Make your bathtub experience even better with the SMARTHYDRO. This is apparently the world’s first fully automated bathing system made in Brazil. Connect the tub via a cell phone, internet connection or a PDA and preconfigure your bathing experience. You can tell the tub to start filling water inside of it and keep it at a specific temperature (and do all sorts of other things). Automation baby.
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Opera Software has finally released a version of their Opera Web Browser for the Windows Mobile platform. The new version offers more speed, smooth usability, and rich content display. The browser supports all major web standards and is based on Opera’s new core code.
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Apple notebook with integrated iPod mini?
Now here’s some interesting news for the day - some investigating sleuths on the net have discovered that Apple has filed for a patent for integrating an iPod mini into a notebook. The pictures shows the iPod mini right in the location that you’d find a typical touch pad. Macsimum News has other theories as to where all this could go - think basic building blocks. What if you could connect togethe blocks that had specific functionalities to produce even more complex systems? Take a cell phone and add an iPod mini, or a laptop + a cell phone to increase functionality. Lots of possibilities
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Microsoft to consider licensing the Xbox software?
I4U reports that Microsoft is considering licensing the Xbox 360 software platform to other electronics vendors. I would imagine this pretty much means the OS and the SDK for the OS which could be fairly platform independent depending upon how Microsoft developed the code base. I don’t put it past Microsoft to do such a manuever since at the end of the day, Microsoft is in the business of selling software and not hardware. If they can have Microsoft everywhere in the digital home - they would love it.
Antec has released a new computer case geared towards the high end system builder who wants both a quiet case design as well as a cool running system. What did ExtremeTech think of this new case?
Builders willing to spend more time and money on their case will be well rewarded with one of the coolest, quietest cases around.
Akihabara is reporting that a korean company has come out with an MP3 player with an integrated GPS component. The GPS component is ideal for physically active people like joggers who want to track how far they’ve travelled.
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XYZComputing has pictures of upcoming computer cases from SilverStone featured at C3. I’ve always enjoyed SilverStone cases since they tend to come out with very high quality aluminum cases as well as HTPC oriented cases. Of particular interest is the LC18 which has a 7 inch LCD panel on the front of the chassis.
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Is this the Motorola ROKR Apple iTunes phone?
MacDailyNews has supposed pictures of the upcoming Motorola ROKR Apple iTunes phone. There are detailed pictures of button/control layouts as well as something that looks like a camera. Motorola nor Apple has actually confirmed that these pics are real.
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CamcorderInfo takes a look at the Sony HDR-HC1 High Def Camcorder. This camcorder features:
* Powered by InfoLithium rechargeable battery NP-FM50 (included)
* 1/3-inch CMOS sensor with 3.0-megapixel still-image resolution
* 10x optical zoom lens (digital zoom to 120x) and Super SteadyShot Image Stabilization
* 2.7-inch wide (16:9) Hybrid Touch Panel Swivelscreen LCD; 37mm Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens
* HDV 1080i camcorder features HDV, DV (on a standard MiniDV cassette), and SD recording
What’s the verdict?
If the HDR-HC1 is a sign of the future and subsequent Sony HDV consumer camcorders are made this well, Sony will be able to recapture the passion of serious video consumers which they’ve seemed to have lost in recent years.
If you’re worried about privacy on computer systems - especially on systems that are not under your control, then you may want to consider the StealthSurfer II. It’s a Windows compatible USB key device that comes preloaded with Firefox, Anonymizer, RoboForm, and Thunderbird software. The software is configured and integrated for optimum privacy. All of your private information is stored on the key and not on the system that it’s used on. The keys come in sizes from 128MB to 1GB.
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