Digital Trends - Most Recent First Looks

Samsung SCH-W880

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The line between cameras and cell phones is blurring, while somewhat ironically, the pictures these hacked-together hybrids take keep getting sharper and sharper. We've seen manufacturers cram higher and higher resolution into the same tiny cell phone cameras for years now, but Samsung's SCH-W880 may be one of the first to breed real point-and-shoot optics into a cell phone. Rather than merely shoehorning an image sensor into a smartphone, Samsung has borrowed aspects of both familiar form factors for the W880, making it look like the true lovechild of a camera and a...

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Microsoft Courier Tablet

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Apple’s late-summer announcements have come and gone with nary a peep about the much-talked-about tablet, but in the meantime, plenty of other companies have been quick to run for their boards and ride the wave of tablet interest that has surged up with the mere rumble of one from Apple. Toshiba hopped in with the Journe Touch, Archos pushed things a step further with its...

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Honda UX-3

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Come one, come all, to the carnival of oddities that is Honda’s R&D division. Witness Asimo: the humanoid robot, and the tragedies tragedies that sometimes befall him. Shield your children from the assisted walking system that looks straight from the pages of science fiction. Gawk at the motorcycle with an airbag. And recoil in terror at the UX-3, a unicycle that balances itself. Or laugh. Taking a cue from the Segway, Honda&rsq...

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HP Dreamscreen

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Not a photo frame, not a computer, not a television. The HP DreamScreen defies easy description, except perhaps for this: It’s like a Chumby you wouldn’t ashamed to bring to work. The 10.2-inch or 13.3-inch screen could pass for a simple photo frame, but inside the slender black frame, there’s a lot more silicon horsepower than it would need to simply rotate some JPEGs. The Dreamscreen will play full-screen videos, stream music from a connected PC, HP SmartRadio, or Pandora, and even ding you with sta...

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HP Envy 13 and Envy 15

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

HP Envy 13 Hewlett Packard’s marketing arm undoubtedly intended the brand name “Envy” to refer to the emotion the notebooks stir up in adjacent coffee drinkers down at Starbucks. But given the direction HP has taken the Envy name, it might more appropriately refer to the company’s own envy of Apple. After chasing the MacBook Air with the original Envy 133, HP has now returned with the Envy 13 and 15, which look like sisters – maybe even twin sisters – to Apple’s MacBook Pros. Aluminum...

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