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Moto AMP media tablet revealed by OEM Moto

OEM media tablet.jpgOEM Moto have revealed a few snippets of information on their latest media tablet, the Moto AMP.

The tablet will be running a version of Android (hence the acronym of Android Media Platform), and come in 3.5, 5 and 10 inch models.

The 5 inch model was displayed, offering an OLED capacitive touchsceen with multi-touch functionality capable of playing 720p video. The Moto AMP will feature an 8-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and room for SD card expansion.

Via: Pocket Lint

Archos 3 Vision video review

Archos's rather cool eight gig touch screen personal media player has now hit the stores. Here's what we made of it back at its launch in August.

Inauguration 2.0 - Presidents' speeches broken down into tag clouds

obama-speech-cloud.jpgYou can tell it's the 21st Century. The good folks over at ReadWriteWeb have broken down the full text of Barack Obama's inauguration speech yesterday into a tag cloud using Wordle.net. The results are interesting - "nation" and "new" come out on top. Click for embiggening.

Just for fun, they've also analysed the speeches of Bush in 2005, Clinton in 1999, Reagan in 1981 and Lincoln in 1861 and 1865. You can see the clouds after the jump, but it's quite interesting to see how much Bush relied on the word 'freedom' Reagan on 'government' and Lincoln on 'constitution' first, and then 'war'.

CES 2009: Vuzix Wrap 920AVs


At CES 2009, Dan got his hands (or eyes?) on Vuzix's Wrap 920AVs that I was getting excited about here. They're every bit as awesome as promised, apparently, but Dan also managed to wheedle out a price from them - they're looking at $399 (£274), and a 'summertime' release (for the US, presumably).

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Related posts: Next-gen Vuzix VR glasses will be unveiled at CES | Vuzix Wrap 920AV audiovisual goggles - the full, actually quite awesome, details

CES 2009: Sony reveals its 3" OLED-screened WALKMAN X music and media player

This beauty is the new Sony WALKMAN X range - featuring a 3" OLED touch screen to make videos look marginally better than they have ever looked before. Although they won't look very good when you've had your fingers all over the screen for six months.

The X1050 and X1060 both feature digital noise cancelling technology, FM tuners, the 3" 432x240 screen and come with 16 or 32GB of storage space. Here's a big photo of it, as it's rather pretty. That's not my music. That's someone else's music.

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The WALKMAN X is even packed with a wi-fi chip and custom BBC iPlayer tool for watching telly wherever there's some wireless broadband to nick, plus it'll do YouTube and play MP4 videos, WMVs and H.264 material. Sony says you'll be able to have a WALKMAN X in "spring 2009" - and we think quite a few people will be taking it up on that offer.

There's more like this on our vast CES 2009 mega-page.

Vuzix Wrap 920AV audiovisual goggles - the full, actually quite awesome, details

vuzix-wrap-920av.jpgWe've just been given the full details on the Vuzix 920AVs that I posted about on Friday, and gosh, they look more exciting than I had anticipated. Remember how I said that they seemed to be the non-interactive version? They're not - there's an option to fit them with a "6-Degree of Freedom tracking sensor and/or Stereo Camera Pair".

That means that you can mix images from in front of you with virtual content. Imagine looking down a street, and seeing little markers come up from famous buildings saying what they are, or the ultimate Sat-Nav system which can tell which way you're looking and show you which way to go with a line on the road.

The Mintpass Mintpad internet, notepad, writing, watching, digital camera, media THING

mintpass-mintpad-wi-fi.jpgThe global gadget development arms race to see who can fit the most stuff into the smallest, whitest box has taken a dramatic turn today, thanks to this clever little everything-in-one miniature... digital... wi-fi... thing.

You can write on it, browse the internet on it, listen to music on it, take photos on it, watch films on it and, most importantly of all, get it out of your very smallest pocket or the change compartment of your wallet and impress people with it by showing them all of the above.

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