From the monthly archives:
The Samsung G800 phone is equipped with a 5MP camera featuring an auto-focusing lens and supports 5.8 – 17.4 mm focus length, and 3x optical zoom. It’s not clear whether this camera phone is a slider or keypad-less phone. However, you can expect it come with built in Bluetooth and USB connectivity, 3G or HSDPA connection.
Chiba Institute of Technology Japan has developed the Halluc II, which is a mobile robot with eight wheels. The robot has 4 joints for each wheel for easy movement and is loaded with a camera, 13 distance sensors, two lasers for obstacle detection, one goniometer for wheel control and three axial controllers. Powering all this is an AMD Geode processor at 800 Mhz combined with Linux OS. The robot can transform to the plain wheel mode, animal mode and insect mode. The battery pack has enough juice for 30 minutes. Watch the videos after the jump to see what it’s like.
The Fujifilm FinePix Z10fd is the most colorful of Fujifilm’s digital camera today. This 7.2MP Fashion camera has 3x optical zoom, 2.5inch LCD screen, slideshow mode, face detection technology with auto red eye removal, IR beaming, and a blogging mode which lets you post pictures to blogs, websites, auctions, or e-mail with ease by copying and automatically resizing any image you’ve captured right in the camera. The digicam captures video in 320×240 resolution, or takes photos at up to 1600 ISO. Available in Wave Blue, Wasabi Green, Hot Pink, Sunset Orange, and Midnight Black, the FinePix Z10fd has dual shot mode for back to back shots (with and without flash). In addition, its Li-on battery is good for 200 shots.
Link via The Digital Camera Blog
It looks like the Canon PowerShot A450 and the Canon Coolpix L12 have some new competitors. Fujifilm has announced two new entry-level shooters. The first is the Finepix A920, sporting a 9MP CCD, 4x zoom and a 2.7-inch screen and retails for $199.95. The Finepix F480 has similar specs to the Finepix A920 except it comes with a smaller 8MP CCD sensor and is 0.4-inches thinner. The Finepix F480 is priced at $179.95.
Link via The Digital Camera Blog
NewsGator Technologies, the leading RSS company, has released its NewsGator Mobile for Apple iPhone. It is a web-based RSS reader designed especially for the iPhone. The reader allows users to read RSS feeds and mark items as read while they’re on the go. NewsGator Mobile for iPhone also supports online synchronization with popular desktop-based RSS readers FeedDemon for PC and NetNewsWire for Mac. Juts remember that a free NewsGator Online account is required.
The beauty of NewsGator’s new mobile-optimized, Web-based feed reader isn’t just that it works well with an iPhone – it’s that it syncs my subscription list, including which messages I’ve already read, with NetNewsWire on my Mac,” said John Gruber of Daring Fireball, a top Apple-focused blog.
Link via iPod and MP3 Players and The Cell Phone Blog
NuVo has rolled out NuVoDock for Apple iPod, which is a dedicated Apple iPod Dock for use with the company’s Grand Concerto Whole House Audio System. Available in wired and wireless versions, the NuVoDock offers complete iPod control from the Grand Concerto Control Pad, and sports a 150-foot transmit radius (wireless version), frequency hopping technology to allow uninterrupted audio reproduction, and the ability to charge the Apple iPod while it’s docked. The NuvoDock wireless and wired versions retail for $649 and $349 respectively.
If you need a laptop, but you don’t have enough money? Then check out the new laptop from Medison Celebrity. Priced at $150, this laptop is probably the world’s most affordable laptop currently. It features a 14-inch widescreen display with 1280-by-768 pixel resolution, Intel Celeron M Processor 370 at 1.5 GHz, a 256MB DDR2 memory expandable up to 1GB, a 40GB hard drive, and a Combo optical drive. It has the integrated VIA PN800 graphics, a 5.1-channel sound system, as well as Ethernet LAN and 802.11g wireless. This ultra-cheap laptop also comes with an optimized Linux operating system. Medison Celebrity’s laptop weighs around 4.85lbs with six-cell battery.
Link via The Laptop Blog
Phonescoop via YouTube provides us with a preview video of the LG Muziq. The music phone comes packed with industry-leading features, including over-the-air song downloads, a 4GB microSD memory card slot, a built-in FM transmitter allowing customers to listen to their tunes wirelessly through any FM radio within 10 feet, 1.3MP shooter, EV-DO, and Bluetooth. Hit the jump to watch the video.
No this isn’t a picture of House of Flying Daggers; it’s the Sky IM-U200 a.k.a. Shooting Star which has a unique design which gives it an out of this world look. Unlike most flip phones, the clamshell’s internal and external displays are of the same size. The handset features a 1.3MP digicam, MP3 player, Bluetooth, and for those of you who can’t spell, an electronic dictionary and text viewer. It will be available this week in Korea for $545.
Blizzard announced today that World of Warcraft, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is now being played by more than 9 million gamers around the world. World of Warcraft made its debut in North America on November 23rd, 2004. The game was the best selling PC game of 2005 and 2006. World of Warcraft is available in seven different languages. It’s played in North America, Europe, China, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. In related news, celibacy levels worldwide have also been reported at an all time high… 
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