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Michelle Obama to launch initiative fighting child obesity

2010-01-20T23:55:00.001-08:00

WASHINGTON — Calling obesity an epidemic and one of the greatest threats to America's health and economy, first lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday that she would launch a major initiative next month to combat the problem in childhood.
Obama, speaking at a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, said the idea was simple: "To put in place common-sense initiatives and solutions that empower families and communities to make healthy decisions for their kids."
The initiative will involve the federal government working with local officials and leaders in the business and non-profit sectors, she said, to provide more nutritious food in schools, allow more opportunities for kidsto be physically active and give more communities access to affordable, healthful food.
Obama has said she hopes one of her legacies will be her work in reducing childhood obesity, an effort she already has begun by planting the White House garden and joining in physical activities with children.
She told the mayors that as much as she has read and talked about the problem, "the statistics never fail to take my breath away."
About 32% of children and adolescents are obese or overweight, government statistics show. Almost 20% of children ages 6 to 11 and 18% of those ages 12 to 19 are obese. Such children are at a greater risk for weight-related health problems such as high cholesterol and diabetes, and they have an increased chance of becoming obese adults.

The Scoop on Scott Brown

2010-01-20T23:31:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, Scott Brown pulled off a tremendous political upset. The Massachusetts Republican beat out Democrat Martha Coakley for the Senate seat left vacant by the late Democrat Ted Kennedy. On this, the day after Brown's improbable victory, the Web searches are pouring in on everything from Sen. Brown's victory speech to his daughter's Hollywood aspirations to his humorous defense of pickup trucks.

The victory speech
He may be a United States senator, but he's still Dad. During his victory speech, with his wife and daughters standing behind him, Brown thanked his family for their support. And then things got a little awkward. As his shocked daughters looked on, Sen. Brown said that both of his daughters were "available."
Quoting Dad: "Just in case anyone who's watching throughout the country, yes, they're both available." He then backed off his comments as the crowd hooted and hollered. "No, no. No. Only kidding, only kidding. Only kidding, only kidding,"

he said. "Arianna... Arianna's definitely not available." He then added, "But Ayla is."
Brown, the professional
If either of his daughters want to get back at their dad, they have some good ammo. Prior to becoming the newest United States Senator, Scott Brown was a state senator, a lawyer, a member of the National Guard, and... a nude model? Yes, that's right. In 1982, Sen. Brown won Cosmopolitan's "Sexiest Man" competition and posed in the buff (key areas were covered). The contest helped him pay for law school. And while the photo spread may be a bit embarrassing, it obviously hasn't hurt his career.

Brown, the family man
Senator Brown's jokey demeanor may have something to do with his family. After all, anybody with two college-age daughters has to have a good sense of humor. One of his daughters, Ayla, was a contestant on the fifth season of "American Idol." Though she failed to win the competition, her father's victory has put her back in the Search spotlight. Online lookups for "ayla brown" and "ayla brown american idol" both surged over 300%. His other daughter, Arianna, is a pre-med student at Syracuse University.

His wife, Gail
As numerous news outlets have pointed out, prior to his election, Scott Brown was probably the third most famous member of his immediate family. His eldest daughter was on "American Idol." His wife, Gail Huff, is a longtime news reporter for WCVB, an ABC station in Boston. Folks eager to see Ms. Huff do her thing on camera pushed searches on "gail huff news videos" and "gail huff clips" into primetime. According to her bio on the station's official site, Ms. Huff "has been recognized with numerous awards for her work with area charities."

What's wrong with pickups?
While campaigning for Ms. Coakley, President Obama took a jab at Sen. Brown's pickup truck. "I'd think long and hard before getting in that truck with Martha's opponent. It might not take you where you want to go." Well, Senator Brown had the last laugh. During his victory speech, the senator said he was going to ask President Obama if he'd like to see the truck around Washington, D.C. The senator also channeled his inner country-music star. He said he didn't mind when the president criticized him, "But let me tell you, when he started to criticize my truck, that's where I draw the line." For the record, Brown's truck is a GM. Ironically, as a taxpayer, President Obama is part-owner of the beleaguered automaker.

What's next for Martha?
Ms. Coakley's loss has put a huge dent in the Democratic plan for health care reform. In the wake of her stunning defeat, many party insiders are pointing fingers as to why Coakley lost. Not surprisingly, many of those fingers are aimed directly at Coakley for running a mediocre campaign. Others are blaming the Democratic party. And still others are blaming good ol' fashioned hubris in everybody involved. After all, how could a Republican win in one of the bluest states in the country? Overconfidence is getting pinpointed as a likely culprit.

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Say Cheese Extra Photos at the Golden Globes

2010-01-19T06:32:00.000-08:00

"Extra" caught up with all of Hollywood's hottest stars at the Golden Globes.

Google Postpones Mobile Phone Launch in China

2010-01-19T06:22:00.000-08:00

BEIJING (AP) — Google on Tuesday postponed the planned launch of its mobile phone in China amid a dispute with the government over Internet censorship and e-mail hacking that the search giant says may force it to leave the country.
"It is postponed," Google Inc. spokeswoman Marsha Wang said. She said a launch ceremony planned for Wednesday was canceled but declined to give a reason for the decision or to say when the launch might be rescheduled.
Also Tuesday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said the search giant must obey China's laws and traditions, suggesting the government was giving no ground in talks over Internet censorship and Google's threat to pull out of the country.

It was the government's first direct comment on Google since the U.S. company said Jan. 12 it would no longer censor search results in China and might shut down its China-based site Google.cn. The announcement prompted an outpouring of support from Chinese Web surfers, who left flowers at Google offices and pleaded with the company to stay.
Google's phone is an effort by the company to join in competition for a share of China's mobile phone market, which is the world's most populous.
Google's announcement shocked the international business community and cheered many free-speech advocates.
The Chinese government blocks access to websites abroad run by human rights groups and dissidents and material deemed subversive or pornographic.

FBI illegally Collected Phone Records

2010-01-19T06:13:00.000-08:00

WASHINGTON – The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Citing internal memos and interviews, the Post said the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies or persuaded phone companies to provide information as it illegally gathered more than 2,000 records between 2002 and 2006.
The bureau said in 2007 that it had improperly obtained some phone records, and the Justice Department inspector general is expected to release a report this month detailing the extent of the problem.
FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni told the Post that agents technically violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which was enacted in 1986, by citing nonexistent emergencies to collect records. "We should have stopped those requests from being made that way," she said.
Documents obtained by the Post show that FBI managers as high as the assistant director level approved the emergency requests. Caproni said FBI Director Robert Mueller did not know about the requests until late 2006 or early 2007, after the inspector general's investigation had begun.
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Golden Globe Fashion Awards Sandra Bullock

2010-01-19T06:02:00.000-08:00

The best-actress winner for The Blind Side wore a sheer, purple Bottega Veneta gown. "The shape of her dress suited her body so well, and the color was perfect for her skin tone," Yalof Schwartz says. The actress also considered her look a victory: "The minute I put this on, it felt like me."

With husband Jesse James holding her umbrella high, Sandra Bullock looks lovely on the rainy red carpet at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 17) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 45-year-old actress wore a violet Bottega Venetta gown and Casadei’s signature 3504 triple platform pump. Her hair was created by Frederic Fekkai stylist Adir Abergel.

Sandra is nominated for both of her leading roles in The Blind Side and The Proposal at tonight’s ceremony. She most recently tied with Meryl Streep at the 2010 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards for Best Actress and sealed it with a kiss!

Chavez says U.S. Occupying Haiti in Name of Aid

2010-01-18T07:41:00.000-08:00

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country and offered to send fuel from his OPEC nation.

"I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that's what the United States should send," Chavez said on his weekly television show. "They are occupying Haiti undercover."
"On top of that, you don't see them in the streets. Are they picking up bodies? ... Are they looking for the injured? You don't see them. I haven't seen them. Where are they?"
Chavez promised to send as much gasoline as Haiti needs for electricity generation and transport.
A perennial foe of U.S. "imperialism," Chavez said he did not wish to diminish the humanitarian effort made by the United States and was only questioning the need for so many troops.
The United States is sending more than 5,000 Marines and soldiers to Haiti, and a hospital ship is due to arrive later this week.
The country's president said U.S. troops would help keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets.
Venezuela has sent several planes to Haiti with doctors, aid and some soldiers. A Russia-Venezuela mission was set to leave Venezuela on Monday carrying aid on Russian planes.

Chavez said Venezuela's planes were the first to land in Haiti after Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake, which wrecked the capital Port-Au-Prince and killed as many as 200,000 people.

Security Concerns Cause Doctors To Leave Hospital Quake Victims

2010-01-18T07:38:00.000-08:00

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after a Belgian medical team evacuated the area, saying it was concerned about security.

The decision left CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta as the only doctor at the hospital to get the patients through the night.

CNN initially reported, based on conversations with some of the doctors, that the United Nations ordered the Belgian First Aid and Support Team to evacuate. However, Belgian Chief Coordinator Geert Gijs, a doctor who was at the hospital with 60 Belgian medical personnel, said it was his decision to pull the team out for the night. Gijs said he requested U.N. security personnel to staff the hospital overnight, but was told that peacekeepers would only be able to evacuate the team.

He said it was a "tough decision" but that he accepted the U.N. offer to evacuate after a Canadian medical team, also at the hospital with Canadian security officers, left the site Friday afternoon. The Belgian team returned Saturday morning.

Gijs said the United Nations has agreed to provide security for Saturday night. The team has requested the Belgian government to send its own troops for the field hospital, which Gijs expects to arrive late Sunday.

Responding to the CNN report that Gupta was the only doctor left at the Port-au-Prince field hospital, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Saturday that the world body's mission in Haiti did not order any medical team to leave. If the team left, it was at the request of their own organization, he said.

Edmond Mulet, the U.N. assistant secretary general for peacekeeping operations, told reporters later that local security officers deemed the makeshift hospital unsafe.

"It seems that we've heard some reports in the international media that the United Nations asked or forced some medical teams to not work any more in some clinic -- that is not true, that is completely untrue," Mulet said Saturday.

CNN video from the scene Friday night shows the Belgian team packing up its supplies and leaving with an escort of blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers in marked trucks.

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Gupta -- assisted by other CNN staffers, security personnel and at least one Haitian nurse who refused to leave -- assessed the needs of the 25 patients, but there was little they could do without supplies.

More people, some in critical condition, were trickling in late Friday"I've never been in a situation like this. This is quite ridiculous," Gupta said.

With a dearth of medical facilities in Haiti's capital, ambulances had nowhere else to take patients, some of whom had suffered severe trauma -- amputations and head injuries -- under the rubble. Others had suffered a great deal of blood loss, but there were no blood supplies left at the clinic.

Gupta feared that some would not survive the night.

He and the others stayed with the injured all night, after the medical team had left and after the generators gave out and the tents turned pitch black.

Gupta monitored patients' vital signs, administered painkillers and continued intravenous drips. He stabilized three new patients in critical condition.

At 3:45 a.m., he posted a message on Twitter: "pulling all nighter at haiti field hosp. lots of work, but all patients stable. turned my crew into a crack med team tonight."

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He said the Belgian doctors did not want to leave their patients behind but were ordered out by the United Nations, which sent buses to transport them.

"There is concern about riots not far from here -- and this is part of the problem," Gupta said.

There have been scattered reports of violence throughout the capital.

"What is striking to me as a physician is that patients who just had surgery, patients who are critically ill, are essentially being left here, nobody to care for them," Gupta said.

Sandra Pierre, a Haitian who has been helping at the makeshift hospital, said the medical staff took most of the supplies with them.

"All the doctors, all the nurses are gone," she said. "They are expected to be back tomorrow. They had no plan on leaving tonight. It was an order that came suddenly."

She told Gupta, "It's just you."

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake flattened Haiti's capital city Tuesday afternoon, affecting as many as 3 million people as it fanned out across the island nation. Tens of thousands of people are feared dead.

Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, lacked adequate medical resources even before the disaster and has been struggling this week to tend to huge numbers of injured. The clinic, set up under several tents, was a godsend to the few who were lucky to have been brought there.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who led relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said the evacuation of the clinic's medical staff was unforgivable.

"Search and rescue must trump security," Honoré said. "I've never seen anything like this before in my life. They need to man up and get back in there."

Honoré drew parallels between the tragedy in New Orleans, Louisiana, and in Port-au-Prince. But even in the chaos of Katrina, he said, he had never seen medical staff walk away.

"I find this astonishing these doctors left," he said. "People are scared of the poor."

IMF chief: Global Recovery Stronger Than Expected

2010-01-18T07:34:00.000-08:00

TOKYO (AP) -- The head of the IMF said China and other developing Asian economies are leading a global recovery that is faster and stronger than expected, but warned that money rushing into emerging markets could lead to asset bubbles.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, strongly suggested Monday that the IMF would raise its 2010 global growth forecast from the 3.1 percent it projected in October.

China, India and other emerging Asian economies were close to returning to their pre-crisis growth rates, while rebounds in the U.S., Japan and other advanced economies remained "sluggish," he said.

"The forecasts we're going to release in a couple of days will show that this recovery is going faster and stronger than we expected" several months ago, Strauss-Kahn told reporters in Tokyo.

While the IMF doesn't forecast a "double-dip," or second recession, risks remain, he said. "We have to very cautious because this recovery remains very fragile."

While hundreds of billions in stimulus spending by governments around the world avoided another Great Depression, he said, the most important risk facing the global economy is deciding how and when to reverse those polices and deal with resulting debt burdens.

"Now we have to fix the consequences of the policy that has been put in place to fight against the crisis," he said. "Finding the right time to implement exit policies is really a difficult one."

"If you exit too late, you waste resources," he said. "If you exit too early, you have a risk of going back into recession."

The best indicators for timing fresh growth strategies are monitoring private demand and employment, he said. The IMF recommends that governments devise policies that will support the labor market given still-high joblessness, which could lead to social unrest in some countries.

A key lesson from the global financial crisis is that authorities need to beef up supervision -- more so than regulations -- of financial institutions, he said.

"You may have the best regulations in the world, but if it's not supervised correctly, it's no use."

Strauss-Kahan also said he was worried that the unified political will to tackle the crisis demonstrated at the Group of 20 summits last year will vanish as the world economy recovers.

The rush of money into major emerging markets such as China, Brazil and Russia reflects investors' recognition that these economies are growing rapidly.

But Strauss-Kahn said this could lead to "many problems," including asset bubbles and a sudden drop in foreign investment, much like Eastern European countries experienced during the global financial crisis.

Jennifer Aniston Gerad Butler Shows Off Thigh Cuddles (PHOTOS)

2010-01-18T07:30:00.000-08:00

Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, her costar in the upcoming "The Bounty Hunter," presented at the Golden Globes. In the press room afterward Aniston's otherwise boring black dress revealed a high thigh slit when she walked. All you can think is a click away is that type of a blog which brings you a lot of stuff which means that this blog is easy for you to entertain yourselves. This blog has a lot of stuff that is usefull for people around the world. This blog is about hottest informations and reviews all you need and how you implement in it as well. Share and enjoy God bless you all.

Sexy Jessica Chobot

2010-01-18T07:23:00.000-08:00

Jessica Chobot became an overnight internet sensation when a tongue-in-cheek modeling photo of her appeared online licking the Sony PSP in 2005. The photo has been widely parodied since, even appearing on Sony-branded advertising.

