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Tiny USB Trackball

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The super-tiny trend continues and here is the latest example that shows us all that small gadgets is still a big thing: the 800 dpi USB mini trackball. This new USB mini Track-Ball comes with a retractable USB Cable.

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O2 scores Palm Pre

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According to the Guardian, O2 has scored the exclusive on the Palm Pre for the UK. It’s been quite a while since we first saw a GSM variant of the Pre at MWC, but things have been quiet ever since.

Lighter USB Spycam with 2GB Memory

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This Zippo style lighter hides a spy camera that is capable of capturing video in a 640 x 480 pixel resolution at 16 FPS and store it as an AVI file on the 2GB large built-in memory.

Matthias Wandel’s clever shop-built solutions

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Computer programmer and woodworker Matthias Wandel is our kind of DIY'er--he studies problems in his own life and builds physical solutions out of his workshop, filled with machinery cobbled together from tag sales and pawnshops.

Transport TW – Magnet-powered vehicle for future city

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Designed by Harsha Vardhan. The 'Transport TW' a futuristic car that generates power from magnetic f..(more...

Industrial design on a tablet PC

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GottaBeMobile.com, which is dedicated to news & reviews of netbooks, tablet PC's, and all things multi-touch, has a new section called Real Users that looks at "how everyday people are using mobile technology to improve how they work and communicate."

Blackberry Aries is CDMA version of Gemini

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Blackberry Aries has surface at Cackberry. Nothing much known abour this RIM’s device but Blackberry Aries is the CDMA version of Blackberry Gemini and its official name will be Blackberry Curve 8530. Noords on which carrier will adopt the Aries.

$15 Phone With MP3/MP4 Debuts in Venezuela

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The $15 Vergatario is perhaps the world’s cheapest mobile phone. Aside from CDMA connectivity, the mobile features a VGA camera (0.3 megapixels) and an MP3 music and MP4 video player. It’s been out now in Venezuela for around two weeks.

Pirate Bay searching for justice, finds a bunch of biased judges instead

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Section: Business News, Web, Websites, Online Music/VideoSoon after the Pirate Bay founders were sentenced to over a year in jail and slapped with hefty fines, accusations began to fly that the judge sitting on the case was biased and the verdict should be overturned. Now the person appointed...

CrunchDeals: Mobo, CPU, 4GB of RAM, 512MB ATI Radeon for $140

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Pretty nice barebones combo over at Newegg.com today. You can get a motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a 512MB ATI Radeon video card for $140 after a $39 instant discount and $25 worth of mail-in rebates.

Microsoft to launch $80M anti-Google campaign

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A rumor today suggests Microsoft is planning to partly repeat its anti-Apple ad strategy when it launches a major new search engine. AdAge hears that Microsoft plans to spend between $80 million to $100 million advertising Bing, the final version of...

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Turn your Xbox 360 avatar into a cake-top figurine

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How many of you modeled your Xbox 360 avatar after yourself? Plenty of you, I’m sure. Not me, no. (Gotta be different.) My avatar, picture here, is named—yes, he has a name—Detective Bashyourbrainsin. He’s my idea of a rogue 1970s New York City police officer.

Dotz Cable Straps and Identifiers

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Dotz Cable Identifiers($10) have 10 reusable colored dotz that come with 24 ready to use punch-out i..(more...

Can you believe it? New Yorker cover done on iPhone app.

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Filed under: iPhone, Graphic Design, App Store, iPod touchLooking at the cover of the June 1 New Yorker Magazine it is pretty hard to believe that it was created with a US$4.99 app on an iPhone.The app is Brushes [App Store] and it allows painting on the iPhone /iPod touch screen using your fingers...

Toshiba TG01 coming to NTT DoCoMo, Telefonica

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Wireless providers NTT DoCoMo and Telefónica on Monday announced that the TG01 full touchscreen handset, Toshiba's first, will launch in their respective markets of Japan and Spain. The Japanese version, called PRO T-01A, will arrive sometime in June...

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CrunchGear Week in Review: The Last Burger Edition

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WTFLamp lights up counterintuitivelyThis isn’t the burger you’re looking for…Show the world you mean business with weiner dog ear budsPuppy-shaped speakers prove not all USB dogs have to hump or crunch to be cuteBehold a steampunk guitar ampInternational Playthings’ Ecotronic Mr. Robot Head is like...

Apple building server farm, secret lair in North Carolina

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Odds and ends, Xserve, AppleAs Mike mentioned in the news roundup yesterday, word is going around that the corporate overlords at Apple are planning to build a massive server farm in the state of North Carolina within the next decade or so. How do we know?

Because of the Nvidia Ion, Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 will be halfway decent

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Have you been following this Nvidia-Intel spat? Long story short: Nvidia suspects that Intel has been giving laptop manufacturers a sweet deal vis-à-vis Atom processors and Intel’s whole chipset+integrated graphics chip.

Lenovo: “High design, low price”

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When asked if Apple would ever produce netbooks, Steve Jobs was quoted as saying they didn't "know how to build a sub-$500 computer that isn't a piece of junk." So--does Lenovo know?

Shape-shifting bicycle prototype

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You don't have to sit through the entire two-minute video to get the idea, but German industrial designer Stefan Wallmann's position-changing Zweistil bicycle prototype is definitely worth a look.

iRiver B30 PMP has TV Tuner

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iRiver rolling out its B30 PMP on its Korean website. Sport a 2.8 inch QVGA screen, iRiver B30 packs T-DMB tv tuner.Available with 4/8/16GB of internal memoty, iRiver B30 also packs a microSD card slot to expand it. There are an FM tuner, Bluetooth 2.0and equalizer too.

Plug Mug with anti-theft device

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The Plug Mug($19) is a mug with a hole in it which renders it completely useless without its plug to..(more...

Strawberry Cake USB Hub

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Yes, it’s yet another one of those tasty looking food inspired USB hubs. This 3-port model is shaped like a chocolate covered cake with some juice strawberries placed at the top.

Lenovo introduces first Ion based netbook

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Section: Computers, Hardware, Netbooks Lat week we saw Asus’s Italy-only ATI GPU-equipped netbook. It looked to be promising, making it possible to do more graphically intense tasks than standard netbooks. Now it might seem a bit outdated, however, as Lenovo is finally bringing a...

Seagate Showcase DVR Storage Expander 1TB review

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As more and more Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) offer the choice of recording in high-definition, and more consumers decide to prioritize picture quality, the standard storage in most models simply can’t keep up.