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CrunchDeals: Zx1 Pocket Video Camera

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What could be better than an HD video camera? How about an HD video camera with a pony inside it? Or, barring that, how about a $54 HD camera. Scratch the pony part. It might make the pony sick.

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Darth Coffee Cup, everyone

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Here’s the thing: this coffee cup looks cool and all, but we’re really not hurting for a new kind of coffee cup. Ensuring that the coating on your paper cups is biodegradable means that you can just compost the cups — that’s what many of the cafes here in Seattle do.

Did iPad kill the Courier tablet?

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Filed under: iPad Microsoft's Courier project was an exciting and fascinating concept. When it first appeared last year, the folding two-screen tablet was one of the most incredible things we've seen out of Redmond for a long time.

Verizon Wireless Droid Incredible sells out

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Section: Communications, Cellphones Today was the much anticipated release of the HTC Droid Incredible. The Nexus One replacement for Verizon Wireless customers was expecting early success, but no one expected it this early.

Verbarius: a FuzzyClock for your bedroom

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Well, I know what my brother is getting for his birthday — in an alternate universe where I have $220 to spend on a novelty clock. He loves his “inexact time” clock. Time for a Quantum Leap! Or I could just get a second job. But enough about me and Scott Bakula.

Top2005 EPROM Programmer hacked into a Desktop Test Bench

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If you are looking for a new piece of test gear to help you with your next design have a look at what Matt from Openschemes has come up with. He has taken a Top2005 EPROM Programmer and hacked into a Desktop Test Bench! “Do you ever find yourself wanting an IC tester?

Steam for Mac beta set for May 12

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Filed under: Gaming Steam for the Mac has been given a date: May 12th. We were hoping to see it by the time April ended, but they've pushed back the date to just a few scant weeks from today.

Samsung BD-UP5000 Receives Firmware Update

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The Samsung BD-UP5000 Blu-ray player has finally received its latest firmware update version 1.5. The v1.5 update promises to improve “playback compatibility in some movies” such as the Avatar Blu-ray playback issue that was non-playable due to the new encryption scheme.

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Sanyo Unveils A New Home Theater Projector

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Sanyo has recently unveiled their latest home theater projector ‘PLV-Z4000′ for the mass market.

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Way Too Many Things To Do!

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I appear to have lost the better part of a week, and tomorrow is the day my other half comes to visit already! It’s weird saying “already”, since I’ve been counting the days for two weeks shy of a year, but still…I’m not ready.

World’s largest telescope to open in Chile

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The European Southern Observatory will construct the world’s largest telescope in Chile. They’re calling it the European Extremely Large Telescope, and it’s being constructed in Chile because the night sky there is totally clear some 320 days per year.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Ready for Download

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Ubuntu seems to have a nice road map for their updates schedule, and sure enough, here’s another one. Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” has just hit the market, available for download right now.

Bungie Buddies Up With Activision for 10-Year Deal

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Even more out of left-field than HP buying Palm, Activision and Bungie come out of nowhere and announce that the two companies have just agreed to a multiple-year, worldwide exclusive agreement.

Great Wall GBook Tablet PC

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There are tablet pcs in every screen size you ever want but still a 11-inch tablet is hard to find. The cool guys at Great wall know this and try to fill the demand with their GBook, a tablet PC eith a 11-inch touchscreen display which support 10-point multitouch and of course it runs Windows 7…

Skyfire 2.0 for Android Launched

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Skyfire 2.0 for Android has launched bringing a new browser to the Google [GOOG] mobile OS.SkyFire 2.0 includes a cloud-computing toolbar called the SkyBar that brings three key features that are missing from the native Android browser and a competitor, Fennec.The SkyBar includes Video, Explore and…

AT&T Micro SIM Ready for Apple iPad 3G Launch

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With the Apple iPad 3G launch being tomorrow, those who want service on the AT&T network will need to use a micro SIM. A micro SIM is very similar to a regular SIM card other than it’s about half the size.

webOS 1.4.1.1 Launches on Verizon

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webOS 1.4.1.1 is now on it’s way to Verizon webOS devices.The update has come at a time when HP have announced they are buying Palm, so it’s good to see that things are still moving in the right direction.Things included appear to be some fixes to the accuracy of the keyboard where…

iPad 3Gs being marked for shipment

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Filed under: iPad This is just a quick note to say that we’ve gotten a flood of emails from readers stating that their iPad 3Gs have been shipped. Most have an estimated delivery time of 4:30PM on April 29 — a whole seven and a half hours before the official April 30th release date!

LG KU9500 Announced in Korea

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LG announcing the LG-SU920 android phone in its homeland, Korea. In Korea SU950 will be called LG KU9500 and will be available via KT sometime in May or June while its price is still unknown.

Kindle Software Update Adds Twitter, PDF Zoom, Sharper Fonts

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Amazon has updated the Kindle’s software to v2.5 and added both useful and questionable new features to its second-generation e-book reader. The new features fall into two categories: social, and not-stupid.

Nokia N8 gets second preview: far more positive

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After the Nokia N8’s first – pretty appalling – preview we’ve been hoping for a second opinion on whether the eye-catching megapixel-toting smartphone really does spectacularly miss the mark.

Palm CEO commends employees following HP takeover

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Following the disclosure of HP's plan to acquire Palm, the struggling company's CEO, Jon Rubinstein, commended employees for their hard work and reminded the team to remain focused on existing goals, according to a company-wide e-mail posted on the Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft Claims Google’s Android Infringes On its Patents

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Yesterday we told you that HTC and Microsoft [MSFT] had signed a licensing deal regarding HTC’s smartphones that run Google’s free Android OS.

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Apple Buys Voice Search iPhone App Developer Siri

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Apple [AAPL] seems to be spending some of its huge cash reserves this week, as more details have been released on another acquisition. Yesterday we heard that Apple had purchased mobile chip maker Intrinsity for around $120 million.

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HP To Buy Palm For $1.2 Billion

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Palm has been looking for a buyer for the last couple of weeks, there we rumors that HTC would buy Palm and then it was Lenovo, now it seems Palm has found itself a buyer Hewlett Packard.

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Star Wars Video Fathers Day Card

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Hallmark have released a Star Wars Video greeting card just in time for this years fathers day. Fitted with a small screen the card plays a number of clips for approximately 60 seconds from the Star Wars original trilogy of films.

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