Bezel-integrated webcams for laptops will soon get a sore-ly needed boost thanks to Samsung. Its new 1.2 megapixel S5K4AW System on Chip does what your VGA webcam can't: shoots real-time 720p at 30fps. The 1/4-inch CMOS imager is also 3x more sensitive to light than current sensors thanks to it's superior 2x2 binning technique -- or so Samsung says in hopes of drumming up interest to sell samples to OEMs. Mass production is set to begin in the first half of 2009 for all your dimly lit, locked door, HD video conferencing needs. Just remember, some things are not meant to be seen in high-def. You listening Bruce?

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div align="center"a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_viewamp;newsId=20081205005045amp;newsLang=en"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/05/5-12-07-bruce.jpg" //abr //div Bezel-integrated webcams for laptops will soon get a sore-emly/em needed boost thanks to Samsung. Its new 1.2 megapixel S5K4AW System on Chip does what your a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/28/apple-slides-1-3-megapixel-isight-into-new-macbook-pro/"VGA webcam/a can't: shoots real-time 720p at 30fps. The 1/4-inch CMOS imager is also 3x more sensitive to light than current sensors thanks to it's superior 2x2 binning technique -- or so Samsung says in hopes of drumming up interest to sell samples to OEMs. Mass production is set to begin in the first half of 2009 for all your dimly lit, locked door, HD video conferencing needs. Just remember, a href="http://www.engadget.com/2004/03/29/the-cruelties-of-hdtv/"some things are not meant to be seen/a in high-def. You listening a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/12/bruce-willis-ichat-user-forum-troll/"Bruce/a?pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portablevideo/" rel="tag"Portable Video/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/samsungs-in-bezel-hd-webcam-for-laptops-offers-more-pixels-per/"Samsung's in-bezel HD webcam offers more pixels per pimple/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:29:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_viewamp;newsId=20081205005045amp;newsLang=enRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/samsungs-in-bezel-hd-webcam-for-laptops-offers-more-pixels-per/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1392125/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/samsungs-in-bezel-hd-webcam-for-laptops-offers-more-pixels-per/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bX8BSIGg-zpEJzzIjgnW7GIytUo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/bX8BSIGg-zpEJzzIjgnW7GIytUo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=LKOSPiQ6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=LKOSPiQ6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=keMsiJm0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=keMsiJm0" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/1sJUMaKRQjQ" height="1" width="1"/

