http://www.mp3musicbubble.info Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:15:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras First off, the chance of this Japanese super-phone coming to the US or anywhere else outside of Nippon is slim. FCC approval or not, it's likely only being tested for global roaming. However, as slim is its chances are, they've improved dramatically now that Japan's government ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/casios-8-megapixel-exilim-w63ca-cellphone-gets-fcc-approved/ Filed under: Gaming, Household, Peripherals For Roomba hacking extraordinaire longjie0723, it's just another day in the office. Grasping for one more way to control the circular vacuum with something video game-related, he keyed in on the Wii Balance Board. Granted, he's already had success controlling the Roomba with a Wiimote, so ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/wii-balance-board-used-to-control-roomba-for-reasons-unknown/ Filed under: Cellphones We're not going to re-hash the details of Nokia's N79 and N85 yet again. After all, we just went through it less than 24-hours ago. We will tell you that both the N79 (tri-band GSM, 900/2100 UMTS/HSDPA) and N85 (quad-band GSM/EDGE with either 900/1900/2100 or 850/1900/2100 UMTS/HSDPA) will ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/nokias-n79-and-us-specd-n85-now-mucho-official/ Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home EntertainmentWhile some outfits evidently operate with a dysfunctional Caps Lock key, projectiondesign is taking things to the opposite extreme by announcing the lower-cased spectra, optix and prisma. The aforesaid trio of DLP projectors is gearing up for a CEDIA debut, where they each will be ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/projectiondesign-announces-avielo-hd-projector-trio-steers-clear-of-the-shift-key/ Canon's clearly trying to add a certain girly appeal to some of its latest digital cameras, since compared to the gruff, black 50D the upcoming E1 is particularly curvy and comes in vanilla, powder blue and baby pink. It's no optical slouch though, despite its simple looks, with 10-megapixels, 4x ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/canons-e1-digital-camera-is-shiny-curvy-in-baby-pink-and-blue-digital-cameras/ Navigon's upcoming 7200T GPS unit has some pretty high-end features: voice destination entry, photo-realistic 3D views of roads with lane guidance icons and 3D landmarks built-in. But its niftiest feature is free real-time traffic info updates with no subscription fees, for life. That's just got to be handy, and comes ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/navigon-7200t-gps-has-3d-landmarks-free-live-traffic-info-gps/ Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets Like the 1st generation Kindle unearthed by Engadget snoops way back in September of 2006, Amazon's having a tough time keeping the lid on its 2nd generation e-book reader. Seems everyone and his analyst brother is confirming a new, larger screened collegiate reader and at least ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/249-kindle-20-significantly-thinner-and-frog-stylish-2/ Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets Like the 1st generation Kindle unearthed by Engadget snoops way back in September of 2006, Amazon's having a tough time keeping the lid on its 2nd generation e-book reader. Seems everyone and his analyst brother is confirming a new, larger screened collegiate reader and at least ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/249-kindle-20-significantly-thinner-and-frog-stylish/ Those leaked EOS D50 specs on Canon's Chinese site? Real. The official announcement came today and everything tallies with what we saw on Friday. 15.1 megapixel CMOS sensor (with 1.6x crop factor), a big 3" LCD screen, Live View (for previewing images on the screen), ISO running up to 12800 ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/canon-makes-eos-50d-official/ Filed under: Displays NVIDIA's NVISION conference kicked off without too many announcements today, but ViewSonic was making some waves with a prototype 120Hz LCD display that it says brings HDTV-level motion and crispness to the desktop without sacrificing resolution. The 1680 x 1050 22-inch monitor will eventually hit as the VX2265wm, ... http://www.mp3musicbubble.info/2008/08/26/viewsonic-shows-off-a-120hz-lcd-computer-display/