Caller ID Spoofing -- an intro at least

More on the new iMac G5 - Engadget - www.engadget.com Here’s the scoop: it comes in both 17-inch and 20-inch widescreen versions, and it’s an all-in-one with everything built-into the monitor.

HeadBlade Company, LLC Shave your head.

Wired 12.09: The Giants of Anime are Coming The three titans of Japanese animation are all about to unleash monster new films. Watch your back, Shrek.

Sidekick 2 vs. Sidekick - Engadget - www.engadget.com iPodlounge deviates slightly from its focus on you-know-what and has a gallery of photos of T-Mobile’s new Sidekick 2, including a few showing it side-by-side with the old one and a Motorola V600 cellphone.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Italian pensioner seeks adoption: "A widowed 80-year-old teacher in Italy has taken a novel step to stop being lonely - advertising for a family willing to adopt him as a grandfather."

Gizmodo : USB Christmas Tree

Gizmodo : Powerbook: 1, God: 0 It's a sad fact of life that God hates Mac users. If you needed any more proof, check out these pictures of this burnt and charred 12-inch Powerbook, caught in an apartment fire, which despite the damage and encrustations is reported to still work. What can we learn from this? In a kickboxing match between Jesus and Jobs, Steve would win.

Gizmodo : The Tube Lamp This Tube Lamp by Nik Willmore, which is a really dangerous thing since he lives and works right here in New York. At $225, though, it's almost cheap enough to just get and justify as a heirloom or something. Here's your inheritance, kids, and it glows!

Oh, and if you are worried about getting one just because the bulbs might burn out, apparently the 25-watt tubular bulbs can be gotten almost anywhere, even Home Depot. And of course, you can't forget the finishing touch - the control knob is a chromed replacement for a Fender Telecaster.

Catherine Zeta-Jones holds Motorola A630; T-Mobile release imminent? - Engadget - www.engadget.com

The Pac-Man rug - Engadget - www.engadget.com: "Could someone explain to us why it took over twenty years for someone to get around to weaving a Pac-Man floor rug?"

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Frustrated chimp takes up smoking: "Sexual frustration has driven a mild-mannered chimpanzee to take up smoking and spitting, according to China's Xinhua news agency."

Etymotic ER-6 Isolator - Headphones - CNET Reviews I think these are the headphones I want.

HP’s DJammer It’s still under development, but HP just showed of something called the DJammer at their Digital Experience webcast. Apparently it’s some kind of iPod add-on that’s specifically designed so that DJs can use the iPod to mix and cut like they can with digital turntables.

Actual pics of the new Treo Ace/Treo 650 - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Griffin EarJams - Engadget - www.engadget.com

TIME.com: This Bud's For The U.S. -- Aug. 23, 2004 CASH CROP: Inside a former brewery in Ontario, police found this pot farm

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nasa to save Hubble telescope: "The US space agency has given the go-ahead for a robotic mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, Nasa officials have announced."

BBC NEWS | Business | Peru prepares for the gas age: "Something good is arriving. That is the slogan marking the launch of Camisea, the most ambitious energy project in Peruvian history."

BBC NEWS | Americas | Taxi driver: New York: "Taxi drivers know the streets of the world's great cities better than anyone. The BBC has spoken to five of them around the world about their work, their city and the problems they face.

Here, the BBC's Matt Wells takes a taxi with Narinder Diol, a member of New York's Asian community - a great number of whom are now employed driving the city's famous yellow cabs."

Gizmodo : Motorola MPx and MPx220 Rumors, Including Release Dates PhoneMag has a lot of information from a "trusted Asian carrier source" about Motorola's upcoming MPx and MPx220 smartphones, included (projected) release dates for September 27th for the MPx220, and November 30th for MPx, although the latter may be delayed until 2005. According to the source, Motorola is still working on the firmware and deciding how much ram should be in the model (initially they were talking about 32MB, which is almost preposterously low for a high-end model like this, but it's since been bumped to 48).

T-Mobile Action Sports Team and Hollywood's Elite Celebrated at an Exclusive Party to Debut the T-Mobile Sidekick II

Danger Intellisync®: Users can now synchronize their Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Calendar, contacts and to do list with their hiptop2.
Integrated, higher resolution camera: The flash -enabled camera is a great addition to the device.
Photo Caller ID: A fun feature that will allow you to see a photo of who is calling you. This offers new choice in how users integrate the camera application into their experience with the product.
Support for vCards: The new hiptop2 device allows you to send and receive virtual contact cards (vCards). vCards are a great way to easily save and share contact information with friends and colleagues.
SMS enhancements: This popular application will have new features and the ability to save up to 130 SMS messages on the device.
Yahoo! Messenger: The popular Yahoo! Messenger has been added as a choice for instant messaging.

