Mobile PC

True information addicts will never be satisfied with the puny screens on most smart phones. Even at high resolution, a 2-inch display just won’t cut it for reading news, checking stock charts, or powering through an overflowing inbox. If you’re a data maven, PalmOne’s Tungsten W is an attractive op

For all their advantages over film, digital cameras still can’t match 35mm SLRs in one key area: speed. Nearly every digital camera has some degree of shutter lag, the annoying and often excruciating pause after you press the shutter button and before the camera actually snaps the picture. In some c

Thanks to your 802.11b network, anyone in your company can wirelessly download funny pictures from Fark.com whenever they want. Now how about using that wireless capability to get some work done. Colligo Workgroup Edition makes “wireless productivity” into something more than a laughable oxymoron. I

Now that more than half of all Americans have a mobile phone, why are we still putting up with inferior handsets? Too often, the latest and greatest handsets are available overseas only — while U.S. consumers get rehashed versions of last year’s models. NEC hears your cry and delivers with its 525 H

You’re a master of the universe, meeting and greeting prospects from dawn until well after dusk. So why are you still typing up their contact info — or worse yet, lugging around a Rolodex like a chump? You need a scanner that can munch through a stack of business cards like a dog through a […]

Have you ever wanted to snap a still photo right in the middle of some event you’re videotaping? Neither have we — but clearly someone does. How else to explain the Canon Optura Xi’s ability to snap low-res digital photos, storing them on an SD card, while at the same time recording video to tape? [

You might think that the addition of an overhyped networking technology wouldn’t be enough to save a crappy product from itself — and in the case of the Concord EyeQ Go Wireless camera, you’d be right. Unfortunately, that insight seems to have escaped the engineers at Concord Camera, who have dresse

Road warriors take heart: You no longer have to return to the office just to print your latest report. For that matter, you can cross off stopping at the drugstore to get your photos developed. Canon’s new i80 Bubble Jet printer, released in February, takes care of both chores in a sleek, portable p

James Bond kept tabs on the bad guys with a tracking display in the glove box of his Aston Martin. But the reality of dashboard navigation today, particularly if it involves both Bluetooth and GPS, isn’t so much like Goldfinger as it is like On Golden Pond. That is to say, Bluetooth GPS devices are

Some day you’ll be able to discreetly Google the name of a new acquaintance using a heads-up display built into your eyeglasses, all without interrupting the flow of conversation. Dream on. Ingineo’s new Eyetop tries to bring that day a bit closer, but in a way that only a masochistic, Cheetos-eatin

Royal Linea32 Come, gather round children, and let me tell you of the days when giants roamed the Earth, when personal computers were monstrous towers beneath our desks, and people went online by dialing up Prodigy with their 9,600-baud modems. It was 1990, and if the Royal Linea32 had been alive th

Your faux Gucci handbag already holds an iPod and a tiny Casio Exilim camera. You need a PDA chic enough to take its place alongside these stylish tech toys, without flattening your alligator-skin wallet. The PalmOne Tungsten E is your PDA, baby. The Tungsten E’s sleek silver case is reminiscent of