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New digital camera attachment for the Pocket PC

Aiptek has a new digital camera attachment called the iViewer that pops into the Compact Flash slots of Pocket PCs. Resolution is pretty low though, just 640x480 pixels. You'd think that there'd be some money to be made from selling digital camera attachments that took digital photos with actually decent resolution.
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2:53 AM on Sat Nov 30 2002
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Two-way radio wristwatch

TechTV on a new wristwatch with a two-way radio from Xact. The WristLinx X2X (do you think there are enough "X's" in the name?) has a range of 1.5 miles and will work with other two-radios, not just other WristLinx X2Xs.
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2:40 AM on Sat Nov 30 2002
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Keep waiting

If you're one of the very few people out there who is actually in the market for a videophone, keep waiting. The New York Times gives the Vialta Beamer, the latest in a long line of efforts over the past forty years or so to bring video telephony to the masses, the thumbs down:
The carefully designed Beamer's price, simplicity and compatibility with any old telephone are welcome videophone advancements. Even so, the delay-prone, video-staticky Beamer isn't a very good communications device, which could be considered a drawback in a videophone. It's unlikely that many people will be making video calls to home a few Thanksgivings from now.
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1:53 AM on Fri Nov 29 2002
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Triple drives

A couple of external CD burners that pull triple duty as DVD players and portable CD players as well. Both the JackRabbit32 from Philips (which burns CD-Rs at 32x) and the MPD-AP20U from Sony (which burns at 24x) use USB 2.0 for connectivity.
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1:45 AM on Fri Nov 29 2002
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A dock for your iPod

A dock for your iPod from Japanese company Quest. It has a Firewire port, so you can automatically connect your iPod to your computer, but it also has a built-in jack so you can hook the dock up to a stereo. It's a little hard to tell from Babelfish's mangled Japanese-to-English translation of the site, but it looks like these will be available in the US sometime next month.
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12:44 AM on Fri Nov 29 2002
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World's thinnest digital camera

It's official: Creative's new 6mm thick CardCam has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's thinnest digital camera. No LCD screen, but the CardCam does have a resolution of 1.3-megapixels and 8MB of internal storage.
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4:14 PM on Thu Nov 28 2002
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New imaging technology gets the thumbs up

sd9front.jpgDigital Photography Review has an in-depth look at the 3.43-Sigma SD9, the first digital camera to use Foveon's X3 imaging technology,which captures red, green, and blue light with every pixel, rather than other sensors in which each pixel can only record a specific color. Apparently X3 lives up to the hype, as Digital Photography review says that the SD9 has "The best resolution per output pixel we've ever seen." This type of technology will probably find its way into most digital cameras eventually.
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5:35 PM on Wed Nov 27 2002
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DIY LCD projector

Rather than buy a gigantic television, people with lots of blank wall space (like my friend Christian) are turning to LCD projectors for watching video and playing video games. The only problem is that these projectors usually aren't cheap. Now for the budget-conscious among us, GideonTech has a DIY guide to building your own LCD projector for under $200.
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5:14 PM on Wed Nov 27 2002
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Barbie's cellphone: a Pocket PC Phone

It's been going around the blogosphere that Barbie now has a blog (or rather some poor marketing person at Mattel now has the job of ghostwriting a blog). While interesting, that normally wouldn't be enough to merit a mention on gadgets blog, except for the fact that on the site is a picture of Barbie's cellphone: a Pocket PC Phone. She even has an entry about the horror of accidentally leaving it at home one day and being forced to use a pay phone.
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4:46 PM on Wed Nov 27 2002
By gizmodo
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Armor Plated DVDs

If you're always ruining your CDs and DVDs with scratches, you might want to check out a new line of damage-resistant recordable DVDs coming out from TDK. These so-called Armor Plated DVDs are supposed to have coatings that are 100 times more scratch resistant than regular recordable DVDs.
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4:34 PM on Wed Nov 27 2002
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Speeding up Treo

Treo 180, 180g, and 270 owners who use T-Mobile as their service provider will be able to download a software update from Handspring that will let them connect to T-Mobile's GPRS network, which means faster download speeds for surfing the Web and checking email. Should be available for Treo owners who use Cingular soon.
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11:09 AM on Wed Nov 27 2002
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Bluetooth-enabled stereo headphones

A new pair of Bluetooth-enabled stereo headphones from Korean company OpenBrain. The Bluetooth Stereo Headset works with any Bluetooth-ready PC or mobile phone, and also comes with up to 128MB of built-in memory so it can double as a portable MP3 player all on its own. OpenBrain is going to have to do something about the garish color though. And about the dumb name of their company.
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12:55 AM on Wed Nov 27 2002
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Post-Comdex + Thanksgiving = Slow week for gadgets

It's been a mighty slow week for new gadgets. Any big announcements were made last week at Comdex, and most manufacturers know better than to unveil new products during a week when most Americans are thinking about their Thanksgiving plans.

12:47 PM on Tue Nov 26 2002
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New cellphones from Audiovox

Four new CDMA 1xRTT-compatible (the new high-speed network that Sprint PCS uses) cellphones from Audiovox: the CDM-9600, which has GPS, a built-in digital camera, and a 16-bit color display (pictured at right); the dual display CDM-9500; and two low-end models, the CDM-8500 and the CDM-8300. Should be out sometime early next year.
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12:36 PM on Tue Nov 26 2002
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Palm-powered workouts

You can use your Palm now to keep track of your workouts with a new Palm OS-compatible treadmill from Star Trac. The Star Trac Pro Elite has an IR port that can automatically beam workout data to a Palm PDA.
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12:21 PM on Tue Nov 26 2002
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Smartphone review

Lengthy review over at Mobigeeks of the new SPV from Orange, the first cellphone to run Microsoft's new Smartphone operating system. The review includes plenty of screenshots of the different applications and games available; besides the usual email and web browsing apps, the SPV has a version of Windows Media Player, so it can double as an MP3 and MPEG player. It even has an SD slot which accepts cards up to 512 MB, so you could in theory watch movies on this thing. The SPV is only available in Europe at the moment, but other cellphones running the Smartphone OS should be hitting the US sometime early next year.
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3:40 AM on Tue Nov 26 2002
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Digital camera price war looms

A new report from IDC predicts that the price of a 2-megapixel digital camera could drop below $99 in coming weeks as manufacturers desperately try to boost their holiday sales. If anyone sees any examples of this, let me know.
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3:06 AM on Tue Nov 26 2002
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$59.99 DVD player from Amazon

For just today only, Amazon is selling the Norcent DP300 DVD player for $59.99, with free shipping included. And even though it's a budget DVD player, the DP300 does have one cool feature: it can convert PAL signals to NTSC, enabling it to play region-free DVDs from the UK.
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6:02 PM on Mon Nov 25 2002
By gizmodo
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