Supplementing her love of videogames is an obsession with Japanese culture, specifically anime and manga. In 2006 Chobot was hired full-time by IGN.com to take over hosting responsibilities for the network's IGN Weekly show which is no longer running. Her segments included stand-up introductions as well as "woman-on-the-street" pieces. She now hosts a daily show entitled , "IGN Daily Fix", the first episode aired March 23, 2009. While Chobot is the main host of the show Fran Mirabella and more commonly Daemon Hatfield have been known to host as well. The show does a weekly Friday giveaway asking questions about random fun video facts, the winner receiving a video game. In addition, she contributes columns, features and reviews and her IGN blog is one of the most visited on the site. Chobot is also a former contributor to FHM UK, Mania.com and has made multiple appearances on G4's "Filter" and "Attack of the Show." She has also hosted a videogame preview segment for Fuel TV’s, “The Daily Habit,” and co-hosts on Lifeskool TV’s, “Gamer’s Dojo.” She also contributes as a weekly guest on Maxim Radio, where she answers caller questions for an hour each Monday.

Chobot has appeared on commercials for ADV’s Anime Network On Demand cable station, lent her likeness to Symbiote Studios Toy Company for two limited-edition anime-style sculptures. In addition, she has modeled for the J!NX female gamers clothing line. In 2006-2007, she co-wrote a sci-fi script with writer/director/creator of Tron, Steven Lisberger, for Soul Code. Current collaborations include an anime-style collectible figurine in development with Symbiote Studios, a representative of JiNX.com women's apparel line. Chobot is also writing the "Ask Jess, Dammit!" blog for Maxim[4].She was named the 88th most desirable woman of 2008 by AskMen magazine and 14th hottest woman of business 2009 by Business Pundit

Michelle Obama intensely jealous of Oprah Winfrey

2010-01-18T07:14:00.000-08:00

America’s First Lady Michelle Obama is jealous of her husband’s close friendship with Oprah Winfrey.

America’s First Lady Michelle Obama is jealous of her husband’s close friendship with Oprah Winfrey.Michelle and Barack Obama's marriage is under pressure due to the First Lady's ‘jealousy' of her husband's friendship with Oprah Winfrey, the National Enquirer reports. "Their marriage has been like a war zone lately," a source claims. "In public, they put on a united, smiling front but behind closed doors, the gloves come off. If they're not screaming at each other, they're glaring or stomping off in different directions. Michelle is intensely jealous of the time Barack spends with Oprah.
"Since the election, Michelle has privately given Oprah the cold shoulder. She once said: ‘There's only room for one First Lady in the White House - and that's me!' Believe me, she means it."
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Cameron's 'Avatar' Wins Best Drama Honor at Globes

2010-01-18T07:11:00.000-08:00

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" won best drama at the Golden Globes and picked up the directing honor for James Cameron on Sunday, raising the "Titanic" filmmaker's prospects for another Academy Awards triumph.

It was a repeat of Cameron's Globes night 12 years ago, when "Titanic" won best drama and the directing prize on its way to dominating the Oscars.

This time, though, instead of being "king of the world," as Cameron declared at the Oscars, he has become king of an alien landscape, elevating space fantasy to enormous critical acclaim.

"'Avatar' asks us to see that everything is connected, all human beings to each other, and us to the Earth. And if you have to go four and a half light years to another, made-up planet to appreciate this miracle of the world that we have right here, well, you know what, that's the wonder of cinema right there, that's the magic," Cameron said.

Winning the dramatic-acting honors were Sandra Bullock for the football tale "The Blind Side" and Jeff Bridges for the country-music story "Crazy Heart." The crowd gave a standing ovation to Bridges, a beloved veteran generally overlooked for key Hollywood honors.

The acting prizes for musical and comedy went to Meryl Streep for the Julia Child story "Julie & Julia" and Robert Downey Jr. for the crime romp "Sherlock Holmes." The supporting-performance Globes were won by Mo'Nique as an abusive welfare mother in "Precious" and Christoph Waltz as a gleefully bloodthirsty Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds."

The Vegas bachelor bash "The Hangover" won for best musical or comedy, bringing uncharacteristic awards attention for broad comedy, a genre that often gets overlooked at Hollywood honors.

"I just want to thank my mom, who supported my decision to become a director when she realized I wasn't as smart as my two sisters," said "Hangover" director Todd Phillips.

As he accepted the directing Globe, Cameron had kind words for ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, nominated as best director for "The Hurt Locker."

"Frankly, I thought Kathryn was going to get this. She richly deserves it," said Cameron, whose "Titanic" earned the directing and best-drama Globes 12 years ago on its way to Academy Awards triumph.

The blockbuster "Up" came away with the award for animated film.

While Streep is a perennial at awards shows, the prize marked a dramatic turning point for Mo'Nique, who was mainly known for lowbrow comedy but startled audiences with her ferocious performance in "Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' By Sapphire."

"First let me say, thank you, God, for this amazing ride that you're allowing me to go on," the tearful Mo'Nique told the crowd.

She went on with gushing praise for "Precious" director Lee Daniels and newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, a best dramatic actress nominee at the Globes with her first film role, playing Mo'Nique's abused, illiterate daughter.

"Lee Daniels, the world gets a chance to see how brilliant you are. You are a brilliant, fearless, amazing director who would not waver, and thank you for trusting me," Mo'Nique said. "To Gabby, sister, I am in awe of you. Thank you for letting me play with you."

Streep's competition for best actress in a musical or comedy included herself. She also was nominated for the romance "It's Complicated."

"I just want to say that in my long career, I've played so many extraordinary woman that I'm getting mistaken for one," Streep said. "I'm very clear that I'm the vessel for other people's stories and other people's lives."

Waltz, a veteran Austrian actor who is a relative newcomer in Hollywood, won the supporting-actor Globe as a gleefully bloodthirsty Nazi in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds."

"A year and a half ago I was exposed to the gravitational forces of Quentin Tarantino," Waltz said. "He took my modest little world, my globe, and with the power of his talent and his words and his vision, he flung it into its orbit, a dizzying experience."

Though one of Hollywood's biggest parties, the Globes bore somber reminders of tragedy in the real world, many stars wearing ribbons in support of earthquake victims in Haiti.

Films from Pixar Animation, the Disney outfit that made "Up," have won all four prizes for animated movies since the Globes introduced the category in 2006. Past Pixar winners are "WALL-E," "Ratatouille" and "Cars."

"Up" features the voice of Ed Asner in a tale of a lonely, bitter widower who renews his zest for adventure by flying his house off under helium balloons to South America, where he encounters his childhood hero and a hilarious gang of talking canines.

"When it came to finding the heart of the film, we didn't have to look very hard," said "Up" director Pete Docter, whose film also won for musical score. "Our inspiration was all around us. Our grandparents, our parents, our wives, our kids. Our talking dogs."

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won the screenplay honor for "Up in the Air," which Reitman also directed. The foreign-language honor went to "The White Ribbon," a stark drama of guilt and suspicion set in a German town on the eve of World War I.

"Mad Men" won for best TV drama, while Michael C. Hall won for best actor in a TV drama for "Dexter," in which he plays a serial killer with a code of ethics, killing only other murderers. Hall's publicists revealed this past week that Hall is being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma and that the cancer is in remission.

"It's really a hell of a thing to go to work in a place where everybody gives a damn. That's really the case with `Dexter,'" Hall said. "It's a dream job. I'm so grateful."

"Dexter" also won the supporting-actor TV honor for John Lithgow. Other TV winners included Juliana Margulies as best actress in a drama for "The Good Wife" and Toni Collette as best comedy actress for "The United States of Tara."

The rain-drenched red carpet was a rare sight for an awards show in sunny southern California, stars in their finery getting damp under umbrellas as storms swept the region.

The Globes got a makeover, featuring Ricky Gervais as master of ceremonies, the first time in 15 years the show had a host.

One of his most biting quips came as he sipped a beer on stage.

"I like a drink as much as the next man, unless the next man is Mel Gibson," Gervais wisecracked as he introduced Globe presenter Mel Gibson, who made an anti-Semitic rant a few years back during a drunken-driving arrest.

Gervais opened by mocking Steve Carell, star of the U.S. version of "The Office," based on Gervais' British comedy series. While a stone-faced Carell watched, Gervais yammered on about how fans love Carell and wonder where he gets his ideas from.

Carell then mouthed and pantomimed, "I will break you," to Gervais, an executive producer on the U.S. version of the show.

Gervais joked about the international causes near and dear to Hollywood stars.

"You can be a little Asian child with no possessions and see a picture of Angelina Jolie and you think, `mommy,'" he said.

With stars sharing dinner and drinks, the Globes traditionally are a loose and relaxed affair compared to the courtly Oscars. Celebrities sometimes are caught more in reality-show mode — Jack Nicholson once mooned the crowd for a laugh, and Christine Lahti had to rush from the restroom to collect her Globe for the TV drama "Chicago Hope."

Sunday's winners could get a last-minute boost for the Oscars, whose nominations balloting closes Saturday. Last year's big Globe winner, "Slumdog Millionaire," went on to dominate the Oscars.

The Globes are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of about 90 reporters covering show business for overseas outlets. The show airs live on NBC.

Rubble in Haiti Australian Media Crews Pull Baby

2010-01-18T07:05:00.000-08:00

SYDNEY (AFP) – Rival Australian news crews said Monday that saving a life came before doing their jobs when they rescued an 18-month-old baby from underneath the rubble in earthquake-devastated Haiti.

The little girl was lying alongside the bodies of her dead parents who were killed in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which hit Port-au-Prince on January 12 when the camera crews heard her moans and began to dig her out on Friday. Related article: Haitians pray in ruins Richard Moran, a cameraman with the commercial Nine Network, put down his camera and lifted pieces of concrete out of the way while Nine's interpreter and fixer Deiby Celestino climbed into the tangled mess to retrieve the child.

"And then, out of the ruins came this little girl, and I will never forget it. She did not cry. She looked astonished, almost as if she was seeing the world for the first time," Nine reporter Robert Penfold told The Australian.

The images of the child's rescue were captured by Nine's major rival Seven, and footage beamed around the world showed Seven's correspondent Mike Amor holding the dusty little girl and giving her water.

"That moment, it was beyond news," Amor said. "I haven't seen anything so remarkable since the birth of my own child. The emotion for all of us has been incredible."

Amor said the news crews and the locals who had helped locate the girl were concentrated on rescuing the child rather than news priorities.

"The focus of everybody on that hill was the little girl, and as any of us will tell you, it was Deiby who went into that hole, and dug, and dug, until he got that little girl out. He's the hero," he told The Australian.

Footage of the rescue is available on Seven's website, tagged: "Mike Amor's amazing rescue".

Channel Nine's news director Mark Calvert said while disasters can sometimes bring out the very worst in journalists, they can also produce the best.

"I'm proud of the Nine News team, who put the welfare of the little girl before their own safety, and placed their personal convictions before professional pressures," he said in a statement to AFP.

"Yes, they put down their camera to help. But they also filed their story. And most importantly, they helped save a life."
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Jon Hamm Still Sexy, Even With The Beard

2010-01-17T04:16:00.000-08:00

Not even growth that's a few weeks away from matching Brad Pitt's scraggly beard could stop Jon Hamm from being dashing as ever. The "Mad Men" hunk showed at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's premiere screening of Kirk Douglas' autobiographical film "Before I Forget" on Wednesday night in Los Angeles with actress and screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt on his arm.

Hamm and Westfeldt chatted with the acting legend at a pre-screening reception hosted by Netflix, where the Golden Globe nominee mingled with the likes of Kellan Lutz and director-producer Adam Shankman. While Shankman was enthused over Douglas' retrospective flick, he imparted to me his all-time favorite performance from the master thesp:

"He's Spartacus, I'm a gay man. You do the math," Shankman said. How do you take your Hamm? Fuzzy or clean shaven? Tell me in comments!

Obama Confident Bank Tax Plan Will Pass Congress

2010-01-16T08:36:00.000-08:00

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama expressed confidence Saturday that lawmakers would approve his proposed tax on banks to recover bailout money, despite opposition from Republicans and the financial industry.
"Like clockwork, the banks and politicians who curry their favor are already trying to stop this fee from going into effect," he said, using his weekly radio and Internet addresses to promote the plan he announced this past week.
"The very same firms reaping billions of dollars in profits, and reportedly handing out more money in bonuses and compensation than ever before in history, are now pleading poverty. It's a sight to see."
If banks can afford to pay out all those bonuses, he said, then they can repay taxpayers, too.
We're not going to let Wall Street take the money and run. We're going to pass this fee into law," he said.

Congress must approve the tax and that's not assured, given the immediate opposition from Republicans. Democrats also could lose their 60-vote majority in the Senate, with Democrat Martha Coakley in an unexpectedly close race against Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts to fill the seat held for decades by the late Democrat Edward M. Kennedy.
Brown opposes Obama's bank tax. Obama planned to campaign in the state on Sunday.
The White House's decision to use the address to speak about the proposed tax instead of the U.S. response to the suffering and devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti suggested one line of attack Obama would use against Brown on Sunday.
The proposed 0.15 percent tax would last at least 10 years and generate about $90 billion over the decade, according to administration estimates. It would apply to about 50 of the biggest banks, those with more than $50 billion in assets, and include many institutions that accepted no money from the $700 financial industry bailout.
Obama said that although the banks were facing a "crisis of their own creation," the "distasteful but necessary" taxpayer-funded bailout prevented an "even greater calamity for the country."
Most of the banks have returned the money they borrowed, and Obama said that was "good news."
"But as far as I'm concerned, it's not good enough," he said. "We want the taxpayers' money back, and we're going to collect every dime."
Six of the biggest U.S. banks are on track to pay $150 billion in total executive compensation for 2009, slightly less than the record $164 billion in 2007 before the financial crisis struck, according to the New York state comptroller's office.
Obama challenged those who say banks can't afford the tax without passing the costs on to shareholders and customers.
"That's hard to believe when there are reports that Wall Street is going to hand out more money in bonuses and compensation just this year than the cost of this fee over the next 10 years," he said. "If the big financial firms can afford massive bonuses, they can afford to pay back the American people."
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Australian Open Tennis – Henin and Oudin On The Move

2010-01-16T08:21:00.000-08:00

At 18 years of age, Melanie Oudin’s physique is similar to Belgium’s 27-year old Justine Henin. They are both 5’6”. Melanie outweighs Justine by a muscular 4 pounds.

Henin has navigated the tour quite successfully, thank you. Even after her nearly two-year layoff, Henin has banked more than $19 million in tour earnings. After a limited year on the tour, Melanie Oudin banked a cool $450,000. She’s pretty happy about that.

All along Oudin has viewed Henin as her role model. Joined by their need to overcome their vertical challenges, the Georgia native sees to be mirroring Justine’s career path. Eventually, she will develop a serve that will be more offensive than defensive. With experience, she will learn the other competitor’s nuances.
En route to her seven Grand Slam titles, Henin has had to travel the same path. She learned to serve. She learned to spot weaknesses and turn disadvantage to advantage.

