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Option Announces USB Modem With Built-in Apps

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Today at Mobile World Congress, Option (makers of some of AT&T's USB modems) announced "uCan," a new USB modem platform that rolls together drivers and applications on a flash-based modem stick. The idea is a lot like the U3 platform.

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LG Electronics, Intel Collaborate on Future Mobile Internet Device

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LG Electronics (LG) and Intel Corporation today announced collaboration around mobile Internet devices (MIDs) based on Intel’s next-generation MID hardware platform, codenamed “Moorestown,” and Linux-based Moblin v2.0 software platform.

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Pentax now shipping Stormtrooper K2000

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I don’t care that I already have an all black K2000, I want the limited edition all white DSLR. As a reminder, the white K2000 comes with a DA-L 18-55mm lens and DA-L 50-200mm lens. All that can be yours for $680. Want. Bad.

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Novanta Workstation With Built-In iPod Dock And Speaker

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Here’s a perfect space-saving work desk ‘Novanta Workstation’ by Luke Riggall. Designed specifically for MAC users allowing them to keep their collection of MacBooks and iPods together at one desk.

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Some old guy wants a little credit for Apple’s success

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“But I helped to inspire the Mac! Steve Jobs? That should have been me!” Carl Clement,87, claims that he and his company helped build the Xerox Alto long before there was the Apple Macintosh.

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Fujifilm FinePix F200EXR available for pre-order

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Fuji’s highly anticipated follow up to the F30, the F200EXR, is available now for pre-order from Amazon. Sure, it’s a $400 point and shoot, but if it’s even marginally better than the F30 then we’re all in for a treat. Check out test shots here.

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Ultrasone Edition 8 Headphones

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Ultrasone has rolled out its new Edition 8 headphones that offer the highest quality acoustic output and transparency.

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Huawei i-Mo HSPA Modem with WiFi

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Huawei have introduced their latest wireless modem, the i-Mo, which will debut at Mobile World Congress next week. The Huawei i-Mo comes in the size of a “small key chain”. The device supports an HSDPA/HSUPA USB modem and a WiFi b/g chip on board for sharing the connection with other devices.

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A phone designed by tech journalists: sweet or meh?

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Wading through miles of devices gives tech journalists a unique outlook on what exactly everybody’s doing wrong, but it’s not always possible to take all that and turn it around into something that’s exactly right.

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Military laptops for sale on the black market

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As the U.S. miltary gets more and more technical, more and more military laptops are finding their way onto the global black market. It’s not really surprising (well, maybe it is) that it’s possible to buy all sorts of military equipment on the black market.

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MINOX DSC SpyCam gets digital upgrade

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MINOX have re-released their iconic SpyCam in the shape of the DSC SpyCam, with new 3.2-megapixel (5-megapixel interpolated) digital optics and a microSD card slot for up to 16GB storage.

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Southwest Joins Mile High Wi-Fi Club

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Internet connectivity is set to join pretzels and orange juice as one of the options on airlines as flight attendants roll their cart down the aisle. After Virgin America and JetBlue, Southwest has become the latest airlines to start testing Wi-Fi connectivity on its flights.

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Gorgeously restored reel-to-reel tape decks

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There's scarce reason to own a reel-to-reel deck these days, although I have long nursed a deep longing to bolt one to the wall as a 50's era answering machine... shades of the interior design choices of a dame-smacking Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly.

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iharmonix Platinum i-Series headphones review

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While Bluetooth headsets have become practically mainstream these days, there’s still a decent amount of users who want both handsfree functionality as well as stereo sound.

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Amazon Won’t Talk About International Kindle Availability

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When Amazon's Kindle 2 was announced earlier this week, plenty of folks in the tech community were excited: The new version of the e-book reader is thinner, features a sharper display, and offers more storage.

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Immersion iliGHT Cube Controller for 3D multitouch

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Could it be that the traditional multitouch table has become passé? After various iterations of DIY and commercial products - not forgetting Microsoft’s own Surface, of course - the challenge moves on to better controlling 3D visualisations through a more flexible interface than a flat...

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Neck Piece by Arthur Hash

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The Neck Piece by jewelry designer Arthur Hash, based in Richmond, Virginia. Wow, what is it, it caught my eyes! The collar is made of cast polyurethane.

