Even today, the very idea of the Rex 6000 is pretty amazing.  An entire touchscreen PDA fit into a Type II PC Card.  All the data syncing took place while the device was plugged into the PC Card slot of your notebook, and the device would be ready to go whenever the notebook was too mettlesome to take with you.

Sony Ericsson W350

Ericsson T28

The Sony Ericsson W350 is AT&T’s latest phone and it features the previously thought to be extinct downward-folding flap.  Last seen on the Ericsson T28, this was a classic design for early cellphones.  Unlike its predecessors though, the W350 cannot answer and end calls just by opening and closing the flap.  In fact, the music controls on the front of the flap actually just press through to the keypad buttons behind it.  There are no electrical connections to the flap itself and it can even be easily …

Here is a device I wish some company would try to recreate.  In many ways, this device was the zenith for Sony Clie’s and even for Palm devices in general.  As you can tell from the picture, the device was shaped like a miniature tablet PC, with a relatively spacious thumb keyboard and a 3.25″ screen that could flip and fold over it.  Therefore, it could be used in both tablet mode and mini-laptop mode.  The UX50 had both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.  The Wi-Fi alone makes it useful, even today, …

Lenovo IdeaPad S10
To prevent the previous post in this series from becoming a one-off, one-hit wonder, I have been tirelessly searching the past two weeks for another Blast from the Past.  The inspiration came to me when I saw that Lenovo began selling their IdeaPad S10 netbook earlier this week.  Looking at the IBM WorkPad z50 lying next to my desk.  I began to realize the similarities.
Even though the IdeaPad is much more of a full-fledged notebook than the WorkPad ever was, they occupy a very similar niche and have …

Dell just recently announced their Studio Hybrid desktop, a small form factor computer along the same lines as the Mac Mini, Asus Eee Box, or HP Slimline.  The Studio Hybrid is being touted for being small, fashionable, and eco-friendly (there is even an option to have the case made out of bamboo).  However, Dell’s new creation looks to me like an old creation revisited.  Read the similarities between the defunct WebPC and the new Studio Hybrid after the jump.