(Untitled)- January 23, 2003 The proliferation of digital media receivers. Sean Captain of PC World notes that at CES no fewer than eight companies introduced devices like HP's Digital Media Receiver which let you wirelessly stream audio and video files off of your PC and on to your stereo or television. One name that's gone largely unnoticed: Cd3o with its Network MP3 Player (pictured at right) that lacks a display, but instead talks to you via a synthesized voice. Now that's one futuristic gadget! ReadGizmodohttp://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/gadgets/2003/01/22.html#a3515 We'll Probably Never See This in the U.S.- January 22, 2003 Sharp Unveils Well-Connected Home Server "At its heart, the HG-01S is a hard drive-based video recorder with an additional photo album feature but what differentiates it from some of the other digital video recorders or home servers on the market is the inclusion of a Web server and networking functions that allow recorded video to be viewed from other computers across the Internet. It has a 120GB hard drive and records in MPEG-2 at 720-pixel by 480-pixel resolution at either 8 megabits per...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/gadgets/2003/01/21.html#a3500 New DesktopTablet PC Combo- January 20, 2003 Live From Gadget Central "Let the record show that CES 2003 finally put the CRT monitor in the grave. Flat panels practically wallpapered the place. Samsung and Philips continue to dominate in LCD industrial design. What stood out for me were Philips's DesXcape wireless touchscreen monitor and keyboard that turn any desktop into a portable tablet PC (out in February for $1,500), and what may be the industry's first home-theater-in-a-box, also from the Dutch electronics giant, with a DVD...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/gadgets/2003/01/19.html#a3472 I'll Trade You a Star Wars for Your Lord of the Rings....- January 17, 2003 Credit Card-Size Hard Drive Can Hold 5GB "Take a look at one of those credit cards in your wallet. That's the exact size and thickness of an upcoming, revolutionary removable storage device called StorCard. Created by a company with the same name, StorCard can contain from 100MB to more than 5GB of data on a plastic card. At first glance, it looks like a credit card, and even has a magnetic strip like a credit card, for potential use in standard credit card readers. The hard disk data,...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/gadgets/2003/01/16.html#a3453 (Untitled)- January 17, 2003 From the PC to the stereo. PCWorld on the ever-proliferating number of ways you can wirelessly connect your stereo to your computer so you can listen to the MP3s trapped within. Read Gizmodohttp://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/gadgets/2003/01/16.html#a3442 |