Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert
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Full-motion video from pictures
Thomas Randolph of FrameFree demostrates a new authoring tool and codec designed to create motion video from still images will blow your socks off.
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New from Averatec, Acer, Skype
It figures – I go on vacation, and a bunch of cool products are announced. Here are the latest:
— Averatec launches handheld navigation device
— Acer offers $400, 22-inch LCD monitor
— More Skype stuff
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Personal message from Samuel L. Jackson
Just when you thought the “Snakes on a Plane” phenomenon had lost some steam, along comes the coolest use of the Internet in a long time.
Take your Wikipedia with you
At this week’s Wikimania 2006 Conference in Cambridge, Mass. (Ed.: wait, there’s a Wikipedia conference? Why wasn’t I informed?), Webaroo announced the Webaroo Wikipedia Pack, which lets users carry the Web-based, free-content encyclopedia on a smart phone with a compact flash card.
Best new iPod accessory – the pillow
Finally, a company has a product that combines my two favorite activities – listening to music and sleeping.
Targus offers mobile Bluetooth laser mouse
If you’re going to offer a peripheral, might as well be one that offers almost everything.
Lock up your iPod
I’m all in favor of security products, but this item seems to be geared towards the overly paranoid, like those parents who buy toilet seat locks so their kids won’t fall in the toilet.
Reducing noise the Turtle Beach way
Audio peripheral maker Turtle Beach this week launched two new active noise reduction headphone models geared at the “youth/active” and “business travel” markets.
Acer’s high-def notebook hits U.S. shores
Acer America today said its new 20.1-inch widescreen Aspire 9800 high-definition notebook (announced in June at Computex Taipei), is available in North America. Notebooks start at $2,799, and are available through Acer’s resellers and retailers.
Linksys offers “pre-n” gear to SMBs
Linksys today announced new wireless LAN equipment (based on the 802.11n draft specification) in its Small Business Series.
Let the slew of new desktops begin!
Intel this week announced its new Intel Core Duo 2 processors, which it so humbly dubs as “the world’s best processor” …
MIMO for Mac users
Attention Macintosh owners – feeling left out of the MIMO wireless market?
Lexar preloads PowerToGo on new USB drives
Lexar Media today says it is shipping new JumpDrive Lightning USB flash drives with its PowerToGo software platform preloaded on the device.
* COOL TOOLS SUMMER SPECIAL:
Toys of Summer product guide
If you didn’t think it was possible to stay connected to the network while on vacation, think again. Advances in networks and technologies make it possible for you to get away from the office yet still remain tethered to what’s going on. Our special Toys of Summer guide (compiled by Cool Tools guru Keith Shaw) will show you the best new devices that let you get away from the data center and onto a nice, sandy beach.
