face it, you’ve got a lot of mobile gear, don’t you? Between your MP3 player and your e-book reader and your cell phone and a host of other products (some of which even duplicate the function of others), you’ve got plenty of things that need recharging at the end [...]

News about prototypes is always fun because it contains the most cutting edge stuff on the planet. Sure, we can’t send you out to buy one just yet–it’s still under development, after all, but someday, you just might. And if Aska Electron has its way, you’ll be recharging your hardware [...]

Not only has Adium launched a new version of its highly popular IM and chat software for the Mac but it is still completely free. Adium 1.4 includes several new features, but perhaps the one that will be chatted about most is the support for Twitter. This is a feature [...]

It’s coming up a lot sooner than anyone might have expected–the remake of one of only a handful of science fiction titles Disney ever released, Tron, (dubbed Tron: Legacy) will be on its way to theaters in short order. But if you wanted to get your hands on a little [...]

Peek might be well known to most Smartphone users but the company’s devices can do everything your Blackberry can do; except make phone calls.  These Smartphone-like devices allow texting, email, web browsing and document viewing all for around $70 per unit with various contract lengths.

Anyone who has a large amount of cables clustered around their television or computer knows that at some point the mess looks like a mess.  Everyone has come up with their own way of hiding it (mostly by jamming the cables out of sight) but at some point that becomes [...]

Rechargeable batteries are great things, no mistake there–I haven’t bought a set of AAs for my Xbox 360 wireless controller in at least a year that I can recall thanks to them–but they often have a tendency to lose power just from sitting around. Sanyo’s eneloop batteries may have found [...]