She is a first-rate fighter, a superior competitor with as strong a will to succeed as exists on the tour today. Justine Henin and Melanie Oudin embody the role of underdog, overachiever.
They do not whine, complain or suffer the fans to obnoxious prima donna outbursts. No, they lift their heads and go back to what they do best; chasing down shots from bigger, stronger athletes and using the momentum ad energy of those shots to keep those bigger, heavier competitors on the courts for ungodly lengths of time.
In the stifling Australian summer, that works. Even in the American fall, that works. Perhaps in Paris it is a problem, but this year, on these fast, hot surfaces, these two may go down, but their opponents will know they were in a dogfight and know they have to overcome all that passion on the other side of the net.
The two mighty mites have stern tests ahead. Unseeded and comparatively unheralded, it is not inconceivable that these two could meet in the finals. Unlikely, yes. Impossible, no.
Henin, who reached the finals in Brisbane before dropping a tight three setter to Clijsters last weekend, is in the toughest bracket in all of Melbourne.
Her path to the finals includes likely pairings with 5th seed Elena Dementieva (2nd round), Alisa Kleybanova (3rd round), Flavia Pennetta (4th round), Clijsters in the quarters and Sharapova in the semis. If Justine makes the finals, just maybe the former number one could be seeded in Paris, where she has won an astounding four times.
For Oudin to play Henin, she will have to manage underdog victories against Aggie Radwanska (2nd round), Francesca Schiavone (3rd round), Venus Williams (4th round), Caroline Wozniacki (quarters) and Serena Williams in the semis. By any standard, that is a tall order for a short teenager.
But, remember, the 17-year old knocked off Jankovic at Wimbledon, Dementieva, Sharapova and Kuznetsova in New York last year. It is safe to say that 2nd seeded behemoth Dinara Safina has never had a Grand Slam like that!
Go get ‘em mighty mites! Be perky, pesky and keep ‘em running side to side in that brilliant Australian sun. Keep your composure, honor the game and don’t be afraid to enjoy the moment. The world is your oyster.
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Grandstream GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone Coming at “Dancing with the Stars”

2009-11-24T11:20:00.000-08:00

Today, November 24, fans of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” will be able to witness the season 9 finale of the show. During the show they will notice Grandstream Networks’ GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone, a communication device that’s going to be showcased tomorrow.

Now I don’t have any problems with gadgets being advertised in popular TV shows. We see that every day and it’s something we have gotten used to over the years. What I have a problem is the gadget itself. So bear with me for a couple of minutes and I will be more than happy to explain.

The GXV3140 IP Multimedia Phone is not a mobile phone but a phone made for your home. Furthermore the phone is not just a simple phone but a smartphone for home. That’s right, in a world where landlines are losing more and more marketshare a home smartphone wouldn’t exactly be something I’d want to buy.

In all fairness to the device and its maker, I will say that the GXV3140 comes with some interesting features which you could very well take advantage of once you chose to get it. It has a 4.3-inch LCD screen, an integrated web browser, one-touch access to RSS feeds, Internet radio support, social networking support for Facebook and Twitter, and support for Internet streaming from various sites.

Although remarkable for such a phone, the features offered aren’t special in any way. I’d definitely use a laptop or desktop instead of the GXV3140 in order to browse the Internet, stream video and audio files or check Facebook and Twitter updates. And I’d definitely use my cell phone whenever I need to make calls and send messages to friends and family.

Let’s face it folks, home phones and landlines are slowly dying and we’re going to use smarter phones instead. Sure a phone like this could be used by various companies which still rely on regular phones to communicate. But a phone filled with such features will affect overall production as employees will use it extensively to check out Facebook and Twitter instead of doing what their supposed to.

What about you? Do you still use regular phones?grandstream GXV3140 phone

LG X120 Netbook Gets Official in the USA

2009-11-24T11:17:00.001-08:00

LG has decided to launch the X120 in the USA today. Thus LG has announced its first netbook for U.S. consumers, so let’s take a brief look at it.

The LG X120 is finally ready to be purchased by American customers and the netbook has some special features to offer. The machine was announced in Korea earlier this summer and it’s about time it became available in more markets.

The LG X120 is a 10.1-inch netbook that weighs only 2.8lbs but it’s ready to meet your computing needs while you’re on the go. The netbook comes with a LED backlit 10.1-inch LCD, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera, HD stereo speakers, Wi-Fi connectivity, 3G HSDPA support and Windows XP running in the background. The X120 also has a great battery capable of delivering 7-hours of life. You’ll certainly appreciate that battery next time you’re stuck waiting in an airport or on a longer than expected trip.

Ehtisham Rabbani, vice president of product strategy and marketing for LG Mobile Phones, had this to say about the X120 netbook:

We created the LG X120 to allow consumers to stay connected on their own terms. The Smart On(TM) button puts consumers seconds away from the fun stuff such as showing off your vacation photos or picking your fantasy football line-up.

The LG X120 will be available for purchase in Radio Shack stores nationwide or online. You can also get it from AT&T stores bundled with a new 2-year AT&T DataConnect service agreement of at least $60 per month. In that case the X120 will only cost $179.99 and, for that subsidized price, AT&T will let you use up to 5GB of data traffic per month and access its 20,000 Wi-Fi Hot Spots for free.

HTC HD2 Windows Mobile 7 Upgrade Pending?

2009-11-23T10:32:00.000-08:00

According to as yet unconfirmed rumours the owners of the HTC HD2 (formerly known as the HTC Leo) can look forward to a free upgrade to the Windows Mobile 7 OS when WinMo 7 becomes available next year.

Expected to be announced at the Mobile World Congress to be held in February 2010, whilst the WinMo 7 upgrade is yet to be confirmed it seems wholly viable as the HTC HD2 has the distinction of being the first phone to meet all the hardware requirements laid done by Microsoft for its new iteration Windows Mobile – specifically meeting with MS’s Chassis 1 specifications.

Whilst information concerning the purported free WinMo 7 HTC HD2 is pretty space as at the time of writing, MsMobiles additionally reports that as such upgrade will be an “official upgrade from HTC, not a hacked ROM from PPCGeeks or Xda-dev” though the site does no qualify this by offering any indication as to the source of this information. Still, being that the HTC HD2 is an enormously popular phone, added to the fact that from a hardware standpoint its ‘WinMo 7 ready’ and taking the (again unconfirmed) rumours concerning the HTC HS2 being due to hit T-Mobile in the US sometime in Q1 2010 into account there’s little doubt that such an upgrade would very much work in favour of HTC’s 4.3” already highly desirable capacitive touchscreen smartphone.

Google Maps Navigation (Sort Of) Released For European Androids

2009-11-23T10:30:00.000-08:00

When the Google Maps Navigation software was announced for Android phones just a few weeks ago, those of you who carry Android phones outside the United States probably quickly realized one thing – that Google Maps Navigation doesn’t work for you. Until now, that is.

The European forum XDA Developers featured a post where a cunning user posted a series of codes that need to be input into your Android device that will enable Google Maps Navigation, the turn-by-turn TomTom killer software on phones outside the United States.

Google never released any reasons why the Google Maps Navigation software was only limited to the United States, keeping Canada and Europe in the cold, but non-Americans across the blogosphere have confirmed that the workaround works.

XDA’s forum went down in all the buzz surrounding this release, but Gadget Venue posted a clip of the code needed to enable this functionality. It appears to work by some ROM modifications, followed by a hacked version of the app being installed.

Dell Mini 3i Android Phone Gets Official

2009-11-23T10:28:00.000-08:00

Dell has realized this year that it can’t miss out on the smartphone business especially with a hot OS like Android available out there. And the company has been busy developing an Android handset for the Chinese market. The Dell Mini 3i isn’t a secret anymore and earlier today it became official. According to the press release, the Dell Mini 3i will be available “later this month” and China Mobile is the carrier that will launch it.

China Mobile is a powerful carrier in China and, with 500 million subscribers, it’s the largest mobile operator in the world. No wonder that Dell wants a piece of that action. So what does the Mini 3i have to offer? Here’s the official specs list of the device:

* China Mobile OPhone OS (custom Android version)
* Quadband GSM/EDGE
* 3G support
* 3.5-inch touchscreen
* GPS
* 3-megapixel camera with zoom, auto-focus, flash and video capture
* Bluetooth
* microSD support for up to 32GB of storage
* miniUSB port
* Dimensions: 58.35 x 122 x 11.7
* Weight: 105g

Michael Yang, vice president and general manager for Greater China Consumer of Dell had this to say about the phone:

People today want to carry their lives with them – they want to discover, capture and share new content as they roam around the world. We believe Dell’s year-long development collaboration with China Mobile will amplify those experiences better than anyone else in the industry.

He might be right about the way people see smartphones today and that seems to be an indication that Dell will not make phones only for China. In fact we already know that the company is going to launch a Dell Mini 3i version in the USA and other markets. But that version hasn’t been officially announced yet and we might not even see it in stores this year.

The Dell Mini 3i doesn’t have a price yet, so all those China Mobile subscribers will have to wait until their carrier announces them later this month.

Two New Drobos For Your Storage Pleasure

2009-11-23T10:26:00.000-08:00

For those out of the know, Drobos are data storage devices, that feature multiple hard drive bays and allow you to hot swap drives on the fly and features extensive automated data redundancy backup features. They’ve been extremely popular, despite mild critism about the transfer speeds and the lack of an Ethernet port (stopping you from using one as a self-contained NAS unit). Today, Drobo manufacture Data Robotics unveiled two new Drobo models, both serving different niches.

The first new Drobo is the high-end business DroboElite. The DroboElite has 8 hard drive bays, and with only 2 Ethernet connections, which pretty much orients it for the enterprise marketplace. The DroboElite can support unto 16 different hosts using data off of it with 255 different volumes onboard.

It’s a pretty impressive piece of computer hardware, but with the lack of a USB or Firewire port, and the hefty price tag of $3,500, that makes it clear that this one is for the Enterprise marketplaces.

The Drobo S is the new consumer-based model. Data Robotics addressed one of the key complaints with the original Drobo by improving the speed of the unit in the back end (with Engadget reporting 20 to 25% performance improvement). Where the original Drobo had 4 HDD bays, the new Drobo S adds a fifth, which allows for more data redundancy options when backing up your files on the Drobo. Like the first Drobo, the Drobo S features a USB and Firewire connection.

The smaller Drobo S will retail for $800. Drobos aren’t cheap, but they are fairly impressive for what they do. If you only need 4 hard drive bays, the original Drobo may be enough for you at only $400. Data Robitics also has various deals if you order a Drobo bundled with hard drives from them.

Verizon Samsung Omnia II Release Date & Pricing Confirmed

2009-11-23T10:20:00.000-08:00

The Samsung Omnia II has just become official. Just like we told you a few days ago, the phone has been properly announced by Verizon Wireless. The Omnia II will be available in stores starting with December 2 for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year contract.

Samsung Omnia II is a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone and it will be interesting to see how it will perform especially now when Android phones seem to dominate the end of the year. If you ask me, we need to see more Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets even if Microsoft’s latest mobile OS isn’t as hot as we would like it to be. The Omnia II is probably one of the best Windows Mobile 6.5 phones available right now, and the only phone that can contend that spot at the moment is the HTC HD2.

So let’s officially see what the Omnia II will offer:

* 3.7-inch ultra-brilliant touchscreen; widescreen AMOLED display
* Virtual QWERTY keyboard with Swype technology
* Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
* Samsung’s TouchWiz 2.0 UI
* 3G Support
* Verizon Wireless services: V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video on Demand, V CAST Song ID, Visual Voice Mail, VZW Tones, VZ NavigatorSM
* 5.0-megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and video recording
* 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi
* 8GB internal memory
* Up to 16GB microSD memory card
* Bluetooth

There’s no doubt about it, the Omnia II is a great smartphone. Sure it might not be able to fight against the iPhone yet but it can definitely successfully compete against some of the best phones launched so far.

If you’re looking to buy a smartphone right now then you’re facing a very difficult choice. The iPhone 3GS is still selling very well but there are other hot phones to choose from: the Motorola Droid, the Samsung Omnia II, the HTC HD2, the BlackBerry Storm2 and the BlackBerry Bold 9700. What would you rather buy this Christmas?

Kenwood MG-F500 Digital Audio Player Unveiled

2009-11-22T07:25:00.000-08:00

Kenwood have officially unveiled their latest DAP in the form of the Kenwood MG-F500 which is very much an entry level digital audio player which will impress few with its somewhat limited audio file format support and its lack of video playback capabilities (then again, this is a DAP as opposed to a PMP so video should hardly be expected).

The Kenwood MG-F500 comes with a 2” color TFT display and, whilst the internal storage capacities on offer are pretty paltry – the MG-F500 will be offered up in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB models only – its saving grace, in this respect at least, is that it also comes with an onboard microSD/SDHC slot allowing you to add additional capacity on and over the limited capacity on offer.

In terms of audio file support, however, the Kenwood MG-F500 fails to impress as you’re looking at the device supporting MP3, WMA, AAC and WAV audio file formats only – no OGG, no AAC no FLAC or APE. That’s said, where the Kenwood MG-F500 does manage to impress is in terms of its endurance as it’ll purportedly run for a fairly impressive 50 hours on a single charge.

Kenwood have not offered any indication concerning the MG-F500’s pricing for any of the three variants to be offered at this juncture but, with the above in mind, its reasonable to assume that we’re looking at it coming in at especially budget-friendly price points (possibly sub $100?).

New Intel Atom First Details Emerge

2009-11-22T07:19:00.000-08:00

Whilst details at this stage are fairly thin on the ground, we do, at least, have some details confirmed regarding the 2011 Intel Atom CPU, which is set to succeed the up and coming Pine Trail Atom, which offers a tantalising insight as to where the future of Intel’s highly successful Atom processor, which is under the hood of just about every netbook and nettop currently available, is headed.

The new 2011 Intel Atom, which, is codenamed “Cedarview” whilst, as a platform, goes by the codename “Cedar Trail”, is reported to be based on a 32 nanometer manufacturing process and is said to be set to support DirectX 10 3D graphics processing as well as offering HD video output whilst additionally offering up dual digital output that’s see both DisplayPort and HDMI, as well as older formats, suitably catered for.

Further highlights will include a new memory controller offering DDR3 memory support (specifically DDR3 1066 – as catered for by Intel’s Core i7 CPU).
The new Atom Cedar Trail platform is expected to hit in 2011 though its already set to be replaced by the next iteration, which is set to utilise a 22 nanometer manufacturing process, sometime in 2013 – but, as yet, there’s no specific details as to what that’ll bring to the table.

Grenade USB Flash Drive Offers 8GB of Explosive Data Capacit yeek

2009-11-22T07:15:00.000-08:00

We’ve seen out fair share of novel (aka wacky) USB flash drives here at TFTS and now we have another distinctive flash drive to all to our collection in the form of this USB Grenade Flash Drive, which has just become available from ThinkGeek.
Offering USB 2.0 connectivity, the ThinkGeek USB Grenade Flash Drive youts 8GB of capacity, comes with a flip off connector cover and measures in at around 32 x 32 x 57mm.

ThinkGeek’s product listing explains the USB Grenade Flash Drive thus:
Pull the plug and lob your old flash drive out your window (preferably after you’ve backed up the files, but who are we to tell you what to do?). Store your most valuable and portable files inside a grenade for maximum style points. Unleash that little evil part of yourself that wants to blow up your coworkers. That annoying guy three cubes down want the same files you’ve already emailed him 30 times? Pull the plug on your grenade and fling it into his cube. It won’t blow up, but at least a grenade to the head might make him reconsider the next time he wants to bug you about something…
The USB Grenade Flash Drive is available as of now and will set you back just shy of $40.

Apple Multitouch Magic Mouse Windows Compatibility

2009-11-22T07:11:00.000-08:00

If you’ve been lusting over Apple’s mulittouch capable Magic Mouse (we’re with you on that, incidentally) but you’re a Windows user you may have consigned any thoughts of using the Apple Magic Mouse with your current setup to the back of your mind but now, thanks to a strictly unofficial hack of Apple’s latest Bluetooth update, you can happily pair up the Magic Mouse with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Provided by UneasySilence, the Windows Magic mouse drivers are available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions though you’ll need to splash out $70 to obtain the Magic Mouse in the first place, obviously.
You can get your hands on the Magic Mouse Windows drivers via the UneasySilence webpage and, should you give them a go, we’d love to hear your feedback – how do they work for you, is there any functionality issues?

