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One-of-a-kind Blancpain to be auctioned off to tanned men in boat shoes

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Have a little cash lying around? Pick yourself up a Blancpain one-of-a-kind watch at the Monaco Yacht Show. The watch will be sold at the Only Watch charity auction. It’s basically a 500 Fathoms with a translucent face to show the date wheel. Pretty, but not amazing. No big whoop.

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Cloud Telecomputer Glass slaps Android onto an awesome touchscreen desk phone

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We’ve seen Android on MIDs, Android on PMPs and of course Android on smartphones, so it should come as no surprise that the humble landline phone is next.

Interactive Board “Mæve”

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The interactive installation ¡°mæve¡± (MACE-Everyville) provides visual and tangible acces..(more...

Apple Posts MacBook Pro Hard Drive Fix

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Apple has posted Hard Drive Firmware Update 2.0, which will apparently solve the odd "infrequent" noises that some users had experienced with the June 2009 release of the MacBook Pro, according to Apple.

Acer Aspire One AO751h Review – 11.6″ HD Netbook

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It’s probably fair to say that we haven’t been particularly impressed with what we’ve heard about Acer’s Aspire One 751. The phrase “pretty but dumb” has been muttered more than once, an aesthetically pleasing machine but one lacking in processing power.

BioShock 2 won’t be launching in Q1 of 2010 [Update]

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Joytiq is reporting out of GamesCom that 2K will not be releasing BioShock 2 in Q1 of 2010. According to an unnamed 2K rep, a new trailer for the hottest game of 2010 will be shown at PAX East, which runs the last week of March. That makes me sad. Oh well. Update: Bloops.

Pink HTC Hero shows up in wild

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When it came to follow-up colors for the HTC Hero, we’ll admit to have expecting perhaps the dramatic red first shown in the leaked teaser video. A soft pink version didn’t really figure on our radar, but Paul over at MoDaCo has spotted the pink Hero in the plastic.

Rumor: Both Garmin-Asus nuvifones headed to AT&T

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Oh, nuvifone. How we loved you and forgot you. Now that almost every featurephone comes with GPS navigation, both of your models might finally launch on AT&T. Just think if you would have got your act together a year ago, you could have ruled the market before there was a market.

Designers Accord Charlotte Town Hall

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Designers Accord has organized another Town Hall, this time in Charlotte, North Carolina. An early adopter of the DA, BOLTgroup will be hosting the meeting at their offices on August 27th.

Samsung U450 Goes to Verizon

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Samsung U450, another QWERTY phone is heading to Verizon. Comes in a slider phone design, Samsung U450 has similar design with Samsung Gravity 2. According to Phone Arena, U450 packs MP3 player, Bluetooth and a 1.3MP camera.

Kohjinsha EX6 11.6-inch touchscreen convertible masquerades as netbook

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Somebody nudge Kohjinsha and tell them that their latest netbook, well, isn’t a netbook. The Kohjinsha EX6 may use an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor but with its 11.6-inch display, integrated optical drive and touchscreen – not to mention the $836 starting price – it’s...

Casio Exilim EX-Z450 and EX-Z90 Digital Cameras

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Casio have announced the launch of 2 new cameras from their Exilim range of cameras. The Exilim EX-Z450 and EX-Z90 cameras both feature a 12 megapixel sensor and are both slim in size. Both are also capable of capturing HD video at a resolution of 720p.

Handspree busts into the netbook party with the HannsNote

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Just in case you needed another netbook option, Hanspree is here to help. The company’s first entry into the netbook contest comes packed with the standard fare besides the somewhat large and sexy 10-inch LED-backlit LCD.

Dead head

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Ivan Mavrovic's creepy computer mouse give me the chills. [Steampunk Workshop]

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Bose announces new QuietComfort 15 noise cancelling headphones

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I don’t fly that often, but when I do, there are typically quite a few passengers that are wearing those Bose headphones to reduce the amount of noise in the cabin during the flight.

New software makes synchronizing your netbook with your desktop a snap

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I have several computers in my office from my desktop that I like to work on when I am at the desk, to my full notebook for heavy duty on the go work, to my netbook for the times when I want to go light. The big challenge for me is keeping the documents I need up to date on all the systems.

HP Mini 1000 gets touchscreen mod [Video]

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Touchscreen netbook mods aren’t new, but until the Heath Robinson spirit they channel ceases to entertain us, we’ll keep featuring them.

Canon PowerShot SD980 IS Digital ELPH Camera

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The Canon PowerShot SD980 IS Digital ELPH camera features a 12.1MP sensor with a 5x optical zoom, an ultra wide 24mm lens, a 3.0-inch touchscreen PureColor System LCD screen, and an optical image stabilization.

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Artistic movie characters sculpted in un-artistic material

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Fiction figures from the movies have always been inspirational entities for artists, sculptors and robot makers. We’ve seen the likes of Wall-E, Terminator figurines and Gundams in varying avatars mesmerizing us appreciators each time.

Canon unveils new wide format printer for office muckety mucks

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Once upon a time, I had a real job where I had to do horrible things like really work and wear pants to the office. Among the horrible things I had to do was schlep down to the local copy store when the boss wanted some large format document printed.

Quick Look: Plantronics Discovery 975

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I don’t use many Bluetooth headsets - I rarely drive - but I found the Discover 975 to be a welcome addition to the headset pantheon.

MSI X610 Laptop Emerged in Russia

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MSI X-Slim X610 laptop isemerged and moreover, 3D News already gets their hand on the X610. Apparently, MSI X610 is powered by a 1.6 GHz AMD Athlon MV-40 processor, 4GB of RAM, 250GB HDD and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics card.

Daily Crunch: Shoestring Diet Edition

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Step-by-step kitchen timer helps terrible chefs suck lessBritish steam-powered car poised to break speed recordBack to School: Wide World of RamenDroidify: An unofficial Spotify Android app to tide you overBack-to-School: Who are our new college freshman?

Final Countdown

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Man…I think I’m actually nervous about working again! How odd…you’d think I’d been off for several months or something. Oh yeah, I have been! Hope I remember how to do everything…. Today is all about laundry and planning lunches and stuff like that.

Windows Mobile App man switches to iPhone

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Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, MobileThis is rich. The very man whose job it was to encourage developers to create new and cool applications for Windows Mobile recently converted to an iPhone. Why? Apps. The only feature now touted by Apple’s advertising...

LG GD910 Wrist Watch Phone Launching August 27

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Orange have announced the official details of it’s launch of the LG watch phone (GD910). It will go on sale August 27th and cost £500 for pay as you go customers (non-contract). It appears that stock will be limited as Orange have restricted sales to just 1 per customer.

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