First U3 USB Smart Drives from Kingston, Memorex, SanDisk and Verbatim

Topic: Portable Devices

U3 LLC unveiled the industry's very first USB smart drives and U3 smart software applications today.

U3 smart drives host U3 smart applications, computer settings and data allowing people to carry their 'personal workspace' with them and to access it on other PCs.
Kingston, Memorex, SanDisk and Verbatim offer beginning in October USB drives with U3 applications.
U3 showed WinAmp media player, McAfee VirusScan, Trillian chat and Skype running of U3 enabled USB drives. Read more

iNAVI Pro GPS, PDA and MP3 Player

Topic: Portable Devices

Korean iNavi offers the slick iNavi Pro navigation gadget. The combination of GPS, PDA and music player is nothing new anymore. It is just a question how small those multi-functional devices get.

As reported Garmin released the nuvi just last week that is also a very slick unit and can compete with the Korean portable navigation devices. (See for instance the Korean Pontus products).
The iNavi Pro features 512MB on board and a CF card slot. It runs Windows CE.NET 4.2 on a ARM CPU. Read more

iPod nano iGuy

Topic: Portable Devices

The iPod accessory makers are racing to release accessories for the new Apple iPod nano.

SpeckProducts offers the iGuy for the iPod nano. I guess the nano iGuy is the sexiest iGuy of them all. He is ultra-thin and tall. The new iGuy ships in 2nd half of October for $34.95.


The Apple iPod nano is available on Amazon.com.
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Gamma-Scout Portable Radiation Detector

Topic: Portable Devices

Even if you do not work in a Nuclear Power plant this portable radiation detector could come handy one day, if you listen to the news - lets hope not.

The Gamma-Scout Radiation Detector is the latest development in handheld general purpose Geiger Counters. Designed around an accurate and reliable Geiger-Müller detector, Gamma-Scout measures and displays alpha, beta, gamma and x-ray data using an large LCD to show tissue dosage in both analog and digital formats. Read more

JVC Victor XA-HD500 MP3 Player

Topic: Portable Devices

JVC Victor introduces a 6GB HDD Mp3 Player in Japan called XA-HD500.

The JVC Victor XA-HD500 has an excellent 30 hours of battery life for a hard-drive mp3 player. The new portable music player features JVC's K2 technology for improved sound quality. The XA-HD500 features four interesting sound field simulations: ENERGY, CRYSTAL, HEARTFUL, and SUBWAY. Wonder how those sound.
MP3 and WMA-DRM are supported by the XA-HD500. It measures 51.5 mm x (height) 91.6 mm x (depth) 16.9 mm and weighs 90g. The JVC Victor XA-HD500 comes in silver and black and ships on 1st of November in Japan. Read more

Toshiba Fuel Cell MP3 Player

Topic: Portable Devices

Toshiba announces a prototype of a Fuel Cell MP3 Player.

This Toshiba MP3 player is powered by a Methanol Fuel Cell. There is actually a Flash based MP3 player and a HDD based player. The fuel cell units have an output power of 100mW and 300mW respectively. Both prototype Toshiba Fuel Cell MP3 players include components related to the testing and are W35mm x L110mm x D20mm (flash memory) and W65mm x L125mm x D27mm (HDD) with the fuel cell units.
The HDD based Player has a 10ml fuel tank, which provides for a 60 hour play time. The Flash MP3 Player has a 3.5ml tank that holds for 35 hours. Read more

Hasbro VuGo Portable Video Player and DVR

Topic: Portable Devices

Hasbro brings a portable video player with video recording function for kids to the market this holiday season called the VideoNow VuGo.

The VuGo Kids PMP and DVR unit contains 128MB of memory, enough to hold up to 60 minutes of video, 6 hours of music or over 1,200 digital photos. The VuGo can be expanded with SD Memory Cards. The VuGo runs on AAA batteries and has a built-in speaker. No information on the size of the screen.
The VuGo multi-media player is scheduled to be available this fall for an approximate retail price of $119.99. Wal-Mart (search for vugo) has the VuGo already listed for $122.24, but it is still out of stock. Read more

Garmin nüvi GPS Personal Travel Assistant

Topic: Portable Devices

Garmin seems to have acted fast enough to fend off the small slick Korean multi-functional handheld GPS navigation units that have been popping up lately.

The Garmin nüvi (yes their is an ü) is supporting Language translation guides and travel guides along with navigation. Other features are Picture Viewer for displaying digital photos, a World Travel Clock, Currency and Measurement Converter, and Calculator.
The Garmin nüvi is not bigger than a deck of playing cards and features a 3.5 inch screen. Read more

Panasonic Pocket Copy

Topic: Portable Devices

Need to copy data from a SD Card to another without a PC? Panasonic has the answer with the new Panasonic Pocket Copy Gadget.