A Motorola Droid That May Not Work [Motorola Droid Engineering Prototype]

2009-11-21T20:54:00.000-08:00

Ever want to own a (supposed) piece of cell phone history? An alleged engineering prototype of the Motorola Droid has shown up on eBay, with a starting bid of $485. The Droid, which runs Google’s Android 2.0 OS, was released earlier this month, with a price of $200 (subsided with a service plan, of course) by American provider Verizon.

According to the eBay listing, the prototype is ‘a pre-release verison’ and ‘was made strictly for Motorola engineers’. The seller doesn’t exactly speculate on where he got the phone, but judging by the wording of the eBay listing, he doesn’t appear to be a Motorola engineer.

The seller says the phone is ‘working perfectly’ and can be used with an cellular network. The pictures of the operating system appear to be running the regular version of Google Android. If you were even concerned, it comes with a phone charger. Despite the seller’s claims that the phone works well, he does say can’t guarantee it will work perfectly.

This really appears to be the real deal. The pictures on the eBay listing show the phone looks slightly different from the off-the-shelf one and instead of the provider logo near the mouthpiece, the phone features an apt warning, “Confidental: Motorola Restricted Property: Not For Sale”. Ooops.

Note that this probably isn’t a debug unit that will let you hack into Verizon’s network and cause havoc, it simply appears to be a pre-release regular unit. Despite some mild coverage over the tech blogosphere today, there STILL aren’t any bids, so if you’re interested in paying more for a regular Motorola Droid, albeit one with an interesting story, then you better fire up that PayPal account.

Orb Bluetooth Headset Turns Into a Ring

2009-07-24T07:25:00.000-07:00

It seems that Transformer mania has finally pervaded the world of hands-free with the creation of the Orb Bluetooth headset. This nifty little gadget is the result of a collaboration between Hybra Advance Technology Inc. and AbsolutelyNew Inc. and goes from ultra-sleek wireless communication device to high-fashion fingerwear with a simple twist. As far as Bluetooth devices are concerned, this one ranks pretty high on the fashion scale.
The Orb will be available in various sizes and for those who like their Bluetooth headsets on the sparkly side, it will available in a limited edition designer model that features integrated decorative gemstones. The base model Orb is slated for January 2010 availability and will sport a MSRP of $129. The Deluxe edition is due out the following April with a MSRP of $175.

But the Orb isn’t just good looks. This high-tech gizmo incorporates NXT technology and provides high quality bone conduction audio without the discomfort of placing a device inside the ear. All units will offer a Class 2 Bluetooth range of 30-ft. It’s both form and function. Rumor has it that there is also a “deluxe edition” in the works that will feature a Flexible Organic Light Emitting Device (FOLED) screen to display caller ID, calendar reminders, and voice-to-text information for communication without taking the ring off the finger.

Nokia 6760 Slide Announced for UK Debut Reviews [Nokia Intros European Version ]

2009-07-24T07:13:00.000-07:00

Something’s up today with the whole bunch of mobile phones hitting the market. Another model that is trying to get the eye and to impress is the new Nokia 6760 Slide smartphone which has just been release to the old continent. Known as Nokia Surge in the US, the European version (actually the UK version) of the handset features a 2.4 inch QVGA display, a 3.2 megapixel camera and a microSD card that allows up to 8GB of storage.
Available in black, red or white, by the end of summer for 200 Euro (some $280 today), Nokia 6760 is a great multi-tasker that allows you to tweet, email, IM, share online, browse the web, listen to music, all at once.
One of the most interesting aspect of the new Nokia 6760 Slide, is that the sliding QWERTY keypad has been specially designed to be messaging-optimised and to make typing easy — a pretty neat feature if you’re consider the you get easy access to your favourite social networking site (Facebook, MySpace or Twitter) as well as email accounts that support Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail and thousands of other email providers.

Pirates searching for everyday right fielder is it Eric Hinske

2009-06-30T10:41:00.001-07:00

Delwyn Young homered Saturday night and is batting .346 when he's in the lineup. Brandon Moss hit safely in five of his past six games and is power threat against right-handed pitchers.
So when it came time to choose a starting right fielder Sunday against Kansas City Royals righty Zack Greinke, Pirates manager John Russell chose ... Eric Hinske.
"Put 'em in a hat, pull one out and see how it works," Russell said with a chuckle.
The decision-making process, of course, is not nearly as simple as that. It's difficult, too, considering the recent success by Young and Moss and the presence of Hinske and Steve Pearce.
"It's a nice problem to have," Russell said.
Before making his choice, Russell huddles in his office with hitting coach Don Long and bench coach Gary Varsho.
"We talk about what might be the best matchup that night," Russell said. "We look at the time between starts, matchups, gut feelings sometimes."
Last week, Moss made three straight starts in right after showing signs of life at the plate. To stay sharp, Young played Saturday.
"We really like the way Delwyn and Brandon are playing," Russell said. "Eric gives us veteran leadership, and he needs to play every once in a while as well."
Hinske went 0-for-4, but he contributed a nifty defensive play. In the seventh inning, Hinske dove to snag Mitch Maier's blooper in shallow right.
The odd man out is Pearce, a natural first baseman who was called up June 21 after Craig Monroe was designated for assignment.
"We put Steve in a tough spot by dropping him back into right field for just two games before he came up," general manager Neal Huntington said. "Young and Moss are better right fielders. Hinske could arguably be a better right fielder than Steve. So there may not be many at-bats for Steve."
Huntington said Russell has done a great job of mixing and matching right fielders. But Huntington would prefer that it didn't have to happen.
"We love for one of those guys to just go bananas for a month, never look back, take the job and keep it for the next 10 years," Huntington said. "But until that point, (Young and Moss) both deserve opportunities out there. They've both shown enough that intrigues us."
The Pirates are happy with the veteran leadership Eric Hinske has provided this season.

Are you Searching For Michael Jackson Autopsy Photos

2009-06-30T10:33:00.000-07:00

Michael Jackson Autopsy Photo - As days have passed since the death of the King of Pop, many people on the Internet are starting to look for a picture of Michael Jackson’s autopsy. This is mostly generated because of the “leaked autopsy report” that was in fact a hoax.

The fake report, which among other things stated that Michael Jackson was found with pills on the stomach, broken ribs, needle injuries and scarring from numerous surgeries, was called false by official sources.
If you happen to be one of the thousands of people scouring the internet in search of Michael Jackson’s autopsy photo, then you’re out of luck sicko. There isn’t one.
Since the “leak” of the fake autopsy results hit the internet, people have been clamoring to see a photo that disproves that the King of Pop was nearly bald. Sickos, he just died. Freaking vultures.

Picher Oklahoma Last man standing at wake for a toxic town

2009-06-30T10:23:00.000-07:00

Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation's largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites.
Former residents, bought out by the government because their town was deemed so dangerous, gathered in Picher's elementary school to say farewell to a place where kids suffered lead poisoning, where homes built atop underground mines plunged into the Earth and where the local creek coughs up orange water, laced with heavy metals.

A toothpick dangling out of the corner of his chapped mouth, Ray greeted several old friends as if he were in any other small town in America.
"Hello there, Hoppy! How the hell are ya?" one called out.
Gray mountains of toxic gravel loomed behind the school, just out of sight, as Hoppy hobbled past a bundle of balloons and through the front doors, cane in hand. He tipped his hat as he entered.
"Looks like a good crowd," he said. "Everybody seems to be havin' a good time. That's the main thing."
In a town this tragic and for a person as stubborn as Hoppy, that's a big statement.
As his abandoned town fades to dust, Hoppy has gone into the business of memories. He wants to remind townspeople, and the world, that a person's home should always be loved -- no matter how toxic. The death toll from a chain-reaction accident on an Oklahoma turnpike this weekend has risen to 10.Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., said Sunday that 35-year-old Shelby Hayes of Frisco, Texas, had died. She had been in critical condition with head, internal and external injuries after Friday's crash.Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., said Sunday that the condition of 12-year-old Andrea Reyes, of Phoenix, Ariz., was upgraded from critical to serious

Jillian Confronts Wes About a Girlfriend: Does Wes Have a Girlfriend?

2009-06-30T10:15:00.000-07:00

Can’t believe Jake would go to all the trouble of going to see Jillian to tell her about Wes’ girlfriend and Jillian would believe Wes anyway. No, baby, I don’t have a girlfriend. I have an ex-girlfriend who’s a good friend.
Tonight on “The Bachelorette,” we have hometown visits and the return of Jake and Ed. Woo hoo!
Reid, Philadelphia
Reid is up first. His parents have a beautiful house in a Philly suburb. Reid has Rhonda, Larry, Brett and Chad (parents and two brothers). They immediately start talking about the family realty business and Jillian’s design background.
Rhonda takes Jillian off for some one-on-one time. Jill asks Rhonda if she’s Reid’s type and Rhoda says, “I think you’re adorable.” Heh heh. Wway to skirt that question, mom. The brothers talk to her about committment and how Reid hasn’t met the right person yet.

Tonight on "The Bachelorette," Wes can add another episode to his publicity and we lose one of the good ones.
Chris calls our remaining guys the "Elite Eight." I think he means "the Magnificent Seven and one guitar-strumming douchebag." This week there are two solo dates and one group date. 5 roses will be given out and those guys get to take Jillian to their hometowns.
They are leaving Whistler and taking the Rocky Mountain... something. I missed it. Rocky Mountain Oysters? No, I'm pretty sure those are cow balls. It's a train, though. That's the gist.
Just for the record, 5 minutes into the episode, I think Jillian needs to ditch Wes, Tanner P and Michael and keep Jake, Reid, Robby, Kiptyn and Jesse. That is my prediction/hope.By the way, while Jillian says good-bye to Robby, the other 7 guys press their faces up against the train windows like a bunch of little match girls. Geez, guys. Michael cries about Robby's departure because he didn't get to say good-bye. I'll say it again... I think Michael wishes he was in the Canadian wilderness with Robby.

Navigon MobileNavigator iPhone App for iPhone OS 3.0 [PND App for iPhone 3G/iPhone 3G S]

2009-06-12T08:49:00.000-07:00

With Alex having posted only yesterday concerning the TomTom PND iPhone Application long comes news that its not only TomTom who are looking for a slice of the pie when it comes to utilising the new iPhone OS 3.0 for Apple’s iPhone 3G and newly announced iPhone 3G S as Navigon have also confirmed that they are developing an iPhone application of their own known as MobileNavigator.
Billed as offering turn-by-turn navigation functionality, the Navigon MobileNavigator iPhone app also sports a host of functions you’d expect on Navigon’s full blown PND’’s such as Reality View Pro, Real Roadsign Pro, Lane Assistant Pro, Speed Assistant, Day & Night Mode as well as pre-loaded POI whilst also hooking up with your contact list (hence directing you accordingly).
Navigon’s Official Press Release:

NAVIGON takes off first: MobileNavigator now also leads the way on the iPhone already in June
To turn the iPhone 3G and the forthcoming iPhone 3G S into an innovative navigator, you only need two “ingredients”: the new Apple OS 3.0 operating system and the MobileNavigator from NAVIGON. By June iPhone users will be able to turn their phones into a handy, convenient navigation device with the professional software from NAVIGON for the first time.
Lunch break. Time to eat and a chance to send private emails, make phone calls and to relax listening to songs from your own playlist. Now and again checking the status of online bidding, and taking a funny photo of a colleague. One thing is for sure, there’s hardly another smartphone on the market that makes multitasking so much fun as the iPhone. And soon users will be able to have themselves navigated from the office to the new Italian restaurant in town. All that’s needed is an iPhone running on the new Apple OS 3.0 operating system - and the MobileNavigator from NAVIGON.
Before the end of this month iPhone users will be able to kit out their smartphones with the professional navigation software from App Stores across the globe. “With the new OS 3.0 operating system, Apple has made the use of navigation software on the iPhone possible, and NAVIGON has quickly managed to adapt the MobileNavigator software to the new firmware. The iPhone can now be transformed into a versatile, fully functional navigator”, quotes Egon Minar, CEO of NAVIGON AG.
Alternative in the App Store
When equipped with the MobileNavigator software, the iPhone 3G (with Apple OS 3.0 operating system) and the iPhone 3G S guide their users safely to their destination - with updated map material and intelligent navigation.

The package includes well-known functions such as Reality View Pro, Real Roadsign Pro, Lane Assistant Pro, Speed Assistant, Day & Night Mode, amongst others, as well as the option of displaying POIs along the route. With this range of functions, Mobile Navigator stands out from its competition on the market - also by the fact that the typical user functions of the iPhone have been implemented seamlessly in order to make navigation using the iPhone and NAVIGON software even more enjoyable. If you turn the iPhone 90 degrees, then the display switches automatically from portrait to landscape view. As well as this automatic display adjustment, and the intelligent address entry, there is also the option of navigating directly to an address from saved contacts. If navigation is interrupted by a telephone call then navigation is resumed automatically after the call has ended.
“This allows iPhone users to navigate wherever they are, whenever they want - conveniently and while on the move,” states Egon Minar.
Within this month MobileNavigator will be available in the international AppStore where iPhone users can choose between various options. One option is the LITE Version available for free, with no active route guidance, but with map material and the possibility to display POIs (points of interest) in the vicinity. Another option is the full version, which navigates users quickly and reliably to their destination.
The prices for the full version will be released by the AppStore at the launch.
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Panasonic HDC-TM10 & HDC-SD10 Camcorders [New HDCs Pricing & Availability Confirmed]

2009-06-12T08:43:00.001-07:00

Panasonic plans on claiming the “world’s lightest” title with the announcement of their latest HDC-TM10 and HDC-SD10 camcorders that only weight half a pound. Featuring the Panasonic’s VIERA Link technology that allows for Full-HD video content viewing, both the HDC-TM10 and HDC-SD10 camcorders offer 16x optical zoom and use Advanced Optical Image Stabilization (O.I.S) technology that helps minimize shakes at high zoom levels.
Virtually the same, the real difference between the two camcorders is that the HDC-SD10 will store your memories on a SD/SDHC style="font-family:georgia;">memory card, while the HDC-TM10 first has to fill 8GB of internal memory before using the card option.As for the other specs, they both feature touchscreen and handy function buttons for intuitive usage, built in light and flash for when you’re shooting in the dark and a 1.9-sec Quick Power-On to make sure you won’t miss on anything.
The camcorders are going to ship starting in the US from September with a MSRP of $599.95 for the HDC-TM10 model, wile the HDC-SD10 will cost you $549.95.

Trigem USA Averatec D1200 All-in-One PC [Full HD AIO PC with G4500HD Graphics]

2009-06-12T08:34:00.000-07:00

Recently released, the new Averatec D1200 is another all-in-one PC designed for quick installation, ease of use and leading-edge performance. But unlike its predecessors the D1200 has been announced with a 25.5-inch full 1080p High-Definition LCD display and will boast a 2.5 GHz Intel Dual Core E5200 processor, 4GB of DDR2 RAM and a 320GB 7,200 rpm hard drive.
Averatec D1200 has an Intel G4500HD graphic chipset to deliver full HD video quality, comes with 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity, a 2 megapixel web camera, a DVD burner, Gigabit Ethernet and a wireless keyboard and mouse. And as you expected there are 2 USB ports, DVI out, SPDIF audio port and a TV Antenna for the built-in TV tuner.

