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Gizmodo reports about Tiny DLP Projectors with LED Bulbs. Interesting! Using LEDs as light sources may limit the ultimate size, but should result in much longer battery bulb life.

PVRblog goes even deeper into Tivo’s announcements at CES. I can hardly wait.

While digging around, I found a Bluetooth GPS near the $100 price point: the Deluo Bluetooth GPS Lite. About $40 cheaper than the Delormé Bluelogger.

Engadget reports that the VTech’s ip8100-2 Broadband Telephone has Vonage built-in. I’ve been wondering how long it would be before such things would be available, now I guess I have my answer: soon.

Slashdot reports that TiVo to Go has been released. I’ll download it later, and let you know how it works! (For those of you who don’t know, Tivo To Go allows you to transfer recorded programs to your PC.)

My wife got the new Sidekick II as her present to herself this year. I must admit: it’s nice. It’s got a nicer keyboard, nicer controls and a decent camera. It also includes support for Yahoo! Messenger as well as AOL Instant Messenger right out of the box. If you like to leverage things open […]

On this 44th edition of Brainwagon Radio, your host apologizes for his lack of podcasting over the holiday, but gives brief reviews of some of the toys that were acquired during this 2004 holiday season: Karaoke Revolution 3 for the Playstation 2 Halflife 2 for the PC A Bluetrek headset for my new cell phone […]

Ever wonder how they hope to digitize millions of books? Try looking at this film showing a book scanning robot working for archive.org. You can get more real information from the manufacturer’s website, albeit in the form of a bit of a sales pitch.

The Goldfish Online has an extended treatise on building NOT, OR, NOR, And and NAND gates using everyone’s favorite building toy.

Cory at BoingBoing linked to an interesting toy: a forensic facial reconstruction kit for kids. How groovy is that? Hey, has anyone else noticed that all the TV promos for CSI (the original) are listed as “CSI:”. What’s the deal with the colon?

Well, I couldn’t resist a sale this morning: Best Buy had the new Motorola MPX220 cell phones on sale for $49 after a $300 rebate. The gadget is a Microsoft Smartphone, and while it is far from perfect (I will try to do a writeup of my experiences soon) it does have a number of […]

This morning the gadget sites (as well as some podcasters) were all a twitter over the possibility of Apple producing a new audio interface code named Asteroid. This is supposedly a firewire interface with two XL mic inputs and a bunch of other stuff. What struck me as funny were the two different artists renditions […]

Gadgetmadness has a cool interview with Robosapien creator Mark Tilden. Apparently Robosapien 2 will be demonstrated in February of 2005. I can’t wait.

Well, I promised to make a better review of the Aiptek DV4500 and to post some trial video and image files, and here they are. I took these photos and video in the available light in my living room during the daytime. The highest resolution photo mode Note that it’s pretty blurry, it is devilishly […]

Where your host describes a number of interesting gadgets and gizmos, and then plays some Halloween sounding music: Links from the show: The Aiptek DV4500, pictures, video and sound files coming soon. Grayson: a film trailer created by amateurs, telling the story of Dick Grayson, aka Robin Jeri Ellsworth designed the Commodore One, a clone […]