Palm Foleo: Who needs yet another eCompanion?

Handheld pionieer Palm just announced a smart phone companion called Foleo during the prestigious “D” conference hosted by Wall Street Journal reporters Walt Mosberg and Kara Swisher in Southern California.
The Silicon Valley company is pitching the Foleo as a “smart phone companion product”; meaning users would carry both devices in their pockets, synchronizing data between the platforms, just as PDA users swap data with their Computers. So far, so good, but who the heck needs another device? I doubt that even hardcore gear heads on the go really need to carry another “companion” device around. Isn’t a cell phone, digital camera, iPod, camcorder and laptop enough?
Plus: According to Insiders, the product is flying against Palm’s own strategy of migrating away from PDAs built around data entry to smart phones centered on voice operation. On the other hand, Hardware vendors can earn larger profits selling the more expensive smart phones, such as Palm’s Treo, which have grown in popularity thanks to features like mobile e-mail.

Wow Wee Roboquad: Impressive technology for only $100

“As much as I admire the technology inside Wow Wee’s latest, the Roboquad, there’s something about a scuttling spider-robot that freaks me out”, writes Slashgear in an interesting post earlier today. Perhaps it’s partly to do with the degree of AI that makes him inquisitive all of his own accord. Using the supplied remote control would be one thing, but having it suddenly dash out from under a chair would be quite another! Anyway, courtesy of our friends over at Robots Rule we’ve got the first Roboquad commercial: Wow Wee Roboquad.

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Falk P300: Navigating into the future

There are car GPS systems out there and there are Falk car GPS systems out there. Since the German mapping and mapping tech pionieers brought their first navigation systems to the market a few years ago, Falk has been a class of it’s own. Their newest top-of-the-line model is the innovative P300 which does not only feature outstanding technology, but has also been awarded for its great black design: The P300 just won the reddot design award 2007. Technically, the newest Falk comes with a car docking station, to combine the benefits ofmobile navigation with those of fixed installation. Read more

Sony DSC-S800: Macro giant lacks proper wide-angle

Sony’s newest addition to their super compact camera line, the Sony DSC-S800, features nice f1:2.8-4 optics with a 6x-zoom tele lens, awesome close-focussing capabilities (according to Sony as close as two Millimeter) as well as an 8-Megapixel sensor. However, Sony’s newest compact camera lacks a proper wide-angle lens for group shots et cetera. Price: Around $300. For more info pls check Sony’s website.

iTunes Minus: Update Release “plus” crashes Apple servers

Web music fans and iPod affiniados, listen up: You want to try the new iTunes Plus service, offering DRM-free 256kbps downloads for just 30 cents more than those old 128kbps copyright-protected tunes. Well, but you are certainly not alone with with this desire since the iTunes store appears to be brought to its knees with all the traffic.
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Deal$: Dell Dimension C521 for under $500

Just received an interesting one Day-Only-Offer from Dell via e-mail: The Round Rock, Texas, pc discounter is offer their Dell Dimension C521 for only $499 right now. This is a pretty nice deal since this machine features the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3600+

Microsoft shows ‘Milan’ table PC. However, HP …

… HP already did so over a year ago. That’s right, the newest technology that Redmond sets high hopes on these days, the so-called Milan table pc, has been tested and even shown to the press on the Hewlett-Packard Campus in their labs more then a year ago (see second photo). Well, but where actually is HP’s tabletop personal computer? Why does MS get all the headlines for this concept these days? Any clues anyone out there?
Cnet just featured a nice piece before MS finally unveils its first Surface tabletop PC, for which the company has created both the hardware and software.
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Canon jumps onto AVCHD video format

Starting this August Japanese photo and video giant Canon will be joinig Panasonic and Sony in their latest efforts to promote a new video standard called AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition). Canon’s first camcorder using the high-definition video standard will be called HR-10. The new cam that will be recording digital video clips on MiniDVDs will be featuring a 10x zoom and a 2.7 Megapixel camera for still photos is expected to be much smaller then competitors in this class. Some Insiders even compare the new Canon cam to Sony’s newest super small HDR-CX6 camera series.

Low-budget web video: Mustek Mini camcorder for YouTubists

Hollywood wannabies, online video geeks and YouTube freaks, listen up: Taiwanese tech company Mustek just introduced a perfect little mini camcorder for web video fans. The new Mustek DV520T is capable of recording VGA-quality MPEG 4 video at 30 frames per second including sound. Additionaly, the 520T can be used as a digital camera, capturing still shots in a 5 Megapixel resolution. Plus, the DV520T can serve as a digital voice recorder as well, saving voice notes in WAV format. However, the main reason to seriously consider getting one of these mini video machine is the price: The Mustek DV520T retails for only $130.

iGroove SXT: Larger-than-life Audio performances?

According to audio pionier Klipsch, the new iGroove SXT stereo sound system is the smallest, lightest and most affordable iPod speaker on the market. However, the 60 years old Indianapolis-based sound specialists promise “larger-than-life performances” from this tiny and beautiful system due to an their exclusive horn-loaded technology. We didn’t have a chance yet to listen to this but we’re certainly looking forward to do so. The Klipsch iGroove SXT can be used with any iPod, except the Shuffle systems.
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