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CrunchGear Week in Review: Trapped Under Arm Edition

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Purported Kindle 2 images and price leakedCreepy ‘Hug Me Pillow’ is on sale!The Suima crib is the world’s first fully automatic baby bedReview: Health Energy PotionHow to recognize different types of speaker from quite a long way...

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Talking Wrestler Chew Toy: Mickey Rourke Voodoo

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The Crazy Wrestler chew toy talks smack to your dog anytime he gets near it with challenges like #8220;I#8217;m gonna stick you in a Boston Crab!#8221; or #8220;You#8217;ll never get my belt little doggy.#8221; It may also be the reason why Mickey Rourke#8217;s face is so jacked up.

Servoelectric Guitar

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This Servoelectric Guitar is an interesting concept, it is cool so see the combination of art, electronics and mechanical components. What we need next is a machine that also automatically pucks the strings as it tensions the strings. Thanks Keith.

LG Arena or LG-KM900 [MWC 2009]

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LG plans to show off its new new flagship mobile phone for 2009, LG Arena (LG-KM900) at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2009 in Barcelona. The Arena boasts 3D S-Class UI that offers A cube-based layout on the screen.

Sansa slotRadio packs FM tuner, 1000 songs of dubious quality into Shuffle form factor

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Sansa has had historically poor results in taking on the Shuffle, but the slotRadio looks a smidge more marketable. It's a few dozen follicle widths thicker, and joylessly gray, but it packs a tiny LCD screen for navigation into its tiny, clip-on frame... an immediate plus.

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Brushed metal nixie tube clock

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The nature of nixie tubes makes any clock made of them relatively indistinguishable from its brethren, short of the composition of the base. There's not a lot of variation: six nixies lined up in a row, fluorescently glowing strangely sinewy numerals in the dark.

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Acer-Gateway ZX Series All-in-one Desktop PC

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Acer-Gateway today rolled out the ZX Series all-in-one PC in Japan. The computer comes equipped with a 18.5 inch LCD, a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon CPU, 1GB of RAM, 160GB of HDD, a DVD Burner, and webcam. This computer is priced at Yen 60 000.

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Cardboard Chair is Both Package and Product

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This is a chair without packaging. Or, perhaps, it is a package without a chair? The "Finish Your Self" chair, from David Graas, is designed to be cut free of its surrounding cardboard, Airfix-kit style, and simply slot together.

Acer Aspire One D150 reviewed: battery shrinking, but price impressive

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After an unboxing photoset and video preview, the 10-inch Acer Aspire One D150 now gets a full review courtesy of Laptop Mag.

High Octane Chess Set made from Car Parts

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Even if you aren’t a car guy this High Octane Chess Set which is made from Car Parts is sure to put a smile on your face.

Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300 AMOLED touchscreen 8MP slider announced

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Samsung have announced their latest cellphone, the UltraTOUCH S8300, complete with a 2.8-inch WQVGA AMOLED touchscreen, slide-out numeric keypad, 8-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash and A-GPS, all in a chassis just 12.7mm thick.

THQ Ships Wii-Exclusive Deadly Creatures

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THQ and Rainbow Studios today announced Deadly Creatures is shipping to retail outlets worldwide, bringing a cinematic and immersive game-play experience to Nintendo’s innovative Wii system.

Bandai netbook features green skin and cute, blob-like monsters

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This Japanese netbook is notable for two things. The first is its branding: it is infested with various adorable, blob-like monster chans from the realm of Japanese children's television.That implies an interesting future for netbooks as children's laptops...

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Samsung NC10 gets larger trackpad, 9.5 hours of battery life

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Joel and Rob are enamored with other netbooks mdash; the Wind and Inspiron Mini, respectively, mostly for OS X hackability mdash; but I still recommend the Samsung NC10 to anyone who cares to listen. It's a gorgeous little machine that gets every element of the netbook formula right.

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Soviet-era springwound nuclear submarine clocks = CCCP chic

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For chic living room stylings straight out of the iron belly of the CCCP's submariner nuclear arsenal, consider a Vostok 8-Day Springwound Clock, ripped right from the countdown panel of a Soviet nuclear sub. There's quite a few available on eBay.

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Roving Cavaliers of Credit – the problem with current economic thinking

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This Roving Cavaliers of Credit blog post from Naked Capitalism is an excellent read if you want to grab an alternative view of [...

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Nokia E75 expected March 13th in UK: price & specs confirmed

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We’ve seen enough leaked images of the Nokia E75 smartphone to know it exists: what we now want are pricing details and news on the handset’s availability.

Samsung Eltz S7220 leaks: 5MP AMOLED cameraphone

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If Samsung thought that confirming the odd handset would staunch the flow of pre-MWC leaks, they’re sadly mistaken. Next up is the Samsung Eltz S7220, a candybar-format mid-range device that continues the company’s apparent trend of switching to AMOLED displays.

Nikon Announces Hot New

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Things in the camera world are hotting up before the PMA photography show in March, and Nikon has thrown another stick of dirty, reconstituted coal into the Offenheizung with the AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G. Let me decode that for you.

Nikon D700 Thrashes Competition, Wins Best Camera of the Year Award

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Nikon's D700 has won an award. The gong comes from the UK's Amateur Photographer magazine, a long running and highly respected publication, despite its reputation being slightly dented in the 1970/80s by an insistence on running soft porn "glamor" photography pieces.

$250 Dell Netbook Ditches Everything to Lower Price

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Netbooks have been called a "race to the bottom". If you were in any doubt that the winner will be the company that manages to make the cheapest, lowest specced machine that will still shift units, then stop.

Patent investigators name Apple as next target; Garmin prior art found

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Apple’s recent patent award for multitouch and gesture-based interfaces used in its iPhone and iPod touch ranges has flung patent law and prior art contests back into the headlines; now there’s word that a so-called global community working to “legitimize the validity of...

BlackBerry Gemini 9300 leaks: the 3G Curve

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Details of RIM’s replacement to the BlackBerry Curve have leaked, with the handset believed to be called the BlackBerry Gemini 9300.

Rumor: Stephen King to launch Kindle exclusive today

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Later today in NYC, Amazon is expected to unveil the K2 (we’ve known this since 1/27, but welcome to the party WSJ) and with it an exclusive Stephen King novel, says the WSJ. There isn’t a whole lot else about this supposed King deal, so we’ll have to wait until the press conference at 10AM today.

$20 Self Adjustable Pump-Action Glasses

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This is Joshua Silver, and while those glasses he's wearing might make him look like someone you wouldn't want near your children, they are in fact a cheap gadget which could change the developing world. Silver's specs are adjustable. The lenses comprise flexible membranes containing silicone oil.