img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/gizmodo_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compNEW YORK – Popular technology blog Gizmodo has set up shop in a Manhattan art gallery to showcase some of the rarest and most intriguing gadgets from the past hundred years or so, including never-released Apple prototypes, the first Sony Walkman, a flying aerial surveillance camera and more./pp The Gizmodo Gallery opened Thursday at the Reed Annex (151 Orchard St.), but we snuck in Wednesday night to photograph the most fascinating stuff on display here. The show runs through Sunday afternoon, giving New Yorkers, tourists and gadget freaks a chance to gaze upon important pieces of our technological history, and interact with some more recent gadgets. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/dragan_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compNico Reyes of the Reed Annex sits blissfully unaware of the Draganflyer X6, a flying surveillance device that "makes crane shots obsolete," according to its creators. That may be the case, but we can't fight off our initial impression that this could be the last thing we will ever see. /pp With an expert at the remote control, the aerial carbon-fiber shutterbug navigates tight indoor spaces with ease according to Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam, who said the beast is capable of holding steady in winds of up to 18 mph. A "failed motor logic" system keeps the system in operation even if two of the motors crap out. /pp Lam said the Draganflyer X6 accepts a night-vision camera or HD camera in addition to the vanilla flavor, and communicates its location to the remote using a GPS. As great as this gadget is for filmmakers and photographers, its potential application as a weapon is a bit worrying in a Terminator sort of way. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/sony_walkman_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compHere's the portable audio player that started it all: the original Sony Walkman, on loan from Sony's archives in Tokyo. Initially panned by critics, the Walkman became a worldwide sensation, eventually selling 340 million units. /pp Oddly, the device that kicked off the portable-audio revolution includes two headphone jacks for sharing music mdash; surely, unintentional prescience on the part of Sony, which could never have predicted the later connection between portable music formats and music sharing. /pp Model Alyssa Miller holds the original-model Walkman./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/apple_tablet_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compLegendary Silicon Valley design firm Frog Design lent Gizmodo a couple of Apple prototypes to display, including this MacBook Tablet mock-up, modeled here by Paulo. /pp Apple and Frog Design conceived this prototype using their Snow White design language, according to Gizmodo's Brian Lam. Although this portable tablet computer never saw the light of day, echoes of its design can be seen in the Apple IIc. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/atari_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compAtari never released a portable version of the Atari 2600 game console, but if it did, it may have ended up looking a lot like this Atari 2600 VCSp, seen here in the hands of writer Lisa Katayama. /pp The Atari 2600 VCSp is the work of hacker extraordinaire Benjamin Heckendorn (better known online as Ben Heck). This model is the first Heck ever made; he went on to build scores of vintage gaming mods that earned him a following among geeks and fans of vintage gaming. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/tenori_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compThis double-sided MIDI controller allows musicians to build loops of sound by pressing LED buttons arranged in a 16-by-16 grid. /pp This a href=" http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/10/tenori-on-lite-.html "video/a explains how it works, but the gist is that you control which loops play, and when they start and stop, by activating and deactivating the lights. /pp Unlike some of the other gear on display, the Tenori-On will be playable by gallery-goers who can listen to their own performances through a pair of headphones. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/dyson_level_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compGizmodo’s Brian Lam told us that the original Dyson vacuum cleaner was initially crippled in the U.S. market because manufacturers were worried it would cannibalize the multimillion-dollar market for replacement vacuum bags. /pp Luckily for inventor James Dyson, this version of his design was manufactured in Japan starting in 1983, giving Dyson the financial wherewithal to start making them himself. Twenty five years later, the descendents of the original Dyson are probably the world's most coveted model mdash; itself something of an accomplishment. Who would have predicted that vacuum cleaners could become such a hot topic? /pp Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan wields this original Dyson./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/death_star_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compOne of the largest Lego sets ever released, this Death Star was destroyed on its way from Lego to the Gizmodo expo. Luckily, the company introduced Gizmodo to Lego enthusiast Jonathan Lopes of Brooklyn. /pp The self-described "Lego nerd" arrived on the scene to perform a reverse Luke Skywalker on the Death Star, rebuilding it in time for it to be displayed Thursday morning mdash; no small feat, considering that it's made from 3,800 pieces and that he worked only from a picture of the fully assembled version. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/apple_phone_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compAnother Apple prototype loaned to Gizmodo by Frog Design, this early '80s conception of an Apple phone featured a handset and a monochromatic screen and stylus, allowing the device's potential owner to sign checks electronically over phone lines. /pp When Apple finally released its first phone in 2007, it didn't even come with a stylus, and the screen was much smaller. /pp Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan picks up the handset. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/thanko_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compOne of the most useless pieces of electronics we have ever laid eyes on, Thanko's USB tie and gloves provide you with heat or cool when they're connected to your computer's USB port mdash; perfect for commuting and outdoor sports, assuming your USB cable is long enough. /pp The gloves heat up, while a compact fan located in the necktie's knot generates a gentle breeze mdash; worthwhile in theory, if not in practice. As Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan points out, "All USB gadgets are awesome in some way." /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/picturephone_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compWhen this Bell Labs Picturephone debuted at the 1964 World's Fair, many of those who saw it in action, paired to an identical model in Disneyland, probably thought that every phone would feature video by the year 2000. They were close; instead, nearly every modern computer is capable of live videoconferencing, while home phones still largely resemble the models of the past. /pp A 1956 version of the Picturephone was capable of transmitting one picture every two seconds. This one apparently improved on that frame-rate by adding another two lines to the connection. This (nonfunctional) unit was borrowed from the ATT Archives and History Center. /pp Adam Lam uses the Picturephone pictured here to attempt contact with gadget freaks of the past, or so we imagine. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/zeiss_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compGoggles that let you watch video on a little virtual screen have been around for years, but many of them are plagued by poor image quality, low resolution and headache-inducing optics. /pp This pair, from the widely respected camera-lens manufacturer Zeiss, is an exception, with 640x480 resolution and an individual diopter for each eye that allows eyeglass-wearers to use the goggles. Battery life is four hours mdash; enough for all but the longest films. /pp In this shot, Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan watches a video stored on a video-capable iPod Nano. /p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_gizmodo/brian_lam_stomping_clear_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.compWe wondered why two hunks of red foam and metal were included in the gallery, until Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam took a break from overseeing the construction of displays to demonstrate them. /pp With each step, a thunderous, robot-stomp sound emanated from his slippers, and by the end of his demonstration, we were convinced that they did in fact belong in the gallery. 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div align="center"a href="http://www.i-luv.com/iLuv/product_info.php?cPath=68amp;products_id=455"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/iluv_int170-479x276.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="left"Not to be left out, iLuv's also brought out another a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/iluv-kicks-out-i168-and-i169-hd-radio-alarm-clocks/"internet radio / alarm combo/a and it looks exactly like you'd think it would. Only cooler. The iNT170's packing access to 15,000 radio stations and podcasts through its built-in WiFi, aka INTERNET (see photo). It's got two 2.5 watt jAura sound speakers, a dual alarm clock, plus a 3.5mm line-in if you need to plug in your PMP. The clock self-updates via INTERNET, so you'll never be able to use that Daylight Saving Time excuse for being late to work again (we recommend the "flooded basement" or "sick cat" in its stead), and you'll have the option to wake to INTERNET or regular radio in addition to the old standby buzzer. It's available now for $199. /div /divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"Peripherals/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/iluvs-int170-internet-radio-alarm-appears-no-ones-too-excited/"iLuv's iNT170 internet radio-alarm appears, no one's too excited/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:32:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.i-luv.com/iLuv/product_info.php?cPath=68amp;products_id=455Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/iluvs-int170-internet-radio-alarm-appears-no-ones-too-excited/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391583/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/iluvs-int170-internet-radio-alarm-appears-no-ones-too-excited/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/yrOr1HTpYCVyLowVqHDJig_7ARU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/yrOr1HTpYCVyLowVqHDJig_7ARU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=uoA2Xl99"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=uoA2Xl99" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=In4WITz2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=In4WITz2" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/5pZsNcYwaQU" height="1" width="1"/

