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Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011:Corentin Dombrecht’s “Megaphones” speakers

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Young Belgian designer Corentin Dombrecht, showing off his work at the "101% Designed in Brussels" stand, told us that he was inspired to create his "Megaphones" speakers by the wave of protest and activism currently sweeping the globe—"just like Egypt, no?".

Use Google Maps To Remind Your Valentine of a Special Place

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If you still haven't picked a you Valentine's card yet, or heck, if you already got/ sent ones, do two (you love them double, right?), create a personalized card with the help of Google Maps to remind your Valentine of a special place. As Google says, "Sometimes, what means the most isn't something.

www.gearlog.com

Aza Raskin shares Jef Raskin’s 1981 memo on the genesis of the Macintosh

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If you don't already know Jef Raskin's name, you should spend some time getting to know his work. His son, Aza Raskin, turned out to be a bit of a prodigy, eventually doing important and amazing work at Mozilla in the Labs department. Aza's latest endeavor is a company called Massive Health.

Boxee Box gets Netflix streaming in the US and Canada

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Boxee on Monday announced that the Boxee Box by D-Link has now received support for accessing streaming content from Netflix. The absence of this feature was one of our gripes when we reviewed it, and was also requested by Boxee users.

feeds.electronista.com

Math Monday: Geodesic Dome Chicken Coop

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By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Maybe you’ve always wanted to build your own geodesic dome home, but consider that too large of a project. You can build up your skills on a smaller scale by constructing a chicken coop.

blog.makezine.com

GoodReader for iOS update now provides Auto Sync

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GoodReader, the popular document reader for iOS devices, has been updated to include auto syncing with iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync or any WebDAV or FTP server.

Nasa To Bother Temple 1 Comet Again, See How Things Have Gone For It Lately

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Where will you be tomorrow morning at 0437 GMT? If you’re a Nasa engineer odds are you’ll be glued to your many monitors, keeping a watchful on your Stardust spaceship as it approaches the Tempel 1 comet.

www.crunchgear.com

Another iPhone Telephoto Lens, Like Having A 500mm Sigma

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Looking to get a bit more zoom on the iPhone? Tired of pixelating your photos with the terrible digital zoom? Then check out this iPhone Telephoto Zoom over at Photojojo.

www.crunchgear.com

Qualcomm Makes a Slew of Announcements at MWC 2011

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SlashGear is live at MWC 2011 in Barcelona, where Qualcomm just released a series of announcements about new product releases, including Quad-Core Snapdragon for Next-Gen Tablets, Next-generation Snapdragon Mobile Chipset, Commercial Availability of Gobi3000 Modules, Chipset with Support for...

www.slashgear.com

Apple To Buy $7.8 Billion Worth Of Samsung Components

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Reports are that Apple will be purchasing $7.8 billion dollars worth of components from their competitor/partner Samsung. A report from the Wall Street Journal says that the parts will include LCD screens, NAND flash memory chips, and application processors.

www.slashgear.com

Android devices with Snapdragon to get Netflix support

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Qualcomm at MWC announced that future portable Android devices with the company's Snapdragon CPUs will have native support for streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix.

feeds.electronista.com

Sprint believes tablet makers to dwindle in two years

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Sprint Nextel’s VP of product development believes the tablet market will dwindle down to just a handful of manufacturers in a couple of years. The numbers will go down from about a dozen to maybe five by 2013 or so, Fared Adib said in an interview at the MWC show.

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Hands on: ViewSonic v350 smartphone, ViewPad 4 tiny ‘tablet’

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Although ViewSonic is better known for its monitors and televisions, the company brought several new tablets and smartphones to show off at Mobile World Congress.

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We go hands-on with Verizon’s 4G voice calling

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Verizon promised that it would show 4G calling on phones at Mobile World Congress, and the carrier had a quick demo to let listeners hear the difference with the VoLTE (Voice over LTE) standard it’s using. Read ahead for Electronista’s quick take….

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TUAW’s Daily App: Rayman 2: The Great Escape

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For a few different reasons (the recent Verizon iPhone release probably being the primary one), Valentine’s Day has become another holiday for big sales on the App Store. We covered quite a few titles on sale last week, and of those, Rayman 2 is the one I’ll recommend today.

Microsoft Tailors Bing Search To Get Personal

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Bing is playing catch-up to Google in at least one major way this week: they are now sorting search results based on location. This means that when users search for a particular place to eat, for example, the results that populate first will be ones that are nearby.

hothardware.com

$500 iRobot Telepresence Robot Hack

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Wiimote hacker Johnny Chung Lee built this relatively low-cost telepresence robot using an iRobot Create, a netbook, a bit of laser cut acrylic, and some custom software.

blog.makezine.com

Fujitsu rolls out first ever MeeGo-based netbook

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Fujitsu has introduced the first ever MeeGo-based netbook. The first release of the MeeGo open-source Linux OS geared for netbooks was delivered in May 2010 as a developer-only platform.

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The World’s Largest Multi-touch screen developed

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Researchers at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, have developed the world’s largest, curved multi-touch screen. The screen, measuring 33 feet wide, incorporates 6 cameras and 16 infra red emitters to handle over 100 simultaneous touch points.

www.slashgear.com

MacBook Pro updates may hit March 1

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Danish blogger Kenneth Lund is reporting that he’s heard from a large Danish Apple reseller that new MacBook Pros will arrive on March 1. Excluding a processor bump build-to-order option last October, the MacBook Pro line has not been updated since April 13, 2010.

Pandora looks beyond music in IPO

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Plagued by costly music rights fees, online radio service Pandora looked beyond music in their multi million dollar IPO filing this week.

www.slashgear.com

VTech InnoPad Tablet

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The VTech InnoPad is a multimedia educational tablet for children that combines interactive and animated reading, learning games, creative activities and a rich collection of applications.

www.techfresh.net/vtech-innopad-tablet/

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 hands-on [Video]

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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 all but leaked in its entirety over the weekend, but we were still excited to see what the company had done to bring the original Galaxy Tab concept up to speed with Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

www.slashgear.com

Samsung Galaxy S II hands-on [Video]

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The Samsung Galaxy S II has a lot to live up to. Its predecessor, the Galaxy S, took the top spot for Android devices in the US, was picked up by most carriers, and helped push Samsung to all-time record revenues in 2010.

www.slashgear.com

GiiNii 8-inch Digital Picture Frame

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The GiiNii 8-inch digital picture frame features an 8-inch (800 x 600) display screen with a 4:3 screen ratio. The gadget has a 128MB of internal memory, which is upgradeable via a 6-in-1 card reader.

www.techfresh.net/giinii-8-inch-digital-pictu

Survey Says: Consumers want easier, not cooler gadgets

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According to a new survey, more than half of American and British consumers would rather have an easy to use gadget that works consistently, than a “cool,” but complicated gadget.

www.slashgear.com

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