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Old and busted: e-ink; New hotness: e-skin

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E-ink is cool, sure, but it’s still largely a black-and-white technology. Philips Research has moved into the color realm with what they’re calling e-skin. “The first applications using the technology could be e-skins for small devices such as MP3 players or cell phones.

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Aluratek Libre eBook Reader PRO

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Aluratek, will be making a Christmas Gift affordable when they launched the Libre eBook Reader PRO recently. The Libre eBook Reader is priced at $179 and supports ePub, PDF, TXT, Mobi, PRC and RTF file formats.

Samsung SPF-800P 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame

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Samsung has graced us with the presence of a new digital photo frame. It is the Samsung SPF-800p Digital Photo Frame which sports a 8-Inch LED backlight display with a 800 x 480 resolution.

Cubic Timer

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The Cubic Timer is a unique timer that has a small LCD display at the bottom, showing you exactly how much time there is left before the alarm sounds. It has presets for 5, 15, 30, and 60 minutes to countdown. Available in orange, yellow or white, the Cubic Timer is priced at $34 a pop.

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Apple introduces iPhone developer RSS news feed, takes time off from iTunes Connect

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Filed under: Internet, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touchLate yesterday, Apple introduced a RSS feed for news from the App Store Resource Center, which was introduced a few months ago, and gives iPhone developers news about what's going on with the App Store for developers.

Brando wrist battery turns you into Wonder Woman

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Like all Brando junk, this thing makes no sense yet makes perfect sense. It’s a battery that you wear like a wristband. The site has this to say: Have you ever had experiences that devices are running out of battery while in use?

2010 Digital Drive 10 Best Cars

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Technology is the difference that makes the biggest difference in cars today. They all ride pretty well and provide good crash protection (which are technology related). A lot of cars look alike because of aerodynamic profiling.

Digital Drive Car of the Year: BMW 7 Series

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The 2010 Digital Drive Car of the Year BMW 7 Series rides at the forefront of technology. Mainstream cars will offer in 5 or 10 years what the Big Bimmer provides today in the way of 0safety, entertainment, communications, navigation and efficiency.

Digital Drive Bang for the Buck Car of the Year: Ford Taurus

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The 2010 Ford Taurus runs second to the BMW 7 Series as Digital Drive Car of the Year. Call it the Bang for Buck Car of the Year, even if its price fully loaded hits $40,000.

Digital Drive Top 10: Acura TL

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The Acura TL, a 2010 Digital Drive Top 10 car, a midsize sports sedan, outdrives most every other car in the snow, rain, or at the track. The all-wheel-drive version comes with torque vectoring, or what Acura calls Super Handling All-Wheel-Drive (SH-AWD).

Digital Drive Top 10: Ford Fusion

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The one U.S. automaker that didn't take federal bailout money has the only two American cars to make the Digital Drive Top 10 for 2010. Coincidence? We think not. The sleeper car in our Top 10 is the Ford Fusion, and we're particularly fond of the hybrid version.

Digital Drive Top 10: Honda Fit Sport

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The Honda Fit earns a place on the Digital Drive Top 10 list as the best cheap car - cheap car that isn't boring to drive - with the right technology and the ability to fit in tiny parking spaces. Order the Fit Sport with navigation and you get stability control, a vital safety feature.

Digital Drive Top 10: Hyundai Genesis

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Korea is the new Japan (Think Sony and Samsung.) The Hyundai Genesis sedan is the new Lexus LS460. For $43,800, tops, you have an immaculately appointed sedan with a huge back seat and all the technology you'd want: navigation, real time traffic, iPod adapter, backup camera, rear sunshade, HD...

Digital Drive Top 10: Lexus RX 350 / Lexus RX 450h

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Let everyone else try to outdo iDrive with different cockpit control knobs. Lexus went with a joystick, called Remote Touch, on the Lexus RX 350 and Lexus RX 450h hybrid crossover SUV, and it is, to use a technical term, idiotproof.

Digital Drive Top 10: Toyota Prius

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The third generation Toyota Prius looks a lot like the second generation Prius, so casual observers assume only modest improvements lie under the sheetmetal. Wrong. The Toyota Prius' beauty is more than skin-deep.

Digital Drive Top 10: Volvo XC60

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Attention, jaywalkers, drunk pedestrians: The car you want to stumble in front of is the Volvo XC60 crossover. Its City Safety feature brings the car safely to a stop when it detects an object in front - human, animal, car - at speeds of 10 mph or less.

Digital Drive Top 10: VW Golf TDI / VW GTI

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This Digital Drive Top 10 award is a twofer, going to the economical Volkswagen Golf TDI diesel and, as long as we've got the Golf diesel in the winner's circle, the fire-breathing VW GTI that is based on the Golf. Both start with the nicely upgraded 2010 Golf chassis and interior.

Digital Drive Used Car of the Year: Infiniti M35 / Infiniti M45

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If you want current car technology cheap, look to a two- or three-year-old car coming off lease that hasn't had a major model change in the intervening years. Automakers go three to seven years between complete model changes.

Digital Drive Technology of the Year: Volvo City Safety

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What if cars could avoid all accidents under 10 mph? Volvo XC60 Volvo City Safety effectively accomplishes that. Its forward looking sensors scan for suddenly slowing or stopping motor vehicles as well as pedestrians and cyclists that get in the way.

Samsung rugged memory cards are water, shock & magnet proof

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It seems somewhat perverse – or at least flippant – to want to buy an SDHC card simply because it looks so swanky, but Samsung’s new consumer memory card range is cutting quite the dash with its champagne finish.

Mac 101: Keep an eye on the trash for auto-updated apps

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Filed under: Mac 101 More Mac 101, our series of tips and tricks for novice Mac users. This isn't so much an actionable "Here's how to accomplish X" sort of Mac 101 as it is a "Aha, so that's what's going on there" reminder.

2010 Digital Drive Honorable Mention Cars

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Five cars came oh, so close in the 2010 Digital Drive Top 10 cars competition. Some are previous winners that have been toppled by tougher, newer competition. Some have one or two outstanding features that belong on even more car models.

Study: Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day

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There’s a pretty interesting report that was just published today entitled “How much information?” It was put together by the Global Information Industry of the University of California at San Diego.

Adobe push ePUB tools in “closed Kindle” smackdown

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As the ebook wars hot up, Adobe are pulling out the stops to position themselves as the better long-term alternative to the Amazon Kindle.

Samsung SPF-800P Digital Photo Frame

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Samsung are launching a new digital photo frame called the SPF-800P that has an 8 inch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The display is backlit by LED and the frame uses what Samsung call UI 2.0 which according to Samsung is easy to use.

Sony PS3 3.15 Firmware Announced

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Sony have announced a new firmware release for the Sony PlayStation 3. The new firmware 3.15 offers a feature that allows you to copy content from one PS3 to another.

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