Streaming Location-based Content.

 

Streaming Location-based Content

Streaming Location-based Content. PanGo creates location-based streaming content for amusement parks, zoos, aquariums and sports arenas. Information is streamed to a handheld whenever they come within proximity of the Hot Spot. Newbury's LocaleServer provides similar "steaming walking tours". Museums use these location-ba... [DailyWireless]

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First TV with built-in DVD recorder. Televisions with built-in DVD players are commonplace these days, but Panasonic is taking it to the next level with the world's first TV with a built-in DVD recorder, a 21-inch model called the DVD2-SHOT which comes out in Japan next month. TVs with both hard drives and DVD burners shouldn't be too far behind. Read... [Gizmodo]

Dartmouth's Voice over WiFi network. A few months back we wrote a piece for Wired magazine about Voice over WiFi, and the potential for creating a wireless phone system on the cheap. Now Dartmouth College, which already has a campuswide WiFi network, is giving students Voice over WiFi software and seven-digit phone numbers so that they can make (and receive) free local and long-distance calls from anywhere on campus using a laptop and a headset (local and long distance calls were already free using a landline). Even more exciting, there are plans to offer Voice over WiFi software so that calls can be made using a Palm or a Pocket PC. Read [Via TechDirt]... [Gizmodo]

Sony releases its video recorder for Clies in the US. It looks like the PEGA-VR100K, Sony's video recorder that saves shows onto Memory Sticks for watching later on a Clie PDA that we mentioned a few weeks back, is going to be released here in the States. The resolution isn't so great, but the VR100K can squeeze up to four hours of programming onto a 1GB Memory Stick card. Read... [Gizmodo]

Anthony Wood, formerly of Replay TV, has started Roku.  A wireless HDTV connection device for music, and pictures stored on your PC.  It doesn't do movies yet which means it hard to justify the $499 it costs.  Conversion kits for HDTVs that aren't PC ready cost $200, but they can handle wired video (BTW, Sony HDTVs can handle PC content without a converter).  I do like the VGA output, although it is only pass-through. [John Robb's Weblog]

The Mirra. A new network hard drive from a startup called Ispiri. The Mirra, as it's called, connects to your home network and can be set to automatically backup and synchronize files from all the computers in the house so that if there's a crash, you'll always have your data. The Mirra can also be accessed remotely over the Internet if you ever need to get some file while on the road or want to share MP3s or digital photos with friends. Should be out next month. Read... [Gizmodo]

DEMOmobile 2003: This Show's Got Phones Talking. The California show highlights animated faces in your messages and an array of other nifty mobile technologies. [eWEEK Technology News]

Desktop to go where Migo goes. A new USB-based flash memory device promises to capture a broad range of data from a computer user's PC and replicate that "personal desktop" on any other compatible Windows-based computer. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

Portable Bluetooth printer. Coming From Brother, a tiny new Bluetooth portable printer. The MW140BT weighs less than 10 ounces and is just seven-tenths of an inch thick. Read... [Gizmodo]