Samsung PCS Phone with Bluetooth and Camera

Ahhhh!!!!!!!   

This is just a little snigglet of information, but I thought it might brighten the last day of 2003 for you PCS users - it looks like Samsung is releasing the SPH-E3700, a CDMA (PCS) phone with Bluetooth 1.1 support, a "megapixel" camera (1.0 megapixels? 1.3?), and MMC support. It also has a rich set of Bluetooth profiles, including dial-up networking, hands-free, LAN-DT, OBEX, and a few others. One would hope that the carriers who carry Samsung phones in North America would be adopting this phone soon enough. Finally, a cool Bluetooth CDMA phone! That is, if it's CDMA. I've spent the last 10 minutes doing Google research and talking to smart people, and technically PCS can refer to GSM or CDMA, although in North America we're used to thinking of PCS being the same as CDMA. I'm going to bet that this is a CDMA phone, which is great news for you two-device folks that want a Bluetooth phone.
[Pocket PC Thoughts]

Toyota's new robot

I can see the ad now.  Can’t wait on grandma any longer?  Need help with the kids?  Just buy a JohnnieBot!  All joking aside, if I could afford one I would get it. J  I wonder if it would wear a maid’s outfit though? 

It's still a while off, but Toyota's planning to introduce a new humanoid robot at the Aichi World Exposition in 2005 that will be able...
[Gizmodo]

First external USB HDTV tuner

oooooh 

In a way we're amazed it's taken this long, but the first external USB high-definition TV tuner for PCs is coming out. The OnAir USB...
[Gizmodo]

If you are not reading SlashNOT you just don't know what's really going on in...

Funny stuff.  I need a stuffed penguin!

 

 

And a new spatula! J 

If you are not reading SlashNOT you just don't know what's really going on in the world of technology:-). The following is quoted from SlashNOT, the best tech amusement on the net: "ForwardSlash: 2004 Predictions. Matthew writes: At the beginning of each year, SlashNOT predicts the top 10 tech trends. The 2004 predictions are:

• Anti-spam software will finally become useful, allowing you to blame it for not getting e-mail from people you don't want to talk to.
• Every tech job in America will be outsourced to India. Americans will still be fat and rich, but even less deservedly so.
• SCO will go down in flames after a federal court rules that they don't actually own the rights to UNIX. Linux users worldwide will break out in celebration, scaring the crap out of the 99% of the world who have no idea why geeks are running naked in the streets and dancing with stuffed penguins.
• Microsoft will cut the price of Office in half as it's hit with four consecutive quarters of its first-ever decreasing sales numbers. Microsoft will put X-Box on the street in smeared makeup and wobbly heels in an attempt to make quick money.
• Opteron will destroy Itanium, forcing Intel to launch a "64-bits is 32 bits too many" ad campaign. The new era of 64-bit computing will usher in a lasting age of brotherhood, peace, and global harmony.
• Republicans will begin to purchase Apple computers for the first time.
• Dell commercials will suck so badly that a few people will actually die watching them.
• iPods will outsell traditional Pods.
• Voice over IP will flounder as corporate America realizes that it doesn't really need phones to be as reliable and expensive as computers.
• Microsoft will announce that Windows XP Service Pack 2 fixes the major security holes. One month later, the "Reaper" worm will take down every Windows XP machine that isn't behind a firewall. [SlashNOT]"
  [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]

Astronaut's little helper

This sounds neat!  I wonder how much they cost? 

NASA is working on a canteloupe-sized "Personal Satellite Assistant" for astronauts designed to follow them around during space walks and record their activities via streaming...
[Gizmodo]

Samsung PCS Phone with Bluetooth and Camera

Ahhhh!!!!!!!   

This is just a little snigglet of information, but I thought it might brighten the last day of 2003 for you PCS users - it looks like Samsung is releasing the SPH-E3700, a CDMA (PCS) phone with Bluetooth 1.1 support, a "megapixel" camera (1.0 megapixels? 1.3?), and MMC support. It also has a rich set of Bluetooth profiles, including dial-up networking, hands-free, LAN-DT, OBEX, and a few others. One would hope that the carriers who carry Samsung phones in North America would be adopting this phone soon enough. Finally, a cool Bluetooth CDMA phone! That is, if it's CDMA. I've spent the last 10 minutes doing Google research and talking to smart people, and technically PCS can refer to GSM or CDMA, although in North America we're used to thinking of PCS being the same as CDMA. I'm going to bet that this is a CDMA phone, which is great news for you two-device folks that want a Bluetooth phone.
[Pocket PC Thoughts]

Toyota's new robot

I can see the ad now.  Can’t wait on grandma any longer?  Need help with the kids?  Just buy a JohnnieBot!  All joking aside, if I could afford one I would get it. J  I wonder if it would wear a maid’s outfit though? 

It's still a while off, but Toyota's planning to introduce a new humanoid robot at the Aichi World Exposition in 2005 that will be able...
[Gizmodo]