Portable Media: The Lobster is One Modular Crustacean
While many of the wrist/arm based multimedia devices are improving, none of them can hold a candle to Danillo Mangini’s Lobster. This oddly named prototype involves an LCD base unit about the size of an iPod Shuffle (or presumably a [...]
Tenori-On: Tenori-On Crazy LED Digital Instrument Set for September Launch
The Tenori-On is a musical sequencer from Yamaha—basically a grid of LED-lit rubber buttons that lets you create musical loops and melodies. It may look like a prop from a 1970s sci-fi series, but it’s actually a really intuitive and [...]
Hands On: Sizemodo and Sound Check: New Bose SoundDock Portable vs. Original SoundDock (Verdict: New One Bigger, Rocks Harder)
The most startling thing about the new Bose SoundDock Portable is that it’s bigger than its forebear (though thankfully not heavier). The least startling thing about it is that it sounds better than the original. If you look at the [...]
CrowdSpirit gadget development project goes into beta
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets It’s been quite a while coming, but the ambitious CrowdSpirit project has finally moved from the hype-building stage to the beta testing stage. For those that missed it the first time around, the project aims to [...]
Cellphones: Moto Rokr E8 Has Backlit Nubs For Keys
These first shots of the Motorola Rokr E8 from zol.com.cn shows the unique keypad that Moto went with. Instead of regular keys, they’ve got little nubs that need to be back-illuminated. When you’re dialing, all the keys are lit; but [...]
LG’s KS20 and KU990 vs. the iPhone
Filed under: Cellphones, Features The silent, yet eerily palpable rivalry betwixt LG and Apple continues, secretly, growing subtlety with every new phone release (as you can see in the Windows Mobile-based KS20). Or maybe these two companies just love this [...]
Verizon: First LG VX10000 Shot Shows New enV
A shot of the new LG VX10000 was recently posted in the forums, revealing what could be the successor to Verizon’s enV branded phone. Other than a slightly sleeker design and what appears to be a larger screen, not much [...]
Hands-off with the impossibly thin Sharp LCD prototypes
Filed under: Displays, Features The ultrathin Sharp LCD prototype we saw yesterday at the company’s press conference has made an appearance on the showroom floor (though out of our reach for fiddling with, provided it had any buttons), and boy [...]
Magellan rolls out 4200, 3200 series Maestro GPS units
Filed under: GPS Magellan’s let loose a slew of new additions to its Maestro line of GPS units, including three models in the widescreen 4200 series, and four in the lower-end 3200 series. Coming in at the top-end of the [...]
Cellphones: Sprint, Verizon 6700 Get Unofficial WM6 Updates
A forum member on PPCGeeks patched up a version of Windows Mobile 6—complete with HTC’s fancy home screen on the HTC Touch—for the aging Sprint and Verizon 6700 phones. It’s not compatible with the 6800 (the Sprint Mogul, which already [...]