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New York Times: Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cellphone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll she saw on television. Now.
In a few years, it will be possible to make these items yourself. You will be able […]

New York Times:Luddites who have been afraid to make the leap to Internet calling can finally get a taste of the 21st century. The Philips VOIP841 acts as a standard landline telephone but can also make calls using the Internet phone service Skype, allowing a switch from Alexander Graham Bell to Buck Rogers in seconds. […]

Crave:
Rumor has it that T-Mobile is prepping the nationwide launch of a Wi-Fi service that would let customers use the technology to make voice calls with their cell phones. HotSpot at Home, which is currently in trials in Seattle, would expand on the carrier’s current Wi-Fi network of 8,000 Internet access hot spots. T-Mobile declined […]

Gizmodo:Look and yearn folks. This here is Sony’s new OLED display. It’s an obscene 9mm thick yet it packs a 1080p resolution along with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Just as a recap, OLED displays are thinner and brighter than their LCD counterparts and they suck up less power. Sony was showing this beaut off at […]

Crave: The honeymoon is over for the iPhone.
It’s not that we’re sick of it already (well, maybe a bit), it’s just time for it to answer some questions. Otherwise, it may join the Sony PS3 in the realm of “tech that looks absolutely amazing but is far too expensive for most people to even consider […]

Time Magazine: The iPhone developed the way a lot of cool things do: with a false start. A few years ago Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent—particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area—on what are called tablet PCs: flat, portable computers that work with a touchscreen instead of a mouse and keyboard. […]

Crave: This sounds almost too good to be true: a wireless technology thatcan be used to charge all devices simultaneously, regardless of type orbrand. Yet that’s what a company called WildCharge claims to do withits new product.
All you need to do is lay your cell phone, PDA or other device on or near its “WildCharger,”a […]

Engadget: Looks like AMD has a sweet new rig they’re readying for January launch, and word on the street is Bill Gates wants to launch it personally. It’s the IQ770 “Crossfire,” the first mass market touchscreen desktop PC we’ve seen, surely good for taking advantage of Vista’s integrated tablet functionality. The Vista Premium system, set […]

InformationWeek:A music player that sends signals through the human body, without wires, Bluetooth, or other conventional transmission technologies,could be on the horizon.
Sony has found a way to transmit radio signals through a wearer’s body to earphones that convert the […]

FierceGameBiz: A new teardown analysis of the PlayStation 3 gives major
kudos to Sony’s creation, saying the console delivers “supercomputer
performance at PC price.” In their eyes the Cell processor, Blu-ray
capability and other components make the PlayStation 3 “an engineering
masterpiece that sets a new high mark for computing price/performance.”
It’s not coming cheap, as we all know.
iSuppli predicts […]