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Thursday, December 23, 2004

New Sony Camcorder Burns Directly to DVD

Sony plans to release in May a new digital video camera that burns directly to DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW. Called the Sony DCR-DVD7E, it features a cool, round-body design.

Link to this item. 3:32 PM

Rise of the Machines: Eggheads Teach Flying Robots To Navigate

Researchers at the University of California have successfully trained intelligent helicopters to navigate a course by themselves -- without prior "knowledge" of obstacles.

Link to this item. 2:26 PM

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Unanticipated Convergence: USB-Secure Digital Combo

A Taiwanese company called Digimaster is reportedly selling a flash-storage device that has a USB plug-in thing on one end, and is an SD card on the other. The idea is that you can take pictures with your SD camera, then plug the card into your PC's USB 2.0 port to download them. The 128 megabyte version should cost about $28 and the 256 megabyte version about $40.

Link to this item. 11:28 AM

Sony Catches Chinese Prisons Building Fake PlayStations

An investigation into rampant piracy of it's PlayStation game units in China revealed that at least one Chinese prison was engaged in building fake Sony PlayStations.

Link to this item. 8:52 AM

Monday, December 20, 2004

Touchy Feely Car Set For March Unveiling

A wacky new concept car called the Senso will be unveiled in March at the Geneva Motor Show by Rinspeed and Bayer MaterialScience. The car is designed to perceive the emotional and mental state of the driver and respond accordingly. Sensors collectively labeled "Smart Surface Technology" in the cab use "biometric data" to gauge how the driver feels, and creates an amount of light that somehow makes the driver feel better.

Link to this item. 9:30 AM

Another Reason To Move To Japan: NTT's 3G F901iC Fingerprint Phone

NTT DoCoMo, Inc., today announced that they will start selling their secure F901iC 3G FOMA handset in Japan on December 24, just to ruin Christmas for the rest of us. Here are the painfully cool specs: Surround sound (for the ringtones), e-money capability (the phone can be used as a credit card), and a pile of security features, including the ability to call the phone and lock it -- and fingerprint security. It gets worse: 30-frames-per-second video recording and TV-quality playback; full PDA functionality and PC connectivity.

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