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Crystal Mini

Yet another company threatens the world’s short supply of man-made Swarovski crystals by hot gluing them to a bit of consumer electronics. Crystal Mini claims “One crystal per song,” as their slogan, which isn’t bad as these things go, I guess. It’s certainly better than “Chafe Differently,” or “Ice Ice iPod.” (Thanks, Franki!) Product Page…

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LCDs + Guns = Broken LCD

I’m sure when most of you buy a monitor you’re thinking, “Sure, it looks great, but can it withstand being pelted with tiny metal plastic balls shot from a gun?” I usually just check the “Gunfire Resistance” rating on the little placard they keep on the shelf, but some people feel like they need to…

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XBox 2 Peripherals To Work on PCs

Gamespot has a pretty informative interview with one of Microsoft’s XNA strategists (Dean Lester, the Windows Gaming general manager, in fact), and while there’s lots of goobledegook about giving “Level” ratings to PCs to determine what sort of games they are capable of playing (“I had a Level 5 machine, but the new video card…

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Fujifilm Finepix F810 Zoom

Fujifilm has announced the F810, a 6-megapixel specialty camera that shoot both regular (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) formats, using Fuji’s Super CCD HR sensor. In addition it has a 4x optical zoom and a 2.1-inch rear LCD screen. Because the dual-purpose lens makes it a bit of an oddball, Fujifilm says to expect the $600…

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CircuitsWatchWatch

Dear Dan Ackerman, While any attempt to tear down the wooden block walls of the fortress playhouse that the Times’ Circuits section editors slopped together using their own globbing drool for mortar is A-okay with me, perhaps it would be best if you were not to – on the same front page that holds a…

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Star Wars Bonus DVD Overwrites Xbox Dashboard

Apparently the new Star Wars Trilogy DVDs have an ‘Extra Special Features Disc’ that, if played on an Xbox, will modify the dashboard software of the console without requesting the users’ permission. Although this shouldn’t affect most unmodded Xboxs, it does seem weird that a video disc – even one with a game demo on…

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Morning Bits

Product Highlights • $70 1.3-Megapixel Camera from Radio Shack [ChaitGear] Business • Revamped eMusic taps independents [CNN] • NTT DoCoMo, Cingular to link in 3G cellphone business [AFP] • AT&T Vies for VoIP [PCWorld] Reviews • Incase Designs Leather Folio for the Apple iPod [WhiningDog] • Tiny BH-220 Bluetooth Headset Review [I4U] • REVIEW: New…

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New York Sony Qualia Store Opens

Sony’s Qualia store finally opened today in Manhattan, the first retail outlet on our shores of Sony’s high-end luxury brand. I had a chance to check out the store a few weeks ago and was, well, a little let down. It’s not entirely Qualia’s fault though; who decided the best place to stick a high-end…

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Ford Streetka Dress

Ford teamed up with British designer Bruce Oldfield to produce this “Streetka” dress, using parts from a real pink convertible. The corset was made from the hardtop, while the skirt was fashioned from the same material used on the front grill, decorated wtih electrical cables. Why? The dress will be auctioned to raise money for…

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Dell W1700 LCD TV Reviewed

PCMag has a short review of Dell’s W1700 LCD TV, one of the first in Dell’s new consumer television line (right as Gateway is leaving that market, oddly enough). They found it to be generally good all around, image-quality-wise (including the acclaimed Faroudja DCDI image processing), but the best part was the huge number of…

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Gizmodo Buzz Index: Blu-Ray Vs. HD-DVD

Gizmodo Buzz Index: The most accurate graphs since cavemen first scratched pie charts into the walls of French caves. The upcoming high-definition format war is heating up, with Sony and company backing the Blu-Ray format (Sony confirmed yesterday – to no one’s surprise – that the Playstation 3 would in fact use Blu-Ray discs), while…

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Samsung P735 Reviewed

This is the sort of thing that makes reviewing technology products so difficult. Om Malik is totally going ape nuts over the new Samsung P735, the fancy swing-out flip-around phone with the megapixel camera, MP3 player, and all that stuff. And it’s a good phone, I’ll grant him that. But when I last played around…

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Major Verizon EV-DO Roll Out Next Week

Verizon has announced that its EV-DO high-speed wireless network will be expanded from its current three city market on the 27th to include Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Kansas City (

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Maxtor OneTouch II

Maxtor has a new version of their external hard disk and backup solution, the OneTouch II. Available in 250GB or 300GB versions (7200RPM, 16MB cache, FireWire, USB 2.0), the new drives will come bundled with Dantz Retrospect backup software that should allow you to retain a series of incremental backups with history, so that if…

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Microtek Handheld DVD Player

Microtek’s new Handheld DVD Player forgoes the usual clamshell design of most portable DVD players to instead embed a 3.5-inch LCD screen right in the face plate (I guess it still opens like a clam, you know what I meant; not a folder). It addition to a fold-out stand for upright viewing, it also can…

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Sidekick II Easter Egg (Unconfirmed)

Typing ” @(^o^)@ ” in the Sidekick 2 AIM client creates a monkey smiley. Adding a “v” or a “_” instead of the “o” makes different monkey gestures. Update: Confirmed! Thanks, guys!

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Nokia Wireless Headset HS-11W and Nokia Wireles GPS Module LD-1W

And last but not least (if you’re reading from the bottom up; otherwise, welcome to the Nokia posts!) are these two new peripherals from Nokia, a new Nokia Wireless Headset HS-11W headset with a 6 hour talk time, and this Nokia Wireless GPS Module LD-1W that also connects to your phone or PDA via Bluetooth…

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Nokia 6670

Nokia rarely announces just one product at a time, and today was no exception. In addition to that Remote Camera, they also have revealed the Nokia 6670, a tri-band phone (in both US and Everybody Else tunings), that looks a lot like a 7610 without the strange keypad and the gussied up case. Instead the…

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Nokia Remote Camera

Nokia announced an interesting new home security camera that uses any GSM network to send images back to your phone or email if someone trips its motion sensor or if its in-built thermometer exceeds a pre-set threshold. It’s a lot like a 1-megapixel cameraphone without the phone part, although it can even take pictures at…

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Panasonic’s Bluetooth MP3/CD Player

LIAM “AWESOME” MCNULTY — What you’re looking at is a demonstration model of Panasonic’s Bluetooth MP3/CD player, shown at this year’s “A&V Festa” in Tokyo “A&V Festa.” Announced specifications are quite sparse, but what we do know is that it features “Adaptive Frequency Hopping” support to ward off any wireless LAN interference. Perhaps more interesting…

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Crystal Mini

LCDs + Guns = Broken LCD

XBox 2 Peripherals To Work on PCs

Fujifilm Finepix F810 Zoom

CircuitsWatchWatch

Star Wars Bonus DVD Overwrites Xbox Dashboard

Morning Bits

New York Sony Qualia Store Opens

Ford Streetka Dress

Dell W1700 LCD TV Reviewed

Gizmodo Buzz Index: Blu-Ray Vs. HD-DVD

Samsung P735 Reviewed

Major Verizon EV-DO Roll Out Next Week

Maxtor OneTouch II

Microtek Handheld DVD Player

Sidekick II Easter Egg (Unconfirmed)

Nokia Wireless Headset HS-11W and Nokia Wireles GPS Module LD-1W

Nokia 6670

Nokia Remote Camera

Panasonic’s Bluetooth MP3/CD Player

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