centerimg title="JukeBrick Portable Audio Device Concept" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="JukeBrick Portable Audio Device Concept" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/juke-brick.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pThe JukeBrick looks set to revolutionize the world of portable music - only if it were to be materialized from a conceptual existence, that is. This is not only a portable audio player, it also doubles up as a holder and performer as well. Whenever JukeBricks congregate, they become separate performers, and you are able to listen to individual instruments or vocals where the precise sound sources can be identified thanks to Music 2.0 technology. Connecting at least two JukeBricks beside each other will be able to extend the screen size, and with speakers added, you can 3-way or even 4-way channel surround sound speakers. Hopefully these will be cheap enough if they were to be manufactured - it would be nice to see the iPod get some sort of competition./p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/jukebrick_portable_audio_device_concept.html"JukeBrick Portable Audio Device Concept/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/a) | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081204093255" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081204093255?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081204093255" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081204093255amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Fjukebrick_portable_audio_device_concept.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/y3TjldeNIsr70_OTsrfDGnaJEWA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/y3TjldeNIsr70_OTsrfDGnaJEWA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=gW0qjrbZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=EmzlpueU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=EmzlpueU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=ZesApZbq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=A55qloFA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=A55qloFA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=PNc6bkZN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=PNc6bkZN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/oETwaOrXCY0" height="1" width="1"/

div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/apple_buds.jpg" /br //div We've been wanting to get some extended face time with Apple's In-Ear Headphones (yes, that's the product name) ever since we spied them at the company's Fall "a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/LetsRock/"Let's Rock/a" event. Of course, they didn't exactly hit the scene a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/apples-in-ear-headphones-finally-really-available-now/"on time/a, and we were starting to get suspicious. Tack on the rumor they wouldn't be compatible with iPhones, and we felt downright indignant. Imagine our surprise, then, at the discovery that they not only sound really, emreally/em good (warm lows and crisp highs, a distinct lack of that modern, pushy mid-range), but they emdo/em work with the iPhone (the 3G we've got here, at least). Regular playback is a charm, and we had no problem making and receiving calls with the buds and attached mic -- though strangely the remote doesn't seem operable on the phone, thus deflating our excitement ever-so-slightly. Regardless, the sound quality is pretty boss for the price (besting other, more expensive models we've checked out), and they're a huge step up from Apple's previous offerings. Check out some looks at the beauties in the gallery below.br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/"Apple In-Ear Headphones hands-on, ears-on, and impressions/a/strong/pa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202875/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud08_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202885/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud12_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202878/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202887/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud14_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/1202883/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ap_bud10_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/"Apple In-Ear Headphones hands-on, ears-on, and impressions/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:48:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391350/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/apple-in-ear-headphones-hands-on-ears-on-and-impressions/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/9WDI34tKqtZyM_VmQa3BU2btwMo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/9WDI34tKqtZyM_VmQa3BU2btwMo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=qZaQqSqn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=qZaQqSqn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=B5udhALN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=B5udhALN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/A7dZpbsLCRA" height="1" width="1"/

The ibiza Rhapsody was one of those curious devices that spent so long in development that by the time it saw the light of day, the rest of the world had moved on to bigger and better things. Sure, we liked the device in theory (WiFi, Bluetooth, and support for Rhapsody and AOL Video are all good things), but its Gameboy-esque looks and mere 30GB storage pretty much guaranteed that it would never be a hit. Unfortunately, a quick look at Haier's new, "sportier" PMP doesn't give us much reason to reconsider the device. Aside from a rugged and weather-resistant new look (is "uglified" a word?), all it seems to offer us is diminished storage capacity. But wait -- all you ever wanted was a plastic orange MP3 player? Then it looks like you're in luck -- the 4GB model sells for $179, while the 8GB size will set you back a cool $199.

