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Monster Wireless iPod Audio Bridge

Posted in Monster,iPod Accessories by Reuben Drake on August 2nd, 2007

Monster wireless iPod audio bridgeThere’s nothing real new technology-wise with this wireless bridge from Monster, but it definitely has the looks to get our attention. The wireless bridge is designed for use with an Apple iPod (what isn’t?) by connecting a transmitter to the base of the player. A 2.4GHz signal is then sent from the player attachment to the base station at a distance of no more than 30 feet.

The base station connects to your home theater and allows you to play your music from your iPod wirelessly on the couch, not unlike the one we …

Samsung 94 Series Plasma’s Go Wireless

Posted in HDTV,Samsung,Wi-Fi by Darrin Olson on July 14th, 2007

Samsung 94 series wireless plasma HDTV transfer video through WiFiSamsung has a new line of plasma HDTVs out that do away with all the cables (aside from the power cord) and allow you to mount these up on your wall without any other component or cable clutter around it.

The 94 series televisions come with a receiver that will transfer the high-def video and audio signals wirelessly up to 200 feet via 802.11n direct to the TV in full 1080p resolution. The A/V connections on the remote receiver/transmitter box include 3 HDMI’s, 1 USB 2.0, 2 component connections, …

Mio P360 and P560 PDA/GPS Upgrade with Touchscreen

Posted in GPS,Mio,PDAs by Darrin Olson on July 4th, 2007

Mio planning to launch new P360 and P560 PDA GPS deviceNavigadget found some scant information about two new GPS devices from Mio, the P360 and P560, most likely to replace the current P350 and P550 models with a sleek design and trendy touchscreen.

It looks like mobile phones like the iPhone aren’t the only ones taking advantage of new touchscreen technology. The new GPS device from Mio looks to be a PDA running Windows Mobile 6 with GPS capabilities and software. There is a joystick and a couple buttons, one for Contacts and the other to launch …

La Fontenna WiFi Antenna from FON

Posted in FON,Wi-Fi by Darrin Olson on June 22nd, 2007

La Fontenna directional WiFi antenna from FONFON, makers of WiFi sharing products, employed some directional WiFi technology along with a somewhat clever play on words to produce the La Fontenna directional WiFi antenna.

We’ve seen what kind of distance potential there is with the right directional WiFi equipment, and although you won’t be going miles with this one it will improve the distance and signal in a particular direction for you WiFi router. In particular, it can improve the signal distance up to 5 times for the FON La Fonera wireless router. It also has …

Wi-Fi Distance Record Set at 382 km

Posted in News,Wi-Fi by Reuben Drake on June 18th, 2007

Wi-Fi longest distance record set at 382 kilometersA researcher in Venezuela recently set a record for the longest Wi-Fi communication at 382 kilometers (almost 238 miles) breaking a previous Swedish record of 310 km. Using some special long-range Wi-Fi equipment from Intel along with some off-the-shelf parts Ermanno Pietrosemoli was able to make the connection and transfer data at a rate of 3 megabits per second.

A few other factors aside from special equipment attributed to the long distance achieved in this record connection. The two points were both on mountain tops so there were no trees or …

Solar Powered Surfing

Posted in Outdoors,Solar Powered,Wi-Fi by Chetz on June 5th, 2007

Meraki Outdoor Wifi Repeater with solar powerFor those of us looking to provide a low cost solution for wireless internet access, either for our own personal usage or for your family and friends, Meraki’s new Outdoor Repeater and Solar Accessory Kit is probably what you are looking for.

For $99 you get the Repeater which will transmit the signal up to 700 feet, perfect for downloading files while you’re at the park across the road or on the other side of the neighborhood. The Solar Accessory Kit lets the Repeater broadcast its signal without any electrical connection …

Palm Foleo Mobile Companion Announced

Posted in Mobile Phones,Palm,Smart Devices by Chris Weber on May 30th, 2007

Palm Foleo Mobile CompanionRoad warriors seem to often encounter a similar problem with their mobile computing devices. Laptops are too big to carry around everywhere and use in small spaces, and PDA’s are too small to really be able to modify documents or type an email of any significant size, even with a QWERTY keyboard. Today Palm announced a solution intended to fill this gap between the handheld device and a notebook computer with the Palm Foleo Mobile Companion.

The Palm Foleo is smaller than most notebook computers with a 10 inch screen and weighing just 2.5 pounds. …

Palm Treo 755p

Posted in Palm,Smart Devices,Treo 755P by Darrin Olson on May 9th, 2007

Palm Treo 755pPalm has recently released the latest in its ever-slowly-improving lineup of smart devices, this time expanding on the 700 series with the Palm Treo 755p running on the Sprint network.

