If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to get GPS (and Bluetooth) onto your PDA, handset, or other SD-slotted handheld, there’s not exactly a smorgasbord of offerings out there to choose from if you’re not willing to sacrifice your flash-based storage, but Haicom’s latest takes care of all those dilemmas in one fell swoop. The HI-505SD plugs directly into your device’s SD slot and utilizes its battery in order to power up the SiRF Star III GPS receiver and Bluetooth antenna, but rather than whining about your sudden loss of storage, this SDIO adapter offers up a miniSD slot to cram a few extra gigabytes back into your machine. Interestingly, Haicom also sells a bevy of attachment cables in order to use this device directly from a power source, but we envision this slightly unsightly device spending most of its time docked in your Treo. Unfortunately, there’s an absence of details regarding price and future availability, but we’re sure these will be available for import sooner rather than later.
[Via NaviGadget]
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Filed under: iTS, Video, Apple
I have no qualms about the fact that I am a grade A geek. All the signs are there: I work in IT, I write about Apple, and I love Star Trek. The latest member of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek Enterprise, is now available in the iTunes Store (you might know ST Enterprise as, ‘That one with that guy from Quantum Leap’). At the moment only the first season is available, but I am sure the rest of the show’s seasons will show up (I’m looking forward to the last season which is when the show actually became pretty OK).
Episodes are priced at the standard $1.99 and you can get the entire season for $48.99, which isn’t a bad price considering the DVD box set of the first season is going for $112 on Amazon (though, to be fair the DVD set includes some special features).
Here’s hoping Deep Space 9 shows up on iTunes soon.
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Dell 9400 owner “ViriiGuy” is a PC repair guy by day, human lightning rod by night. His 17-inch laptop seems just dandy, other than a nasty habit of sending off between 19 and 65 volts of AC out of any screw on the bottom of the laptop. Along with the annoying result of making ViriiGuy “feel like a 9 volt battery” to his wife whenever he’s using the laptop, the laptop also fried its own RAM and video card. After getting a replacement 9400 from Dell, along with couple more 9400s he was prepping for clients, VG noticed the exact same shocking dilemma on all three laptops. Reports have also surfaced of similar jolt coming out of a Inspiron 6400, and Dell’s 17-inchers are mostly based off the same platform, so other Dell laptops of that size could be at risk as well. The latest word is that VG’s own problems were solved by springing for a three-pronged grounded power adapter, but since Dell still hasn’t fessed up to the problem, or offered up such adapters for free other than in a few isolated incidents, we thought we’d run this by you Engadget guinea pigs valued readers to see how widespread the problem actually is.
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Filed under: GPS
Alright, so maybe “unrealistic” is more like it, but regardless, we highly doubt the latest Bluetooth GPS device from Taiwan’s own Wonde Proud can actually live up to its lofty claims. Of course, the GPS-BT760 could indeed be using some early prototype form of EEStor’s sensational battery, but considering the company itself proclaims the built-in battery is of the 2400mA/h Li-ion variety, we’re a bit miffed. Aside from claiming up to “55 hours of continuous use” on a single charge, the unit is fairly ho hum, and sports a SiRF Star III receiver, -159dBm sensitivity, four hour recharge rate, four LEDs to indicate status, and a “non-slip back pad” for chilling on your dash. Nah, there’s no pricing — or more importantly, actual availability — information just yet on this one, but if someone manages to scoop one and has just over two full days to prove or disprove a claim, let us in on the results.
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Filed under: Digital Cameras
Hot on the heels of Hasselblad’s latest 31-megapixel monster, rumors of Canon introducing a 1DS Mark III, and the RED camcorder getting more real everyday comes news that Ikonoskop is looking to bust out the “first new Super 8 movie camera design in over 20 years.” The Swedish firm is hoping to offer up a Double Super 8 version of its “compact and affordable A-Cam SP-16 Super 16-millimeter model,” and will feature a good bit of similar attire such as the same interchangeable C-Mount lenses, parallel viewfinder, 100-foot film capacity, and “microprocessor-synchronized frame rates between 6- and 37.5-frames per second.” The device would utilize a “hybrid” design to use “16-millimeter wide film to capture Super 8 sized frames,” and although the company boasts about its numerous advantages, the “main downside is that relatively few film stocks are available in the format.” Still, things aren’t off and running just yet, as Leif Bystrom has announced that the outfit needs 25 eager customers to lay down a €1,000 ($1,301) deposit ensuring that at least that many will be sold for the €5,200 ($6,764) retail price. So if you need no more introduction to convince yourself that this bad boy is worth your while (and coin), send your down payment on in so we can see this thing materialize.
[Via CNET]
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