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Video: The New Honda Robot Debuts in Japan

Authored by dmw on December 11, 2007 - 6:37am.
tags: Video | Honda | Gadgets | Robots |

Buzz Watch: Lonely Planet on PSP

Authored by Jay Baage on October 31, 2006 - 1:11pm.
Surfing the blogosphere this morning, I came across the release of Lonely Planet travel guides on Sony Playstation Portable, PSP. This is a great example of innovative new ways of delivering traditional content on new media platforms. This marriage makes a lot of sense, especially since Sony reportedly is pimping up the PSP with GPS hardware and software, due to be released in Japan in December. Which backpacker would not want a sweet PSP along for the ride now?
tags: Internet | CE | Software | Sony PSP | Gadgets | Buzz watch | Jay | Lonely Planet |

Sex and the Digital Gadget Guy

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 17, 2006 - 9:24am.
iPod KissFiguring out how to meet a girl is one of the three biggest challenges a man faces in his life, and if the amount of time spent thinking about girls is added up...well, let’s just say we spend a lot of time on the subject. Jonathan Abrams, the founder of Friendster, apparently had difficulty with it himself. “Basically,” said Mark J. Pincus, a seed investor of Friendster, in the New York Times, “Jonathan wanted to meet girls.” And as if that didn’t sell poor Jonathan down the river enough, Pincus added, “He told me himself, he started Friendster as a way to surf through his friends’ address books for good-looking girls.”

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tags: Social Networking | Music | iPod | Friendster | Dating | PMP | Steve Jobs | Gadgets | Zune | Scott Goldberg |

Steve Jobs Disses Microsoft’s Zune

Authored by Jay Baage on October 16, 2006 - 7:36am.
San Francisco, CA - Apple Computer does not fear competition from Microsoft's new Zune music player, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in an interview in this week’s edition of Newsweek. He refers to demonstrations that he has seen of Zune’s interface which he viewed as complicated and not user friendly enough. Jobs especially thinks this when it comes to sharing music wirelessly between Zune users, a feature that has been mentioned as one of Zune’s main competitive advantages over the current generation of iPod’s.
tags: Tech | Music | iPod | Apple | CE | Microsoft | WiFi | iTunes | PMP | Interviews | Steve Jobs | Gadgets | Zune |

U.K. Street Crime Up 40%; iPods, "Gadgets" Primary Targets

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 12, 2005 - 5:04am.
London - Police have blamed a sharp increase in the number of street robberies in the U.K. on the increasing popularity of iPods, MP3 players and 3G mobile phones. According to the British Home Office, street robberies in some parts of Britain have increased by 40%, with children and students being the main victims of "gadget" crime. Between April and June this year, London Police recorded more than 1,500 robberies, a 15% increase. According to the Metropolitan police, the theft of iPods alone has risen fivefold since last November.
tags: U.K | Street Crime | Pods | Gadgets | Primary Targets |