Archive for December 5th, 2007

Samsung’s SP-A400B DLP projector: sub-$2k for office or home

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment We've already seen Samsung's SP-A400B DLP projector floating around the more Germanic parts of Europe. Thing is, we forgot to tell you. So here it is, the pretty half-sister to the curvaceous SP-A800B 1080p DLP. Samsung's trying to convince us that it belongs in either the ...

Palm offers up unlocked Treo 750 with Windows Mobile 6

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsIf you loathe the carrier branding, or would just like to go gallivanting around the world with zero strings attached, Palm's now selling its co-flagship Treo 750 with Windows Mobile 6 direct and unlocked for $549. The GSM world phone can of course do the 3G thing ...

Keepin’ it real fake, part XCIX: HTC Touch clone by Santek is almost Meizu good

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones It's so much harder to poke fun when a clone manufacturer gets this close to the real thing. Santek's SSG730 runs Windows Mobile 5, bills itself as a "samrt phone" and of course has other minor hardware differences from the HTC Touch, but we've gotta respect Santek ...

Mikontalo dormitory converted into gigantic Tetris display

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Filed under: Displays, Gaming Playing famed titles on the sides of buildings ain't nothing new, but this rendition of Tetris is just too svelte to be ignored. Folks from the Finnish Student Union and Universimo gaming company (among others) were responsible for rigging up an elaborate (and shall we say, quite ...

Bogner’s Solar-Powered Ski Suit from space

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Filed under: Wearables No matter how often we humans fail at designing "futuristic" fashion that the real future inevitably disowns, it's always fun to try. Bogner's got a good thing going here, what with a few solar panels and myriad of LED lights embedded into the ski suit of the future, ...

Nokia gets offiicial with 3G 6263 for T-Mobile

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones We already had a pretty good indication that this one was coming thanks to our pals at the FCC, but Nokia has just now gotten official with its 3G 6263 handset which, as we previously suspected, does indeed appear to be nearly identical to the Euro-centric 6267. Getting ...

Continental Airlines testing cellphone boarding passes

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, Transportation Paperless boarding schemes aren't exactly revolutionary, but they're still far from common at US airports. Now, however, Continental Airlines has announced that it will be trialing a cellphone-based boarding setup at Houston's Intercontinental Airport, which will enable single passengers to show personnel a jumbled mixture of blocks ...

Belkin and Kodak trot out cameraphone-friendly Bluetooth adapter

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless While there's certainly no shortage of ways to get your photos off your cameraphone and onto your PC, Belkin and Kodak seem to think they've got a better way of doing things, with the pair now rolling out a new Bluetooth adapter / software combo that promises ...