The Panasonic SD Pocket Copy (BN-SDEAP3) supports SD memory card and mini SD cards. It is powered by a dry-cell battery that gives 4 hours of continuous operation.
The memory card copy device measures 85x55x14 mm.
The Panasonic Pocket Copy goes on sale in October in Japan. Read more

Oktoberfest 2007 Gadget: Scrolling LED Badge

Topic: Portable Devices

The Oktoberfest in Munich is upon us again starting this weekend. The 2004 Oktoberfest Gadget was the Bavarian Beer Foamer. This year it is a LED Badge.

Scrolling text LED badges or belts are the accessory this year for people who have something to say. I could also imagine that foreigners can use it to communicate in Bavarian one liners at the Oktoberfest.
Here are some text suggestions for the LED Badge in Bavarian:
A Bia Bitte! (A beer please)
I Bin Bsuffa! (I am drunk)
Willst Bussln? (Do you want to kiss me?) Read more

New Sony Cybershot DSC-M2 - Cool!

Topic: Portable Devices

Sony introduces the Sony Cybershot DSC-M2 digital camera. The Sony Cybershot DSC-M2 is the new stylish follow-up model to... Read more

Apple iPod nano Review Roundup

Topic: Portable Devices

Of course Walter Mossberg from the Wallstreet Journal published his review as one of the first already 1 day after Steve Jobs ... Read more

Korean MP3 Companies Whine about the Apple iPod nano

Topic: Portable Devices

The Korean press runs stories about Korean MP3 player companies complain about the price-cut Samsung gave Apple for the flash ... Read more

NextConcepts Mobile Notetaker Review

Topic: Portable Devices

DigitalReviews.net reviews the NextConcepts Mobile Notetaker. Quote: "Where does this device fit in: the Mobile N... Read more

ScotteVest 4.0 Aimed at iPod Generation

Topic: Portable Devices

ScotteVest updates it's line of Technology Enabled Clothing and starts ScotteVest 4.0. The ScotteVest Version 4.0 line ad... Read more

New Sony NW-A608, NW-A607 and NW-A605 Flash MP3 Players

Topic: Portable Devices

Sony also updates it's flash based MP3 Players with the introduction of the NW-A608, NW-A607 and NW-A605. The new Sony Wa... Read more

New Sony Walkman NW-A3000 and NW-A1000

Topic: Portable Devices

Sony announces two new hard-drive Network Walkman, the NW-A3000 and the NW-A1000. The Sony Walkman NW-A3000 has a 20GB ha... Read more

New Sony Cybershot DSC-R1 Digital Camera

Topic: Portable Devices

The Sony Cybershot DSC-R1 is apparently the world's first 10.3MP digital still camera that combines a large 10.3 effective Meg... Read more

New Apple iPod nano

Topic: Portable Devices

Engadget has fresh information and photos from the Apple press-conference about the new Apple iPod nano. The iPod nano i... Read more

DLO iPod mini FM Tuner Accessory

Topic: Portable Devices

Apple did not put a FM Tuner inside the iPod mini players. DLO has now a slick FM Tuner to make the iPod mini a radio. ... Read more

Olympus m:robe MR-F10 MP3 Player Review

Topic: Portable Devices

Korean gadget site popco celebrates the recently announced Olympus m:robe MR-F10 mp3 players with beautiful product photos. ... Read more

Are You Sick of Using Video Tapes in Camcorders?

JVC offers a line of Video Cameras that use Hard-drives instead of Video Tapes. JVC is still the only company that has Video Cameras on the market that use hard-drives to store DVD quality video. It is in my mind a very obvious solution in a complete digital environment that we are in now.
Nobody is questioning that we stopped use film in digital cameras. So why do still most video cameras on the market use tape? Sure the data volume is much higher for video, memory sticks or SD cards offer to little space to record hours of high quality videos. Now that portable hard-drives are used to store your complete music library it is of course also possible to record hours of high quality video on them.
Right now JVC offers three models with a 4GB hard-drive: The GZ-MC100 ($899.99), The GZ-MC200 ($998.94) and the new high-end GZ-MC-500 ($1,599.95). If you need more storage, JVC will start ship end of August the JVC Everio G-Series camcorders that boast 20 and 30GB hard-drives. That means up to 37 hours of video recording on the 30GB models and up to 25 hours on the 20GB model - Tape just died, as film did. Amazon.com opened pre-order on the new JVC Everio G-Series camcorders. You can get the GZ-MG20 for $799.95, the GZ-MG40 for $899.99 and the GZ-MG50 for $999.99.

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