T-Mobile Sidekick II review roundup - Engadget - www.engadget.com: "T-Mobile Sidekick II review roundup"

T-Mobile Sidekick II Reviewed So, uhm, I guess the wait for the T-Mobile Sidekick II is about over since PC Magazine just put up a review. Way to start the hype machine, Danger! Maybe they decided not to really talk it up because it looks sort of, you know, bland. I mean, come on, VGA camera? Is the Sidekick destined to remain the sort-of-cool cellphone with the crappy camera? How about user-developed applications? When do we get those?

I guess I'll reserve final judgement until I can play around with the new unit, but for now it looks like a modest upgrade to a unit sorely in need of some juice in the first place. Also, I'm still a little bit bitter Danger got so fussy a few months back when we leaked the images of the Sidekick II. We only leaked because we cared!

AP Wire | 08/04/2004 | Tech Test: the Addictive Hiptop Improves

T-Mobile Sidekick II PC Mag Review with lots of pics. They say the camera sucks: "The new model integrates a VGA camera with flash and adds new buttons so you can take pictures with the screen closed. The camera was slow to start up, and our photos were somewhat blurry and full of halos and strange color effects." The old cameras sucked more though.

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Om Malik on Broadband: Sidekick II: The Danger Evolution

MSNBC - T-Mobile's hiptop gets hipper There’s good news for current T-Mobile Sidekick customers: You will get a chance be one of the first to upgrade to the new device at a special price.

If you cherish the Sidekick II for its data capabilities there’s even better news. Intellisync has been approved to be released on the Sidekick platform. That means users will be able to pay a one-time fee, download the PIM-sync application onto their PC and synchronize with Microsoft Outlook Calendar, Contacts and To Do lists.

T-Mobile Sidekick II gets real - Engadget - www.engadget.com T-Mobile officially took the wraps off the next Sidekick mobile communicator today, which they’re calling the Sidekick II PV-100 (not sure what the extra “PV-100” means). More or less as we figured, it’s thinner than the old one, has a color LCD screen, better reception, a VGA quality digital camera, better battery life, built-in speakerphone, and will retail for $299.99 when it hits stores this fall.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Polystyrene homes planned for Afghans

Send text messages to a landline - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Especially useful since now that making regular voice phone calls is totally out of fashion, BT is introducing a new service in the UK that let’s you send a text message to a regular landline phone. Since hardly any landline phones can receive text messages (believe it or not, there are actually a few out there), BT’s service uses text-to-speech software to convert the message into a voicemail, even translating that text shorthand favored by teens into something a bit more comprehensible. Or you could just call and leave a voicemail in the first place. Your choice.

Netgear’s new WGT634U Wireless Media Router Netgear’s new WGT634U Wireless Media Router has a little something extra that we expect will be standard on all of these things sooner or later: a USB 2.0 port for attaching an external hard drive that anyone on the network can access.

Panasonic R3 Review the Panasonic R3, a machine so well put-together that I actually considered buying one for my own personal use, and if it didn't cost twice that of my budget (importers are selling it for around $2800 for a fully-spec'd out unit), I probably would have. What makes the R3 the hands-down best sub-notebook I've ever used? Well, for starters, it actually usable.

Wired News: Porn Blogs Manipulate Google: "It's clever. You have to give them that. And it's another example of porn folk being sort of ahead of the curve when it comes to technology and marketing."

T-Mobile Sidekick 2 turns up - Engadget - www.engadget.com "A pic and a little blurb about T-Mobile’s new Sidekick 2 have turned up in the August 2nd issue of Newsweek in a piece about back-to-college technology, listing it as having a built-in VGA quality camera and a price of $229. We still don’t think this’ll be out until September."

MobileTracker: Upcoming US phones We’ve mentioned a ton of new phones for the US lately, so many that its hard to keep track of what’s coming when. Below we have an exclusive look at all the dirt on the phones you ask about.
Big news reported here: MPx delayed to 2005, SK2 around this week or next, A630 in September.

tech ronin: Hiptop II / Sidekick II Just linking to this because it has a link to the SK2 manual.