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Fancy accessing your email on your cell phone and PDAs no matter where you are, and regardless of your ISP address? Emoze does just that for you, doing away with the need to rely on a special handset or service package as you attempt to stay up-to-date where your email inbox is concerned. The software will send push email to your cell phone in real-time when installed, supporting Outlook, Lotus Notes, and Gmail. Just make sure your operating system is one of these - Microsoft Mobile 2002, 2003, and 5.0. Symbian Series 60 and UIQ, and Microsoft Smartphone, before you’re good to go. (Read the full post about ‘Emoze Push Email’…)

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Posted Feb 12th 2008 11:13AM by Paul MillerFiled under: Desktops, Laptops Don’t want to wait until March for Windows Vista SP1, but not feeling the whole torrent thing? Microsoft has posted a disc image to its OEM partner site with a full copy of SP1 on it, and the download is free — if a bit slow at the moment, thanks to all y’all grabbing a copy. The 1.2GB disc image requires you run it as a clean installation, so you’ve gotta ask yourself it’s just worth waiting a few more weeks for an easy peasy update courtesy of Windows Update. Decisions, decisions. (Read the full post about ‘Nab Vista SP1 straight from the source… while it lasts’…)

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It’s been a century or so since stereo images were all the rage, but apparently some folks have never lost interest in capturing separate left- and right-eye images and mechanically combining them to create heightened realism. A couple of nerds at Kodak note how new stitching features in many of the company’s recent digital camera introductions can aid the aspiring stereographer and then give a precise tutorial on how to make it work. Note that to view the completed work, you’ll need a stereoscope or similar type of viewer, a gadget that seems best accompanied by an opium pipe and a fez to relive that Victorian giddiness with the possibilities of photography. (Read the full post about ‘Kodak Cameras Simplify Making Stereo Photos’…)

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3G reviews the Sony Ericsson W960i and writes, “We’re glad that the main camera on the W960i is 3.2 megapixels (the W910i only offers two) and it’s a pretty decent all-round shotmaker that’s activated and operated with a dedicated shutter key and digital zoom controls on the side of the phone. It’s not a Cybershot quality camera and the phone suffers from a short shutter lag when shooting indoors, but the auto focus worked well and the W960 generally produces decent results which can be tweaked, enhanced and defaced using the phone’s Photo Editor application. Meanwhile, a second camera sits on the front of the phone to enable video calling.” Read more about the Sony Ericsson W960i. (Read the full post about ‘Sony Ericsson W960i Review - 3G’…)

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Lager - Brewzer 10 Pint Micro Brewing System The Brewzer 10 Pint Brewing System works in a very simple way. Please observe: you add the premium ingredients to cold water. Then wait. In 20 days you will have an authentic beer that you will feel honoured to call your own. See price (Read the full post about ‘Lager - Brewzer 10 Pint Micro Brewing System’…)

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Posted Feb 12th 2008 8:40AM by Paul MillerFiled under: Storage It’s like we can’t make it through the week these days without word of some outlandish memory technology solving all worldly ills; but it’s not that we’re complaining. This week’s featured tech comes from Nanochip, and promises gains in storage quantity and cost per chip over flash memory. The first prototypes will store 100GB, and will be shipped to device makers next year for evaluation. Nanochip technology stores data on a thin-film material, and accesses it using microscopic cantilevers. Each bit will be 15 nanometers wide at first, with theoretical sizes as small as a couple nanometers. Speeds will be near that of flash, and the data could last longer. (Read the full post about ‘Nanochip technology offers up cheap, 100GB flash memory alternative’…)

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For the latest info on the coolest gadgets, emerging technology and wired madness, subscribe to our full news feed or have it delivered to your inbox. Always free. Always unique. Thanks for visiting! My last blackout was a long, long time ago; so long ago that I cannot remember when it happened. Do I need a backup lighting system? I probably don’t but I have a little brother who still bears the scar of an encounter with a mosquito net bracket that he had when he was three years old. I now live in an earthquake prone country, so it is probably a good idea to get prepared, so that I can have some lights come on around me when my apartment falls to pieces around me. (Read the full post about ‘Energizer Keeps Lights on in Blackouts’…)

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Typically USB thumb drives don’t offer much as far as excitement, they have storage space and you can store files. The newest drive from Kingston offers a little bit more, the DataTraveler Micro Reader offers your standard onboard storage but also includes a built-in card reader. The DataTraveler Micro Reader can read microSD, microSDHC or Memory Stick Micro (M2) and is available in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB storage options. The reader retails for $19, $28 and $42 respectively and are currently available. Product [Kingston] Via [Gizmodo] Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → (Read the full post about ‘Kingston intro’s USB memory stick with built-in card reader’…)

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Sony Ericsson will launch its new clamshell phone called the Z770. It features high-speed internet access with HSDPA, an intuitive user interface, the Exchange ActiveSync capability, a 2.2″ screen, text to speech functionality, and Bluetooth connectivity and comes in Vogue Red, Graphite Black, and Exquisite Gold. No word on exact release date or pricing as of right now. [Source] (Read the full post about ‘Sony Z770 Clamshell Phone’…)

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Posted Feb 11th 2008 11:10PM by Nilay PatelFiled under: Cellphones, Storage Seeing as cellphones are usually connected to mobile networks, we’d think the problem of content distribution would basically solve itself, but a company called Vmedia Research is at Mobile World Congress with a new type of optical disk designed just for phones. Using a blue laser, a 1GB, 32mm MiniDisc-esque Vmedia cartridge can hold a full DVD-res movie using H.264 compression, as well as limited special features. Vmedia’s demoing the tech on an upcoming Spice GSM handset, which has a 2.8-inch screen and a PSP UMD-like door for inserting the disks. (Read the full post about ‘Vmedia’s cellphone optical disk system is probably not the next big thing’…)

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