Archive for February 7th, 2008

Squeezebox Duet now available for pre-order

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment Hey, look at that -- the Squeezebox Duet just popped up for pre-order. Slim Devices's answer to Sonos was pretty impressive when we played with it at CES, and it looks like pricing is exactly what we heard: $400 for the wireless controller and a single Squeezebox ...

Palm gets down to business

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Business types, it's time to finish your spreadsheets and get excited. Palm is dropping their neat Centro smartie right here in the UK. Running on Palm's own OS 5.4.9, rather than the Windows flavoured system they've been favouring with the likes of the Treo, the Centro is already a hit Stateside. Now ...

U600 gets touched up

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

We all know that the U600 is a cracking phone. Clocking in at a mere 10.9mm, it's the thinnest slider around and has got plenty of neat features on board. Samsung though, has seen fit to tinker with its high end war horse, offering haptic touch as part of an update ...

Numonyx (Intel and STMicroelectronics) already shipping phase-change memory samples

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe hear this new phase-change memory stuff is awful special, which is why we're hoping to get our hands on some now that Numonyx (the "pospective" company founded last year by Intel and STMicroelectronics to make the stuff), is apparently shipping "Alverstone"-codenamed prototypes. Of course, with progress ...

The H2GO RC racer with fuel-cell power plant — a panacea?

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets The achilles heel of RC racers has always been the battery. A few minutes of play after hours of charging is no way to waste the sacred years of youth -- we have video games for that. Now this race fans, the H2GO racer fueled by hydrogen ...