I have chains on my wallets so they don't walk off on their own, as my wallets have done in the past. My cellphone is in a holster because, surprise surprise, I need to put it somewhere and my pockets are full of keys and change and stuff that'll beat the hell out of it. I wear wraparound shades because I have sensitive eyes and don't want to lose peripheral vision. Whoever wrote this article is an idiot, and the jackass who thought this was in any way report-worthy is a lazy hack.

The mark is that you get to choose your own headphones, you're not completely and totally buggered if the cable in the earbuds (inevitably) forms a break in the internal wire. On fixed-headphone devices, that spells death unless you're willing to cut and patch the wire, making a rather ugly break. Personally, I appreciate being able to bring my own headphones, my Shure E2g earbuds sound far superior to anything Jabra could've bundled in without jacking the price up $70 or more.

No, the 2G iPhone still doesn't support A2DP with its bluetooth profile. This device won't fudge a false profile, it still requires the device it's paired with to be A2DP compliant. It *would* work if you used an A2DP iPod bluetooth dongle, such as the Anycom BlueNa (which I use). I'm not sure if the controls would work or not, not sure how the control scheme is mapped through the dock connector's pins.

@PhilxBefore,

Clever. It's not for driving, it's for other activities. Most of us don't listen to personal music players or media enabled cell phones while driving. At least, I certainly hope we don't. Definitely hope *YOU* don't. You sound scary.

Not really, The whole point is that you bring your own earbuds. Many stock earbuds with devices are built cheaply to economize, and as a result are so-so. Then again, I have a pair of sound-isolating earbuds I got for free with a pack of razors. Problem is, one bud has within the past two weeks gone dead, break in the internal wire. I can swing the cord around a bunch until it plays again, but the more I fiddle with it, the less often it works. And *that* is the true reason why the headphones aren't built-in: even if they were Shure or Bose quality, if they were built-in, as soon as the wire breaks the headset is completely useless. This way you bring your favorite options to the table, and the unit stays in service until the battery takes a total crap.

@John B

I'm with you, even if your arguement is a little too focused.

Y'see, here's the problem I see with this move. HD DVD, no matter what any BD fanboy has to say, is the superior format. It beats out Blu-Ray in every aspect SAVE ONE...cost of production. It has superior capacity, superior capability, and a higher pricetag to produce than Blu-Ray. THAT is where Blu-Ray is winning, the studios want to use the format that offers the best cost-benefit scenario. Now, while a price drop at the consumer end MAY give it enough commercial appeal to convince the studios to pick HD-DVD up, that's a very difficult point to position on, as it really leaves everything up to opinion. And when it comes to money, opinion can be VERY short sighted. The best, and safest, move that can be made to bump HD-DVD popularity is to cut the price for studios to produce the movie disks. Problem is, as I don't know the ACTUAL cost of production versus the cost charged to movie makers, I have no idea what the margin is to work with, so a price cut at that end may not be feasible.

*sigh* What a shame. It really pisses me off when Sony dominates with an inferior product.

@KC

Doesn't "4D" mean that it has a 4-directional scroll wheel that rocks side to side? How does that have anything to do with the tracking technology?

And @ everyone else

I think this is in crapgadget because...c'mon, it's a frigging off-brand keyboard and mouse. With absolutely NOTHING special about them. They're beyond average. If CES were filled with products like this, then it'd be like paying admission to CompUSSR.

It's actually quite simple - the Foleo does NOT run Palm OS, it runs a completely different operating system based off a Linux kernel. As a result, they're trying get two operating systems to communicate properly. At the risk of offending anyone (though I shouldn't), it's like dealing with two Chinese people, one speaking Cantonese, one speaking Mandarin. They're both from the same country (Palm), but that doesn't mean they speak the same language. That can cause issues sometimes.

Lots of people want it. I run into them daily.

I agree, they may have rolled this out just a hair too late. I honestly think someone up there must like riding the razor's edge or something.