The ICUITI iWear video glasses connect directly into an Apple video iPod. The lightweight video glasses are directly powered by the iPod video. No extra power pack or external electronics are necessary.
The iWear glasses generate a virtual 44″ screen viewed at 9 feet distance. The image is generated by two 320x240px (230,000 pixels) LCD Displays. ICUITI says that the battery life of the iPod video stays the same and powering the video glasses uses the same energy as powering the iPod screen.The $299 video glasses can also be used for 3D viewing. It switches into that mode automatically when the corresponding video signals are applied.
Their higher end M920-CF headsup display is one of the smallest and lightest head-worn displays, weighing only 3.5 oz. It’s easily readable in either daylight or darkness. The display connects directly to any CompactFlash Type II or PCMCIA slot on Pocket PC based PDAs and features full VGA screen information (640 x 480 pixels) on the hands free display.
Microsoft’s $249 Zune officially launches on November 14th. The Zune features a 30 MB drive, a built-in FM radio (that shows the name of the current song), and wireless sharing with built-in Wi-Fi.
The downside is that each song sent to your Zune from another Zune can be played only three times and is available for playing for only three days. After that, it dies and can’t be played again unless you buy it. Microsoft’s new DRM for Zune is incompatible with all existing systems, including Microsoft’s own PlaysForSure system.
The Zune will play standard podcast files, which are usually available in unprotected MP3 or AAC format. However, podcast integration (via RSS) into the Zune Marketplace doesn’t appear to be part of the initial release. It supports all unprotected H.264, MP3, WMA, WMV, MPEG4, JPEG and AAC files with up to 14 hours battery life when playing music, 4 hours playing video or viewing pictures, with Wi-Fi off.
Walt Mossberg of the WSJ and David Pogue of the NY Times were underwhelmed.
Maybe they need one of those headsup thangs.
[...] Last June, Samsung announced plans to add mobile Wimax support to a GSM handset. That handset is due to hit the market during the first half of 2007. Next year Samsung will also put a 1GHz StrongArm processor inside a mobile phone. [...]
Left by dailywireless.org » Samsung Future Phones on November 21st, 2006