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2005 Bloggies: Our Final Bended Knee

Today is the final day of voting in the 2005 Bloggie awards, for which we are nominated in the ‘Best Computers or Technology Weblog’ category. We’re really appreciate it if you’d take 60 seconds and give us a vote (about 2/3 of the way down, on the right). We know we’ve had our problems, like…

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Afternoon Bits

Product Highlights • iPod shuffle with screen (Mock up) [YukonMac] • Gateway Launches New 30-inch LCD TV [ChaitGear] • Valentine Day Gift Guide [Pocket-Lint] • Kanguru redesigns Quicksilver hard drive [NWFusion] • Linksys Goes Long with MIMO-based Wireless [ExtremeTech] • USB Charging LED Flashlight [EverythingUSB] Business • Siemens Not Selling Its Mobile Phone Unit [Slashphone]…

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MSI Mega Stick 527

It’s goofy looking, but the MSI Mega Stick 527 has a ton of features, including built-in USB 2.0 connector and an FM recording radio. Available in sizes up to 512 only, though, which puts it in a low-class slot at this point (as if the afro-sporting carton didn’t already do so). Marketed to kids with…

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Digital Camera Chipsets Improve in More Than Megapixels

Michael Kanellos (who it looks like finally went on full-time with CNet) has a great article about the future of digital camera chipsets and the companies vying to become the ‘Intel of the photography chipset world.’ While the business details aren’t all that interesting, some of the new technology sounds great. Case in point, this…

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Giant Ox Ladybug MP3 Player

First of all, there’s nothing wrong with a company named ‘Giant Ox,’ especially when they make a cute little flash-based MP3 player that looks like a ladybug. It’s only available in sizes up to 256MB, has a limited 6-hour battery life, and only has two buttons (according to DAPreview), but I think all can be…

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Frisk Mint Case for iPod shuffle

Not to be left behind the Creative Zen Micro in the mint tin MP3 case department, someone in Japan has discovered that Frisk-brand mints make a perfectly-sized case for the iPod shuffle. Now you just have to beg your Japanese friends to send you a few. https://gizmodo.com/altoid-tin-case-for-creative-zen-micro-31731 Mint MP3 Cases [BootyKika] Update: Paul Gordash, known…

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County Comm GP-4L Digital Shortwave

County Comm’s GP-4L claims to be the world’s smallest digital shortwave radio (feel free to prove them wrong). Running on just two AA batteries, the four-band unit includes a bright blue LED for emergency blue light shortages. It has a built-in speaker and headphone jack, which isn’t fancy or anything, but isn’t bad for $22.…

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Blueaway Convertable Sneakers/Sandals

Steve Hong writes: I thought you might be interested in hearing about a convertible shoe since you also covered the Strutz high heel shoe. I was at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City and found this company called Blue Away (their website is ) and they’ve created the world’s first hiking shoe. The…

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HP iPaq Mobile Messenger Details Leaked

Brighthand brings us the first details and pictures of this new HP iPaq hx6500, an yet-to-be-announced Windows Mobile smartphone that heralds the PDA maker’s slow progression towards mobile devices. With a built-in keyboard and a smaller than normal screen, the iPaq Mobile Messenger will support EDGE and include a built-in GPS receiver. Pictures of iPAQ…

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Solar-Powered Rainbow Maker

This cute little device suction-cups to your window, soaking in sunlight and shooting it out through a hanging prism, giving you (presumably) larger or more vibrant rainbows than you’d get with just sunlight alone. It’s completely useless and obviously a mechanism of the Gay Conspiracy, but I want one pretty badly. Unfortunately, besides this bit…

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Gizmodo Japan: I Am Yuppie!

Aping Apple style is nothing new. We ve seen the colored iMac ripoffs, iBook lookalikes, iPod form factors, and now with the new Mac mini out, let the cloning begin! Introducing the new XC Cube Edition from A Open. I want Cube AV! I like Sporty! I am Yuppie! Huh, wait… The thing to remember…

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MPAA’s Parent File Scan

The MPAA’s latest software offering (developed by DtecNet. Get it?) takes a very heavy “delete now, ask questions later” approach, offering parents the ability to “detect” allegedly evil music or video files on any computers their pirating hellspawns might have had access to. Parent File Scan, as it’s called, “does not distinguish between legal and…

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Fossil Wrist PDA (Finally) Reviewed

For those of you who don’t mind adorning your wrist with what appears to be a small, metal-framed end table comes the Wrist PDA from Fossil. Possibly the first wrist watch to come with a stylus, (albeit one that looks like the nail file from a mini-Leatherman) Fossil has jam-packed every ounce of PalmOS goodness…

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Oskar Table Lamp

Hopefully carved from the finest anodized aluminum by nude Pagan witches or something, the Oskar Table Lamp delivers in areas other $465 dollar lamps fall hopelessly short. Groundbreaking features include its ability to “fit in compact spaces”, and also provide “multi-directional lighting for tasking”. It gets better: Able to stand alone or function as a…

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X-Craft: Aluminum Attack Catamaran

The US Navy is set to christen an experimental aluminum catamaran dubbed the ‘X-Craft,’ designed to serve as a test bed for a variety of future coast-hugging combat technology. A multi-purpose ramp lets the X-Craft launch a variety of “manned and unmanned surface and sub-surface vehicles,” like inflatable boats and scouting submarine drones. DefenseTech has…

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Sony Network Walkman NW-HD3 Reviewed

Gizmo Girl has a healthy review of Sony’s relatively new NW-HD3 MP3 Player. (And it plays real MP3, instead of “converts to our proprietary format while you wai MP3”, which had been the case with all of Sony’s previous “MP3” players.) Sony kindly calls it a “Network Walkman”, but don’t let those words invoke in…

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Unconfirmed Confirmed: North America PSP Pricing and Availability: Updated

Brian Blair writes, “PSP is out March 24th in North America, it’s $249 bundled with a bunch of accessories. That is the value pack. Includes Spiderman 2 movie on UMD. 24 titles available at launch.” Here are the launch titles (including Ape Escape!): PSP(TM) (PlayStation(R) Portable) Amasses Largest Launch Line-Up for March 24th Release Sony…

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Panasonic X800 Gets FCC Nod

Panasonic’s slick new X800 Series 60 GSM clamshell has gotten FCC approval, meaning we should expect it fairly soon from T-Mobile or Cingular. The handset has a pretty average feature set, with Bluetooth and a VGA camera, but it happens to be very attractive, pulling off sort of a V3 Razr look without completely aping…

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Doraemon iPod mini

An extremely limited-edition Doraemon iPod mini will be launching today in Japan, with just 1,000 units to be made. Each model will include a baby blue iPod with the strange anime cat thing inscribed on the back, a carrying case, as well as five custom touch wheel covers to add a little of your own…

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Blueaway Convertable Sneakers/Sandals

HP iPaq Mobile Messenger Details Leaked

Solar-Powered Rainbow Maker

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MPAA’s Parent File Scan

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Sony Network Walkman NW-HD3 Reviewed

Unconfirmed Confirmed: North America PSP Pricing and Availability: Updated

Panasonic X800 Gets FCC Nod

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