Can Hard Drive Phones KILL THE iPod? by Daniel Dwase
A new wave of mobile phones equipped with tiny yet powerful hard disk drives is threatening to put an end to the meteoric rise of the iPod as the public's favourite portable digital music player. When you look at the typical consumer, there are three things that they may come back to their house... Its powerful storage capacity even allows users to record digital video via its 2Mpixel camera and MPEG4 / H.263 codecs. ... Although current portable MP3 players such as Apple's iPod and its competitors can store as much as 60GB of digital music, companies like Toshiba and Seagate are already...

Portable VS Desktop by Mike Newhall
One should be very careful buying a laptop because more than desktops there are big differences in the technology and feature sets that matter. Run-down of tech issues: 'True portable' versus 'desktop replacement' tech: There are at least two major divisions of tech in laptops: tech... I wouldn't want to get one without a DVD burner, for back-ups and stuff, but that's just me. ... - Some laptops include built-in card readers for uploading photographs from your camera quickly. ... - Some laptops include FireWire/IEEE1394 ports for hooking up digital camcorders.

Battery Wars - This 'Is' the New Wireless Frontier by Dennis Schooley
I can picture it now. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader face off for an epic light-saber battle to the death! The fate of the world hangs in the balance! Then their light-saber batteries run out of juice so they’re left holding onto a couple of limp licorice sticks, resulting in a leg-wrestling... In fact digital calculations themselves require steady voltage to maintain memory, and power fluctuations can be catastrophic for the device functionality. ... As we have progressed through lead acid for car starters, to alkaline and mercury for transistor radios, to nickel and cadmium for the first...