Portable Technology Category - Page 9

The Top Seven Things You'd Want On Hand In Paranormal Activity 2

We Run Down A List of Seven Gadgets You'd Want, From Infrared Cameras to Digital Voice Recorders, In A House Full Of Creepy Phenomena
By on Friday, 22. October 2010

So with Paranormal Activity 2 coming out in theaters…well…today, and since today’s also a Friday, I figured it’d be a good time to end the week with a list. And so I started rummaging through all my own Ghost Hunters episodes on DVR and the various horror movies that deal [...]

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Cafepress Joins In the Device Coloring Game

Cafepress and TomTom Join Up To Make Vibrant New GPS
By on Thursday, 14. October 2010

Normally, Cafepress is a place you might go to make merchandise for your webcomic or something similar, but now, they’re taking on Colorware in a battle royale to see who gets to make your electronics take on that new layer of color, if only to TomTom GPS models. We’re talking [...]

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Murata Sensors Tell You When You're Tired

Multiple Inputs Go Into the Murata Fatigue Sensor
By on Tuesday, 12. October 2010

Used to be, way back when, when you were tired you just went to bed and that was the end of the story until the sun came up or the rooster crowed and it was time to start thatching the roof and getting the plow animals to work. But now, [...]

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Shear Feedback GPS Emerges From University of Utah

Device Stretches Your Fingertip, Tugging In The Direction You Want To Go
By on Tuesday, 12. October 2010

I really do love GPS systems–they tell you where to go when you’re lost and don’t mind changing their minds when you want to go in a totally different direction. But sometimes, it’s easy to miss a turn the GPS announces and have to go through a lot of unpleasantness [...]

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Citi And Dynamics Make Whole New Credit Card

Citi Redemption Allows Instant Access To Reward Points, LED Selection
By on Friday, 8. October 2010

One of the great things about this line of work is seeing all the new gadgets that people come up with. And one of the downsides is that some of them are so lunatic no one believes they exist. That’s kind of what Citi’s done to me with the release [...]

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Universal Display Delivers Wrist Mounted OLED Systems

Another Pip-Boy Hits The Battlefield With Universal Display
By on Friday, 8. October 2010

Wrist-mounted hardware is endlessly fun, at least as far as I’m concerned, so it was a pleasant surprise to read about Universal Display’s delivery of eight flexible OLED wrist-mounted display units to the United States Army.

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FLO TV Streaming Television Called Off

Reports From Qualcomm Put FLO TV As Being Shut Down
By on Tuesday, 5. October 2010

Qualcomm recently put out an announcement, and for those of you who were watching Tosh.0 and desperately longing to get hands on a FLO TV, you’re about to be really disappointed. The FLO TV, according to Qualcomm, is dead.

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Panasonic's Jungle Portable Gaming System Unveiled

Panasonic's Jungle Debuts to Underwhelming Note
By on Tuesday, 5. October 2010

So the folks out at Panasonic are looking to step into the portable gaming market, and have introduced, as a result, the Jungle, which looks like a surprisingly large portable DVD player with some nifty colors and a lot of that marketing department-style “attitude”.

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Nautiz X3 Rugged PDA Unveiled by Handheld

Handheld Nautiz X3 PDA To Feature Rugged Exterior, 2.8" Display, 800MHz CPU & Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
By on Tuesday, 5. October 2010

A rugged handheld device generally brings forth images of something that can be used for geocaching. Of course, that is because I am often on the geekier side of thought. It also means that a ruggedly designed handheld device can be much more. Well, maybe much more is a bit [...]

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Energy Sistem Outs the Energy M2700 Portable DVD Player

Energy Sistem Announces Their New M2700 DVD Player for Only $116
By on Tuesday, 5. October 2010

If you are still on the prowl for a portable DVD player in the market, Energy Sistem offers a new DVD player with the M2700. The Energy M2700 comes with the basic functions you would expect from standard DVD players and offers support for most CD file formats like DVD-R, [...]

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