Oh hell no. I want to know who in their right mind sank a dime into this abomination. I can tolerate a flashing home-finder light bulb, dual screen laptop, or “happiness hat”, but sit next to me on an airplane wearing a “TV Hat”, and there might be trouble. Thanks to the proliferation of mobile [...]
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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Tags: Creative ZiiLabs, hdmi, PMP, smartphone, Zii Trinity 
3 Comments »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 »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 »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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Content Delivery, Personal Media Players, TV and Video, Technology Tags: ATSC, HD, NTSC, PMP, Sony, TV 1 Comment »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 [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players Tags: i1166, iLuv, iPod, MMC, personal media player, PMP, SD No Comments »
