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NEC N940 and N840

Is it wrong of me to want all my communications gear to have telescoping metal antennas coming out of the top? I know that’s not very chic these days, but my heart does a little flutter when I see stuff like this NEC N940 phone (the pic in the right top corner). Sadly, it’s not…

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IOGear Bluetooth Mini Mouse

IOGear’s new Wireless Bluetooth Mini Mouse has no bundled Bluetooth receiver—if you don’t already have a Bluetooth-equipped computer, you’re out of luck. That’s good as far as I’m concerned, as everyone should have Bluetooth now (or be willing to pay $20 and get a Bluetooth USB dongle) and it’s a waste to keep treating Bluetooth…

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Turtle Beach Noise Cancelling Headphones Review

The Turtle Beach Noise Canceling Headphones had a pretty steep hill to climb with me right from the start, because I have a middle outer ear that is apparently atypically small, meaning there is nary a set of buds that will stay in my head for more than a few seconds at a time. These…

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Audio Shaker

The Audioshaker is a project by designer Tom Jenkins and programmer Mark Hauenstein which captures and records sounds in a manner not unlike cartoon physics, where a sound can be placed inside, shaken about, then poured out again. Many different noises come out of the urn, using the initial sound as a base to create…

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IBM M400 Reviewed

This new crop of tiny projectors are exciting, both because smaller things are better things, and also because they portend cheaper high-quality normal-sized projectors in the future (I’m still waiting for a quality 1024 by 768 pixel unit under $1,000). IBM’s M400 probably isn’t something to consider for a home theater on the cheap—especially since…

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Tatung Elio PJ (P)Review

DAPreview got their hands on a not-quite-retail version of the Tatung Elio PJ, a color-screen hard disk-based media player that seems slightly better than average—although it’s not without a few faults. The only thing that disappoints me is that the glowing half-sphere with the logo isn’t an actual button, but instead just houses the seven-color…

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PSP Development Kit

Looks like Sony is reusing their “TOOL” Playstation 2s as part of their PSP development kits. I guess I never realized how similar Playstation 2 and PSP hardware really is. And I’m just guessing, but is that a UMD emulator that uses DVDs instead of Sony’s proprietary discs? I know some pirates who would kill…

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Polycom ViaVideo II

I guess I sort of don’t understand what the big deal is about a $450 ‘videophone’ package, like the ViaVideo II that Polycom is touting today. I mean, it looks nice enough, feature-wise, but it’s still basically just a webcam with some bundled software, right? It’s not as if the internet has gotten that much…

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Casio Graphing Calculators, $14 and $10

Office Depot has two Casio graphing calculators on clearance, as long as you can pick them up from the store. The fx-9750G lists for $50, but drops to just $14 with in store pickup, with the fx-7400G lists for $40, and can be had for $10. These items will be useful in calculating exactly how…

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Canary Wireless Hotspotter

Canary Wireless’s new Digital Hotspotter looks like a more useful Wi-Fi location device than most, given that it has the ability to detect not only signal strength, but has an LCD read out to detail information like SSID and whether or not the hotspot is open. At $50, it’s not cheap, but if you’re the…

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Sony Location Free TV Reviewed

Live digitally has a review of Sony’s Location Free TV—the one that gets its image via Wi-Fi—and it sounds like it’s a pretty dismal product, all around. A short battery life (90 minutes) makes it only so useful to carry around the house, while a good portion of the functionality is either crippled or half-baked.…

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iPod Costume

“No, really. Just hit ‘menu.'” Original Image [NoiseInTheChannel]

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Afternoon Bits

Product Highlights • RadioShark OSX Software Free Upgrade [GriffinTechnology] • Monitor Your FreeIpods with Software [CultOfMac] • DiscHub on sale for $10 until Halloween [TheDiscHub] • Sony PSP Region Free: Japanese Sony PSP will play US Games [I4U] Business • Young Female Prodigies Drive Korean Mobile Phone Industry [Hankooki] • Cell phone unit shores up…

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Butane Burners and Rice Cookers

Japanese company Iwatani makes a variety of butane-powered, portable stoves and rice cookers that are quite fine looking, including this single-burner stainless steel model and this not-quite-as-swanky rice cooker. All models feature piezo-electric triggers for easy ignition. Mocoloco has a few more models. I’ve used camp stoves and the like for years, but they were…

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Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard Reviewed

I had been swearing up and down that I was going to buy the very first portable Bluetooth keyboard that came out to use with my Nokia and then, well, I sort of didn’t. Mostly I just started carrying about my laptop all the time, which considering I hardly ever leave the house anymore became…

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Hawking HWL 1 Detects Wi-Fi Strength, Direction

Hawking Technology is preparing to sell a new Wi-Fi finder next week that not only can discern wireless networking signals from other 2.4GHz broadcasts (like Bluetooth), but can also tell which directly they’re coming from. The HWL 1 has a flip-up communicator look to it, and can display the signal strength with five integrated LEDs.…

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Sony’s LocationFree TV in Stores

Reader Scott Moody notes that he just picked up one of the 12-inch Sony Location Free Wi-Fi televisions at a local electronics retailer. Sony officially launched the product on October 15th, but that’s the first confirmation I’ve heard of someone picking one up off the shelves. Sony’s location-free TV makes local shows portable [CNet]

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FidoBag

Both Google and Babelfish don’t seem to want to translate Italian, but from what I can piece together, this furry bag from Samsung is one of two things: a really goofy research project for a motorized travel bag that knows its owner and responds to voice control; or a really goofy fake product Samsung is…

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Neonode N1 Launches Some More

So I think this is like the fourth time that we’ve reported that the Neonode N1 Smartphone is on sale, but maybe this one is the real one. I just don’t know any more. The story this time is that customers in Neonode’s native Sweden will be able to pick up the tiny smartphone on…

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Clear Choice Picture Belt

I like the idea behind the Clear Choice Picture Belt. As their Star Trek befonted website clearly illustrates, you can take a clean slate, and make it as dorky as you want it to be. The idea behind the belt is simple enough—it’s a clear plastic strip with a buckle that you can insert various…

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NEC N940 and N840

IOGear Bluetooth Mini Mouse

Turtle Beach Noise Cancelling Headphones Review

Audio Shaker

IBM M400 Reviewed

Tatung Elio PJ (P)Review

PSP Development Kit

Polycom ViaVideo II

Casio Graphing Calculators, $14 and $10

Canary Wireless Hotspotter

Sony Location Free TV Reviewed

iPod Costume

Afternoon Bits

Butane Burners and Rice Cookers

Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard Reviewed

Hawking HWL 1 Detects Wi-Fi Strength, Direction

Sony’s LocationFree TV in Stores

FidoBag

Neonode N1 Launches Some More

Clear Choice Picture Belt

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