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.
Replacementdocs is a site offering nothing but game manuals - and lots of it. This might be especially useful for people buying used games from eBay or budget titles, which often miss the full documentation that came with the retail title.
I love structuring my ideas and thoughts with mind maps. Freemind is a great freeware tool to build mind maps at the computer. Now it looks like there is a serious contender: IHMC Cmap Tools is a software to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. I have not tried it so far, but it seems to add collaborative features to the mind map/concept map idea, which might come in handy when several persons are working on a project. It’s on my long list of software to check out. If anyone has tried it already, feel free to comment on this post.
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]
According to Matt McAlister, IT magazine Infoworld is using del.icio.us to tag their articles and to provide links to related stuff by polling the del.icio.us RSS feeds for the chosen tags. As of now, they are only using tags of their own though, so the social component of the del.icio.us system is not really used.
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.