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Later this month TiVo and Netflix will announce a new service allowing subscribers to both services to download movies to their TiVo boxes. (via Matt Haughey) Movie studios will now know who watched their movies, how many times, and at what hours of the day. All information you cannot obtain from a piece write-only media and postal mail. The move drives demand for higher capacity TiVo hardware and will make a new TiVo box a hot seller this Christmas….
This fall Segway will introduce a customized version of their i Series: the GT, or golf transporter. According to Nick Kaye of The New York Times the new Segway "will come customized with a golf bag, cooler, ball and scorecard holders, seat and G.P.S." The Segway's batteries may not last an entire 18-hole round….
Engadget has some pictures and more details about palmOne's Treo 650. Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera, video recording, and a high resolution screen. I want one….
Alcohol Without Liquid (AWOL) is a new machine that allows bar patrons to inhale liquor in a mist instead of drinking it. It takes about 20 minutes to inhale one vaporizer shot of alcohol. Most locations charge $10 plus the cost of a shot. It looks like an inverted bong. The user chooses which alcoholic spirit will be used and the alcoholic spirit is loaded into a diffuser capsule in the machine. The oxygen bubbles are then passed through the capsule, absorbing the alcohol, before being inhaled through a tube. The resultant cloudy alcohol vapor is then inhaled from the…
RetroZone takes original controllers from NES, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Atari, and Intellivision and converts them into USB game pads. You can now have emulation with the real controllers. I already have one of the top-loading NES systems from 1993 with the "dog bone" controllers. I like to have the full system, but finding and storing the games is difficult. Emulation combined with a nice controller is a good solution….
CITY magazine summarizes some of the designer iPod cases currently available. Some designs need a makeover for the new iPod design (headphone cable position, no cutouts for small buttons). $265 for Dior Homme or Louis Vuitton designs: just slightly less than the iPod. (via Cult of Mac)…
Farhad Manjoo of Salon writes about technology for trading television shows online. While TiVo asks for permission from the FCC to release its TivoToGo service, developers using BitTorrent and RSS have created a similar system without restraints. In recent months, a host of developers and TV enthusiasts have been working on ways to improve online trading — they're building sophisticated networks to record and encode and distribute shows, and they're improving peer-to-peer transfer systems to make downloading easier. The hottest new improvement is made possible by the merging of two Internet innovations, the peer-to-peer protocol BitTorrent and RSS, the popular…
Kodak has new 35mm and Advantix film named Plus Digital Film. Take your 35mm camera, pop in the 35mm and I am sure most consumers will think they have just upgraded to digital photography. What is digital about this product? If you process your photographs using Kodak's Perfect Touch processing service they will return your prints with a free CD. In case you regularly forget to check the box on the envelope indicating you would like a scan of your photographs on CD, your film's packaging lets the photo lab know you would really like a CD with your…
The Roomba Discovery is the second version of iRobot's robotic vacuum cleaner. Twice as powerful, quicker charge time, self-charging home base, intense cleaning mode, and larger dust bin are just some of the new features. $250 from the iRobot Store. There is also a special page for current Roomba owners….
Today's announcement from TiVo regarding downloaded Internet content available on a personal video recorder got me thinking about how independent content authors now have the same path to the end consumer as Viacom, Disney, and General Electric. As I read the New York Times article profiling the new TiVo service, RSS enclosures came to mind. Microsoft might still use IPTV, but other software manufacturers can build support for RSS enclosures into their software with little overhead. What does this mean to the average user? Average users are able to push content to targeted subscribers. It could be the latest video…
Bring iTunes to your home stereo system with AirPort Express. The AirPort Express can be used as a wireless bridge, and has a USB port for your printer. $129 retail….
Brighthand: "Sony announced that it will no longer develop and sell Clie handheld models to the United States market"…
Micah Joel of Salon promotes open wireless networks for his own personal security. "By making my Internet connection available to any and all who happen upon it, I have no way to be certain what kinds of songs, movies and pictures will be downloaded by other people using my IP address. And more important, my ISP has no way to be certain if it's me." I am still torn. I use Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Personal encryption at home. I live in an apartment building and others may be able to benefit from my wireless connection. Should I open my…
Brand Marketers of San Francisco introduced the marketing world to moving image advertising on a t-shirt at E3 and Wired NextFest over the last week. Hollywood Reporter profiles the new technology. The t-shirts are embedded with 11-inch monitors and four stereo speakers and can play any type of media. Fox plans to use the devices to promote its upcoming movie, "I, Robot." (via BoingBoing)…
Microsoft has a special offer for Xbox Live. A 12-month subscription is only $20, and for $10 more you receive a headset and the full version of Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. I ordered the Xbox Live 12 Month Starter Kit, currently on backorder….
Nike has a new $299 MP3 player with 256MB flash memory and Bluetooth. ZDNet profiles the Nike MP3Run. It includes a special pedometer you attach to your shoelaces and your data is stored on the flash memory. "While you're running, you can press a button to temporarily silence the music while a synthesized voice tells you how far you've run and at what pace. When you're through with your run, you connect the player to your PC, and your time and distance are uploaded to the Training section of Nike's running site, where a training log allows you to track…
EyeToy, Sony's camera attachment for the PlayStation 2, will now allow PlayStation 2 owners with a network adapter to use video features. "The video mail feature will allow users to send 30-second video messages to anyone on their buddy list."…
Alan Deutschman of Wired News profiles Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and his influence on the technology industry….
MacMice has a new USB microphone shipping May 7: the MicFlex. Bend it around the back of your screen and aim it at your recording subject. (via Gizmodo) I would like to record more of the technical presentations I attend with the online world, and this new microphone might be a good portable answer! If you have a better solution for audio recording presentations from the crowd, please let me know….
Wal-Mart is now selling PCs using Sun's Java Desktop System through their online store. 1.6 GHz, 128 MB of DDR RAM, and a 40 GB hard drive for $298….
Why do different CD-R media claim different shelf lives? Dutch personal computer magazine PC Active put 30 brands to the test by placing them in a dark cupboard for two years and retesting. Independent (U.K.) reports on the CD-R test results. 10 percent showed aging problems after two years….
Eamon Hickey follows the path of Sports Illustrated photography from the 2004 Super Bowl from the time the images leave the photographer's camera. "16,183 digital pictures shot in Houston's Reliant Stadium by eleven of the magazine's staff photographers over the course of about six hours" reviewed and then sent to New York. He covers the different equipment used and the staff's switch from film to digital. (via Tim Bray)…
Tiffany & Co. has a sterling silver stylus for $70.
Want to lock your luggage but know it will be busted open by the TSA and its purpose rendered useless? Travel Sentry certified TSA locks can open be opened by the TSA without breaking open your lock. You lock and unlock your suitcase own suitcase, but there's a special TSA key that allows airport security to unlock your bags as well. (via Crypto-Gram)…
"AT&T Wireless announced the availability of a new music recognition service today that allows customers to identify songs simply by placing their phones near a music speaker." Customers dial "#ID" from any AT&T wireless phone and provide a 15 second sample. They then receive a text message on their phone with the artist and song….