Meetings
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I’ve spent most of today in an executive board meeting, and I’m still not sure how I feel about that.
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Analogs: Joel Scilley’s “Audiowood” turntables
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Joel Scilley is a thinking man's carpenter, having grabbed an MA from Carnegie Mellon and a PhD in media studies from Pitt before heading back to the Bay Area to make handcrafted turntables. Like you do. Scilley makes some out of his "Audiowood" players out of burlwood that has a more organic feel.
Canon’s Spanking New Mobile Projectors
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Canon has rolled out two new mobile projectors for the Japanese market. The Canon LV7375 and the Canon LV8300 come with a carrying handle. The LV7375 provides 3,500 lumens and is equipped with a 7Watts mono speaker and a 230W lamp.
Xsight Touch Universal Remote Control
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The Xsight Touch is a new universal remote control in the market today that features a database of more than 3,300 unique brands and 285,000 individual codes. All you need to do is point and press the button to select a genre and brand of product.
New Apple iPod Shuffle Released
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Apple has released the new model of its iPod Shuffle. The gadget is now smaller that its predecessor and has no control wheel. The new iPod Shuffle adopts the VoiceOver feature that gives iPod shuffle a voice.
Habey’s Atom N270-powered Fanless Computer
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Habey has a new Intel Atom N270-powered fanless computer that is capable of handling 1080p content and Blu-ray movies. Known as the BIS-6550HD, the computer only needs less than 13 watts.
Recap: CrunchGear Live Podcast
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In case you missed it live, here’s what happened on today’s podcast. We talked about the following wildly entertaining topics: New iPod Shuffle The downfall of commercial radio The LG Cooky Rumors of a touchscreen Apple netbook John and Nicholas going to SXSW Removing stuff from Windows 7 A photo...
Lenovo Introducing ThinkCenter M58e and A58 Desktop PCs
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Lenovo Thinkcenter M58e is introduced as a PC designed for mid-market and larger businesses while Thinkcenter A58 for medium business clients.
Yale Student Sues Airline for $1M Over Lost Xbox 360
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Is your Xbox 360 worth $1 million? For a 21-year-old Yale student, the answer is yes. Jesse Maiman sued US Airways for $1 million after his tricked-out Xbox 360 console disappeared from his checked luggage, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Asus introduces the New U and UX Series Notebooks
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ASUS presented the new U and UX Series, a new range of notebooks that celebrate contemporary styling and effortless elegance.
Samsung Launches 1.5 Terabyte “EcoGreen” F2EG Hard Disk Drive
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Samsung today announced its new EcoGreen F2EG hard disk that delivers a massive 1.5TB of capacity with 500GB per disk. With increased recording density and reduced number of disks, the EcoGreen F2 drive is more power efficient by supporting a capacity up to 1.5TB with 3 disks.
iTunes gift cards cracked
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, Odds and ends, iTunes, Apple, App StoreThis seems like bad news for Apple, to say the least.
KLM and Air France roll out electronic boarding pass service
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KLM and Air France announced yesterday that they’ve begun rolling out an electronic boarding pass service throughout Europe. A six-month beta test occurred on the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris route and it was launched a month ago on the ‘La Navette’ flights.
Samsung SCH-r211 Now Available to Cricket Customers
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Cricket Communications and Samsung today announced that the Samsung SCH-r211 is now available to Cricket customers. The r211 is a sleek, modern bar style phone with an easy-to-use interface.
ASUS Unveils Wireless LCD Displays for Work and Entertainment at CeBIT
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ASUS unveils an array of innovative and energy-efficient LCD monitors that are geared not only to provide convenience to the user, but also protect the environment.
Hands On Preview: Nintendo DSi
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If you're a Nintendo DS person, you've probably already hoovered up all available information about the forthcoming DSi. Well, as is typical in life, reading about something and experiencing it are often very different.
How Vista Changed Everything
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Microsoft Vista is a polarizing operating system: folks either love it or hate it. I have yet to meet someone that said “Meh.
Meike’s 1.4x teleconverter spotted at PMA 2009, hands-on
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Having owned four 1.4x teleconverters for my birding outfit, I was excited to see a new candidate at PMA 2009. From previous report, we spotted a 3rd party battery grip for 5D Mark II at Meike booth, as well as a new a 1.4x TC available for both Nikon and Canon mounts.
Prototyping Canesta’s gesture-based television controls
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Design firm Kicker Studio did this case study for 3D sensor manufacturer Canesta, experimenting with ways to control home entertainment systems with motion-sensing cameras and gestures. Seems a perfectly reasonable way to do it, although I would prefer a much more subtle amount of motion.
Nokia announces 3 new XpressMusic phones: 5730, 5030, 5330
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Nokia hasn’t had the best luck with the XpressMusic line so far; the 5610 XpressMusic had bad screens, and the 5800 XpressMusic had no shortage of problems at launch.
The seven steps to jailbreak your iPod touch 2G
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The Dev Team has released a seven step process to jailbreak the 2.2.1 iPod touch firmware. Sure, it’s not packaged up in a nice and pretty app, but the steps don’t look to hard.
HUMMER with Wooden Wheels
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A HUMMER H3 with wooden wagon wheels. It was packed at outside the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Created by an artist named Matthew Harrison. He called "it's not a car, it's art...
Rumor: AT&T to drop Samsung A877 on March 29?
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Fire up the r-mill. An anonymous tipster has it that AT&T will launch the (dragon-scale green) Samsung A877 on March 29, 2009.
Rumor: New Canon Rebel slated for March 25 (but will it have a jog wheel?)
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Gather ’round the water cooler, provided your place of business still has a water cooler (get it, recession joke), for there’s a hot new Canon rumor flying about. It seems Canon may be readying the new Rebel, the EOS Rebel 500D, for a March 25 announcement.
A different kind of Voicemail
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Filed under: iPhone, App StoreA new app for the iPhone has made its way to the App Store. VoiceMail, $0.99, lets you record a message and send it to a friend on a PC or Mac, or even on an iPhone. I tried the app several times and found it a frustrating experience.