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Pandora open-source games console gets design refresh, 3G compatibility

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The Pandora open-source gaming project have released new renders showing their updated casing designs, including a different keyboard - with non-final fonts, thankfully - and some tweaked key locations.

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Sony GPS-CS3KA GPS Image Tracker

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Compatible with most Cyber-shot(R) digital still cameras and camcorders, the Sony GPS-CS3KA is a GPS image tracker that has a job to help you to record the time, date and location to each shot you take, thank to the included Picture Motion Browser software.

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic – Arriving in the US

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For those in North America you will finally be able to get your hands on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The Nokia 5800 XxpressMusic will be arriving in the US and launched on the 26th Feb which is a Thursday although it is expected that orders will not be fulfilled for a couple of days after that.

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Arduino Burglar Alarm that uses Twitter

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Next time you see someone looking down at their cell phone you’ll have to ask yourself who sent the message. Was it a simple text message from their friend, an automated spam email or could be a break in alert sent from their home monitoring system via Twitter!

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Sony Ericsson Does the Wrong Thing With Boomboox Walkman Phone

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Oh, Sony Ericsson, why? Why have you just made the metro a little bit more miserable, and the streets just a touch more mean? Are you so desperate for cash that you are willing to risk a "Do the Right Thing" style riot just to sell a new phone?

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Dell Wasabi PZ310 Ink-less Portable Printer

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Dell Wasabi, No, Dell not trying to make Japanese sauce or so but Dell Wasabi indeed is a portable printer designed for mobile usage. Weighted at only 7 ounces, Wasabi aka Dell PZ310 capable to print 2″ x 3″ borderless color photo on peel-and-stick ZINK paper.

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iPhone Accessories – Ultra Portable 360 Degree Speaker

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Here’s a useful accessory for your iPhone or iPod, the Ultra Portable 360 Degree Speaker. This funky speaker will provide you with 360 degree sound and it can connect your your iPhone, iPod or MP3 player via the 3.5mm audio connector. Here’s the specifications.

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Novatel Wireless announces Ovation MC995D USB Modem

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…for Europe. :( USB dongles are just USB dongles, but this one looks pretty sweet. The MC995D is capable of running on HSPA, EDGE and GPRS networks with download speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps and upload speeds up to 5.76 Mbps. I especially like the swiveling USB doohickey.

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DIY Wiremap: projected 3D object tutorial

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Last year, Albert Hwang debuted the Wiremap, an array of tightly-strung cables that, with a projector, could be used to create visual 3D models. Boiled down, the process relies on some carefully-spaced vertical strings that each align with a single column of projected pixels.

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Odd Dual-Screen Laptop Pops into View

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GScreen has announced a ruggedized version of its dual screen notebook, seen above. This is interesting news, and the notebook will be tough enough for the US Navy, which provided the specs.

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Compal APA00 and APA01 touchscreen HD-capable PMPs

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Compal have quietly unveiled two new internet-connected touchscreen PMPs, the APA00 (black) and APA01 (white). Each has DVB-T digital TV, the ability to record to a 1.8-inch internal hard-drive, native HD support up to 1080i, and WiFi b/g.

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AAXA P1 pico-projector with 1GB storage & mediaplayer

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There’s another pico-projector on the scene, this time the AAXA P1, and unlike many other examples we’ve seen it doesn’t use a Texas Instruments chip.

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DIY PunchOut Controller For Those Who Like To Punch

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By Andrew Liszewski Over at Instructables, ‘kirton’ has a great tutorial on how to make your own punching bag like interface for the classic NES title, PunchOut.

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LaCie LaCinema Black Max

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LaCie has announced the LaCinema Black Max, which is a stunning looking high definition media center designed by Neil Poulton, and it fits in with the rest of the range with it’s stunning looks.

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iRiver P20 Comes To Japan Within Two Weeks

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The P20 is the latest portable media player from iRiver that will be released in Japan on 27th of February 2009 for 39890 Yen or around €343.

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Motorola Digital Butler

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Motorola is out with another conceptual device called the Digital Butler, a personal assistant device for the luxury market. This highly mobile device will work on advance 4G networks with GPS, giving you a full-time network connection to VIP services.

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Paid Apps Coming to Android Phones This Week

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One of the biggest areas where the HTC G1 phone on T-Mobile's network lags Apple iPhone is the app store. So far, the Android Marketplace allowed only free apps in its online store but that is set to change this week.

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