Well, in case the recent news of the LG’s eXpo smartphone didn’t pique your interest in the future capabilities of cell phones and the continued convergence of portable electronic devices into a single “does-it-all” machine, maybe the announcement of Creative’s Zii Trinity smart phone platform will. The Zii Trinity platform, which will be licensed by Creative [...]
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Creative Zii Trinity Smartphone Platform Does Mulitmedia Well…
December 2nd, 2009
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Phones 
Tags: Creative ZiiLabs, hdmi, PMP, smartphone, Zii Trinity 
3 Comments »Viewsonic VPD400 Portable Media Player
November 10th, 2009
Oh how I wish I had time to sit around entertaining myself via one of the many nifty portable media players currently on the market. But despite my conception that dedicated personal media players are useless given the growing number of smartphones that encompass their feature set, the suits over at Viewsonic obviously feel differently [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players Tags: personal media player, PMP, viewsonic VPD400 No Comments »Vuzix Wrap 310 Video Eyewear
October 25th, 2009
There’s nothing like the “big screen” experience. Unfortunately, that “big screen” isn’t always conveniently available. Oh sure, you could whip out your dual screen laptop on that cross country flight, instantly creating enemies with the people sitting next to you. But wouldn’t it be better just slip on a pair of “special” sunglasses, sit back, [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, TV and Video Tags: PMP, TV, video eyewear, Vuzix 1 Comment »Mobile 3D TV Coming Soon…
October 19th, 2009
It seems like 2010 is going to be the breakout year for 3D capable TV’s. A perfect storm of content production and hardware integration promises to finally lift the technology from a cheap trick to mainstream habit. Already, companies such as Sony and Panasonic are demonstrating and producing 3D capable TV’s as described here and here. As we’ve [...]
Watching TV just got easier!
October 16th, 2009
TV lovers rejoice! Thanks to the recently ratified ATSC mobile digital TV standard, you may soon find yourself watching live broadcast TV via a portable device. While all those NTSC compatible Sony Watchmen will still be trash, expect innumerable ATSC enabled portable personal media devices to flood the market in the very near future.
The full ATSC [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Content Delivery, Personal Media Players, TV and Video, Technology Tags: ATSC, HD, NTSC, PMP, Sony, TV 1 Comment »Show some love for the iLuv I1166 PMP? Probably not!
September 28th, 2009
Here’s an interesting idea. Take a 9″ LCD display, slap an iPod dock, SD/MMC reader, and DVD player into it, get it Divx certified, and link it all together via a simple user interface. This is exactly what iLuv did to create its much hyped i1166 PMP.
The device is unique, having been a “Best of [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players Tags: i1166, iLuv, iPod, MMC, personal media player, PMP, SD No Comments »Next up…holograms from robots!
August 18th, 2009
Well things certainly seem to be progressing that way. Pico projectors are nothing new, having emerged way back in early 2008. Since then, we’ve seen them incorporated into everything from stand-alone devices to cell phones. Now, in what appears to be the next logical progression, Yinlips, a Chinese company, has put pico projection into a [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, Personal Media Players, TV and Video Tags: China, dvd, pico, PMP, projector 1 Comment »A good reason not to buy cheap knockoffs…
August 14th, 2009
A Chinese outfit called ePathChina.com announced today the availability of a new 2GB personal media player supporting a slew of standard audio and video formats. With its 1.8″ screen, FM radio, and E-book functionality, the device doesn’t stand out in the crowd of other mp3 players, such as the IPod Touch, in terms of features.
What [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players Tags: China, IPod Touch, mp3, player, PMP No Comments »
