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Chumby and Greenphone, opening up the embedded device market

Recently two hardware announcements caught my interest, not only because cool mobile devices were introduced. More interestingly to me was the fact they brought the openness we all know from the open source software on our PCs and Laptops to the embedded devices market. First Qtopia, announced the greenphone, a mobile phone that targets developers […]

August 30, 2006
Sony GPS-C1: A photo geocoding accessory done the wrong way

Geocoding photos. i.e. adding latitude and longitude to a photos’ metadata gets more popular every day. To my knowledge the following options for geocoding images exist: “Integrated solution”: Professionals could use the nikon D200 with an attached Garmin (or compatible) gps and a serial cable to directly add the goecode to the EXIF Metadata while […]

August 8, 2006
iRex iLiad: great display, enhanceable design, pre-alpha software and a weird proposed navigation model for news content

I just had the opportunity to test drive an iRex iLiad, the device promoted by its manufacturer iRex Technologies ” as he latest state of technology in mobile electronic reading”. 5 years after the Rocket eBook, the first eBook device i had the chance to test, it surely is a quantum leap ahead. It also […]

July 21, 2006