Think black and white is too mainstream? A company called Colorware has announced to offer a big portfolio of colored iPods soon. They provide 23 standard colors, which will allow for 460 individual combinations. The pictures on their site sure look nice, and they claim their coating to be unscratchable. Colorware also offers Playstations, X-Boxes and iMacs in various colored variants. So what about the PSP?
The Logitech® G15 Gaming Keyboard is a keyboard specifically aimed at gamers. With 18 programmable keys for commands and macros, there is a lot of customizability. Current status information on the game can be shown on a special folding LCD panel, if the game does support this. Last but not least, the keys are illuminated with three levels of backlighting, to make nightly gaming hassle free. At a suggested price of USD 79.99 the keyboard should be an affordable addition to any gamers gadget collection.
According to PSP Updates, the new firmware version 2.50 is available for network upgrade. Other than the bogus 2.01 version, which failed to provide new features and only messed with the ability to downgrade the PSP to older firmware, this one introduces some new stuff. Of note are the LocationFree video player and the ability to play copyright protected movies from the memory stick.
The japanese PSP homepage allready offers the new firmware for download.
Warning: Upgrading your firmware to a version higher than 2.0 makes it impossible to run homebrew for the time being.
According to this article, Datel is going to launch an external hard disk drive which can be attached to the PSP’s memory stick port. The disk is said to have a capacity of 4 Gigabyte and comes with an X2 replacement battery, which should have twice the capacity of the regular battery. The price for the device has not yet been announced.
With all the hacks floating around and the PSP’s networking capabilities, I guess it was just a matter of time until someone would release it: These people report running a web server on a PSP. The actuall PSP hosted site can not be reached right now, the blog says they are having bandwith problems at their ISP.
Now this looks like an interesting device. With the 770 Internet Tablet, Nokia is about to release a mobile web browsing / multimedia solution with impressive specs. It features the Linux-based Internet Tablet 2005 software edition, which is supposed to support Internet telephony (VoIP) and Instant Messaging in the 2006 edition, an 800×480 touch screen, a web browser, e-mail client, news reader, Media players, Image viewer and some more software. The device also offers bluetooth and WLAN 802.11b/g connectivity, and is capable of MP3, Real Audio, MPEG4, JPEG, GIF, PNG, MPEG1, MPEG4, Real Video, Avi and a bunch of other media file formats.
Release is scheduled for the third quarter of 2005.
This has got to be the most unusual USB memory stick I have seen so far.
Sony recently introduced the MDR-NC50 noise cancelling headphones, which are able to detect low frequency white noise (20-1500hz) from jet engines, subway trains or server fans and create an opposite sound wave that cancels out those noises. According to Sony, these headphones can reduce unwanted noise by up to 80 percent. At the 300hz level the noise reduction is said to be at 14db.
Paper Starships is a great site for Star Wars/Star Trek nerds with some time to spare. They have an assortment of detailed paper starship models there, be it from Babylon 5, Star Trek or even the German Raumpatrouille Orion. The sheets can be printed and then cut out, folded and assembled.
[Found at toi.protocol]
Samsung’s new SCH-n330 is a very stylish mobile, aimed at younger, trendy consumers. It’s the first US mobile with Immersion’s VibeTonz touch sensations, making it beat to the rhythm of ringtones. This feature works on the 15 pre installed ringtones as well as special downloadable ringtones. The device will go for $69.99 with a two-year customer agreement at Verizon.