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Imitation Eee Keyboard — not as slick, but still sweet

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There’s nothing truly special about the Eee Keyboard beyond the fact that Asus did it first. Sure, it took some fancy configuring to get the PCBs, RAM and everything in there, but if you were a dedicated DIY computer guy, you could do something similar.

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Kodak Easyshare D830 Digital Photo Frame

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We has been highlighting the Kodak EasyShare Series of devices here for a while now and today is the first entry for a EasyShare Gadget that is not a Digital Camera. We present the Kodak EasyShare D830 which is a Digital Photo Frame which allows you to use any ordinary 8″ x 10″ picture frame on it.

Original Futurama cast returning to the show!!!

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In case you didn’t notice, Peter Ha was a tad upset when news broke about Fox recasting Futurama. Good news though, a deal has been reached. The original cast is returning after agreeing to the “studio paying more and the actors accepting less” according to TheStar.com.

Acer B273HUbmidhz QWXGA 27″ LCD Monitor

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Here’s the latest 27-inch LCD monitor from Acer, the B273HUbmidhz. This widescreen monitor supports a resolution of 2048 x 1152 (QWXGA) and features 16:9 aspect ratio, 400 cd/m2 brightness, 40,000:1 contrast ratio (ACM), 5ms response time and 160-degree viewing angle.

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Harman Lexicon BD-30 Blu-ray Player

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Harman has released a high-end Blu-ray player this week. Dubbed as the Lexicon BD-30, the Blu-Ray player supports for just about everything including BD-Live, BonusView, DVD, upconverted DVD, DVD-Audio, SACD, CD and USB.

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Geek Weekend: Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN

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Wikimedia We’ve been getting requests from various citizens to feature their respective cities in our new Geek Weekend feature here on CrunchGear, so when a request came in for the Twin Cities, John asked me to write it up and I thought, “Oh, great. More work.” “Perfect!

Altek 8680 Phone, Packs 12MP camera with 3x Optical Zoom

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While big names bragging about their 12MP camera phones, Altek -a not-so-well known manufacturer from Taiwan- readying its super camera phone called Altek T8680.

Why Does the Best Design of 2009 Still Look Like 2000?

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We picked some of our faves for the latest IDEA Awards this week, but Valerie Casey's got a fun piece up about designers and their beloved forms. She was actually a judge on the thing, but noticed some conspicuous repetitions from the field.

Virtual Design Takes off at P&G

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"About 10 percent of the packaging in stores serves no useful purpose," says Tom Lange, Procter & Gamble's senior director of modeling and simulation. "It doesn't protect the product. It doesn't improve the customer experience. It doesn't do anything.

Open XML compatiblity issues spring up in Service Pack 2 update for Office 2008

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Filed under: Software, Productivity, TroubleshootingA few weeks back, Microsoft released its Service Pack 2 update for Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac.

The Chinese iPhone surfaces

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This, my friends, is probably what the Foxconn tragedy was about. Chinese iPhone From a WeiPhone.com: China Unicom will work together in China, pushing Apple’s 3G version of iPhone mobile phone is basically a fact, recent testing of the iPhone a mobile phone, from a...

Review: JVC Everio X GZ-X900

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What is the Everio X GZ-X900? Is it a pocket camcorder like a Flip? Is it a fully-fledged video camera? Is it a YouTube-uploading device? Is it a hybrid of all of these - and more?

iPhone exploit to end all iPhone exploits now fixed

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Go and update your iPhone! 3.0.1 is out and it fixes the SMS vulnerability that’s been whipped up into a security frenzy over the last couple days. Hopefully we’ll be hearing less about how impregnable Apple’s OSes are after this little event (and those other ones).

G.I. JOE The Rise of Cobra – The Game

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When I was a kid this cartoon could not miss me, now they have the movie coming to theaters soon and guess what? They have the game also! Yes! for Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS.

BlackBerry App World gets more App Store-ish

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Section: Business News, Apple, Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones RIM’s 1.1 update to its Blackberry App World has made it more like the Apple App Store. The update includes a free and a paid top downloads list and new categories and sub-categories. Also, customers can now...

Gadget Lab Comment of the Week #2

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For a four-week period, I’m awarding one Leatherman Freestyle CX to the Gadget Lab reader whose comment best contributes to this site.

Sneak Peek: 1Password 3.0 + secret beta-enabler tweak

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Filed under: Software, Reviews As Christina mentioned a while ago, 1Password version 3 is on the horizon, and we've got some sneak peeks to show you. There are some great improvements to the core, but more immediately noticeable are the visual tweaks to the interface.

Embedded motherboard

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As we know a motherboard is the central printed circuit board (PCB) in our desktop or notebook. But in some situation we need a special MB to fit into an unconventional case. When we face with such situation the answer is a embedded motherboard.

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Unintended consequences: Jay-Z’s ‘Death of Auto-Tune’ boosts sales of the software

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A few weeks ago, Jay-Z released the song “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” much to the delight of some corners of the Internet. It’s basically a song that rails against the proliferation of Auto-Tune, software that can alter/correct the pitch of someone’s voice.

Dear PR People: Think before you press send

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Ahh, summer. A time in which unpaid interns from all over the more expensive schools flock to New York to work as flacks.

Talia Radford’s futuristic water purifier

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Industrial designer Talia Radford's unusual-looking AquaIris water purifier concept, meant to be slung over a shoulder and carried with a strap, uses no electricity or conventional charcoal filters; instead a grid of "converter crystals"--lenses, really--is intended to focus the sun's rays into an...

Sony unveils PRS-300 and PRS-600 e-book Readers

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Most companies are making entry into the e-Book Reader business to give the Amazon Kindle some competition. Just the other day we saw Samsung making their way with the SNE-50K E-Book Reader, now here is Sony with the PRS-300 and the PRS-600.

Baseball Bat Pepper Mill

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Watch your heroes, and take this Baseball Bat Pepper Mill($50) for your BBQ. It is actual size of a ..(more...

Warhammer Online coming to the Mac

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Odds and ends More good news for MMO players on the Mac: Warhammer Online has joined the ranks of EVE and of course World of Warcraft by announcing the release of a Mac-compatible client.

MacBook Air-style netbook available in Singapore next week

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Take the MacBook Air, shrink the screen down an inch, slap in some netbook components, and load it up with Windows 7 Release Candidate and — drumroll, please — you’ve got the iiView A2 out of Singapore. Oh, and lower the price to $468. That’s kind of important there.

WildCharge add iPhone 3GS inductive charging

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Having tested – and loved – WildCharge’s wire-free charging system last year, we’re pleased to see that the company has updated their range of “skins” cases to fit the iPhone 3GS.

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