Archive for December 20th, 2007

Samsung’s 17-inch R700 laptop comes to light

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Filed under: Laptops Looks like Samsung has gone and whipped up a 17-inch laptop of its own to appease the multimedia lovers out there, but for folks lookin' to get their game on, we doubt you'll find much to love here. The 7-pound R700 sports an all-black motif that's oh-so-Samsung, and ...

YourPND gets your voice on your navigation system

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Filed under: GPSSure, those Mr. T / Dennis Hopper navtones were pretty humorous for a trip around the block or two, but seriously, how many times can you stand to hear "fool!" on a trip from Tuscaloosa to Fargo? That being said, we're not confident we'd want to listen to ...

Nokia’s N96 spotted in the wild?

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones That, friends, is an N96. Or, at least we're led to believe so. Judging by five mysterious images that surfaced over at Mobile-Review, it appears that Nokia's N96 (which looks like a jazzed-up version of the the N81, actually) has leaked out, and while no specifications are ...

Purdue tire design can sense damage, warn driver

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Transportation Usually you can't tell that there's a problem with one of your tires until you've already swerved off the road and crashed into something stationary, but thanks to a group of scientists from Purdue University, the next generation of wheel wraps may be able to detect ...

Evergreen unveils DN-MRC200T external TV tuner / media recorder

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Filed under: Home Entertainment We can't say we're really feeling that design, but Evergreen's DN-MRC200T makes up for it with a good bit of functionality. This device not only features an area for a 2.5-inch hard drive of your choice along with Memory Stick Pro / SD / MMC flash card ...

Gemei intros X590 portable media player

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Though we haven't seen anything notable from Gemei in quite some time, the X590 is a solid choice to hit back with. Equipped with a 2.5-inch LCD, this portable media player supports MP3, AVI, DAT, WMA, APE, FLAC and FLV formats (among others), and ...

Cardboard case mod comes ready to ship

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Filed under: Desktops Calling that thing pictured above a "case mod" is a near travesty, but we're at a loss for words outside of that. This box is almost devoid of specifications entirely, but judging by the artwork on the "chassis," it's powered by a totally rare Intel Pentium 3 CPU, ...

HP readying new Pavilion tx1400 series convertible tablets

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs It looks like that batch of laptops HP trotted out yesterday wasn't all it had in store, as the folks at Notebook Italia are now reporting that the company is set to update its Pavilion tx1300 line of convertible tablet PCs with all new tx1400 series ...