This Pioneer in-dash auto A/V system plays DivX video files from CDs or DVDs on its 480p 7" WVGA screen. Yep, so you can burn your own movies and then play them back in your car. [If you're driving, you can't watch!] Naturally, it plays other formats as well, including MP3, WMA, AAC, and even JPEG. If you have an iPod, you can interface it with this receiver via an adpater and then have control of your iPod via the touchscreen. The AVH-P7800DVD is also Satellite Radio ready for either XM Radio or Sirius Satellite Radio; nice to see a vendor not take sides here.
One other very nice feature is its Bluetooth capabilities - you can tie your Bluetooth cell phone via an adapter to the AVH-P7800 and control it via the touchscreen. Integration means that you can listen to/talk on calls via the headunit (it has a microphone), audio is automatically muted during incoming/outgoing calls and you can store the phone book and access it by voice or the touch screen display.
The AVH-P7800DVD is Pioneer's first 6.1 channel in car receiver. It is compatible with DTS 96/24, which allows high quality 96kHz 24-bit sound playback in multi-channel formats from ordinary DVD-Video recordings. The AVH-P7800DVD can also decode 6.1 channel software in DTS-ES and Dolby Digital EX. The added surround back channel allows more detailed imaging and finer sound localization. A theater-like ambience is also provided by the ordinary two-channel sources, thanks to DTS NEO:6 compatibility. In addition, Dolby Pro Logic II delivers 5.1 channel surround sound from stereo sources, including one mode specialized for music and another for movies.
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Check out Dolce & Gabbana's and Motorola's quad-band GSM RAZR v3i tribute to Goldmember. This phone has the standard slim .55 inch thick RAZR shape and an anodized aluminum gold finish that makes this phone toit... You've probably seen the wildly popular Motorola RAZR V3 in someone's hand before. With the quad-band GSM RAZR V3i, Motorola has made it even better. The sexy design is still here, as is the all-metal construction. This time, though, the phone boasts an updated and streamlined design, enhanced video capture and playback capabilities, a 1.23 megapixel camera, and a hot-swappable MicroSD memory card slot.
Put a little luxury in your pocket with the RAZR V3i Dolce & Gabbana. And now when you thought it couldn't get any better, Dolce & Gabbana and Motorola have partnered up to release the latest version of the v3i: The RAZR V3i D & G. The phone unites the elegance and unique design of Motorola V3i with the individual style and attitude of D & G. The V3i DG features the famous RAZR slim shape, includes an anodized aluminum gold finish that reflects your impeccable taste, and its music player runs on Apple's popular iTunes software.
A date. You have a date. At 3am, your time, you are going to be meeting the hottest virtual elf you could ever imagine at the tavern near the river down by the flatulent dwarf's armor shop. But you need at least get a little sleep beforehand or you won't be able to work the next day, which means you won't be able to pay the bills, which means no more high speed connection. All you have to do is set your Sonic Boom Love Clock's alarm and plug in the bed shaker. You'll be up in time, trust us. How can we be so sure? One word: volume!
The Sonic Boom Love Clock has an adjustable volume alarm with a maximum loudness of 113 decibels (just for reference, a jackhammer is about 100 decibels!) Add the bed shaker attachment does just what you think it would. Slip it under your mattress and your ears will bleed and your bed will shake, and there is no way you will oversleep and miss your date. And...if you ever get a real date (or just need a massage) you can turn off the audible alarm and just let the bed shaker do its thing. The Love Clock is also a great secondary alarm clock. Like Commissioner Gordon had a special phone to call Batman, this could be the clock to remind you when it's time for love!
Google's been busy this week, and they're wrapping it up by mixing Google Books with Google Maps. Locations listed in certain books will have a link to that same location in Google Maps, so you can, um, check it out on a map. It's kind of cool, I guess, at least with some of the titles, like Around the World in Eighty Days and The Travels of Marco Polo. I wouldn't go so far as to say that Google's "animat[ing] the static information" in books, though. It's just dropping links in the middle of a book. I'm sure something more worthwhile will come out of this down the line, however. Like contextual advertising.
Planning on formatting your hard drive to lay down a nice, clean install of Vista Ken Fisher at Ars thinks Microsoft is trying to prevent users from using the same copy of Vista on successive computers over the next (probably) several years. In other words, every time you build a new computer, rather than moving Vista over from your old machine, they want you to buy a new copy.
Microsoft hinted at this late last year with the licensing scheme they initially unveiled. Of course, it was so blatantly restrictive, the backlash on the net was deafening, and Microsoft quickly reneged, seemingly back to a more traditional Windows licensing setup. Since this setup more or less repeats the effects of the recanted scheme, it's possible we'll see a similar uproar over the next week.
Vista "upgrade" drops compliance checking, requires old OS to install
The Happy Hacking Lite 2 keyboard is now compatible with Macs, and by compatible I mean Fujitsu painted it white and added an Apple system button. Aww so cute, finally something small to match your itty bitty mac-mini. The board is half the size of a standard keyboard, but unfortunately, Fujitsu also skimped on the USB side, adding just two USB 1.1 ports. Available in Japan for now. Small handed Americans, sit tight.