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Haier's Ibiza Rhapsody Sport plays audio and video, fails to impress originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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div align="center"a href="http://dapreview.net/news.php?item.4360.5"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/081203-ibiza-02.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="left"The a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/ibizaRhapsody/"ibiza Rhapsody/a was one of those curious devices that spent so long in development that by the time it saw the light of day, the rest of the world had moved on to bigger and better things. Sure, we liked the device in theory (WiFi, Bluetooth, and support for Rhapsody and AOL Video are all good things), but its Gameboy-esque looks and mere 30GB storage pretty much guaranteed that it would never be a hit. Unfortunately, a quick look at Haier's new, "sportier" PMP doesn't give us much reason to reconsider the device. Aside from a rugged and weather-resistant new look (is "uglified" a word?), all it seems to offer us is diminished storage capacity. But wait -- all you ever wanted was a plastic orange MP3 player? Then it looks like you're in luck -- the 4GB model sells for $179, while the 8GB size will set you back a cool $199./div /divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portablevideo/" rel="tag"Portable Video/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/haiers-ibiza-rhapsody-sport-plays-audio-and-video-fails-to-imp/"Haier's Ibiza Rhapsody Sport plays audio and video, fails to impress/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://dapreview.net/news.php?item.4360.5Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/haiers-ibiza-rhapsody-sport-plays-audio-and-video-fails-to-imp/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390514/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/haiers-ibiza-rhapsody-sport-plays-audio-and-video-fails-to-imp/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/L2_iUMmI6FyIyw82lYTemihmaMc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/L2_iUMmI6FyIyw82lYTemihmaMc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=euPOoP1w"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=euPOoP1w" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=WjBcXMsk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=WjBcXMsk" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/Bgf3_7wB4W8" height="1" width="1"/

You know what we could really use right now? A chunky slab of XP running on a device that is simultaneously too big for our pockets but less functional than a netbook. Oh, what's that Trigem, you've got that? Suweet. Meet the LLUON Mobbit PS400, an Atom Z520-powered UMPC MID with a 4.8-inch (1,024 x 600) touchscreen LCD, 2 megapixel camera, 1GB memory, choice of 30GB hard disk or 16GB SSD, WiFi, and Korean WiMax (WiBro) and digital television (T-DMB). Here's the interesting part: the price. According CNET, it will cost "around" $411 (600,000 won) when it ships in January -- that's a lot of kit for that price (the similarly-speced R50A from ASUS costs over $1,800). If true, then the Mobbit looks to have finally achieved the pricing goal set by Microsoft and Intel for these UMPC-class devices way back in early 2006. Add the RAM- and touch-friendly Windows 7 OS and we might finally be home... albeit 3-years (too?) late.

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div align="center"a href="http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/digihunter/post.htm?id=63007760"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/lluon_mobbit_ps400_1.jpg" alt="" //abr //div You know what we could really use right now? A chunky slab of XP running on a device that is simultaneously too big for our pockets but less functional than a netbook. Oh, what's that Trigem, you've got that? Suweet. Meet the LLUON Mobbit PS400, an Atom Z520-powered sUMPC/s MID with a 4.8-inch (1,024 x 600) touchscreen LCD, 2 megapixel camera, 1GB memory, choice of 30GB hard disk or 16GB SSD, WiFi, and Korean WiMax (WiBro) and digital television (T-DMB). Here's the interesting part: the price. According CNET, it will cost "around" $411 (600,000 won) when it ships in January -- that's a lot of kit for that price (the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/15/asus-r50a-finally-arrives-jacks-your-wallet-in-the-process/"similarly-speced R50A from ASUS/a costs over $1,800). If true, then the Mobbit looks to have finally achieved the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/microsoft-said-to-issue-specs-for-ultramobile-lifestyle-pcs/"pricing goal/a set by Microsoft and Intel for these UMPC-class devices way back in early 2006. Add the RAM- and touch-friendly Windows 7 OS and we might finally be home... albeit 3-years (too?) late.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-17128-LLUON+Mobbit%2C+the+latest+MID-UMPC+with+Wimax+from+TG.html"Akihabara News/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"Handhelds/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portablevideo/" rel="tag"Portable Video/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/trigems-atom-based-lluon-mobbit-crashes-below-the-500-umpc-swe/"Trigem's Atom-based LLUON Mobbit crashes below the $500 UMPC sweet spot /a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:57:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/digihunter/post.htm?id=63007760Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/trigems-atom-based-lluon-mobbit-crashes-below-the-500-umpc-swe/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390854/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/trigems-atom-based-lluon-mobbit-crashes-below-the-500-umpc-swe/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/JwMvplR3PBp-tfUzLSa5PcT-4fA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/JwMvplR3PBp-tfUzLSa5PcT-4fA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=EOIewE2S"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=EOIewE2S" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=tJUQ2fAc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=tJUQ2fAc" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/YrKE35AVg7U" height="1" width="1"/

