Portable Technology Category - Page 13

Man, what a day for mind controlled appliances–first the wheelchair, and now your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad thanks to PLX’s XWave.

Aside from the already released Viewsonic ViewPad 100 and ViewPad 7, Viewsonic unveils something of a lesser level with the announcement of their Viewsonic MB-P702 PMP EReader.

Apple hardware is generally pretty sweet to work with, but it’s really a one-note joke–constantly with the touchscreens. Every so often a person gets to craving some of that tactile feedback–the feeling of something under their fingertips other than a sheet of smooth glass coated with finger oil or stylus [...]

We haven’t heard anything about the Carl-Zeiss Cinemizer glasses since back in March of 2009, so you likely won’t be surprised to hear they’ve undergone a serious update. But some are questioning whether the update will be serious enough.

Any time someone’s willing to pull out the word “stonking” in a review I have to sit up and take notice. I’ve only heard the term used once thanks to Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw out on Zero Punctuation, and maybe it’s because I’m American, but that’s not a word I hear [...]

Sometimes, in the flood of Apple applications, we forget there’s a whole field of apps out there for Android. And the folks at MIT want to take advantage of that field for–get this–complex engineering models.

Sony’s Walkman sure has come a long way since the old days as a combination cassette player and FM radio, and a new one, the Sony NWZ-S574, has just hit at the IFA show out in Germany.

It wasn’t so long ago that Microsoft and United were looking to get some partnership action going, and by all reports, it went well. So it’s not much of a surprise to hear that their partnership is expanding to offer 500 Zune HDs on its long distance flights.

You’ve got to hand it to Garmin for its relentless pursuit of the high-end market, and the nuLink! 1695 is definitely going after that market with guns blazing.

The last time you heard about a Mophie charger from us, you were hearing us lament that they didn’t work with the iPhone 4. But now you hear a different tune as Mophie looks to bring out the Juice Pack Air, specifically geared for the iPhone 4, possibly as soon [...]