Running on Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit complete with media center functionality and priced at $999, the new Averatec D1200 all-in-one PC is a powerful solution that costs an affordable price.

TomTom Turn-by-Turn Navigation iPhone App [iPhone PND Application]

2009-06-12T06:48:00.000-07:00

Following the WWDC 2009 keynote where we got official details about the new iPhone 3GS and the new OS 3.0, TomTom have just unveiled their turn-by-turn navigation application that will bring 2D/3D maps, voice-guided directions and Points Of Interest (POIs) directly to your iPhone.
Along with the surprisingly sleek software app that brings navigation to your iPhone, TomTom will also include an accompanying car kit that features a speaker and microphone for hands-free calls, supports both orientations and works as a charger that supplies power. However knowing that mapping and navigation software are usually expensive, the big question about TomTom’s iPhone app is how much will it cost as we can’t imagine this being cheap.
For now all we know is that the TomTom app is expected to be available this summer.

BlueLounge StudioDesk Keeps Clutter Away [Desk for Laptop Users, Stashes Your Wires in Style]

2009-06-12T06:32:00.000-07:00

A traditional workspace with a modern twist, the new StudioDesk has been designed for laptop users looking for a clutter-free working environment. Crafted by BlueLounge with clean and simple shapes, the desk features a sliding top surface that uncovers a large hidden compartment where you can completely conceal all your wires, iPhones, cameras and other peripherals that take up space.
It will cost you a good $599 but keep in mind that the new StudioDesk comes with a removable faux leather mat to cover the sliding portion of the desktop, has solid mahogany legs and white laminate surfaces and storage spaces.
A timeless design that comes in a comfy knock down condition and can be easily assembled, the desk looks perfect for both home and office use. Is it worth it to keep clutter away? We’ll let you decide …
[BlueLounge via OhGizmo]
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Touchscreen Speaker Phone Waterproof Watch with Camera & Integrated DAP

2009-04-30T20:15:00.000-07:00

We’ve seen touchscreen watches. We’ve seen watches with DAP functionality. We’ve also seen watches with integrated cameras and watches that double up as wrist worn cell phones. But what about a wrist watch that comes with touchscreen, cell phone functionality and integrated camera that packs in DAP capabilities complete with inbuilt stereo speakers that happens to be waterproof and, (yes, there’s more), which comes in a gloriously tacky golden finish?
Yes, it’s another gem from ChinaGrabber whose undoubted claim to fame is the sustained ability to produce cheap gadgetry that sounds great on paper and looks crap in reality.

This M1000i 1.5″ Quad Band TouchScreen WaterProof WristWatch Phone w/ Bluetooth, Camera, Mp3, Mp4 (to give it it’s formal and decidedly catchy title) measures in at 56 x 43 x 19mm and, as alluded to previously, packs in just about everything you could possibly want in a watch (and then some) that you quite probably wouldn’t be seen dead with.
Offering GSM 850/900/1800/1900 connectivity, as well as Bluetooth, this touchscreen cell phone DAP camera stereo speaker watch (you’ll excuse us if we’ve missed something out here), sports a 1.5″ 260K color 176 x 220 resolution display, comes with integrated 2 megapixel camera (allowing you to capture stills and video with sound), offers MP3, MP4, 3GP, JPG and GIF file format compatibility and no, we wouldn’t be seen dead with it either.

PeeWee Pivot Tablet Laptop for Children [aka 'PeeWee Premier PC' for Kids]

2009-04-30T20:13:00.001-07:00

Referred to as both the PeeWee Pivot Tablet Laptop and the PeeWee Premier PC, this 1.6GHz Atom N270 powered 10″ touchscreen laptop is aimed specifically at young children and, apart from offering s sturdy design capable of riding out the knocks and scrapes young kids will undoubtedly throw at it (its both drop and spill resistant), comes with a bundle of ten ‘age-targeted’ software titles as well as handwriting recognition and MS Works 9.0.

Measuring in at 9.5″ x 7.5″ x 1.5″ the PeeWee Pivot Tablet Laptop, as befits a tablet PC, comes with a swivel display capable of swivelling 180 degrees, 1GB of memory (upgradeable to 2GB), a 60GB HDD, 2-in-1 card reader and Ethernet connectivity as well as Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n (interestingly billed as Linux version only though only an XP Home version appears to be available at this time), a 1.3 megapixel camera and, apart from coming with customised themes taking in the likes of Disney can be ‘custom built for your child’s age, name, and interests’ - though quite what this specifically entails, apart from entering your kid’s name, eludes us.
Provided with software that enables parents to snoop on what their child’s up to (for piece of mind), the PeeWee Pivot Tablet Laptop is priced from just shy of $600 and is available as of now.

Pure Digital Flip Ultra & 720p Flip Ultra HD Now Available [New Flip Ultra Video Cameras]

2009-04-30T20:08:00.000-07:00

Following on from a series of leaks concerning its new iterations of its ever popular Flip video camera, Pure Digital has at last gone official with its new Flip video cameras, the Flip Ultra and Flip Ultra HD, which sport revised designs and larger TFT 2″ 960 x 240 resolution displays.

The new Pure Digital Flip Ultra video cameras, which are powered by an updated Flip Video Engine (version 3.5) come in SD and HD versions offering up to 640 x 480 and 1280 x 720 resolution video capture capabilities at 30 frame per second respectively and offer H.264 video compression with AAC audio compression and well as MP4 file format support whilst zoom capabilities remain unchanged at 2x digital.

Coming with replaceable AA battery packs offering up to three hours recording endurance whilst recording at 720p resolution or up to five hours when recording in standard definition, the new Pure Digital Flip Ultra video cameras come with integrated stereo microphones as well as in-built speakers (previous Flip models offered mono audio recording only) and, in the case of the Flip Ultra HD, integrated HDMI port allowing you to hook the video camera directly up to a HD TV to view captured footage.
Both the Flip Ultra SD and the Flip ultra HD have just been made available and will set you back just shy of $149 and $200 respectively.

USB Cooler Keyboard Keeps Hands Cool [Keyboard with Integrated Fans]

2009-04-21T07:26:00.000-07:00

With the temperatures on the rise - certainly in this part of the world - and having posted earlier this month about the LED Message Display USB Mouse with Integrated Hand Cooling & Remote along comes this keyboard with built-in cooling fans which we felt compelled to feature as both of these gadgets combined could see your hands kept comfortably cool whilst at your PC throughout the summer.
Measuring in at a not especially compact 20″ x 8.7″ x 13.8″, the USB Cooler Keyboard comes with USB 2.0 connectivity and a series of prominent vents lined along the keyboards’ wrist rest that, when the keyboard’s hooked up, will supply a steady stream of cooling air under your hands courtesy of three fans as your type but, unfortunately (I jest, of course) unlike the aforementioned cooling muse there’s no gaudy LED display offering the ability to show customisable messages.
The USB Cooler Keyboard will set you back around $93 though, if you’re anything like us, you’ll happily get by without it.

Sony E-Series/NW-040 Series Walkman with Swappable Panels

2009-04-21T07:25:00.000-07:00

Sony have taken the wraps of their new E-Series (specifically NW-040 Series) Walkman USB stick styled digital audio players which come in three capacities, namely 2GB, 4GB and 8GB - and which feature what Sony terms as ‘Style-Up Panels’ allowing you to adapt the new Walkman’s appearance according to your fashion (in)sensibilities.

The new Sony E-Series/NW-040 Series Walkmans, which sport a 3 line color LCD display as well as integrated FM tuner, and which measure in at a decidedly pocket friendly 22.3 x 84.9 x 19.6mm, will initially be offered in a range of colors such as orange, silver & crystal, hot pink, mint green & pink sugar (lovely) and feature Clear Stereo and Clear Bass audio technologies and offer a purported playback time of around 28 hours based on a full 1.5 hour charge or, if you’re in a hurry, will apparently offer up to 3 hours endurance based on a 3 minute quick charge.
The new Sony E-Series/NW-040 Series Walkmans are set to hit Japan from May 16th and will retail at around the equivalent of between $80 and $132.

10″ Toshiba Dynabook UX Netbook Gets Official

2009-04-21T07:24:00.001-07:00

Toshiba have announced their new Dynabook UX netbook which, apart from sporting a newly revised chicklet style keyboard, serves to expand the display size of its predecessors with a larger 10″ display - though if you’re expecting the larger screen size to sport a greater resolution you’ll be disappointed as you’re still looking at the same 1024 x 600 resolution as the previous 8.9″ model regardless of new 10″ Dynabook UX netbook’s greater display real estate.
Somewhat predictably the new 10″ Dynabook UX netbook is powered by the all too ubiquitous Atom processor - specifically a 1.66GHz Atom N280 - and comes with 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard disk, Intel 945GSE Express Chipset with integrated GMA 950 graphics, card reader, 1.3 megapixel webcam and, in terms of connectivity, there’s Ethernet and Wi-Fi but no signs of Bluetooth.
It has to be said that the most interesting aspect concerning the new 10″ Dynabook UX netbook is its ability to charge your USB gadgetry even after the device is powered down which, in all honestly, puts things into stark perspective in terms of distinguishing features and functionality on and above what’s already out there.
The new 10″ Dynabook UX netbook will purportedly be offered in ten separate variants offering a host of battery options and is set to commence shipping in Japan from April 24th for around the $607 price point.

Nvidia Quadro FX 4900 Graphics Card for Apple Mac Pro Announced

2009-04-21T07:20:00.001-07:00

Nvidia have officially announced a new version of their Quadro FX 4800 graphics card developed specifically for use with Apple’s Mac Book Pro which comes complete with a 3-pin stereo connector promising ‘true stereoscopic imaging’.
“Some of the world’s most challenging visual computing problems are solved on the Mac platform,” said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions, NVIDIA, who introduced the Quadro FX 4800 graphics card for Apple’s Mac Book Pro. “The Quadro FX 4800 provides the power and speed to meet these demanding requirements.”
“Some of the world’s most challenging visual computing problems are solved on the Mac platform,” said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions, NVIDIA. “The Quadro FX 4800 provides the power and speed to meet these demanding requirements.”
This particular iteration of the Nvidia Quadro FX 4900 Graphics Card naturally shares the same specifications of its PC based counterparts in offering 76.8GB/s memory bandwidth, 192 stream processors, 1.5GB frame buffer and maximum power requirement topping out at 150W - as well as the aforementioned 3 pin min-din connector for stereo glasses support - and is set to commence shipping from May for a cool $1,799 a pop.

iPod Touch Nano Concept by Isamu Sanada [The Future of Apple’s Nano, Possibly?]

2009-04-17T11:02:00.001-07:00

Following on from our somewhat large posting concerning Danish design agency Made by Makers (which is proving to be especially popular with you), we thought we’d offer a brief heads up concerning this iPod Touch Nano concept by Isamu Sanada which could offer some degree of insight as to where the future of Apple’s Nano may be headed (if Apple has any sense – which they patently do).

Isamu Sanada’s iPod Touch Nano concept, whilst borrowing heavily from the current design of the Nano, also, as its name suggests, comes with a Touch inspired touchscreen but also, interestingly, with detatchable game controllers which simply slot into the Noan Touch when require and, in this respect alone, we suspect that many would agree that Isamu Sanada’s vision as to the possible future of Apple’s Nano is something that we cannot help but wish will be looked upon by Apple with some interest. Indeed, it would be rather nice should the idea of detachable game controllers be extended to future versions of Touch to extend its capabilities as a portable gaming device.
Quite whether any future iterations of either the Nano or Touch will take on board the ideas presented by Isamu Sanada’s concept is, of course, highly debatable but, we for one think that consumers would more than welcome the extended gaming functionality such features would undoubtedly offer.

iFrogz iPod Nano Audiowrapz Award Winning Protective Speaker Cases Hit Wal-Mart

2009-04-17T10:53:00.000-07:00

iFrogz have announced that their Audiowrapz 3rd Gen iPod Nano protective cases with integral three speaker system, which won a ‘Best of Show’ award from iLounge at this year’s MacWorld Expo event is being made available to Wal-Mart stores nationwide in the US.
The Audiowrapz cases, which are billed as ‘the first 100 percent silicone protective case with built-in speakers that maintains a compact, stylish way to listen to music’ feature passive speaker technology ensuring that the device does not drain your Nano battery excessively, and comes features an anti dust treatment offering resistance to prevent dust building up on the case whilst you’re on the go out and about.
‘Our new Audiowrapz give consumers the protection they need and the portable sound that they want – anytime, anywhere – without sharing earphones or using expensive sound docks,’ said Scott Huskinson, CEO and owner of iFrogz. ‘Wal-Mart reaches our core demographic and we are excited to be delivering our product to consumers through such a respected retailer.’
The iFrogz 3rd Gen iPod Nano Audiowrapz speaker cases, according to iFrogz press release, will be made available in a range of colours and are expected to retail for less than $20.

Necklace MP3 Player with Rhinestones [Pendant DAP Shames New Shuffle's Design Sensibilities]

2009-04-17T10:28:00.000-07:00

If you thought that Apple’s new iPod Shuffle 4GB was the be all and end all in cutting edge, contemporary DAP design, think again, as this gloriously glamorous Necklace MP3 player, which comes with 50 genuine and probably very sparkly Czech crystal rhinestones really serves to put things into stark and sobering perspective.

Yes, we suspect that Apple are positively quaking in their logo emblazoned (probably white, with grey trim) boots with the release of this gem of a DAP or, then again, perhaps not. Ah, yes, it’s our not in the least renowned flippancy coming through loud and clear again. Now we had you going there didn’t we? Ah, we didn’t. Well okay (hell, you could at least humour us though, perhaps, pushing for anything more than you merely tolerating us is a little short-sighted).

Coming with 1GB of capacity and brimming with technology - namely EasyPlay technology (plug in the headphones, it plays, pull out the headphones, it stops) - the Necklace MP3 Player, which really doesn’t need a pretentious title in order to emphasise its tackiness, offers up to five hours of playback endurance based on a full charge, plays ball with startling array of audio file formats in the form of both MP3 and WMA and even comes with three dual function buttons - play/pause, Vol+ / Prev, Vol- / Next - meaning you’ll no doubt have to study the manual for fractions of a second on end in order to get to grips with the broad scope of functionality not on offer.

And, if you can pull yourself off the floor, it’s stereo. That’s right, you get dual channel sound - if you can handle it.

The Necklace MP3 Player, which comes in purple or blue with ‘luxurious silver-plating material’ finishing, will set you back $25 each or, if you want to order in bulk, less.

Carl Zeiss Cinemizer Plus Video Eyewear/Headset for iPhone & iPod

2009-04-17T10:25:00.000-07:00

Billed as being the first video headset to gain Apple’s official ‘Works with iPhone’ certification, the Carl Zeiss Cinemizer Plus Video Eyewear (or video headset, if you prefer) allows iPhone and video iPod owners to view their video content as if viewing a 45″ screen from a distance of six feet courtesy of two high resolution LCD displays whilst listening to stereo sound delivered by integrated on-ear headphones.

Offering an operational endurance of up to 4 hours based on a full 2.5 hour charge of the headset’s rechargeable lithium-ion battery the Carl Zeiss Cinemizer Plus video headset, which offers individual diopter focus adjustment of each display, is supplied with remote control, iPod connector, six iPod clips, two interchangeable nose pads to ensure optimum comfort and is set to become available from May in the US for $499 as well as the UK and Germany for around 300 GBP and 370 Euros respectively.