The Treo 755p is the first Treo that ships equipped with the Microsoft Direct Push technology for email as well as Google Maps for mobile devices. The Google Maps support lets you can not only see maps and satellite photos, but also get directions, see listings local to your area and even get real-time traffic updates. It’s a CDMA device and unfortunately WiFi support …

MacLockPick Gets Private Data from Mac OS X

Posted in Mac,Security by Darrin Olson on April 28th, 2007

MacLockPickA company out of California called SubRosaSoft has just released a new product called the MacLockPick, and it does just what the name implies. The device is able to extract OS user passwords, logins for different Apple applications, website history and passwords to different visited sites and more.

The MacLockPick software is installed onto a USB flash drive that when inserted into the USB drive of a computer running Mac OS X, it will start extracting all the private data off of the computer and save it to the USB drive in an organized little database. The owner …

TAVI 030 PMP

Posted in Digital Audio,Digital Video by Chetz on April 24th, 2007

Tavi 030 PMPThis cute as a button little gizmo is the Tavi 030 Personal Media Player, a bundle of joy just waiting for a good home to go to. Now out in America, underneath its clamshell flip-top is a 3.6-inch display screen that can show 16 million colors via its TV tuner, its video recording options or through whatever you beam at it through your WiFi connection.

It’s also got external speakers, a microphone, FM tuner, S/PDIF audio connector, TV tuner connector, DivX/Xvid/WMV 9/IPTV support and a USB port. It can be an alarm clock, a dictionary, …

Cuddle Your Chumby

Posted in Chumby,Smart Devices by Chetz on April 10th, 2007

ChumbyThrow away your alarm clock and place a new Chumby where it used to go. This customizable gizmo lets you program it to display your favorite websites, photos, sound files, online games, media files, RSS feeds and whatever else you tell it to do.

You can place it anywhere inside your home (granted that the Chumby’s power cord can reach the closest wall socket, but there is a backup battery just in case.) You set up your Chumby through the 3.5-inch touchscreen, or something called “squeeze sensors” that we’ve just got to try out.

WiFi connectivity allows …

Don’t Encrypt, Just Repaint

Posted in Paint,Security,Wi-Fi by Chetz on March 31st, 2007

EM-SEC paint blocks WiFi from leaving the roomIt’s the perfect product for people that can’t figure out how to set up their own personal encrypted network. EM-SEC Technologies has the solution to those technically-challenged folk: just paint your home with the EM-SEC Coating System and your wireless network is secure. People inside can still access the network but anyone attempting to access it from outside won’t be able to because of what’s on your walls.

The EM-SEC paint works like this: the paint uses a series of water-based shielding products that restrict the passage of airborne RF …

ARCHOS 704 WiFi Introduced

Posted in Archos,Digital Audio,Digital Video by Reuben Drake on March 7th, 2007

Archos 704 WiFi portable audio and video player announcedWe had a sneak-preview of the ARCHOS 704 WiFi via the FCC last month, and now ARCHOS announced the new ARCHOS 704-WiFi. Boasted as the only portable media player with a 7inch screen and full WiFi capabilities, the 704-WiFi also has a very high quality screen with a resolution of 800×480 with 6 million colors. Just as the older 604-WiFi model, the 704 comes with video, music and photo playback, as well as full internet access whatever your needs may be. Along with these features, the …

Wireless internet users rise to one third

Posted in News,Services,Wi-Fi by Darrin Olson on February 26th, 2007

Study shows that one third of US surfers have used wireless connectionsA recent and interesting study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has shown that 34% of people that surf the internet in the US have logged in using a wireless connection at one point or another. This percentage includes people using WiFi or cell phone networks at home or at work along with anywhere else, through a PC, laptop or any handheld device.

Of these wireless users, 27% of them have connected wirelessly from somewhere other than home or work, possibly implying that there …

Hacks Compromise Home Internet Routers

Posted in Hacks,News,Routers by Darrin Olson on February 15th, 2007

Javascript hacks compromise many home internet routers.Last summer I was trying to impress my neighbors, betting that I could hack into their router. After hearing for a few minutes that the mere notion was probably one of the geekiest things they had heard, I proceeded to show them (with their permission of course).

By them having a wireless router, I was able to connect to their unsecured WiFi network with very little difficulty, and then I took a guess that they probably had a Linksys or D-Link router. Guessing at the Linksys model first, I went to the …



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