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StormBlue A9+ Bluetooth Enabled Music Player

Not only can this StormBlue A9+ connect to your A2DP Bluetooth stereo headset for music on the go, it can connect to your cellphone as well. Why would you want to do that? Well, er, uh, to transfer music between the two, we guess. In any case, it has MP3, WMA, OGG, WMA and DRMed…

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The Kamameter Turns Your PC Into a Rice Rocket

This Kamameter from Japan turns your PC’s ordinary 5-inch front panel into a red/green/blue/purple/yellow set of meters and dials straight from the set of Tokyo Drift. With the knobs, you can control fan speed, and volume, and from the meters you can monitor just how hot your PC is getting. There’s also a warning system…

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Virgin Loosens Restrictions on Apple and Dell Laptops

Virgin Atlantic is coming to its senses and relaxing the previous ban on all Dell and Apple laptops to only batteries that are in the affected serial number range. Apparently the carrier is going to check your battery against a list before you board, and if yours matches, you get to either plug in to…

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Mercora M Lets WM5 Phone Owners Stream Music From Your Library To Their Mobile

Instead of downloading songs onto your phone over EV-DO or pre-loading them via your computer, Mercora M lets you access your entire music library streamed over your broadband connection. The upside is that you have all your music all the time. The software’s only available for Windows Mobile 5 devices now, the Mercora M service…

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Seitz Roundshot D3 Panorama Camera Does a 360 in 2 Seconds

This Roundshot D3 is probably out of our price range, seeing as it costs $37,463 for the mobile version and $34,906 for the studio version, but it’s also probably one of the best panorama cams we’ve ever seen. This D3 can take in a 360 degree area in 2 seconds and produce a high resolution…

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Bendi Flexible Light-up Keyboard

Are you a secret agent that needs to use portable keyboards in places where there’s little to no light? Probably not, but you can take this Bendi Light-Up Keyboard at home during the week, but pack it up easily to go to your real father’s place on the weekends. The keyboard glows blue whenever it’s…

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Apple Shutters Aperture 1.1, Makes Room For Aperture 1.5

Mac-using photographers rejoice as the Apple pre-Photokina special event gave them a new version of Aperture, now standing at version 1.5 If they already own 1.0 or 1.1, it’s a free upgrade—if not, $300. Short list of new features: XMP support, 1600% zoom, improved export API. Product Page [Apple]

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GRL – Gizmodo Requests Live, Now With Less Carson Daly

Out of all the gawker sites, we think our readers are the smartest. Sure, Lifehackers readers are the most anal, Kotaku readers are the most stoned, and Consumerist readers are the most whiny, but we have the brightest bunch. But enough ass groping, let’s get to the point. You know how to get your comment…

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When Should You Buy an Apple Product?

iLounge pontificates the idea of the “best” time to buy an Apple product. With the constant flurry of rumors and announcements, when’s the best time for you to buy a Mac or an iPod? [T]he purchase of any Apple product can be made on a single question: does the product available today have the features…

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Tokyo Game Show 2006: Where’s J Allard?

Ashcraft continues Kotaku’s tradition of “creepily stalking” J Allard, who’s actually been fairly difficult to find. Like a fat man’s genitals, you may spend a lot of time looking, but once you find it you’re not sure it was worth the trouble. https://gizmodo.com/giz-interview-j-allard-calls-ipod-the-pong-of-digital-200716 J’s been working on the Zune in the States, but his first…

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Sorry T-Mobile, Cingular Gets BlackBerry Pearls Too

The BlackBerry Pearl, was for a week, something T-Mobile users could hold over the head of Cingular users. Sorry pals, now Cingular is getting the 8100 as well, and their version has Push-To-Talk. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-frankenreview-blackberry-pearl-8100-200244 Some more pictures and a small review here. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-pearl-8100-officially-shot-out-of-a-cannon-198992 Cingular to get BlackBerry Pearl [CNET via Crunchgear]

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New Shots of the White Limited Edition PEBL

In case you were wondering what the limited edition white Maria Sharapova PEBL looked like, here you go. Only one of 50 available to special contest winners. Or if your name is Maria Sharapova. https://gizmodo.com/maria-sharapova-branded-motorola-pebl-199331 We wish we were famous enough for people to make limited editions of stuff with our name on it. The…

