Sony took a while to catch up with Apple in the digital music department, perhaps it spent so long waiting for everyone to convert to ATRAC, stored on a MiniDisc and synched via SoundStage. Now though, the NWZ-S639F, with its 40 hours of music playback and 16GB of storage, is reversing the tide.
Sony’s nano-sized player aims to blast Apple out of its, er, tree by combining the twin cannons of video playback and Bluetooth technology.
“Scrapheap Challenge” was the phrase that sprang to mind when we first clapped eyes on the Sony DR-BT20NX Bluetooth headphones. However, pairing up to a phone or Bluetooth MP3 player soon changed our minds… even if it does look like this was made in the dark.
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Categories: Mobile Phones Tags: accelerometer, duke university, motion sensor, phonepoint pen, research
PhonePoint Pen could be the basis of future note-taking apps if this research project from Duke University students comes off.
PhonePoint Pen is an experimental new system for capturing gestures made with a mobile phone. While motion-sensing apps are nothing new, this is the first we have seen that actually lets you write letters in the air that your phone can read and understand.
Remember my lovely shiny computer with the pretty blue lights? It has been stolen by my husband, shocking but true! He wasn’t too impressed at first questioning how it would fit into our lives, what was the point of it? If you wanted a portable PC isn’t that what laptops are for?
When you hear the words “Kevlar” and “neodymium magnets” being bandied around you don’t expect to be talking about headphones, but that’s exactly what we are talking about: the Sennheiser IE8s to be precise.
The name Sandisk has always sounded like some sort of feminine hygiene product to us, but get past that and the company actually makes some excellent portable media players. Case in point: the Sandisk Sansa Fize.
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Categories: Gaming Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone 3G S, Fishlabs, iphone 3g s, iPhone 3Gs, PSP Go!, Sony, Sony PSP Go!
The Apple iPhone 3G S will be capable of games graphics “beyond” the Sony PSP Go, according to Michael Schade, head of mobile game developer Fishlabs.