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CIA ID students on GE’s OLED’s (in other words, student lighting concepts)

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As General Electric's Global Research Centers get closer to perfecting flexible, bendable OLED lights, GE asked industrial design students at the Cleveland Institute of Art to come up with some potential applications. The results: Flexible lamps, signage, wall lighting, safety uniforms, and others.

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The Walkman Turns 30

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Over at PCMag today, we're marking the 30th anniversary of the Sony Walkman by looking at the last 30 years of portable audio. Do you know who Andreas Pavel is, and why Sony paid him millions? Do you know what the Walkman was originally named on its first U.S. release?

Have you registered for WWNC 2009 yet?

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Filed under: Hardware, Odds and ends, Other Events, Developer, Apple HistoryIf you haven't registered yet, you'd better get moving since WWNC 2009 starts on July 31st! What? You don't know what WWNC 2009 is?

A (slightly) new look for MobileMe

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Filed under: MobileMeWhen I logged into MobileMe this morning, I noticed that my iDisk icon looked a bit different ... it now resembles the one representing the forthcoming iDisk app for the iPhone. It's not the only visual tweak to MobileMe.

Gold and Silver Lego Brick iPod Speakers

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We have seen these fun Lego brick iPod speakers before here on Geeky Gadgets, there is now a new version available coated in fake gold and silver. Each of these gold and silver metallic Lego brick iPod speakers is available for $25 from Delight.

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TiVo Offers “Dedicated” Customers $50 Off to Upgrade

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TiVo said Wednesday that it will offer "dedicated customers" the chance to upgrade to a new high-def version of their TiVo DVR, and provide a $50 discount to boot."

Quick Look: Lenovo Ideapad S10-2

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Guess what the Lenovo fairy just brought us! This is the new Lenovo S10-2, a $399 ultralight with a 10-inch screen, Atom processor, and six-cell battery. It weighs 2.2 pounds and looks pretty sassy. The S10-2 has three USB port, VGA-out, and bog standard audio-in and -out.

Jake Dyson’s motorized-aperture light fixtures

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Jake Dyson's Motorlights use a mechanical solution in place of a dimmer switch, incorporating two shutters that allow an arc of light from between 10 and 120 degrees.

We’re huge fans

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Don't let its size fool you--the latest product from Big Ass Fans, the 8- to 10-foot ISIS model, can reduce energy bills by 25-50%, yet typically uses the same amount of energy as a refrigerator bulb. How do they do it?

16GB microSDHC and 32GB SDHC cards from Lexar

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To accomodate the need of large capacity memory card for phone or camera, Lexar will release its 16GB microSDHC card which capable to store 4,000 songs inb average file size. While for SDHC card user, Lexar preparing even larger capacity card which now reach 32GB.

Hansgrohe Rainbrain Smart Shower let you Select Water Temperature, Music, and Lighting

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Hansgrohe Rainbrain's smart shower has a touchpad screen letting you control water temperature, the ..(more...

Einstein Sound Master Photon Ball iPod Dock

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Here’s a funky iPod dock, the Einstein Sound Master Photon Ball iPod Dock, which features a built in photon ball that creates lightening in a globe. It also has an AM/FM radio and an LCD alarm clock, if you want on they are available for $35.

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Apple Issues Heat Advisory for iPhone 3G, 3GS

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Whether or not anecdotal reports of iPhones overheating are true or not, Apple has taken them seriously enough to reveal the presence of a temperature warning screen for the iPhone 3G and 3GS.Here's the deal: an unknown but probably very small number of iPhones have been affected by overheating, to...

Win a Macbook Pro from MoonFruit

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MoonFruit, a free web-building provider, is celebrating its 10th birthday. To kick off the joyous event, the service is giving away 10 new Macbook Pros--one each for 10 days, that is. All you have to do is twitter about it.

Joost forced to change strategy, again

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Section: Video, Web, Web 2.0, Websites, Online Music/Video Three years ago when Joost launched it was only a desktop client that could be used to watch TV shows, mostly older ones. Later, with the huge success of Hulu, Joost decided to switch its model to a flash player similar to that of...

YOU IS WINNAR! The Pleo finds a home

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Wow. You guys wanted a Pleo. When we offered you one a few days ago I didn’t realize 707 people would comment wildly in hopes of winning a little green dinosaur. Well, there is a winner and he is… Long time commenter Tom Woolf. Thanks for reading, Tom, and enjoy your sassy little robot.

Last.fm free for Xbox Live Gold members

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Flexing their journalistic muscles, the crew at Joystiq have details surrounding Last.fm’s arrival onto Xbox Live, which was announced at E3 this year. It shouldn’t come as a surprise by now, but Gold members will have 24-hour access to the service that’s ad supported for free.

eMachines ET1300-02, ET1810-01 and ET1810-03 budget desktops

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eMachines have rolled out three new desktop PCs, and the color-scheme is decidedly white. The eMachines ET1300-02, ET1810-01 and ET1810-03 all have a mini-tower and use AMD’s Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz processor, Intel’s Celeron 420 1.6GHz and Intel’s Pentium dual-core E2210 2.2GHz...

Flower Webcam with 12 LEDs

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Yes, believe it or not, it’s yet another flower inspired gadget. This time it’s a lotus USB 2.0 web camera that will look great together with the daisy flower baby camera monitor. This Lotus-Shaped USB Webcam will give you a 640×480 resolution at 30 frames per second.

Dell sells 19-inch monitors in Taiwan for $15 by accident, may have to ship them

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Oopsies. Dell’s Taiwan website recently listed a 19-inch monitor for the equivalent of about $15 for eight hours before being fixed. Naturally, orders flooded in left and right and when Dell refused to ship the monitors, people complained.

Hoberman’s Transformable Screen for the U2 360 Tour

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Hoberman Associates has teamed up with Innovative Designs to create the Expanding Video Screen, a transformable elliptical screen for the U2 360º Tour.

I-O Data Latest 3TB External HDD

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Here is I-O Data’s latest 3TB external USB 2.0 HDD that looks like NAS with a dedicated passive cooling system (fanless). Known as the HDC2-U series, the hard drive contains two HDDs on the inside. The HDC2-U will be available in Japan in the middle of July for around 50,900 Yen ($527).

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TechSaver: Westinghouse LCD TV, Guitar Hero Bundle, McAfee Security

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The Walkman turns 30 this week and so does TechSaver, which started life as a blue ditto sheet stapled on an A&P bulletin board. The first deal? A SpaceMaker microwave oven.1. Shhh! This is going to be our little secret. Nobody has to know you paid only $483.99 for a Westinghouse 42-inch LCD TV.

Are You Using Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine?

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With the launch of Microsoft’s search engine Bing a few months ago, we’re starting to wonder if you’re using this new kid on the block.

Apricorn Upgrades iPod Storage Capacity

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If you’ve been looking for a solution to your iPod storage needs, then Apricorn has just the thing for you. The new Apricorn iPod Upgrade Kit will include a new 240GB of storage space as well as a new battery that will have your iPod Video turning over a new, fast leaf. And guess what?

Overpay Britannia: DJ Hero for $180 in the UK, but only $120 in the U.S.

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How much would you be willing to pay for DJ Hero? The latest news or rumors or whatever you want to cal it is that UK retailer ShopTo was apparently told by Activision that the MSRP of the game will be £107.99, or just shy of $180. That includes the turntable, of course.

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