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SquidSoap Tells You When You’re Done Washing Your Hands

Made for kids—though we all know a few people who could use a lesson in hand washing—the SquidSoap inks your palm when you press down to dispense soap. After you’ve washed your hands enough to remove the ink-stamp, that means you’re done scrubbing. Available in a 4-pack for $15.99. Product Page [Squid Soap via Boing…

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Microsoft Fixes Old Xbox 360s For Free

If your Xbox 360 was manufactured before January 1, 2006, Microsoft’s extending you an olive branch and fixing your (most likely broken) Xbox 360 for free. Microsoft says that there’s been a higher than usual amount of consoles coming back for repair, something that’s been talked about endlessly for the past year. So if your…

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i-Mate JAQ in the Wild

Mobility Today has a few shots of the i-Mate JAQ, which actually look pretty decent in the up-close shots. Which has to be the first time EVER that real pictures look better than the product photos. So, i-Mate, it’s probably time for you to get a new cameraman. To recap, 2.8-inch screen, miniSD, WM5, and…

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Retro USB Radio Confuses People Who Think It’s a Mic

Live from Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip—was I the only one that watched that show this week? In any case, this USB Retro Radio is a radio and not a microphone, despite being shaped like a microphone. Blows your mind, we’re sure, but this thing receives AM and FM, and stands 202mm tall (7.9…

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Remote Controlled Gundam Robot Walks Better Than Stephen Hawking

GUNDAM!! Who hasn’t watched a Gundam cartoon and wished they were 13 years old and piloting one of these huge mechs? Here’s the next, next, next, next best thing to that. The remote controlled Gunwalker robot lets you walk the guy in “true two leg walking action” by using the “Magna Traction System”. How does…

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Denon’s 1080p DVD (Not HD DVD) Player

If the Xbox 360 can offer DVD playback at 1080p, so can Denon. Their freshly released DVD-3930 DVD players can take your old Lion King DVDs and upscale them to “near HD quality” at 1080p. We’ll skip the fancy tech mumbo-jumbo like Pixel Image Correction and Silicon Optix Teranex HQV technology. https://gizmodo.com/1-minute-update-xbox-360-getting-1080p-support-meh-201981 How much will…

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Motorola Bluetooth Hat For Snowboarders

This goofy looking cap from Motorola has a Bluetooth headset built in so snowboarders can carry on a conversation using their cellphones or listen to music while sliding down the mountain to their death. The cap comes in two versions, white and black. Unlike Apple, Motorola doesn’t charge more for the black version. Both are…

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•NASDAQ informs Dell of potential delisting [TG Daily] •Yahoo ‘to buy Facebook for $1bn’ [BBC News] •Apple forcing the MiniStore with iTunes 7 [The Unofficial Apple Weblog] •‘Grand Theft Auto’ Fan Arrested For… Guess What? [Extremetech] •Samsung exec pleads guilty in DRAM price fixing case [InfoWorld]

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StormBlue A9+ Bluetooth Enabled Music Player

The Kamameter Turns Your PC Into a Rice Rocket

Virgin Loosens Restrictions on Apple and Dell Laptops

Mercora M Lets WM5 Phone Owners Stream Music From Your Library To Their Mobile

Seitz Roundshot D3 Panorama Camera Does a 360 in 2 Seconds

Bendi Flexible Light-up Keyboard

Apple Shutters Aperture 1.1, Makes Room For Aperture 1.5

GRL – Gizmodo Requests Live, Now With Less Carson Daly

When Should You Buy an Apple Product?

Tokyo Game Show 2006: Where’s J Allard?

Sorry T-Mobile, Cingular Gets BlackBerry Pearls Too

New Shots of the White Limited Edition PEBL

SquidSoap Tells You When You’re Done Washing Your Hands

Microsoft Fixes Old Xbox 360s For Free

i-Mate JAQ in the Wild

Retro USB Radio Confuses People Who Think It’s a Mic

Remote Controlled Gundam Robot Walks Better Than Stephen Hawking

Denon’s 1080p DVD (Not HD DVD) Player

Motorola Bluetooth Hat For Snowboarders

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