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Elecom Twin-Beat M-TBUP2R Mice

Elecom’s “Twin-Beat M-TBUP2R” is a line of two-tone mice set to be released within the next few days (in Japan). Available in Green Tea, Black Coffee, Blue Hawaii, Hot Chocolate, Strawberry Freeze, and Ice Milk flavors colors, the Twin-Beats are optical mice with polyurethane bodies. Both PCs and Macs will support the mice, so no…

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Hitachi Internet Appliance FLORA-ie 55mi

Hitachi has a new device launching next month in Japan called the “Hitachi Internet Appliance FLORA-ie 55mi.” I thought internet appliances died way back when, but the FLORA-ie comes equipped with a 667MHz Crusoe, SVGA 10.4″ touchscreen, 256MB of memory, and wireless/wired LAN. It comes with Windows XP Embedded, so this could make for the…

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Cell Processor Demos MPEG-2 x 48

I had heard plenty about how powerful the Cell processor is, but all those gigaflops and whatnot didn’t mean a whole lot to me. Finally, I’m starting to get a clearer picture of what it can actually do. In a demonstration at the “COOL Chips VIII” show held by Toshiba in Yokohama last week, a…

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Intel’s In-Car PC

In the future, computers will be stuck into the headrests of my parents’ old Ford Aerostar. This prototype looks like it was torn from the pages of Omni magazine circa 1984 and the headline, below, is a dead lump of coddling prose. If in-car PCs will ever come to fruition, they will be completely wireless,…

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Nerd Alert: List of Cellular Routers

A reader who would like to remain anonymous sent in a laundry list of cellular routers, both those currently offered via OEM and those not yet released. We don’t have hyperlinks for them, but it’s still a good place to start if you’d rather purchase something rather than build your own. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/wireless/wifi/index.php#stompbox-homebrew-evdowifi-router-100297 He writes: There…

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TAK Pushpins

We support any smart, simple invention that could put an eye out, and these TAK Pushpins meet the base requirements. Not only do they have two pins to prevent corner rotation and tearing (a scourge that has terrorized the blacklight unicorn posters of our country for far too long), they also have an arch inside…

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Microbial Fuel Cells

Read between the lines on this one and you kind of get the feeling that this is a battery run entirely on farts. This thing uses human or animal waste water to produce electricty and also purifies the energy source in the process, killing two turds with one stone. No word yet on when this…

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FujiFilm FinePix Z1 Reviewed (Verdict: Black is Beautiful)

Let’s Go Digital reviews a pre-production model of the FujiFilm FinePix Z1, the upcoming black and silver 5.1-megapixel camera that is set to be released in July. Their write-up is a bit gushy, but there’s a lot to like: fast start up times, a huge LCD screen, and a black matte finish that actually manages…

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MPC Transport X3100 Notebook Released

In a previous life I played with quite a few of these MPC laptops. They come in at around $1,200 and are pretty fully-featured. Plus, the new X3100 is blue as the deepest ocean. Aimed mainly at the gov/edu markets, this Centrino machine has a biometric lock and smart card reader. Press Release [MPC]

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Ebay Cheesecake of the Day

This Akai MPC=3000 drum machine is factory refurbished, featuring an external Zip drive and all the manuals, as well as a dozen or so shots of this model wearing nothing but a swimsuit and stilettos. As always, feel free to send us any Ebay models you run across. Akai MPC3000 mpc-3000 overhauled,like new fully loaded…

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iPod Rules, You Suck

Finally, a cool voice of reason in the iPod controversy of 2005. The Tech Zone has hired a 13-year-old editor to write a detailed, nuanced review of the Cupertino’s Little White—or Pastel or even Sans-a-Screen—Miracle. An excerpt: You can put the iPod to repeat or shuffle or just regular play ! You just keep listening and…

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Sony VAIO VGN-T140P/L Reviewed (Verdict: Small and Solid)

The Sony VGN-T140P/L is a wee 10-inch Pentium M laptop with an optical drive and what some believe is a passing resemblance to the Gateway M210. We, however, were not fooled. In terms of laptops, we haven’t seen a whole lot coming out of Sony in the past few months so it’s refreshing to see…

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Taxane VRX-02 Flash Memory Video Recorder

At least two sites have information about this VRX MPEG-4 recorder this morning, but neither one have proper links to the manufactuer’s site, so your guess is as good as mine. The ideas seems to be a simple recorder that can write directly to Secure Digital and MemoryStick cards, allowing for quick and easy encodes…

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Microsoft and Samsung’s Hybrid Hard Drive

Electronics Weekly has a few more details about Microsoft and Samsung’s ‘hybrid hard drive’ project. The new hard drives combine flash memory and traditional magnetic hard drive technology, using 1GB of high-speed flash memory as a read/write buffer, much like traditional RAM is now used in hard drives today (in much smaller amounts). The idea…

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Anemone Feisty Alarm Clock

Aaron Tang delivers quite the feisty alarm clock with his Anemone Clock. The Anemone awakens a person using a combination of movement, sound, light and interaction. Somewhat similar to the Clocky rolling alarm clock we covered last month, the Anemone takes things a step further, requiring you to physically wrestle it to the ground and…

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LG VX9800 Details

The leaked information about the LG VX9800 makes it seem like another mobile messenger device like the F9100 that’s Cingular has been pushing. That’s fine and dandy, especially with a higher resolution screen and a better camera, but I wonder if the EV-DO support means the VX9800 will be going to Verizon—and if that’s why…

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DirecTV Offers $200 Rebate to Voom Refugees

Voom, the satellite HD television service, has finally given up the ghost, forcing users to find another HDTV provider by the end of the month. DirecTV is offering Voom customers a $200 rebate on HD equipment, in hopes of snagging some of the tens of thousands of customers now forced to watch television in standard…

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Uneed X15E Home Theater Case Reviewed (Verdict: Swanky but Spendy)

HTPC News has a glowing review of the Uneed X15E home theater PC case with a built-in 7-inch LCD touchscreen. At $600 or more, it’s not a good option for someone trying to build an HTPC on a budget, but the attractive finish makes it easy to integrate with the rest of your A/V gear.…

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Another Another Xbox 360 Image

We have absolutely no idea where it came from [Beyond the SomethingAwful forums (OurColony?) -Ed.], but here is your second serving of supposed Xbox 360 image of the day. It looks a tad different than what we saw earlier, but the other one was a typical “we mysteriously failed to get a decent shot of…

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Elecom Twin-Beat M-TBUP2R Mice

Hitachi Internet Appliance FLORA-ie 55mi

Cell Processor Demos MPEG-2 x 48

Intel’s In-Car PC

Nerd Alert: List of Cellular Routers

TAK Pushpins

Microbial Fuel Cells

FujiFilm FinePix Z1 Reviewed (Verdict: Black is Beautiful)

MPC Transport X3100 Notebook Released

Ebay Cheesecake of the Day

iPod Rules, You Suck

Sony VAIO VGN-T140P/L Reviewed (Verdict: Small and Solid)

Taxane VRX-02 Flash Memory Video Recorder

Microsoft and Samsung’s Hybrid Hard Drive

Anemone Feisty Alarm Clock

LG VX9800 Details

DirecTV Offers $200 Rebate to Voom Refugees

Uneed X15E Home Theater Case Reviewed (Verdict: Swanky but Spendy)

More Good From Gawker

Another Another Xbox 360 Image

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