div align="center"a href="http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV219LL/A?mco=Mjg3MjYxMA"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-3-08-beats-in-ear.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Seriously, we feel a little more street just by lookin' at these things. The followup to the smashing over-the-head a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/dr-dres-beats-headphones-keep-they-heads-ringin-for-350/"Beats headphones/a are here, and yes, they deliver sound so big, you'll think you've got speakers in your ears (Dre's words, not ours). They also feature what's touted as the planet's first "tangle-free earphone cable," in-ear noise isolation and a trio of cone tips to ensure the most comfortable fit for every gangster's ear. Get your "ding ding dong... ring-gading ding ding dong" on in one to two weeks for $149.95. Holla.br /br /[Thanks, Robert M.]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/dr-dre-approved-monster-beats-in-ear-headphones-roll-deep-for/"Dr. Dre-approved Monster Beats in-ear headphones roll deep for $150/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:06:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV219LL/A?mco=Mjg3MjYxMARead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/dr-dre-approved-monster-beats-in-ear-headphones-roll-deep-for/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1389926/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/dr-dre-approved-monster-beats-in-ear-headphones-roll-deep-for/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vKLAOdfiu2iv2iN_jChlpcvYaH4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vKLAOdfiu2iv2iN_jChlpcvYaH4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=YoINMWpH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=YoINMWpH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=eM3aUgp7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=eM3aUgp7" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/x6jZgzH99cA" height="1" width="1"/

div align="center"a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/MP3-Music-Download/b/ref=topnav_storetab_dmusic?ie=UTF8amp;node=77197031"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-3-08-amazon-mp3-store.jpg" alt="" //abr //div By our calculations, December isn't exactly "near" June, but it seems a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/23/amazons-mp3-store-nearing-global-launch/"the rumors/a from a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/27/amazon-mp3-store-to-spread-drm-free-love-global-this-year/"long, long ago/a were at least somewhat factual. Without any fanfare whatsoever, Amazon has quietly fired up a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/25/amazon-launches-drm-free-amazon-mp3-music-downloads/"its MP3 store/a over in the UK, marking the first time the e-tailer has sold jams outside of the United States of America. The page doesn't look all that dissimilar to the one we Americans have grown used to, and of course, every one of the three million 256kbps MP3 files are DRM-free. At first glance, we're already seeing some tasty singles for pound;0.59 ($0.86) and whole albums for pound;3 ($4.39). Looks like it's about time to open that digital wallet, UKers.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/19672/20696/view.phtml"Pocket-lint/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/amazons-drm-free-mp3-store-goes-international-with-quiet-uk-ope/"Amazon's DRM-free MP3 store goes international with quiet UK opening/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:21:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.amazon.co.uk/MP3-Music-Download/b/ref=topnav_storetab_dmusic?ie=UTF8amp;node=77197031Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/amazons-drm-free-mp3-store-goes-international-with-quiet-uk-ope/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1389882/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/amazons-drm-free-mp3-store-goes-international-with-quiet-uk-ope/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/7LTNCFUXPGbs8R7ivIC2_ynwM3w/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/7LTNCFUXPGbs8R7ivIC2_ynwM3w/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=dujJjszA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=dujJjszA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ieMIPRSa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ieMIPRSa" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/oxKkRRBgiSc" height="1" width="1"/

Each episode of MAKE: television includes in-depth profiles of prominent Makers. Here's a quick preview of an upcoming profile of Minneapolis Art on Wheels. Ali Momeni and his fleet of mobile video projectors transform public spaces into real-time sound and light shows on a massive scale.

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