Coby MP600 Video MP3 Player [Nano Inspired DAP with MTV Support]

2009-04-17T10:22:00.000-07:00

If you’re looking for a not incapable DAP that almost looks like the new iteration of Apple’s Nano (a considerably less aestheticallyrefined Nano, if you will) then this compact DAP from Coby, known as the MP600 Video MP3 Player, could be worth a gander.

Aside from the device’s aesthetics - we’d prefer something slightly more original, if you know what I mean - there’s really not a lot not to like about the Coby MP600 DAP as, in terms of functionality, it’s actually hard to fault - and that’s without even taking its somewhat competitive pricing into account. Yes, we might not want it, but we do, actually, rather like it much in the same way that we actually quite liked that spotty kid at school but we still didn’t hang with him (oh, no, hold on, that was me - ah, memories, painful memories).

The Coby MP600 DAP, which measures in at 1.57″ x 3.12″ x 0.41″, comes with a 1.44″ 128 x 128 resolution LCD display and, as well as offering MP3, WMA, MTV Video, JPG and TXT support (as well as Flash support) comes with built-in FM tuner and will put in up to 10 hours of audio playback endurance before needing the be re-juiced.

The Coby MP600 DAP will set you back around $28 for the 2GB capacity version or around $34 for the 4GB model.

Free Skype iPhone/iPod Touch App Available Tomorrow [Skype on iPhone]

2009-04-16T11:55:00.000-07:00

Whilst not a major revelation - speculation concerning Skype coming to the iPhone has been rife for some considerable time - at last we have official confirmation not only that a Skype iPhone/iPod Touch App is to be made available but that it will be available to download tomorrow (31/03/09) and, best of all, it’ll be free.

Admittedly, iPhone apps bringing Skype functionality to the iPhone/iPod Touch have long since been available but these have been strictly unofficial affairs and user feedback has been very much mixed. An official Skype iPhone/iPod Touch app has, therefore, been something that Skype users who own iPhones and/or iPod Touch devices have been crying out for and it’ll at last be a reality as of tomorrow (not that Skype have taken their time in responding to intense user interest or anything).

The new Skype iPhone/iPod Touch App - which offers messaging, video and full conference calling functionalities- serves to utilise each respective devices Wi-Fi connectivity rather than relying on EDGE or 3G connectivity for data transfer, which opens up the application for touch users who will, unlike iPhone owners, obviously need a set of headphones with embedded microphone (or just a separate mic) in order to use the application.

The free Skype iPhone/iPod Touch App should hit Apple’s App Store tomorrow.

AT&T to Offer LG Xenon & LG Neon QWERTY Touchscreen Phones

2009-04-16T11:45:00.000-07:00

AT&T have confirmed, just ahead of the CTIA 09 event, that they are to offer both the LG Neon and 3G LG Xenon cell phones to its customers, both of which feature touchscreen displays and slider style full QWERTY keyboards.

The 3G LG Xenon comes with a 2.8″ 240 x 480 touchscreen with vibration feedback and comes with integrated GPS, DAP functionality, a 2 megapixel camera with stills and video capture capabilities, video player, stereo Bluetooth and is expected retail at around the $100 price point when it launched on 8 April.

The LG Neon, on the face of it, comes with similar specifications as the Xenon except offering just GPRS and EDGE connectivity and no 3G, however, there’s no word from AT&T at this juncture concerning the LG Neon’s release date or pricing at this stage.

EXCLUSIVE: New iPod Touch with QWERTY Keypad & Digital TV [First Images Leaked]

2009-04-15T05:27:00.000-07:00

It’s not that often we manage to get a major jump on the larger tech sites but you’ll excuse us for shouting this one from the rooftops as, following on from fervent speculation concerning a possible new version of Apple’s iPod Touch being in the wings, we have the first images of the new Apple device (yes, we have probably one of the biggest scoops of the year) thanks to unearthing the new iPod Touch’s product page which is yet to go fully live.

The new device, on the face of it, whilst meeting with certain expectations, certainly has a few surprises up its sleeves. We’re not entirely surprised that, from what we can gather from the image we’ve obtained, the new iPod Touch appears to embrace and further the Touch as a portable gaming device - on the right side of the device you can clearly see a set of gaming buttons - as Apple are well known to be pushing the Touch’s gaming abilities.
What does come as a revelation, however, it the new Touch’s obvious inbuilt digital TV capabilities - the antenna is clearly visible on the side of the device (we assume it retracts into the device’s body somehow based on its non-existance on the image featured below) and, from what we can make out, the display appears to be showing what is unmistakably the Apple TV UI (see header image). So the new Touch offers mobile TV. We had not expected that (though perhaps we should have? Could this be the touch set to break the Japanese market?).

Interestingly, the new Touch also appears to come with not only camera functionality, but what appears to be stereoscopic cameras - allowing for video conferencing in 3D, we assume - though these appear to come in the form of separate attachments that seemingly clip to each end of the new Touch. Whether these will be bundled with the new Touch or whether they’ll be made available as separate add-ons, however, remains to be seen. But, as unexpected as stereoscopic cameras were, nothing had prepared us for some of the other additions that appear to be set to release at the same time as the new iPod Touch, the most notable of which is shown below.
We’ll admit, we did a double take on this ourselves as whilst we’ve heard much speculation concerning what Apple may have up their logo emblazoned sleeves, nothing (and we mean nothing) remotely suggested what is clearly labelled as ‘the new coffee making iPod Touch Dock’ (which we feature in greater detail below).

It appears that we’ve merely touched the surface (pun intended) of the new iPod Touch’s capabilities but, on first impressions alone, it has all the hallmarks of being a particularly fine tuned portable multimedia gaming device with the addition of TV, coffee making capabilities and 3D video capture functionality. Needless to say, we’ll endeavour to update you the moment we unearth full details - though we suspect Engadget or Gizmodo will get there first, as always.

S60 Symbian Based Phones Gain New YouTube Application [Free YouTube App for S60 3rd Edition Handsets]

2009-04-11T04:26:00.002-07:00

If you happen to own a phone powered by the S60 Symbian operating system - such as the Nokia N95 and Nokia N96 - you may be interested in a new, free application just released by YouTube that offers access to YouTube videos for viewing on your handset.
The new YouTube application, which has been developed for specific use with the S60 client application offers video search functionality as well as the ability to view top rated and most viewed videos which will subsequently be displayed in an image carousel allowing for ease of navigation. Unfortunately, at this stage, you cannot save videos and the application is restricted to only a handful of countries - namely Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

You can download the free YouTube application for S60 Symbian based phones here.
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Nokia N5800 XpressMusic Touchscreen - Nokia ‘Tube’ Specifications & Pricing Become Official

2009-04-11T04:22:00.000-07:00

Speculations arise as talk of Nokia Tube’s unveiling is rumored to take place on 2 October 2008, in London. Although we can’t say that this is true, we can only hope that it is, as we are dying to know more about Nokia’s first touchscreen phone. Yes, it’s true, Apple may have started the trend and slowly but surely, all manufacturers are following hot on their heals.
Although many phones have surfaced with similarities to the iPhone, the Nokia Tube is said to be the closest competitor (So we are anxious to see if this is indeed true)

The Nokia Tube will be an S60 variety phone which will boast a 640 x 360 touchscreen. It will also include Wi-Fi and GPS capability and is rumored to have 3G too. The 3.2 megapixel camera should take some beautifully crisp images which you will then be able to Bluetooth to one of your closest friends (Or save to your MicroSD card!)
Although no pricing structures, for the Nokia Tube, have been discussed as yet, we have heard (yet again through the proverbial grapevine) that it should enter the market at a reasonable price and be one of the cheaper touchscreen varieties to be sold.
This is good news for Nokia lovers as well as all those who like the concept of touchscreen varieties but haven’t had the money to afford one yet – The Nokia Tube is your answer!

After a great deal of speculation, Nokia have officially detailed their new Nokia N5800 XpressMusic touchscreen cell phone – known as the Nokia Tube. Boasting a 3.2” 640×360 nHD resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio widescreen touchscreen display complete with tactile feedback, the Nokia Tube N5800 XpressMusic cell phone – which measures in at 111×51.7×15.5mm - comes with integrated 3.2 megapixel camera (complete with Carl Zeiss lens, autofocus, dual LED flash, 3x digital zoom and video capture capabilities up to 640×480 at 30fps) paired with a front mounted secondary camera allowing for video calling, an Alphanumeric and QWERTY keyboard (courtesy of the touchscreen) paired with handwriting recognition and, a ‘Dedicated Media Bar’ allowing for prompt access to the N5800’s image, video, music and web browsing features.

Motorola Evoke QA4 Touchscreen Cell Phone

2009-04-11T04:19:00.000-07:00

Whilst the Motorola Evoke QA4 has been known about for some time now (in fact, we’re talking since back in February) Motorola have remained wholly tight-lipped concerning the Evoke QA4- until now.

Billed as being ‘a socially-inclined device with a 2.8″ full touch-screen that keeps you constantly connected’, the Motorola Evoke QA4 cell phone comes with a 2.8″ WQVGA touchscreen offering a with a full touchscreen QWERTY keyboard (supplementing the slider style keypad) and, thanks to an integrated accelerometer, will automatically flip between landscape and portrait depending on the QA4’s orientation.

Offering quad-band CDMA as well as EVDO Rev A connectivity, the Motorola Evoke QA4 handset additionally comes with aGPS, stereo Bluetooth, a 2 megapixel camera whilst, in terms of storage, there’s 256MB onboard with any further required capacity coming in the form of microSD memory cards. Naturally, given the device’s ’social’ tag, the Evoke QA4 also comes with full HTML browser, RSS feed support and widgets allow quick access to online services such as social networking sites.

“We understand the importance of having a mobile phone that helps you stay connected simply and seamlessly with your friends and family, whether you prefer to talk, text or network,” said Mark Shockley, corporate vice president and general manager, Motorola Mobile Devices. “Motorola Evoke offers the cutting-edge convenience and instant gratification of a full touch-screen, intuitive online browsing and the ability to stay plugged in on your terms.”

There’s no word from Motorola at this juncture concerning either the Evoke QA4’s intended release schedule or unit pricing.

Samsung Mondi Mobile Internet Device Officially Unveiled

2009-04-11T04:17:00.000-07:00

Following on from an ealier leak (see: Samsung SWD-M100 Mondi Mobile WiMAX Device) Samsung have now officially unveiled their WiMax friendly Mondi Mobile Internet Device today which comes with the aforementioned WiMax as well as Wi-Fi capabilities and which is set to be released later in the year.

Details are a little on the sparse side - in fact we now have little more than was already leaked - however, Samsung have confirmed that the Mondi MID, which runs the Windows Mobile 6.1 OS and packs 4GB of built-in memory, sports a 4.3″ display and comes with a full slider QWERTY keyboard, integrated 3 megapixel camera with Stills and video capture capabilities, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and HDMI out. Additionally Samsung have also confirmed that the Mondi Mobile Internet Device comes pre-loaded with the Opera 9.5 browser as well as having access to push email, SMS, MMS and IM.

There’s no official word concerning specific availability at this time.

Kyocera G2GO M2000 & Kyocera Laylo M1400 Announced At CTIA

2009-04-11T04:12:00.000-07:00

Kyocera have unveiled two new CDMA, slider style cell phones at CTIA ‘09 in the form of the Kyocera G2GO M2000 (G2GO stands for ‘Good to Go’,incidentally) and the Kyocera Laylo M1400 both of which are being billed as addressing ‘a need for affordability and value in today’s challenging economy’.

The Kyocera Laylo M1400, which comes with comes in the format of a vertical slider and which measures in at 94.7 x 46.7 x 17.0mm and weighs in at just 90g, sports a 2.2″ QVGA resolution ‘contoured’ display for ‘edge-to-edge screen viewing’, integrated VGA camera, comes with Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, WAP 2.0 browser, is BREW 3.1.5 and JAVA enabled and, interestingly, even comes with a rear mounted slide-out self portrait vanity mirror. Yup, okay.

The Kyocera G2GO M2000, which measures in at 113 x 52 x 17mm and weighs 120g and which by far the more interesting and feature rich of the two, offers up a 2.4″ QVGA display, horizontal slider full QWERTY keyboard, 1.3 megapixel camera with onboard photo editing features, integrated accelerometer, built-in DAP capabilities with dedicated music keys and, along with WAP 2.0 browser and BREW 3.1.5 technology, comes with microSD card slot allowing for up to 8GB of ‘bolt-on’ storage capacity.

There’s no word from Kyocera concerning whether any specific US based networks have expressed an interest in carrying either cell phone at this stage.

iRiver P20 OLED Portable Media Player Gains Japanese Release

2009-04-09T11:50:00.000-07:00

iRiver have confirmed that their latest portable media player, the iRiver P20 PMP, which sports a 408 x 727 resolution 4.1″ OLED display and which offers 80GB of integrated HDD based storage capacity, will be launched initially to the Japanese market from 27 February.

As you’d expect from an iRiver PMP, the iRiver P20, which measures in at 79.7 x 130 x 20.5mm and weighs in at 300g, offers broad audio and video file format support - namely MPEG-1/2/4, Xvid, WMV, MP3, OGG, WMA and FLAC - as well as also offering PDF, TXT, HTLM and MS Office (up to 2003) file format support whilst also throwing in an FM tuner and voice memo functionality into the equation.
The iRiver P20 is set to retail at 39,890YEN - which equates to around $443 as at the time of writing - though there’s no word yet with respect to international release dates so, if you want one presently, you’ll have to import it yourself or find an outlet that’ll import it for you at a premium.

iPod Nanos Of The Rainbow - Be You. Be Unique. Be Colourful!

2009-04-09T11:48:00.000-07:00

What’s better than an iPod nano? A NEW iPOD NANO, that’s what! These new iPod nanos are not only upgraded from the original but are also featured in a myriad colouirs (much more my style!)
These new colour-burst nanos have been released with a new wide screen for watching newer online content. They also work off an accelerometer which helps change the screen size. It also has a shake shuffle ability to change song titles.
The unit may boast upgrades but this doesn’t mean the earbuds haven’t seen a change. This time around they have navigation controls built-in to the cord as well as a microphone for the recording feature.
The new models will be available in 8GB and 16GB bodies and they will set you back about $150 for the 8GB and $199 for the 16GB. Not bad considering the new features and beautiful colour options available.
Ok, well, I’m off to grab a gorgeous purple one! Catch you on Monday with more awesome reviews!

Iogear Release GMD2025U120 120GB Portable Digital Media Library

2009-04-09T11:44:00.000-07:00

Released without pomp or ceremony, Iogear’s GMD2025U120 Portable Digital Media Library (or screenless PMP if you prefer – though this sounds far less flattering) is an interesting device that allows you to store a host of digital audio and video media content on its integrated 2.5” 120GB SATA hard disk allowing you to move your digital media library around for playing on external AV equipment and, of particular note, is the devices ability to upscale video content to 720p HD resolution for viewing on HDTVs or notebooks.

Supplied complete with remote, Iogear’s GMD2025U120 Portable Digital Media Library offers MPEG-1/2, DivX and Xvid as well as MP3, WAV, VOB and JPEG format compatibility and can even playback copied (aka ripped) DVDs complete with fully functional menu systems and subtitles (hence the device’s product page featuring a rather lengthy reminder concerning copyright restrictions related to commercial material).
The Iogear GMD2025U120 comes with standard and RCA as well as component RCA connections for hooking the device up to non-HD TV and HDTV units respectively and RCA left/right audio connectors for linking the device with HI-Fi equipment and a USB 2.0 port facilitating the easy transfer of material for PCs.

