Apple, Beatles settle trademark dispute [MSNBC]

To be quite honest, I’ve been looking for a bag like this for a while now. I no longer have a working laptop, but I have plenty of gadgets and gizmos I tote around that are usually thrown inside some random North Face bag. Proporta’s take on a gadget bag includes thick padding to protect devices, plenty of individual compartments, and even has a spot to run your headphones through to your iPod/MP3 player. It’ll set you back about $50 and is available right now.
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Speak, memory, in the form of a rambling, ostentatious review of the Nokia N93. Sing, muses, of her great beauty and zoom features. Resound, harp, on her moblogging software and how good she made you feel in France. Prance, Brian Lam, in adulation of this 4000 word pean to free Nokia cellphones. Puke, readers, at reviews that are too long by half.
I was very self conscious of the weight of it in my pocket, and I found I babied it a bit. If I owned it I’d have to get something to carry it in, a case.
As an exercise for the reader, please write a glowing, overwrought, Proustian paragraph about your favorite gadget in the comments. The winner, chosen by poll, will get a Gyration cordless Gyrotransport presenter. Clack, keyboards, in sweet surrender!
The Riddle of Convergence, or: The Seductive Nokia N93 [Meerkat via Gizmodo]
Prior to sitting down to view that yearly bacchanal of violence and beer last night, the SAG Awards (I TiVo-ed it, natch), I decided to whip out the SpyderTV by Datacolor to calibrate my 56-inch JVC DLP. One of the major issues I’ve always had with this HD TV is that standard definition TV always looks washed out and messy, especially when running through the TiVo. In order to at least fix some of the color errors, I went into the set-up menu and proceeded to ruin the color even more. Thankfully, SpyderTV was able to steer me back to an acceptable mix of brightness, contrast, and tint.
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Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, you just weren’t cool if you didn’t possess a Trapper Keeper. The Trapper Keeper turned Mead into an iconic name that every kid in a school would instantly recognize. Now Mead is looking to break new ground again by introducing a binder with integrated speakers under it’s Five Star line of products. The binder comes with a built-in audio-jack to hook your iPod/Discman/Radio Disney toy up to and two small speakers to pump out your tunes.
The binders aren’t due out until the next school year in September, but my guess is that one year of these and teachers will be banning them in every school around the country. What self-respecting teacher allows crap-tastic kids music to be belted out into their classroom? Surely if they had any common sense, they’d confiscate it and as punishment would blast Foreigner: Greatest Hits.
Mead develops binder with built-in speakers [Electronista]
GadgetUniverse has an interesting product up. It’s a visor mounted DVD player with FM transmitter and apparently allows your bored passengers to enjoy red hot work-out porn from the comfort of your Impala’s bucket seats.
At $299.95, it seems a little iffy but the 7-inch device can play DVDs, VCDs, and MP3 disks as well as SD cards. It also has a TV tuner and a touch screen. Pretty impressive list of features for such a slim device.
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As far as Sony goes, we’ve always appreciated its Discman and Walkman line of products. But when the iPod strolled in, Sony sort of started to suck in the DAP department. So it really should come as no surprise that Sony is releasing the CPF-IP001 iPod Docking Station. Just a basic docking station, the device comes with two 5-watt speakers and a 15-watt subwoofer, making it a bit louder than most dual-speaker iPod docks.
But wait, what’s that? – let me see that box for a second, Sony. Oh! There’s no “Made for iPod” logo on the side! Guess you suck. If you have $250 and a PS3, I think you’ve found yourself a dock made in heaven. It’s available now.
Sony CPF-IP001 iPod Docking Station [Mobile Whack]