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New Honeywell Thermostat Sounds Cooler Than Your PC

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Over the years, we've searched high and low for the craziest tech to sate your gear-craving jones. We call it "the Relentless Pursuit of Awesomeness." Today, I call your attention to Honeywell and the Prestige, a thermostat so technically advanced that it just slapped your thermostat in the face.

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Did Microsoft Cripple Bluetooth in Windows 7?

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Microsoft might be crippling Bluetooth support in an attempt to make money off a competitive product, the Wi-Fi-based media networking system known as DLNA. Microsoft has some explaining to do.

Testing Moblin V2 Beta for Netbooks

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Click to see the video Yeah.. It's beta... but Intel is the worlds largest Linux house if you count the devs.. and they have been doing this over 2 years..

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Steampunk USB Flash Drive

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Well, actually this Steampunk USB Flash Drive is no more than just a 4GB USB flash drive. But with some gear glued to its body, the Steampunk flah disk look unique and geeky. Of course you don’t want to put it in your pocket.

Palm Pre will be blind: no Visual Voicemail upon launch

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Well, Twitter has become the pinnacle of gossip, grapevine chatter, and frankly, just good ol’ breaking news.

Boxee on Apple TV: Don’t bother

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Boxee, the free fork of the stupendous Xbox Media Center (XBMC) project, certainly gets a lot of attention. And it's often mentioned in the same breath as the Apple TV, one of the platforms on which it can run. What isn't said is this: Boxee on Apple TV is not very good.

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Mac Lovers Pillow: Apple + Z

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Etsy, a site where artisans can sell their handmade items, is selling a pillow set to appeal to the Apple geek inside us: the Apple + Z or "Undo" keyboard command. The Apple pillow measures 12 by 16 inches, and the Z pillow is 12 by 12.

Live at AMD’s Austin overclocking event

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I'm eating lunch in the conference here in AMD's Lone Star campus while they're getting their custom cooling setup down to -250°F. Yes, -250°F, 120 degrees above absolute zero. Then they’re going to go for a couple world records while pouring liquid Helium onto the processor.

Sea & Sea MDX-Pro: Oh, it’ll waterproof your Canon 5D Mark II all right

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Time to break out the expense account, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Sea & Sea MDX-PRO 5D Mark II. It’s a fancy waterproof cover for the Canon 5D Mark II. It costs ¥280,000, or just under $3,000. Yeah.

Verbatim Color Nano Wireless Notebook Mouse revealed

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Verbatim announced their latest mouse offering today with the Color Nano Wireless Notebook Mouse. This mouse works with both Windows and Mac-based systems and uses 2.4GHz RF wireless to connect the device with your computer.

Yeah, all those Fallout 3 DLCs will be available for the PS3 soon

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Man, how did we miss this yesterday? Well, if you didn’t already know, all those Fallout 3 DLCs will be coming to the PS3 this year, with the first one, Operation: Anchorage, debuting in late June. The other two will be released thereafter, most likely at 4-6 week intervals.

MSI Wind U123 now on sale

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If you’ve been interested in a new netbook for quite some time but have been hoping for one to be released that’s within your price range, the MSI Wind U123 , just might be your answer.

Vanessa

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The photos by Vanessa(flickr user), I love them!

Testing Microsoft Surface

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Click to see the video Sadly they didn't let me open it...

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Hey, ladies. The JBL Roxy ‘phones are now available

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We just wanted to pass along a quick note to all three of our female readers. (hi Mom!) The Roxy-branded JBL headphones are now available in three different flavors: over-the-ear for $59.99, earphones for $39.99, and earbuds for $19.99. All of ‘em are done up in the urban surfer wannabe style.

Munster: Apple suppliers negotiating parts deals for sub-$700 tablet

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, RumorsIn a research note to clients, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster suggested that Apple is developing a 7-to-10-inch tablet priced at $500 to $700, perhaps ready for the public in 2010.

E-Reader iPhone App Rejected Because Users Can Download Kama Sutra

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Apple has rejected an e-book reader from its iPhone App Store because of the app’s ability to search for and download the Kama Sutra. Called Eucalyptus, the reader app doesn’t come with any content.

Nokia 6600i Slider packs 5MP camera

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Nokia introduced its Nokia 6600i slide phone. The Nokia 6600i slide is an upgrade of the Nokia 6600 slide released last year. Beside comes in a slighty different design, Nokia 6600i slide also pack a 5MP camera with dual LED flash while the original packs a 3.2MP camera.

Grimlock and Trypticon Transformer mice are cool

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Buzz is already starting to ramp up for the upcoming Transformers 2 movie, but who knew that everyday things like a computer mouse could take on a new form as well? These Transformers mice are certainly interesting, to say the least.

A couple of weeks with the Apple Wireless Keyboard (Yes, the one from last year)

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I'll keep this one short: If you took every keyboard ever made and condensed them to their most elemental parts you'd end up with the Apple Wireless Keyboard ($70). It's pleasant to type on (it feels just like the current MacBook keyboards).

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A photo frame for your pocket and desk

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Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App ReviewDreamStream [App Store] is a new piece of software for the iPhone and iPod touch that gives you a personalized wireless portable picture frame.

Thursday iPhone App Potpourri

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Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store, iPod touchMuch to the chagrin of many of our iPhone-less readers, TUAW receives a huge amount of mail every day from iPhone developers who are releasing new software or updates.

Mozilla introduces Jetpack, a new way for users to create add-ons

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Section: Web, Web 2.0, Web Apps, Web Browsers, Websites If you use Mozilla Firefox, as I’m sure most of you do, then you are probably familiar with add-ons, pieces of code that allows Firefox to perform different functions. They are all free to install and Mozilla touts that 1 billion...

Rejection: Apple hates (certain) books and whistling

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Filed under: Bad Apple, iPhone, App StoreIt seems like only yesterday Apple was surprising us with its App Store rejection antics.

A different kind of desktop publishing

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Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and endsWe all know Macs pretty much created desktop publishing in 1985 with the original Mac and the Laserwriter Printer. Now it seems, Macs are preferred by some criminals doing desktop counterfeiting.

Do you make chiptunes? Help us score these retro-videos.

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Here's the deal: Boing Boing has come into possession of some wicked footage of an anonymous Atari Computer Camp excursion that has everything you could ever want from grainy stock video: namely, yellowed and over-saturated money shots of retro-tech, and a bevy of over-eager and still-innocent...

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