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Logic 3 seems to be on the right track with this sub $100 speaker dock for the Sony PSP. The Logic 3 PSP Boombox adds 12 watts of RMS power from it’s two small stereo speakers and a small subwoofer. The Boombox runs on 4 AA batteries or on AC power and screams to be used with UMD movies, or videos that have been transfered to a Memory Stick Duo using any of the popular computer programs available. While it does not look like it would be practical to play a game while the PSP was docked in the PSP Boombox, the PSP is proudly displayed for watching content on it’s crisp bright screen.
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| DAPreview via Gizmodo
Creative Zen Vision Announced - For Real This Time!
Posted by Sparky Categories: Portable Audio / Video,
Well the rumors can stop flying, and we can all start saving our pennies - the Creative Zen Vision has finally launched on the Creative website. The specs previously posted to their website, then removed, then posted again, then removed - are correct! The Vision will feature a brilliant 640x480 screen and support AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV9, and Motion JPEG. The first version of the Vision will feature a 30GB drive to store all of your favorite movies, music, and photos. With a light but strong magnesium casing and a rechargeable and removable battery the Vision is aimed at the on the go consumer. If for some reason all this is not enough you can always listen to FM radio, record and timeshift FM radio, or use the Vision as a personal organizer (which syncs with Microsoft outlook). With it’s CompactFlash reader the Vision is sure to be a popular choice for digital photographers - not to mention an ideal way to expand the Vision to add wireless technologies in the future. It’s availble for pre-order now for $399, but no word on when it will actually ship.
If Apple wants to take the portable video market by storm they had better hurry up and release the video iPod. It’s going to be really interesting to see how this and other 2nd generation portable video players change the way consumers interact with their digital media on the go like the iPod and other MP3 players have changed the way we use audio. Will podcasting turn into Vidcasting? Will watching TV on the bus again become cool?
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LG gets me all hot and bothered when they release a great piece of hardware and fail to make it as functional as it looks. The LG9800 is a consumer oriented phone aimed at Verizon’s V-Cast service. When flipped open a second screen, stereo speakers, and a full QWERTY keyboard are revealed. Behind the QWERTY keyboard there is a 1.3MP camera - a more and more common feature on multimedia phones these days. The thing looks beautiful, but unfortunately will not be a smartphone, and has a 4:3 aspect ratio. This means that it will be neither an email workhorse, or good for viewing movies brought along on a storage card. Now I’ll admit that the idea of using EV-DO to stream movies to my phone is kind of cool, but I’m doubting they will be able to get enough quality out of it to really replace the coming generation of portable video players. The LG9800 looks like it might find a niche in the SMS/chat crazed teen market, but without a higher resolution screen or business oriented operating system I just can’t see this catching on in face of phones like the Motorola Q.
Read More | engadget
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The Mozilla Foundation announced today that it was reorganizing and forming the Mozilla Corporation. While the Mozilla Foundation will continue to be a non-profit public benefit software development organization the Mozilla Corporation will be a for-profit company aimed at serving other non-profit development efforts. A majority of the Mozilla Foundation employes will be moving to the new Mozilla Corporation. What difference will this make for Firefox users? Very little according to the Mozilla Corporation both Firefox and Thunderbird will remain free products and will stay open source. The primary reason for the switch was to escape legal restrictions placed upon not-for-profit organizations in the United states. TheMozilla Foundation will remain non-profit and be able to continue to accept tax-deductible donations to continue to help the free open source software movement. Both theMozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation will continue to work with developers to improve Firefox, Thunderbird, and other open source projects to benefit the internet community.
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There’s many ways to transfer movies to your PSP, but there’s not many pieces of software that do it with ease. X-OOM Movies on PSP seeks to provide consumers with the ability to transfer the movies they have in their PC’s hard drive or on DVD to the PSP with minimal effort. All you have to do is choose the movie or DVD, choose the size you want and click start. After the whole process is done, the movie file is on the memory stick of your PSP and ready to go wherever you go. You can pick up a copy for $29.99 or download the trial from the website. Be on the lookout for our review soon.
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I just came across this lighter, and I must say, it’s pretty cool. Note that I am not what you would call a “lighter connisseur”, but the premise behind this just rocks. This Colibri Beam Sensor Lighter ignites with just a pass of the finger through its beam sensor. No more hurting your thumb trying to get that flame. The purchase price includes a pouch and a couple of spare batteries.
Read More | Colibri Beam Sensor Product Page
Okay, check it. This is the coolest way to display your tech while on a jog, playing hoops, and just chilling out - it looks much better than trying to sport the corded mess that is theiPod shuffle. The Nike Timing Cuffs have a built-in time/date display, and each purchase comes with 3 interchangeable cuffs. What’s cool is that they are machine washable, and thusly, water-resistant. Too bad I don’t do anything but sit around the house all day, otherwise I would be rocking these on the tennis court
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According to a US tech consultant, Stephen Speicher, Microsoft’s next windows iteration could mean buying new monitors in order to play some protected digital content. Apparently only monitors supporting HDCP, High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection, will be able to play those videos, which is rare to see on a monitor today. Is this really the direction we are moving towards? A world of computing where the only way to use a computer to its fullest is if you have hardware a software developer says you can use? Let’s hope not. In the meantime, enjoy what HDCP free content we have now.
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The Python programming language has been around for a while now and has grown in popularity along with the PHP language. Now Microsoft has an alpha release of Python variation for the .NET Platform. According to the site:
It supports an interactive interpreter with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers.
It will be interesting to see what comes from this.
Read More | IronPython Download Page via OSNews
ATI’s X800GT based cards will be arriving very soon. The chip will be arriving next week, with cards expected to ship within four weeks of its introduction. The cards will be available in two versions – 128MB and 256MB. Both versions will have 475MHz cores with the difference lying in the memory frequency – 250 MHz GDDR3 for the 128MB version and 490 MHz GDDR3 for the 256 MB one.
Read More | TheInquirer
