PSP Audio Roundup


Extremetech is featuring a rundown of the PSP and all of its audio capabilities. If you have a PSP and use it for music listening, this is definitely worth a read. They discuss all of the firmware changes, optimizing sound, transferring music and even a little bit of hacking. Check it out, yo.

Apple Drops Hints of iPod Phone

Four trademark applications submitted earlier this month by Apple are adding grist to the rumor mill concerning the launch of an iPod phone, which has been the subject of speculation almost since the launch of the company's popular digital-music player.

The Farkirk Wheel

The Falkirk Wheel is a boat lift designed to connect the Union Canal with the Forth and Clyde Canal 25 m below.

Surveillance Cameras for Dummies

WiLife has developed a new security product called LukWerks.

CES 2006

CNET editors cover the Best of CES 2006.

Yahoo! Widgets
Bring some fun to your desktop with stylish and useful Yahoo! Widget Engine.

Google Goes for Web Video

Google is upping the ante in the online video gold rush, allowing content owners to set their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple Computer's pioneering iTunes store.

It's Time for 2006 International CES

Check out what new gadgets will be coming out this year!

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

For such a small device, the 770 is loaded with features. In the original release, its system software packaged with items such as a web browser, an e-mail manager, a news reader.

It Had to Happen

The CellFlix Film Festival is a film contest for movies made with cellular phone cameras.

All the World's A Podcast

Michael Calore of Webmonkey has posted a thoroughgoing tutorial on making podcasts. He explains what they are and then describes each step of the making and publishing of the hot new medium. Calore also reminds us of the power the medium gives us:

The beauty of the new technologies being born on the web — podcasts, blogs, video blogs, social networking sites — is that they put us in charge. The gap between the creator and the consumer is shrinking as we generate our own content and trade ideas between ourselves more freely. Not only to we have more control over what we're listening to and reading, but it's up to us to create it as well.

Who's afraid of Google?

It seems no one is safe: Google is doing Wi-Fi; Google is searching inside books; Google has a plan for ecommerce.

Googling for Gold

With a market cap in orbit and more cash than a small nation, Google's heft is altering the tech industry's behavior. But when does its long-awaited shopping spree begin?

Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends

Taking a long-term view isn't easy nowadays.

Even the recent past seems blurry at times. Google's just seven years old, but it's hard to imagine life before instant search. Broadband has been widely available for only a few years, but already dialup internet seems to high-speed users like a throwback to the Neanderthal era.

Taking Back the Web



How wikis are changing our view of the world.

Numb Thumbs?

Tapping away at tiny keyboards takes its toll on some users.

Web Titans Rake it In

Record sales at Google and Yahoo! are likely to keep improving as the Net draws a bigger share of add dollars.

New browser in town

A small team of developers in California on Friday launched a cutting-edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed Flock, which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing.

Additonal info here:

• Flog Photos
• Flock Radio
• Flock Buzz
• Flock Home Page
  

The Clicker: Apple’s real plan for iPod video?

You’ve got to love Apple. Crazy like a fox they are. Oh sure – some of their decisions regarding the new iPod might seem a little odd to the gadget-lovers among us. “No DivX???” is the phrase most often muttered when Engageteers start reading of the new iPod’s video functions. Read more here.

A living roon on four wheels


The Chrysler Akino concept has two doors on the passenger side (with only one on the driver's side) to allow for a booth-like rear seat.