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The Motorola Xoom: $800 Unsubsidized, $600 for WiFi-only

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There she is. The Motorola Xoom is hitting the market at a whooping $800 sans any carrier subsidize for the 3G version with the WiFi model fetching $600.

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Video: DaVinci Surgical Robot Gets Dolled Up For The Cameras

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Here’s a comforting video of the DaVinci surgical robot goofing around. It’s just a bunch of outtakes taken during a commercial staring the robot, but does anyone else think dressing up the robot with latex hands and head is a bit weird?

iPad Overheating Suit Tossed

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A judge this week dismissed a lawsuit regarding iPad overheating concerns. Jacob Balthazar, Claudia Keller, and John Browning filed the suit last year, claiming that the iPad's tendency to overheat and shut down in direct sunlight undermined the company's claims that "reading on iPad is just...

Biodegradable Sneakers You Can Bury In The Garden

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What do you do with old sneakers? You can't really donate them, and tossing them seems like a waste. OAT Shoes is looking to solve that problem with a line of shoes that are completely biodegradable. The shoes aren't quite commercially available yet, so there's no details on pricing at this time.

Angry Birds Arriving in 3D, on Windows Phone 7

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More news about the unstoppable force that is Angry Birds. Rovio, the company behind the obscenely popular mobile game, is working on new iterations of the title, including a 3D game and a version for Windows Phone 7--the latter of which will no doubt be highly in demand after the fruits of the...

Netgear N300 DGN2200M router ships

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Netgear has announced that it is now shipping its cool N300 Wireless ADSL2+ modem router. The device is a DSL modem with an integrated 802.11n wireless WiFi router.

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LG CINEMA 3D LW5700 HDTV certified flicker-free

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LG‘s CINEMA 3D LW5700 TV has gone on sale, though you’ll need to live in Korea in order to pick one up.

Motorola Xoom Pricing Confirmed $799

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After all the speculation and then the mysterious disappearance of a Best Buy ad, we finally have an official number for the Motorola Xoom price tag. Motorola chief executive, Sanjay Jha, confirmed that the Xoom will sell for $799 unsubsidized and $600 for the WiFi-only version.

Intel ad: Is this the new MacBook Pro? We don’t think so

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The Maciverse is all a-twitter this morning with speculation that an Intel promo photo is showing off the next-generation MacBook Pro. As you can see in the photo at right, there's a very thin laptop powered by the new Intel Sandy Bridge processor.

Corning’s Future-fied Video Filled With Glass And Touchscreens

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Revolutions are talked about frequently, but in honesty, not too many revolutions come about. It takes something truly outstanding, truly innovative to be considered a “revolution” in our book. The original iPhone was revolutionary, but every model since has simply been evolutionary.

SanDisk iNAND And iNAND Ultra Flash Storage Chips Bring High Capacity To Tiny Devices

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It’s pretty amazing how tiny storage is becoming. 3.5″ hard drives just seem enormous sitting beside some of these tiny modules, but that’s a good thing. The smaller we can get things, the easier it’ll be to become mobile, so no gripes there.

Smell bad? Then The Otoko Kaoru Shirt Is For You

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People’s attitude towards body odor is a cultural thing. Human beings, depending on where they’re from and what they do for a living, really smell different from each other.

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NEC’s Dual-Screen Android Device Gets A Medical App

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The dual-screen Android device NEC showed off at CES wasn’t exactly a crowd-pleaser. Without the latest version of Android, and sporting a rather low five hours of battery life, there wasn’t much to get excited about.

Publishers Speak Out Against Apple’s New App Store Subscriptions

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Yesterday Apple officially announced their new App Store subscription service, and we already new that some publishers were less than happy with this new service.Now Rhapsody has released an official statement, and they are less than pleased with the new subscription service offered by Apple, and...

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Samsung Galaxy S WiFi Gets Official

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Samsung has now officially announced their new PMP, which the company is hoping will take on the iPod Touch, the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi.We are not sure why it took Samsung so long to announce it, considering we first saw pictures of it on Monday, anyway, there are two different models, the Galaxy S...

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DoubleTwist Android App Now Supports Streaming To Xbox360 And PS3

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DoubleTwist have released a new update for their doubleTwistAirTwist Android application that now allows suers to connect to Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 consoles and streaming media wirelessly.The AirTwist app has been available for some time on Android and allows users to keep the media on their...

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What every Apple fanboy want the iPad 2 to be?

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iPad 2 is a highly classified secret of Apple, but still the the rumors has spread like fire in the woods. Some reports conclude that Apple has already ordered six million units per month. Even Wall Street Journal has reported that its production has been kick started.

Nvidia’s Processor Roadmap Is A Gift To Geeks

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Kal-El, the quad-core megachip that Nvidia plans to come after Tegra 2, is exciting enough news, but what about the rest of the roadmap?

NVIDIA’s New Quad Core Chip Does 1440p Video

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NVIDIA has revaled details of a new quad core processor at MWC 2011, which is supposed to offer up to five times the performance of its current Tegra 2 processor.The new processor is codenamed KaI-EL, and NVIDIA showed it off in a yet to be released tablet running Google’s Android OS, and it...

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2011 MacBook Pro Coming In March?

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We have heard a number of rumors on what will be inside the new 2011 MacBook Pro, and now the guys over at Apple Insider are reporting that the 2011 MacBook Pro will go on sale in March.According to Apple Insider’s sources, the 2011 MacBook Pro has already gone into production, and will be...

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Dell Streak internal PR campaign gets employees arrested

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Two Dell employees have been arrested by the Round Rock, Texas police according to a report. Bryan Chester (48) and Daniel Rawson (36) are both facing the misdemeanor charges of Interfering with Public Duties and Deadly Conduct after an internal PR stunt backfired.

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NEC Technology Actively Cancels Out Zoom Noise In Digital Camera Movies

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I’m not sure zoom noise was really the most pressing concern (I’m more worried about feature bloat and low-light capability, personally), but apparently NEC thought it was worth looking into.

Intel Handsets To Hit This Year, Says CEO Otellini

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This year at MWC is really dominated by ARM-based devices, but that level of ascendancy can only be maintained for so long. Intel is a juggernaut in the PC world; could it successfully punch its way into mobile?

Orange Launching NFC Contactless Payments In Europe

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Today Orange, the European mobile phone carrier has unveiled it will be launching a new NFC (near-field communications) services for contactless payments in the UK, Spain, France, and Poland.The new NFC service is expected to roll out during the second quarter of 2011 an the first phone to be...

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Android Ice Cream Sandwich Will Merge Gingerbread And Honeycomb

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As well as announcing that Google are activating 350,000 Android devices per day, Google’s Eric Scmidt also announced the future of its Android OS for smartphones and gave some details on what will happen with the tablet version of Android, Honeycomb.Schmidt said that Android Honeycomb and...

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