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Two Other Panasonic Home Theater Goods

While we re on the topic of Panasonic, I ll also mention two other new home theater products from the company. The SC-HT06 is a 2.1ch audio system with Dolby Virtual Speaker (DVS) technology. This is to fool you into thinking you have a real surround sound setup. The amplifier is provides a total 300W…

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Panasonic’s New Plasma, LCD VIERA Lineup

Panasonic has introduced three new plasma and six new LCD TVs in Japan, all of which are in the VIERA line. Scheduled to be released on May 1st, the plasmas will be available in 50, 42 and 37 inch sizes, and the LCDs in 32, 26, 23 and 19 inch sizes. The most expensive set…

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GAWKER LAUNCHES ALL-CAPS HEADLINE NEWS SITE

We’ve launched a new site, called Sploid. Edited by Choire “Boo Boo Bear Prime” Sicha, Henry “Once Intern, Now Man” Seltzer, and Ken “Yeah, I Actually Don’t Know This Guy” Layne, Sploid is like a Gawker blog but even lazier, as up-to-the-second news headlines are snarkily regurgitated in easy-to-read font sizes and just a dabbling…

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Afternoon Bits

Product Highlights • Hitachi Promises 1 TB HDD [Techtree] • Microsoft’s New Smart Phone Interface: Your Thumb [TechWeb] Business • RIM edges into Q4 loss [TheRegister] • PalmSource sees red as device sales decline [TheRegister] Reviews • Cooler Master Aquagate raises swimming pool question [TheInquirer] • Apex Digital E2go MP-2000 Portable Media Player [MobileTechReview] •…

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3U 19-Inch Rack Mounted Wine Rack

This might be new or it might be old, but it’s the first I’ve seen of it. Canford UK sells this 19-inch rack-mountable wine rack, suitable for 3U hosted server solutions or home audio installations—because there’s no place better to store wine than sandwiched between racks of hot servers. (Thanks, Honda!) Catalog Page [CanfordUK]

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Samsung SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 Gaming Phones

Samsung has launched the SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 gaming phones in its native Korea, featuring a dedicated gaming joypad and buttons and built-in vibration capability. These aren’t likely intended to be serious threats to dedicated mobile gaming hardware like the PSP or DS, but that doesn’t really matter anyway, since they’ll likely not be released outside…

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Rumor: UK Orange Exec Untucks Windows Mobile Treo

Another day, another Windows Treo rumor. This one is somewhat legit, but still, salt liberally: Which is fascinating… but can it explain the embarrassing scenes in the Landmark Hotel, London, where a Very Senior Orange Person produced his Treo 650, and switched it on, and carelessly allowed all others at the table to see that…

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Economy of Scales: TC Electronic’s G-System

If you play guitar, get ready to drool over the slickest electronics you’ll ever handle with your shoes. Guitar effects boxes are nothing new, but the sound is usually decidedly low-fi. Not so with TC Electronic’s G-System, which packs TC’s high-end effects, analog looping, amp switching, floor control, and other extras into a gorgeous case.…

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Apple Chipset Bombshell: Super Multimedia Chip Licensed for Unknown Device

Prepare for speculation a-go-go: Apple just licensed a chipset that is capable of not only music and video, but 3D graphics and image capturing with resolutions up to 8-megapixel. Silicon Valley Watcher is reporting that Apple has contracted to use a chipset from UK company Alphamosaic. And not only is the chipset powerful, it can…

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Best Buy Hawks Mac mini

If the Mac mini is going to work as a commodity PC, it needs to be sold in commodity stores. That’s probably the only real reason that the announcement that Best Buy is going to sell the Mac mini is notable at all (although it’d be even more notable if, say, Wal-Mart got on board).…

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JVC SX-WD10, SX-DW505 Wood Speakers

JVC knows how to make fancy looking speakers. The new “SX-WD10” and “SX-DW505” do that, too. There must be something about wood and speakers that people like. But what’s this? “Copper Clad Aluminum?” It seems to me speaker manufacturers just sit around and come up with the most exotic materials they possibly can, and claim…

