Archive for March 3rd, 2008

TomTom intros GO 930T and 730T with Lane Guidance and IQ Routes

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Filed under: GPS TomTom might be in a bit of a tussle with the EU lately, but that isn't stopping the company from announcing two new GO models at CeBIT this morning -- say hello to the GO 930 and 730. The updates to the popular 720 and 920 now feature ...

LG.Philips hooking Syntax-Brillian up with LCD panels

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Displays, HDTV Not even two months after Syntax-Brillian announced that it would be acquiring at least 700,000 LCD panels from Sharp during 2008, along comes word that the firm will also be on the receiving end of a similar deal with LG.Philips -- er, LG Display, we should say. ...

Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Features, Laptops If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago, there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting? We found out that and a few other little tidbits about this Eee PC "New Generation" at the ASUS booth just ...

7-inch Eee PC vs 9-inch Eee PC — ready, fight!

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Features, Laptops We know you need it. Now you've got it. ASUS' 7- and 9-inch Eee PCs lined up for a side by side comparison. The new 9-incher is clearly the bigger brother to the shorter original. Too bad too 'cause that chunky bezel on the 7-inch already offers ...

Japanese researchers working on wink-based remote control

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Portable Audio We've seen plenty of attempts to bring hand gesture control to everyday devices, but a group of researchers led by Osaka University's Kazuhiro Taniguchi is looking to take things one step further, with them now touting their wink-based control system. Apparently consisting of a "a ...

Intel demos rock-solid VoIP call on MID

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Handhelds Yeah, we know. We've seen this EB MID engineering sample kicking around for nearly a year now. However, this is the first time we've seen it running a rock-solid, VoIP application on that tiny Silverthorne, eh hrm, Atom processor. So solid, in fact, that Intel purposely crashes the ...