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CrunchDeals: 19-inch Samsung monitor for $99

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Staples (home of the Easy Button) has a pretty good deal on a 19-inch Samsung monitor — $99.98, down from almost $170. It might make a cheap second monitor for your home or office rig.

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Chuwi M20 PMP

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The M20 PMP by Chinese MP4 player manufacturer Chuwi has recently been announced. The new PMP features a 4.3-inch LCD display with a 480 × 272 pixel resolution. The portable media player is still in the making but we got word that the player will support 720p.

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A truly practical TV remote mod

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Yes, it’s funny, but it’s also a very good idea. Remote controls are among the worst-designed pieces of technology we have to deal with these days. They’re being replaced, somehow, but even more complicated controllers, but one of these days we’ll get it right.

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Evergreen DN-MP490, PMP with 4″ Screen

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Evergreen, a Chinese PMP manufacturer has just release its Evergreen DN-MP490 PMP in Japan. Come in a 106 x 70 x 11mm dimension ans 126 grams weight, DN-MP490 sport a 4-inch screenwith 480 x 272 screen resolution.

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Name the Thing Contest – 77

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The prize this week is a loupe magnifier enclosure. This contest will run for one week (Feb 28 - March 5, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it.

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New larger Kindle e-book reader rumored coming

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Sources in the Prime View International (the makers of the Kindle’s electrophoretic display) state that a new e-book Kindle would be made available with an increased screen size and added touch functions by the end of the year.

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Sony’s New GPS Gadget Looks Like Eve, Geotags Like Crazy

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Sony has announced a new GPS device that detects your physical location around the world and also serves as a photo geolocation logger that works directly with Google's Picasa and Maps programs. Many gadgets out there already use both of these technologies, but they're not often combined.

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Trendnet TEW-664UB 300Mbps dual band wireless N USB adapter

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Speaking of a dual band wireless-N gimmick, I still got bad taste in mouth dealing the supposedly one of the best Linksys’s WRT610N.

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Acer “Hornet”: Wii-like PC game platform

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I’d be skeptical of this Wii knockoff by a reputable hardware company, except that Asus has already gone down this road, so why not Acer?

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Netflix Queuing Added To New York Times Online

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If you're a big movie fan and tend to read the reviews of the New York Times, you may have recently seen a different but familiar little 'add' button near the top of the review's summary.

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Stream your display all over the house with Black Box

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Section: Audio, Home Audio, Video, Content, Computers, Networking If you have ever tried to hook up a whole-house entertainment system, it can easily become a real pain since you have to pull a whole lot of cables around the house. Black Box has come out with a new solution that allows for...

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High Definition Portable Media Player

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Chinese gadget manufacturer Gemei has introduced the Gemei HD-660 that plays 720p HD. Measuring only 123mm x 76mm x 15mm and weighing at 147grams, the player is compatible with JPG, BMP, and PNG picture files, RM, RMVB, AVI, FLV and MPEG video files, and MP3, WMA, FLAC audio files.

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Greener Gadgets Conference 2009 under way!

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The Greener Gadgets Conference is underway in New York City this morning, with intros by Jill Fehrenbacher and Marc Alt, a welcoming from Parker Brugge of CEA, and kick-in-the-face Keynote from Saul Griffith. We're gearing up for the Live Design Competition Judging at 3:45, so hope to see you there.

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Breitling announces new Navitimer 125e Anniversaire

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Breitling announced their latest model today, the Navitimer 125e Anniversaire. Using their Breitling 26 movement, the 125e is a self winding chronograph featuring a steel case, sapphire crystal, and is available in either a black or Panamerican bronze dial.

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Rumor: Sony CyberShot DSC-HX1 coming with 20x zoom and 1080p video recording

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We’ve been hit with numerous camera rumors this week (Nikon & Canon), primarily ’cause the photography gear show PMA starts next week, and now Sony is joining the rumor mill party.

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Epson’s Beautifully Retro Rangefinder Uses Leica Lenses

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This is the beautiful new R-D1xG from Epson, and the odd, old fashioned outside is reflected on the inside. The camera is an update of Epson’s old R-D1. The retro body is a rangefinder camera, which means manual focusing using the matched images familiar to anyone who has used a film rangefinder.