Capable of storing up to 34,000 digital photos, 30,000 MP3s (or 3,000 songs in uncompressed CD quality format), 9 hours of Digital Video (DV) or 50 hours of DVD quality video Iogear’s GMD2025U120 Portable Digital Media Library is due for release imminently and will retail for around $350.

Portable Digital UV Monitor Helps You Tan Safely

2009-04-09T11:29:00.000-07:00

These days few of us are not aware of the harmful effects of too much exposure to the sun’s UV rays both in terms of premature aging of the skin and skin cancer but it can be exceedingly difficult to gauge just how much exposure is within safe limits at any given time on any given day – that’s where this clever Portable Digital UV Monitor complete with LCD display comes into play.

Capable not only of offering you a dynamic readout of the current UV index thanks to its Ultra Violet Radiation Meter – as well as the temperature and even the current time - the Portable Digital UV Monitor can also advise which SPF of sun cream you should opt for given the current UV index and your skin type and can even use this information to offer a timed optimal exposure period complete with alert to warn you if you begin to exceed safe exposure limits.

Ideal for those of us who rarely see the sun except when we go on holiday (only to invariably be caught out to some degree however safe we try to be) the Portable Digital UV Monitor could also prove especially useful for those with young children who want to ensure that their sensitive skins are protected.

The Portable Digital UV Monitor retails for a mere £25 (roughly $49/€32 at the time of writing).

Aduki Ni Rechargeable Metallic Bean Glow Lamps

2009-04-09T11:28:00.000-07:00

Designed for indoor and outdoor use, these metallic beans offer six to eight hours of smooth colour changing action on a single charge and, in being weatherproof, could prove to be the ideal accompaniment to a garden rockery or just as decorative items.
Retailing at £29.96 further details, as well as a video of these Metallic Bean Glow Lamps in action can be obtained from Glow Gadgets.

Bizarre Pig Gas Lighter Snorts Flames and Farts Inversely

2009-04-09T11:27:00.000-07:00

As far as lighters go this pig styled gas lighter is one of the oddest we’ve come across here at TFTS – still, if getting a light from a swine is something that appeals to you I suppose that this particular gadget will prove rather more productive than venturing to your local farmers field in a bid to locate descendants of the fabled fire breathing dragon pig.

The Pig Lighter works by clicking back the pigs hat (we assume that’s what it is – not that a pig wearing a hat makes many particular sense either) – to operate the battery powered ignition on which the pig will produce flames via each nostril.

As for refilling the lighter, it’s a simple job of pushing the refill nozzle into Mr Piggy’s rear end (remembering to wash your hands thoroughly afterwards).

Save for a Rainy Day with a Poodle Money Box

2009-04-09T11:24:00.000-07:00

Personally I’ve never especially associated poodles with savings. In fact, come to think of it, I’ve never even thought of dogs in general as being repositories for spare change. No, from an early age I was taught that if you wanted to save money you either used an bank or, for lesser sums, a pig – the benefit of using the latter being that I’ve yet to receive a patronising letter from a piggy bank who then charges me an exorbitant fee for the privilege.

In reality I don’t suppose that storing coins in a poodle bank is any less bizarre than the notion of dropping spare change into a pig but, thanks to somewhat flawed conditioning I received as a child, I learned that should I wish to save I should put my spare coins into a pig for safekeeping. It was unfortunate that the local farmer didn’t especially like me feeding money to his livestock (though it was tolerated with a bemused smile right up until the point that I tried to recover my savings). We moved from the country following that unfortunate episode. Apparently the pig never quite recovered and went on to become a component in a breakfast sandwich (I’m racked by guilt to this day).

Portable Telescopic Pocket Cup with Pill Box

2009-04-09T11:23:00.000-07:00

Serving as yet another example of how intelligent design - though not quite as cool as this tripod Instant campfire Concept - can lead to practical, uncomplicated products that make you wonder why no one had ever thought of it before – and why that person wasn’t you – this clever collapsible drinking glass is assembled telescopically so as to allow storage in the tightest of spaces.

Ideal for camping expeditions and picnics, or just to tuck away in your bag in the event that it’s needed, this clever accessory comes as a set of two retailing for £12.55. And, for those of you who lead busy lives but need to take regular medication, there’s even an integral pill compartment.

O2 Joggler Touchscreen All-in-One Family Wireless Multimedia Hub

2009-04-09T11:21:00.001-07:00

O2 have just announced the up and coming availability of their new Joggler touchscreen device which is billed as a ‘first-of-its-kind device which will transform the way families manage their busy lives’ though, in fairness, bears many similarities to the previously featured iRiver Wave-Home in serving as a multimedia, internet and communications hub that O2 describe as being designed to ‘keep the whole family connected’.

The O2 Joggler comes a with 7″ touchscreen and connects to your home broadband either via its Ethernet port or wirelessly and, apart from serving as a digital organiser capable of storing birthdays, appointments and important dates which you need to be reminded of (via text messages to your phone as well as via the units display) also offers calendar and alarm clock functionality, digital audio and video playback (either directly from the device or streamed via your home network) as well as serving as a digital photo frame, basic gaming device and, thanks to its internet connectivity, can also display weather, news and sport (via Sky News) and traffic information though there’s no indication as to whether it can display user defined RSS feeds.

“We’ve developed the O2 Joggler with today’s busy families in mind. It has been purpose built to help families better organise their lives.” Said Alistair Johnston, Marketing Director, Telefonica O2 UK, who introduced the O2 Joggler which is set to launch in the UK from early April and which will set you back around 150GBP or, if you prefer, can be picked up free if taken instead of a handset at upgrade if you’re an O2 Pay monthly customer on 18 or 24 month contract (though O2 also state that ‘Pay & Go customers can apply their upgrade discount to the cost of the device’).

Orange Tabbee Wi-Fi Internet Tablet & Family Organizer

2009-04-09T11:19:00.000-07:00

Back at the beginning of March we featured the new O2 Joggler touchscreen internet tablet (or ‘All-in-One Family Wireless Multimedia Hub’ as we referred to it) and now, not to be outdone, Orange is hitting back with their newly announced Orange Tabbee Wi-Fi Internet Tablet which, like the aforementioned Joggler, comes with 7″ touchscreen display, Wi-Fi connectivity and broad multimedia support.

The Orange Tabbee, unlike the Joggler, is not restricted to desk usage in serving as a true tablet device complete with docking cradle - which also serves to charge the device - and as well as offering internet access to allow for basic browsing or access to news, weather, traffic, stocks, etc information (no word as to whether it supports RSS feeds - we assume it does) whilst also offering broad multimedia support allowing the device to show videos, play digital audio and even act in the capacity of a digital photo frame (loading media from SD memory cards or via USB flash drives thanks to its built-in SD and USB slots).

On and above the capabilities outlined above, the Orange Tabbee is also billed as offering a number of family friendly features such as message board functionality which will serve rather nicely as a sort of digital post-it note (especially handy to remind the cat to feed the husband whilst you’re out).

The Orange Tablee is set to become available to Orange customers in France in Q2 of this year for around 300 Euros (roughly $402) though, at the time of writing, Orange are yet to confirm any specific release details with respect to the UK market.

Takara Tomy Space Invaders Piggy Bank

2009-04-09T11:17:00.001-07:00

If you’re looking for a money box that’ll serve to inspire your children to save, or perhaps you’re a classic gaming fan who would happy part with small change for a quick game of Space Invaders, this Takara Tomy Space Invaders Piggy Bank may appeal.

Billed as offering enough space for up to 80 coins, the Takara Tomy Space Invaders Piggy Bank is powered by three AA batteries and, whilst the product listing is a little coy when it comes to detail, the website does at least confirm that it’s available now for 6,500 Yen (roughly the equivalent of $65).

Optimus Tactus & Optimus Maximus

2009-04-05T07:13:00.000-07:00

Each of the 113 keys is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it. Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language — Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc. — as well as of any other character sets: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity. Production date: the end of January 2008, price: 460$.

Duofone

2009-04-05T00:05:00.000-07:00

No one can deny the power of 2. Two heads are supposed to be better than one. The number 2 is the smallest prime number and the only even one. It’s also the most divisible number. If that weren’t enough evidence, 2 is the number of DNA strands that make up the double helix structure. The common denominator here is the number 2 denotes cooperation and that’s where the Duofone concept begins. The Duofone looks like any other slick concept but this time, it’s not about megapixels, or screen resolution, or even smartphone abilities. It’s about putting two of them together to combine their screen real estate. It’s about sharing each other’s battery power if one is low. It’s about increasing its abilities when paired with its partner. It even looks like a couple in bed when docked to its charging cradle.

Vodafone HTC Magic Delayed HTC Confirms 'Hardware Change', Vodafone Confirms Nothing

2009-04-03T07:15:00.000-07:00

If you’ve been waiting for Vodafone to release its first touchscreen only Android powered handset in the UK, namely the HTC Magic, and you’ve been building up your expectations in light of a previously touted April release we have bad news - the Vodafone HTC Magic will now not launch according to schedule.
The Android powered HTC Magic was supposed to hit Vodafone this April (ie, anytime now) but, whilst Vodafone are remaining silent concerning the delay, HTC have confirmed that ‘a last minute hardware change’ is to impact on the originally touted release date.

According to HTC the delay being occasioned by this ‘last minute hardware change’ will transpire to be a short one, however, they have not actually acted to give us an insight as to their particular definition of the word ’short’ and, as mentioned previously, as at the time of writing, Vodafone’s take on the HTC Magic’s delayed launch is seemingly not even acknowledge that the release of the HTC Magic on their network is at issue here (when it patently is, certainly according to HTC).
It’s always particularly inspiring when a company goes out of its way to keep it’s customer in the loop, isn’t it?
We’ll update you the moment Vodafone decide to say something, assuming that, ultimately, they’re going to have to what with HTC admitting that there’s an issue - though what the purported hardware change actually entails, and why it’s of sufficient importance to hold back the launch on Vodafone, presently remains a mystery.

MashiMaro MP3 Player [Distinctive LED Eared DAP with the Cute Factor]

2009-03-29T09:32:00.001-07:00

When it comes to MP3 players we’ve seen a fair few DAPs that break the mould in terms of originality (though not quite as many as those that patently haven’t) but this highly stylised MashiMaro DAP is, beyond all doubt, the most distinctive of them all.

Interestingly, its taken me over two and a half hours to hunt this down as I came across a tiny image of it on an obscure, wholly flash based Korean online store which simply refused to allow me to link through to the details (tried FF, IE, Chrome, Safari - no joy). But, having spent an age sifting through Korean stores (non of which I can understand) eventually I found it and, in all honesty, it’s been well worth the (considerable) effort.

Based on a fictional Korean character by Kim Jae In, the MashiMaro DAP, apart from its distinctive design, measures in at 54 x 38 x 38mm and comes with 2GB of onboard storage capacity and, in terms of file format support, takes in MP3, WMA,ASF,APE, WAV, ACT and OGG (the latter meaning it gets particular brownie points from us).

As is evidenced by the imagery, the MashiMaro DAP comes sans display (it’s seemingly becoming all the rage these days, isn’t it) and uses a somewhat novel means of control which basically boils down to moving it’s ears, which are lit by an integrated LED, to access navigation functionalities with the LED’s color changing between pastel blue and red hues to indicate whether the MashiMaro is playing or whether the hold function - accessed by a side mounted button - is activated.

The MashiMaro DAP comes in white, blue or the all too obligatory pink and is priced at the equivalent of around a mere $44 and, whilst, in terms of functionality, there’s little on offer here (it’s a rudimentary DAP at best) few would argue that it really is quite something else.

4GB GAME-800 PMP [Inbuilt NES/Famicom, Game Boy & Game Boy Color Emulator]

2009-03-29T09:30:00.001-07:00

Whilst Nintendo are still (apparently) working in the background on a virtual console for their DSi - which will allow users to play Game Boy and Game Boy Advanced titles on their DSi - along comes this inventively titled PMP, known as the GAME-800, which packs a integrated emulator allowing it to run NES, FC, GB, GBC, and MD games.

The GAME-800 PMP, which has obviously gone for the cheap and tacky look, and has positively excelled in this respect, comes with a 3.5″ 320 x 240 (QVGA) TFT LCD display, 4GB of inbuilt memory (which can be supplemented with SD cards), back mounted camera of unspecified resolution and, in terms of multimedia file format support just about ticks all the boxes (except for OGG). In fact, it’s a particularly comprehensive list comprising of MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, FLAC, RM-Audio, AMR, AAC+, RM, RMVB, AVI, WMV, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MPE, MP4, DAT, MOV, DAT, JPEG, GIF and BMP.

Add into this a TV-out connection, an onboard speaker, USB connectivity and a handy text to speech function that, to quote the product site, ‘will read out loud any TXT file in Chinese or English.’ (it adds, incidentally, ‘Other Romance languages can be read, but the pronunciation will very often be incorrect’ (sic)) and, looks aside, its reasonably hard not to be impressed with what this device has to offer.

Yes, it doesn’t quite look the part, though it does, in fairness, have an undeniable retro tinged appeal (apart from the iPhone/Touch inspired icons), but if you consider what’s on offer here and then factor in it’s price - a mere $80 - its an extremely hard feature rich PMP to criticise, however much you might want to.

Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)

2009-03-29T08:39:00.000-07:00

Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines

Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback

Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots

Books in Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered in less than 60 seconds; no PC required

Improved Display: Reads like real paper; now boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and even crisper images

Longer Battery Life: 25% longer battery life; read for days without recharging

More Storage: Take your library with you; holds over 1,500 books

Faster Page Turns: 20% faster page turns

Read-to-Me: With the new text-to-speech feature, Kindle can read every newspaper, magazine, blog, and book out loud to you, unless the book is disabled by the rights holder

Large Selection: Over 245,000 books plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs available

Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise

riGem USA Averatec D1133 All-in-One PC [Budget Athlon X2 Based AIO PC]

2009-03-15T11:27:00.002-07:00

Following on from Dell releasing its Dell Studio One 19 AIO PC, TriGem USA have introduced their new Averatec D1133 All-in-One PC which, unlike the Studio One 19 comes sans touchscreen option and, whilst reasonably featured, doesn’t quite match Dell’s new AIO in terms of clout.

“The new Averatec all-in-one PC represents the continued expansion of TriGem into the AIO market space,” said Henry Hewitt, vice president of sales at TriGem USA who introduced their new Averatec D1133 AIO PC. “We already command a strong presence in the market with the earlier introduction of the 18.4-inch Intel Atom-based AIO. This new system is designed with features and capabilities for handling more challenging computing tasks and taking advantage of enriched content increasingly being delivered by popular online news, sports, entertainment and social networking sites.”

The TriGem USA Averatec D1133 All-in-One PC comes with an AMD Athlon X2 3250e 1.5GHz dual-core processor under the hood, integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics, 2GB of DDR2 memory, a 250GB HDD and SuperMulti 8X Dual-layer DVD/CD reader-burner whilst, display-wise, you’re looking at an 18.4″ 1680 x 945 resolution 16:9 widescreen display.

As you’d expect, 802.11b/g wireless and 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet LAN is in evidence as well as stable AIO fair such as a built-in 1.3MP camera.

The TriGem USA Averatec D1133 All-in-One PC, which runs Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, is set to commence shipping around April/May and carries a MSRP of just shy of $600 (making it less than half the price of the Dell Studio One 19 AIO).

