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Atasuki probe reaches Venus in search of strong winds

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Japan’s Atasuki probe has finally reached Venus, with scientists anxiously awaiting news on whether it has successfully entered orbit around the planet. If so, Atasuki will circle Venus for two years, monitoring volcanic activity and providing data on its thick cloud cover and climate.

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Toshiba to show Android, Chrome OS, Win 7 tablets at CES

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Toshiba is said to bring three new tablets to CES in January, with a release date to follow in the first quarter of the year, industry insiders reported today.

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Archos 70b eReader revealed by FCC filing; features 7” color display, Wi-Fi & Adobe Digital Editions

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Section: Gadgets / Other, ebooks It looks like we have yet another Archos device to look forward to seeing come available, except this time it is not going to be in the Internet Tablet lineup.

Apple Sends Out Free Movie Rental Codes

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Today Apple has got into the holiday spirit and started sending out free iTunes movie rental codes to random iTunes users. Apples lovely offer of a free movie rental lets you rent one of the 8,500 compatible movies, allowing you 30 days to start watching and 24 hours to finish.

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Apple Granted Patents For iPad Dock, Multi Touch And MacBook Air

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Apple has been granted a new range of patents relating to the 2008 MacBook Air, the Apple iPad Dock and a new multi-touch patent, among with some other patents a total of 16.

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LED Umbrellas

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Cool LED umbrella, by sockmaster."The Electric Umbrella will glow with many pinpoints of light...(Read...

iPad 2 already in the works, might ship by February 2011?

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Section: Apple, Communications, Mobile, Computers, Mobile Computers If Digitimes’ report this morning is reliable, we might be looking at a possible shipment of the iPad 2 starting February 2011. According to the report, Foxconn Electronics in Shenzhen, China has already been notified...

Students living in Campus Apartments buildings can pay rent from Android smartphones

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If you are college student that lives in an apartment owned by the Campus Apartments company you can get a cool new app for your Android device and the iPhone that lets you pay your rent right from your phone. The app is called SmartClick mobile and is a free download.

Adesso offers new WKB-2000CB iPad case with wireless keyboard inside

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Adesso has all sorts of cool keyboards for different uses from gaming to HTPC use. The company has announced a new wireless keyboard and case combination for the iPad that will let you use the iPad more like a netbook than a tablet. The keyboard is the WKB-2000CB also known as the Campagno.

Kindle for Web to get full books in response to Google

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Amazon late Monday said it would preview a version of Kindle for the Web on Tuesday that will show full books. Previously limited to samples, the embedded technology won't insist on reading offline and will also decentralize shopping.

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Rubin shows prototype MotoPad, promises 3D Google Maps [U]

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(Update: video, new photos, new details) Google VP Andy Rubin as part of his talk at D: Dive Into Mobile tonight showed off a prototype of Motorola's MotoPad.

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webOS 2.0 Virtual Keyboard Activated

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webOS 2.0 has references to a Virtual Keyboard within its code. With webOS 2.0 being available now, it now emerges that the virtual keyboard reference is more than just a reference.

The Aepel: For Those Who Use Their Voices A Lot

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Our buddy T to the Ricker found this charming device, a microphone and mobile compact amplifier. Although he pretends to not know what the heck this is, I suspect it’s one of those mics Asian tour guides carry to amplify their voices in public places so the entire group can hear about...

Palm webOS 2.0 Virtual Keyboard In Action (Video)

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The latest version of Palm’s mobile operating system, webOS 2.0 has references in it to a virtual keyboard, the guys over at Pre-Central have discovered that there is more than just a reference in webOS 2.0 to the virtual keyboard.

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First look at Google’s newly unveiled Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS

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The launched After a host of leaked images, rumors and all kinds of build-up, the much awaited Android 2.3, latest version of Google’s highly popular mobile operating system is finally revealed.

DIY jog wheel controller uses old VCR head

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I haven’t had a VCR in my house in years and years. We have been DVD only for more years than I can remember. If I had a VCR though I would totally be gutting it right now to make this jog wheel controller from one of the heads inside.

TUAW’s Daily App: Trucks and Skulls

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I'll be honest, at the expense of disagreeing with some of you: I don't really like Angry Birds. Sure, I'll admit it's a quality app, and I obviously can't deny all of those sales. But personally, it's just not my game -- I don't find it nearly as fun as some of the other games on the App Store.

LoopIt Strap Slings Mirrorless Cameras, Anything Else

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The LoopIt is a smaller – and possibly better – version of the LumaLoop, a bandolier-style camera strap invented last year by photographer James Duncan Davidson.

Star Trek Style Doors Powered by Air

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If you want the doors from Star Trek in your home then go and check out the tutorial at Instructables.Someone managed to create some air-powered doors that open at the push of a button and then close shortly after. The doors are split down the middle allowing each half to slide in to the wall.

Daily Crunch: Between Machines Edition

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The Large Pocket Shirt, For The Tablet EnthusiastEchochrome II Hits PSN On December 21stReview: Dyson DC26 City VacuumHAMDAS-R De-Boning Robot Makes Short Work Of Ham (And You)Does Wikileaks Represent The End Of Internet History?

Google’s Android Honeycomb Debuts on Motorola Tablet

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Google's mobile platform VP Andy Rubin hit the stage yesterday at the The Wall Street Journal's D: Get Into Mobile Conference in San Francisco with a shiny new 10-inch Motorola tablet in tow.

Fragmentation: Android Hardware Button Comparison is Confusing

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Oh, the shame! Here’s a picture that handily illustrates the biggest problem Android faces: fragmentation. Not only are the phone makers modding the interfaces willy-nilly, and carriers adding in unremovable crapware, but even the hardware buttons can’t seem to stay in the same order.

Just Another Day in Small Town Antarctica

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McMurdo Station (nicknamed "Mac Town") is like a lot of small towns. It is the home to a close-knit, hardworking community and has all of the amenities of the modern world including three gyms, a general purpose store, a library, and three bars.

Large Pocket Shirt makes you look like The Little’s

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You can tell a geek by the gadgets they carry. There are levels to geekiness, sort of like levels in martial arts. At the early stage of geekiness, you start to carry more gadgets like say an iPhone and an iPad.

Quirky outs cool modular cooking utensil

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I like to cook, but I hate having to dig in the drawer to find the utensil I need. We have like 100 plastic spoons that always seem to bury the spatulas when I need them. Quirky has all sorts of cool products and one of the more recent offerings from the company is the Click n Cook spatula.

Crazy Yoomi Duo iPad game is part app part real world board game

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Toys R Us has a strange game that is for the iPad with equal parts of software app and real world board game. The game is called Yoomi Duo and has a round chip holder that puts chips into the right bin based on answered given in the game.

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