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Here’s a quick link to a 6%-off coupon at Buy.com, folks.
You have to click over on this link before starting off your shopping, ‘k. Expires 7/25 11:59pm plus a bunch of terms and conditions on the coupon page itself. Happy shopping.

“The IPdrum Mobile Cable connects Skype to a mobile telephone via the mobile telephone network — allowing Skype users true mobility and worldwide calling for local rates.”
- IPdrum press release
Woo-hoo! Although the press release is ever so vague as to how the IPdrum doodad is gonna work (cable, software?) but it’s great news nevertheless. We [...]

PDA phone? Smartphone? PDA and phone?
While we at PDA-1 see the future in compact PDA phones. there are still some of us who would prefer separate gadgets, for separate times in our lives. In which case, a standalone PDA and phone would make better sense, both to the occassion and the girth of our pockets [...]

Sometimes, we just need a larger, widescreen experience from our DVDs while mobile, y’know what we mean? We don’t wanna be firing up our notebooks and be eating into precious battery power for our more, um … productive tasks, and the lil screen on our PDAs just won’t cut it. So what do we do?

We [...]

Nokia breaks out the first of its promised new line of mobile Internet devices, the 770 Internet Tablet.

We thought about it … digital audio players (or DAP’s) have quite a bit of functionality built in these days, with basic calendaring, address books, and simple file readers. Of course, no one would expect them to have the input capabilities that PDAs are traditionally known for, but hear us out on our little concept:
What [...]

Totally off-topic, but who can resist?
Yamaha presents this tiny ultra-cool motorcycle! It’s powered by an electric engine, that will take you 40km far at a neck-breaking speed of 30km/h. The battery can be recharged in 6 hours.
Our bike-heads will be happy to learn that this little bike has an aluminium chassis and for the green [...]

Slightly off-topic for PDA-1, but a good deal nevertheless: TigerDirect.com is offering a barebones desktop kit for FREE …

Soyo P4845Pe V1.0 Socket 478 Barebone Kit / 350 Watt Power Supply, free after combined total $100.00 MIR; expires on 4 August 2004.

$89.00; 13 units left with 53 hours on the clock as this is written.

We are sure some of you would have at least read, if not seen this lil guy somewhere before. Robosapien, a product of little-known Hong Kong toy manufacturer WowWee and the brainchild of former NASA scientist Mark Tilden is apparently taking the world by storm.
What’s an affordable robot which stands at slightly over 1′ tall [...]