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MVK Encrypted Hard Drive Enclosures

MVK has a new line of hard drive enclosures for the security folk, called the “impact Encrypted HDD Enclosure” line. Available in 40 bit and 128 bit encryption models, each enclosure includes three “security keys” necessary to access the data on the hard drive that is enclosed. I’ll also guess and say that they require…

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Mixko Big Headphones

People are always asking me, “Why do I need a headphone amplifier?” The answer is simple: to drive your pair of giant headphones, of course. These ‘Big Headphones’ are just a design project, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t build them yourself. If someone tries to steal your iPod on the subway, you can comedically…

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A Little More On The NW-HD5

We mentioned this last night, but if you had any doubts at the time, Sony’s NW-HD5 is now official. It features direct MP3 playback, a replaceable battery, and a function to search for tracks/albums by name, called “Initial Search.” This is the Japanese product announcement, and they put it at 35,000 yen; a little bit…

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Strip Bracelet

The Strip Bracelet is single length of silver, stamped with the logo of its designer. It arrives flat in a felt case and you bend it yourself to fit your wrist. It might possible be the laziest product design I’ve ever seen. The next model will require you to mine your own silver. Strip Bracelet…

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Oakley Thump MP3 Sunglasses Reviewed (Verdict: Good for Idiots)

I love that the first caption I see on I4U’s review of the Oakley thump MP3 sunglasses is, “never ever wear it with the lenses flipped open – it is dorky!” I would like to expound on that thought a bit and encourage you to never, ever wear the Thumps at all—they are perhaps the…

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LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 2TB

LaCie has a new network storage device called the Bigger Disk Extreme, with up to 2 terabytes of storage. The Firewire and USB 2.0 drives can even be daisy-chained to allow for RAID, either via striping or mirroring. A ton of storage and for not much money, at just $2,300. That naming scheme seems like…

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Cell Phone-Like Radiation Damages Mouse Sperm DNA

University of Newcastle scientists have discovered that radio waves of a similar frequency to those transmitted by cell phones can damage sperm DNA in mice. The tiny mouse genitalia were exposed to electromagnetic radiation at a similar frequency, but there’s no word if the transmissions were at similar power levels, as well. Bad news for…

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BT’s Project Bluephone About to Bear Fruit

ZDNet UK is reporting that British Telecom’s ‘Bluephone’ is almost ready to launch. The project aims to create a hybrid Bluetooth/GSM phone that can make calls using a landline when at home (using Bluetooth for cordless connection) but can make cellular calls when out of the house. Useful, perhaps, but not too useful—it’s likely calls…

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Bridgestone’s e-Paper Price Tags

Japanese tire manufacturer Bridgestone is producing these e-paper price tags as part of a new billing system being rolled out to Japanese retails stores. Using ‘Electro Liquid Powder,’ the displays have a quicker refresh time than earlier-generation e-paper solutions and are able to be printed on a substrate just 0.12mm thick. Electronic paper for shelf…

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Two Other Panasonic Home Theater Goods

Panasonic’s New Plasma, LCD VIERA Lineup

GAWKER LAUNCHES ALL-CAPS HEADLINE NEWS SITE

Afternoon Bits

3U 19-Inch Rack Mounted Wine Rack

Samsung SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 Gaming Phones

Rumor: UK Orange Exec Untucks Windows Mobile Treo

Economy of Scales: TC Electronic’s G-System

Apple Chipset Bombshell: Super Multimedia Chip Licensed for Unknown Device

Best Buy Hawks Mac mini

JVC SX-WD10, SX-DW505 Wood Speakers

MVK Encrypted Hard Drive Enclosures

Mixko Big Headphones

A Little More On The NW-HD5

Strip Bracelet

Oakley Thump MP3 Sunglasses Reviewed (Verdict: Good for Idiots)

LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 2TB

Cell Phone-Like Radiation Damages Mouse Sperm DNA

BT’s Project Bluephone About to Bear Fruit

Bridgestone’s e-Paper Price Tags

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