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Winstar M4: connect 4 USB devices to your local network

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As home networks have proliferated, it’s taking a while for peripherals to catch up; ethernet ports are reasonably common on printers, but there’s still a price-premium.

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Lighting Bag by Wonsik Chae

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The "lighting" bag by Korea designer Wonsik Chae. It is a lighting bag in form of a tea bag! If you put the Lighting Bag in a cup of chemical intermediate, the tea bag will burst into flames, and then the cup is lighting.

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ASUS Eee PC Shell luxury netbook landing in April?

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ASUS are planning a follow-up to the S101 luxury netbook that will be even thinner, according to the latest rumors out of China.

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World’s first HDMI 1080p digital photo viewer by Hi-DenVision

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Checking out those digital images stocked on the laptop often becomes hassling, when it comes to satisfying a larger pack. But now with the introduction of the world first HDMI 1080p digital photo viewer, the user can relax and share favorite photos with friends and family in HDTV.

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ATP GPS PhotoFinder mini gets reviewed: slow geotagging

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Geotagging and location-based services are fashionable right now, and if you have the right cameraphone then you could already be taking high-resolution shots with embedded GPS data.

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Swiss Air’s Amazing New High Tech First Class Seats

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Furniture doesn’t get much higher tech than aircraft seating, a combination of space-saving, comfort (sometimes) and safety. But usually it ends up looking pretty ugly. Not so with the Swissair’s new first class suites, a zen blend of sumptuousness and simplicity.

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Video – Music Blocks

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Here’s something very cool, a set of wooden blocks that play music, control the volume and switch tracks on your iPod or stereo.

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Viliv S5 MID gets video unboxing, walkthrough

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After yesterday’s Viliv S5 MID unboxing gallery, now comes the unboxing video together with a hands-on video. The S5 is shaping up to be a very interesting device, with the portability and media functionality of a touchscreen PMP, but the flexibility of a MID.

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Solar Charger With Battery

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Here’s the latest portable power supply from Chinavasion, what’s so cool about this new Solar Charger is the fact that it is small enough to fit in your pocket and able to absorb power from regular standard wall socket or the sun.

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The World’s Smallest USB Keyboard

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Looking for the world’s smallest USB keyboard? Then take a closer look at this tiny USB keyboard, it features 56 keys complete with a retractable USB cable. All yours for just $29.99.

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iPhone gets CBS streaming

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Gizmodo takes CBS's new iPhone streaming app for a spin, and finds it much to its liking. Here's Wilson Rothman: There are a massive number of shows from the CBS family of channels, including Showtime, the CW and even CNET TV—all those video reviews.

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Sony Launches MDR-NC7 Noise Canceling Headphones

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Sony has launched the MDR-NC7 headphones which has a foldable design and are also equipped with noise canceling technology. The headphones can reduce the unwanted ambient noise by upto 90 percent. The stylish design and features makes it an ideal accessory to have while traveling.

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TV.com gives Trekkers a streaming treat for iPhone: full episodes on demand

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Filed under: Video, iPhone, App StoreJust as Hulu has more-or-less reluctantly barred boxee from streaming NBC video content to anything other than a browser, here comes the new TV.com iPhone app.

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iriver releases some more details regarding the P7

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Section: Audio, Home Audio, Portable Audio, Video, Portable Video At CES 2009, iriver had on display a new PMP called the P7. While Apple certainly has the upper hand with MP3 players in the United States, iriver does pretty well in Korea, so the P7 will most likely be released there...

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Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

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Apple's iPhone has wowed most of the globe — but not Japan, where the handset is selling so poorly it's being offered for free. What's wrong with the iPhone, from a Japanese perspective?

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A Map for the Kindle 2’s Whispernet Coverage

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The e-Ink Kindle 2's Whispernet service is one of its most important features, for without it, it's just another expensive plug-in gadget with content DRM'd up the nose. But what if you live in an area where the service isn't covered?

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Western Digital My Book World Edition

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I guess the solar system edition is next. Western Digital tries to improve on their popular My Book external hard drive line. Did they do it? Well, the answer to that, in a word, is yes. The drive’s network setup alone is super easy.

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Nokia to make netbooks? Check the original interview video

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Click to see the video So.. What did Kallasvuo say? Same as any non vegetable would ( vege = secret jkk humor )Nokia has been telling us that their smart phones are actually multimedia computers... all ready. They have been telling that those computers need to fit inside our pockets..

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