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Filed under: Portable Audio, Wearables

We haven’t seen too many portable audio devices out of Yamaha (well, unless you count scooters), but the company’s new BODiBEAT looks like it could be a big hit with runners. The arm-mounted DAP contains an accelerometer that links to the earphone-mounted pulse monitor, enabling the BODiBEAT to play tracks that match your running rhythm, switching songs as you speed up and slow down. It doesn’t look the like unit actually changes the speed of your music, so Yamaha has thoughtfully included a range of preloaded beat loops that remix themselves at every tempo to cover any gaps. Good thing, too, since the puny 512MB of memory means you’ll be out of music by the end of the block. Expect to see the BODiBEAT popping up at the gym later this summer for an astronomical $299.

[Via jkOnTheRun]

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written by Nilay Patel

Filed under: Networking

Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins’ internet ordeal is over, and he has detailed all the painful, laborious, and clearly unnecessary steps needed to put yourself into Cashville with AT&T’s cheap-o DSL service over on his website. In the end, the poor guy spoke with what appears to be hundreds of the company’s employees, had to “pay” $79.99 for a router (although they offer a mail-in rebate reimbursement), and forked over $50 for AT&T’s “activation fee”, yet still technically doesn’t have service. Regardless, when he’s paying a measly $10 $18 a month for his phone and DSL service, and you’re still Go-Go dancing on weekends just to cover your voicemail charge, who will really have the last laugh? Hit the read link for all the painful details….

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written by Joshua Topolsky

Filed under: Desktops

Unlike some companies we’ve seen, it appears that Commodore Gaming is actually keeping its word, as the company has just now released the final details on its lineup of flashy US-bound gaming rigs. The Cg, Cgs, Cgx, and Cxx machines progress gradually from least extreme to highly 1337, and all four can be customized to suit your every fantasy. To give you an idea of what’s on tap (if you’ve got the coin), the Cxx packs a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 processor, twin 500GB 7,200RPM hard drives in a RAID 0 array, 2GB of Corsair RAM, DVD-RW optical drive, an 850-watt power supply, Creative’s Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sound card, Windows Vista, and dual 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra GPUs to boot. As far as pricing goes, word on the street is that the base system will start out around $1,700, but we’ll know for sure when these come stateside in Q3.

[Via CNET]

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written by Darren Murph

Filed under: Portable Audio

Style-maven Bang & Olufsen has introduced a new DAP into the mix, called the Beosound 6. Breaking from typical B&O design convention — which can often be a little absurd (see the Beosound 2 and 3) — the Beosound 6 is a strikingly simple design; a silver, candy-bar shaped audio player with stripped-down controls and a thin LCD display. Specs are light at the moment, but it looks like standard MP3 / WMA playback, 4GB of flash memory (jettisoning the company’s previous SD storage scheme), a 65K color LCD screen, and USB connectivity. The player will also be accompanied by a leather case and the company’s A8 earphones, and will retail for around £400 ($812 US).

[Thanks, Casper]

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written by Joshua Topolsky

Filed under: Digital Cameras, HDTV

JVC hasn’t shown off any of its fancy Everio camcorders in quite awhile, but it’s making a noticeable return with the HDD / SDHC-compatible GZ-HD3. This handheld camcorder does it up right with a built-in 60GB hard drive, MPEG-2 HD recording (though not Full HD, reportedly), and the ability to capture onto SD / SDHC flash cards. Unfortunately, not a whole lot of details beyond that are readily available, but while you wait patiently for a release date and price, feel free to click on for a few more glamor shots.

Continue reading JVC showcases HD Everio GZ-HD3 HDD / SDHC camcorder

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written by Darren Murph

Filed under: Peripherals

If there’s such a thing as a Logitech fanboy, you can count us among their legions, as we’ve been more than pleased with almost all of the products (mice, webcams, surround sound speakers, wireless gamepads) that we’ve ever purchased from the peripherals giant. And we must say, the new MX Air certainly lives up to this enviable reputation. From good hand feel to instinctive reactions in 3D space to the sweet virtual scrollwheel (it even makes a freakin’ accelerating and decelerating clicking sound, just like the MX Revolution!), the latest member of the MX family is a pleasure to work with all around, and also features the no-brainer plug-and-play setup that we’ve come to expect from these devices. We’ll have a more detailed hands-on a little later, but for right now you can check out our unboxing pics in the gallery below…

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written by Evan Blass

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

After patiently wait for what felt like ages to finally have the Cowon D2 on American soil, here’s a tidbit sure to make you early adopters a bit disgruntled. According to a blurb at GenerationMP3, Cowon is planning to release an 8GB and 16GB rendition of its diminutive media player, and additionally, it will reportedly sport a built-in SDHC slot for cramming even more media onboard. In other news, the iAudio X7 is slated to land sometime in September, and will be available in both 40GB and 80GB flavors, but the release of the iAudio X5 is a bit shaky considering that production on the device has “been stopped” for the time being. Per usual, we aren’t exactly sold on the legitimacy of these reports, but you won’t catch us complaining if a roomier D2 finds its way stateside anytime soon.

[Via PlayerBites, thanks Gavin]

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written by Darren Murph

Filed under: Gaming

You know, we could understand a few months of Wii shortages, and perhaps we’d let Nintendo slip by the seven month mark with a mild slap on the wrist, but this recent announcement of shortages through the 2007 holidays is just plain annoying. “There is no guarantee that we are not going to have ‘out-of-stocks’ this holiday season,” says George Harrison, senior V.P of marketing for Nintendo of America. “If you see one, buy it. Don’t assume that you can come back later and find one.” It’s not like Nintendo doesn’t have the time, cash or know-how to ramp up production. Sure, we don’t know all the ins and outs of supply chain management, but it sounds more like Nintendo is enjoying its “can’t keep ‘em on the shelves” status a bit too much to seriously make an attempt at meeting demand.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

written by Paul Miller