Saitek Cyborg Gaming Keyboard – the Definition of Complete Design Insensibility

2009-03-15T11:25:00.002-07:00

We featured Saitek’s new Cyborg Gaming Mouse only a few posts back and, whilst we thought that Microsoft’s new Sidewinder probably won out in terms of desirability, we were not averse to the curious styling of Saitek’s new gaming mouse – however, the true cannot be said of Saitek’s frankly hideous Cyborg Gaming Keyboard.

Looking like part of a control panel pulled out of a crash site somewhere near Area 51, if the pre-requisite of the Saitek Cyborg Gaming Keyboard was to look different then certainly Saitek can rest easy knowing that they have achieved their goal – but to what end?

With important gaming keys (W,A,S,D, spacebar and cursor keys) being metal coated and a series of function keys arranged down each side, the keyboard looks like a hotchpotch of differing, wholly uncomplimentary designs hastily pulled together with a (frankly cheap looking) series of multicoloured backlit displays being squeezed in at the top of the keyboard seemingly just to ensure that this design will be noticed - if even only on account of its complete design insensibilities.

Aimed, we can only imagine, at the younger PC gaming fraternity we like to think that even young gamers suffering from the side effects of spot-inducing hormone overloads will be able to see through the haze of adolescence and realise that this is, truly, one (if not the) most visually offensive, ill-conceived and frankly hideous keyboards to have ever seen the light of day.

The Saitek Cyborg Gaming Keyboard retails for around $80 According to my view this is very unique and modern product which is easy to use and very econoimical. A lot of qualities are hidden in this product.

Curious Simulated Grass Mats Brings the Outdoors Inside – Complete with Daisies

2009-03-15T11:23:00.002-07:00

Whilst no where near as geeky as the previously featured Animated Space Invaders Doormat or the Globright Digital Doormat, this curious artificial grass doormat, which comes complete with artificial daises (seriously), is sure to raise a smile from those visiting your humble abode.

Okay, agreed, an artificial grass mat could be seen as being rather tacky but, for some reason, we find ourselves rather drawn to the quirkiness of it and besides, could you imagine a whole room fitted with these? Nope, we can’t either. Still, let’s look on the bright side - at least that’s this month’s featured mat post done and dusted (how was it for you?).

The Artificial Grass Mat retails for $16.95. According to my view this is very unique and modern product which is easy to use and very econoimical. A lot of qualities are hidden in this product.

Budget Dot Matrix LED Wrist Watch [Proves You Get What You Pay For]

2009-03-15T11:21:00.002-07:00

Regular readers will know that we’ve had somewhat of a problem with many of Tokyoflash’s latest offerings and, whilst we’re not about to do a sudden u-turn (we still think they’re becoming increasingly over gaudy and decidedly uncool, sorry), it’s budget LED wrist watches such as this offering from Dealextreme, known as the Leather Band 29-LED Dot-Matrix Fashion Wrist Watch, that at least put things into stark perspective.

Interestingly enough, it would seem that even Dealextreme really have no time for this budget LED wrist watch either as, whilst their product descriptions are well known to be sparse affairs, this particular product doesn’t even get the couple of sentences we’ve come to expect. That’s right, there’s no description at all.

That said, it’s not exactly difficult to fathom quite what this budget LED watch has to offer. It tells the time using LEDs. It displays the date (with LEDs) and (are you ready for this?) it even lets you know whether its AM or PM (with LEDs) - helpful for those semi-conscious early mornings following a particularly heavy session down the local watering hole.

Thankfully, all is not lost, as at least Dealextreme have at least been bothered to let us know the financial outlay required to own this gem of a timepiece - $9.65. Now you will ensure you form an orderly queue, won’t you? According to my view this is very unique and modern product which is easy to use and very econoimical. A lot of qualities are hidden in this product.

Sony Ericsson T700

2009-03-14T14:11:00.002-07:00

Sony Ericsson T700 (Remi) officially Unveiled. Sony Ericsson T700 (Remi) is a 10mm slim bar cell phone. it comes with built-in stereo speakers and 3.2 megapixel camera. It has a metal finish casing and support GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 UMTS/HSDPA 2100 network. Sony Ericsson T700 is going to be available in quater-4 this year with three colors for you to choose from silver or black. According to my view this is very unique and modern product which is easy to use and very econoimical. A lot of qualities are hidden in this product.

Sony Ericsson MBS-200 and MBS-400 portable speakers

2009-03-14T14:10:00.001-07:00

Sony Ericsson MBS-200 streams music from your phone via Bluetooth. Features - single Wireless portable speaker and Mutes if there’s incoming call. MBS-400 is more stronger than MBS-200, as it comes with 2 speakers and available in selected markets in Q4 2008. According to my view this is very unique and modern product which is easy to use and very econoimical. A lot of qualities are hidden in this product.

World’s Smallest USB drive by Kingston

2009-03-14T14:09:00.001-07:00

Recently kinston has released world’s smallest USB drive “DataTraveler Mini Slim Flash Drive”. It Measuring 1.5 inch x 0.6 inch x 0.25 inch and it is available in pink, blue and black colors, priced at 4.60 for 2GB and 7.90 for 4GB. getting pen driver smaller and smaller day by day,i think soon we will have a pendrive at the size of the USB connector and i guess that time we will face the problem of taking pendrive out from the USB port. According to my view this is very unique and modern product which is easy to use and very econoimical. A lot of qualities are hidden in this product.

Kingston Data Traveler Flash Drive 101

2009-03-14T14:08:00.001-07:00

Kingston’s swivel cap plug and play DataTraveler 101 is a convenient flash drive for the budget-conscious with no compromise on quality or features. The flash drive, comes in four colors pink, red, yellow and cyan - is simple, small and measures only 55.8×17.3×9.5mm.

The Kingston Data Traveler Flash Drive 101 available in capacities up to 8GB, and is backed by a 5 year warranty. It is designed to function in sync with Hi-Speed USB 2.0 specifications. According to my view this is very unique and modern product which is easy to use and very econoimical. A lot of qualities are hidden in this product.

Price:
1GB - Rs. 499/- (approx $11.99)
2GB - Rs. 799/- (approx $19.99)
4GB - Rs 1,599/- (approx $39.99)

800HP Iconic GTR Roadster

2009-03-14T04:30:00.001-07:00

Americas Iconic Motors claims to have built a new roadster weighs just 2,200 pounds and has eight tenths the torsional rigidity of a typical F1 car.
It is capable of reaching speeds of more than 200mph. With a 6.9L all aluminum V8 engine sending more than 800hp to the rear wheels and a power-to-weight ratio of 2.75lb/hp the car should reach 60mph in less than 4 seconds and easily eclipse the top speed claim. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.Unique features include patented door handles, a gas cap control system, a special gear shifter and custom door hinges.The Iconic Motor GTR Roadster is priced at $600,000.

Features
800+ Horsepower 420 CID (6.9 Liter) Iconic-Designed All Aluminum V8
200+ mph
2,200 Pound Curb Weight

World-Leading Power to Weight Ratio of 2.75 lb/hp or 727.3 hp per ton Formula One-Derived Racing Suspension
Torsional Rigidity Approaching 80% of a Typical Formula One Race Car.

AMD Launches World’s Fastest Graphics Card

2009-03-14T04:29:00.001-07:00

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Worlds Fastest Graphic Card was launched by AMD (ATI); comes with 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power.

These cards comprise the ATI Radeon HD 4800 X2 series, combining two ATI Radeon HD 4800 series GPUs with a more advanced cross-GPU connection based on the PCIe 2.0 standard, plus two gigabytes of memory.

X2 series perfectly suited for the most demanding games.

Based on an advanced 55nm design and leading DirectX(R) 10.1 support it delivers engineering elegance and the industry’s most compelling feature set.
It is immediately available from e-tailers worldwide priced at USD $549 SRP, while the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 is scheduled to be available in September at an estimated price of USD $399
Key Features

2 GB of GDDR5 memory
2.4 teraFLOPS of GPU power
DirectX 10.1
1600 stream processing units
2 x 256-bit memory interface
24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
Dual mode ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
PCI Express 2.0 support
Dynamic geometry acceleration
Game physics processing capability
ATI Avivo HD video and display technology1
Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for Blu-ray and HD Video
Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
DVD Upscaling
Dynamic Contrast
Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
Integrated DisplayPort2

Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

Aston Martin One-77

2009-03-14T04:27:00.001-07:00

The above is the Aston Martin One-77 which is going to cost you 1 million (thats about $1.9 mil) to get one. It is UK automakers latest flagship model; featuring the 7.0-liter V12 engine, a carbon fiber chassis and a handcrafted aluminum body. The One-77 boosts from 0 to 60 at 3.5-seconds and capable of achieving 200 mph; with stunning design to create possibly the worlds most desirable automotive art form.

It’s a very special car for customers who want to take the bespoke experience to a higher level,” company chairman David Richard told Autocar. “Every car will be entirely individual.”

As for Aston Martin’s decision to build just 77, it’s said to have stemmed from Bez’s belief that seven is a lucky number. It certainly is for those fortunate enough to get one. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

The Sun Table

2009-03-14T04:23:00.004-07:00

Its solar-power generating table that keeps your portable devices charged. Its made of steel and teak, takes about four hours of direct sun exposure to get all charged up. It has a voltage meter that displays the voltage of the battery, and the hour meter displays the total hours the table has been ON and the stainless steel legs are resistant to weather. It offers power enough for more than 4 hours of laptop use.You can pick up the Sun Table for Just $2,200. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

Goldstriker’s iPod 4G and Touch 2G

2009-03-14T04:23:00.001-07:00

Goldstriker has appered the new 2 new gen iPods addled in 24ct gold and 18ct white gold. The iPod Nano 4th gen will be priced starting 349 while the iPod Touch 2nd 449. Anyone accepting one? Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

LG KC780 announced!

2009-03-14T04:22:00.001-07:00

It has already been confirmed earlier in October month and now LG has officialy Announced it The LG KC780 another 8.0-megapixel camera Cellphone. This 13.9mm blubbery slider comes with 2.4″ display and comes without 3G, congenital in WiFi and GPS, so i think it should be kind affordable.

Focusing on its camera, a Schneider-Kreuznach certified lens is acclimated for the camera with a best of 8.0-megapixel resolution and 1600 ISO. The Face apprehension affection is able too which automatically finds and focuses on peoples faces to booty a ablaze and absolute shot. Part of this affection relies on the LGs Smile Apprehension technology, this smile apprehension will admit the bend of peoples mouths and
acclimatize focus for faces and a Beauty Mode will advice in removing spots and imperfections on peoples faces ~ to ensure faces arise ablaze and ablaze in photos. No anguish of too ablaze as the SmartLight ambience will fix that problem. And the best importantly, an congenital Image Stabilizer is equipped, allows user to booty ablaze and aciculate photos alike in all-a-quiver situations.

In addition, the phones camera can additionally be acclimated as a webcam for online chat, no USB cable needed, the buzz will be affiliated to computer via the phones Bluetooth which they alarm it Smart Bluetooth. This Smart Bluetooth additionally allows user to accelerate and apprehend argument letters via computer. The LG KC780 will be accessible in November starting Europe after accretion to Asia and CIS , including Thailand, India, Hong Kong and China. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

Canon SD990 IS Digital Camera

2009-03-14T04:19:00.004-07:00

This is the latest 14.7-megapixel camera from Canon, the Canon SD990 IS Digital Camera. The Canon SD990 comes with a 2.5-inch LCD with the firms new Quick Shot Modes for faster bang speeds. You can accept from silver, black, and red. It will be accessible in October 2008 for $399. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

K95 waterproof USB drive

2009-03-14T04:19:00.003-07:00

Moscow’s Man Works Design a new waterproof USB drive K95. K95 comes in shape of submarine and it is available in 1GB and 2GB, you can choose one for you from White, Green, Red Black colors. Still no words on pricing and availability. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

G3 Waterproof Digital Camera by GE

2009-03-14T04:18:00.003-07:00

New G3 Wp waterproof digital camera has released by GE.

Features

Waterproof to 10 feet
12.2 Megapixel sensor
4x optical zoom
Auto Scene Detection
Pan-Capture Panorama
ISO 3200

A 2a7-inch LCD with an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts its brightness.Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

Philips Portable USB Speaker System

2009-03-14T04:18:00.002-07:00

Here is Pocket size Portable Speakers by Philips. Each speaker comes with inbuilt bass pipe emphasizes low tones for realistic, clear sound. with philips portable usb speaker system you also get a stereo sound when speakers placed apart. Philips portable speakers priced at $18.85. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

Motorola announced MOTO Q11 smartphone

2009-03-14T04:16:00.000-07:00

Motorola has appear their new MOTO Q11, an affordable smartphone without 3G support. However this mobile phone does comes with chip WiFi connectivity. It is active on Windows Mobile 6.1 and users can personalize their homescreen and accord all contacts, agenda items and email. The MOTO Q11 is accepted to be accessible by December 2008. Specifications below.

MOTO Q11 Specifications:

Talk Time: Up to about 450 minutes
Standby Time: Up to about 195 hours
Bands/Modes: Quad-band GPRS/EDGE Class 10
Camera: 3 megapixel, LED Flash
Memory: 128MB Flash, 64 MB RAM, optional microSD card up to 32GB
Weight: 115g
Dimensions: 117 x 64 x 11.7 mm
Battery: 1170 mAH
MicroUSB/USB 1.1, Bluetooth Class 1 v2.1 wireless technology
Display: 2.4? 320 x 240 TFT 262K
GPS, aGPS, WiFi
Windows Mobile 6.1

Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

Sharp New Pantone 830SH

2009-03-12T09:16:00.001-07:00

I adulation bright things like this. It wont be nice if you see one of them, but back they are calm they aloof attending nice, aloof like the new iPod Nano 4G. Sharp has appear its new HSDPA 3G adaptable phone, called New Pantone 830SH. The buzz will be absolution in Japan bazaar via Softbank on the 4th October, 2008. It has 15 altered colors for you to accept from - accessible in excellent blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, red, active pink, purple, lilac, navy, white, black, silver, gold and blush gold. The New Pantone 830SH comes with a .4-inch affectation with 240 x 320 resolution, 2.0-megapixel camera with auto focus and abutment up to 4GB of microSDHC card. Just feel like accession all of them! Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

Philips M200

2009-03-12T09:15:00.000-07:00

Philips M200 is a bonbon bar buzz that runs on dual-band GSM 900/1800 MHz networks. It has a 65k colors, 1.8 inches awning at 128 x 160 resolutions, GPRS, WAP 2.0, USB 1.1, 3MB anamnesis with microSD agenda slot, FM tuner and chip music amateur with music key. Other basal appearance accommodate Alarm clock, calculator, calendar, bill converter, and stopwatch. The alone affair that absent out is the camera. Yup, this buzz has no camera. While its Li-Ion 1050-mAh array will absolutely accord you some austere talktime. No words on appraisement and availability. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

World’s 1st 3D Mobile Phone Screen

2009-03-12T09:14:00.004-07:00

Meet the worlds first 3D mobile phone screen being developed by KDDI is still under development as a prototype. It is a 3.1-inch 480 x 800 WVGA LCD which uses parallax barrier method that divides images or video separately for the right and left eye. No release date yet finalized. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.

USB-powered Mini Fan

2009-03-12T09:14:00.001-07:00

This is a simple carriageable fan which is powered by USB or 3x AAA batteries. One will amount you alone $6 and you can Choose from Yellow or Black. More Pics after the break. Accordint to my view its a very unique product which have no comparison in world trade market.