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Pictures on the Go with Digital Photo Keychain

Digital Photo Keychain

Do you want to get a view of your favorite pictures anytime you want to? Here is a good idea, get for yourself a Digital Photo Keychain. This is an ingenious device that stores numerous images if you want to have special pictures with you all the time. The Digital Photo Keychain is only a small device having a 1.5-inch 128x128 LCD display where you can view the pictures stored. Aside from the pictures, it also displays time, date, week, hours, minutes, and seconds. This is a very handy feature especially if you do not have a watch.

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Add More Color to Your Flip Mino

Pure Digital Technologies offers a more fun way of prepping up your Flip Mino video camera. The company made a site called theflip.com where owners can develop their own design for the case of the Flip Mino. In this day and age where all young people want to express themselves in their own way, personalizing is the perfect answer. If you own a Flip Mino video camera you can express your creativity by adding a personalized design to the case, which will make it more “you.” You can even use your own photos to be printed directly on the camera case. But if your creative side is not working, you can simply select from the custom designs provided. The great thing about Pure Digital’s offer is that it’s absolutely free when you purchase a Flip Mino.

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SanDisk Offers Affordable slotMusic Player

A month ago SanDisk released the innovative slotMusic. This device is really a novel way of giving people the music they want while on the go. Instead of CD’s just use this microSD card that comes preloaded with audio data. For just $14.99 you can have 1GB of preloaded music in one tiny card. Well you can only play this if you have a device that has a microSD card slot in it. If you don’t SanDisk also took care of that by developing the new Sansa slotMusic Player which only comes with a $19.99 rice tag! Aside from this particular player, SanDisk is also providing artist branded music players, like Abba and Robin Thicke, for $34.99. These already come with a slotMusic card. You will not find it hard to use the players because they have simple buttons for play/pause, volume, forward, and rewind.

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Motorola Rolls Out Krave ZN4 Touch Screen

One of the goals of most cellphone makers these days is to develop their own touch-screen handset. Motorola is no exception. The company unveiled its very own touch-screen handset, the new Krave ZN4 yesterday. It has the stylish flip design that I love in smartphones. You an already gain access to the phones features through the 2.8-inch high-resolution touch screen. Motorola’s Krave ZN4 is a user-friendly phone that enables the owner to get connected the entire time sine it supports 3G, Web-based and POP3 email, and has an HTML browser. Calls can be made without opening the phone by using the speaker or Bluetooth headset.

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Elegant Prada II Phone Revealed!

LG Prada II

Well, well, looks like LG’s partnership with fashion brand Prada is not over yet. First the Prada Phone KE850, now here’s a second product that is also a result of the collaboration of these two well-known brands – the LG Prada II. The first phone was a great success. Last month LG revealed that over one million of the first Prada Phone has been sold already. Will the new Prada II reap the same popularity as the first edition? We’ll have to wait and see. As of now let’s just take a look at the features that Prada II has to offer. Unlike the first handset this new Prada Phone has a slider QWERTY keyboard with on-screen, call as well as hang-up buttons aside from the touch screen.

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Samsung Releases Its Own Netbook, the NC10

Samsung has ventured into the production of netbooks with its new Samsung NC10 offering. According to its maker, this netbook is the one you need if you want a portable computing device that offers longer battery life and superior keyboard. This netbook features a 10.2-inch screen built with SuperBright LED backlight that uses less power compared to other minis. This screen is just right for viewing Web content when browsing. It is also lightweight enough with normal-sized keyboard similar to those found in notebooks. What’s special about this keyboard is the special “silver nano” antibacterial coating. Samsung claims this will prevent bacterial build-up in your keyboard. Samsung NC10 works with Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom mobile processor with 1GB memory and either an 80GB or 160GB hard drive.

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Apple Switching to Nvidia Chipsets

Apple and Nvidia

Don’t be surprised if sooner or later you find that the Apple notebook you purchase has Nvidia platform instead of Intel, which the company has been known to use. According to reports, Apple will soon be making a switch to Nvidia chipsets. The chipset that is going to be used is Nvidia’s MCP79 platform. This will be the replacement to Intel Centrino 2 “Montevina” platform. Support for the 1066 MHz front side bus, optional DDR3 memory, and PCI Express 2.0 interface are some of the common things that these two platforms have in common. However, the Nvidia MCP79 seems to offer more for the Apple notebook with its smaller size, DriveCache with faster boot times, and Hybrid SLI which switches from discrete to integrated graphics when battery is low.

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Fujifilm 3D Camera: The Very First 3D Cam Ever!

Fujifilm 3D Camera

Digital cameras are already available in great numbers. Almost every month camera companies release new models to add to their existing lineup. These cameras usually boast higher resolutions, improved digital zoom, and the lot. Sometimes these features are already very monotonous. Only Fujifilm has come up with an innovative 3D camera. Fujifilm is the first to think of this new camera concept. Though this device that does not have a name yet has a very unique physical attribute. It is equipped with two lenses in front. These two lenses work together by determining the distance of the different objects being captured and they automatically position them in a three-dimensional space. Everything has already been programmed in the camera; all that’s needed is for the user to press the shutter button.

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Pantech C610 Now Available at AT&T

Pantech C610

Are you by any chance looking for a replacement to your malfunctioning handset? You could include this latest Pantech C610 among your choices. This entry-level phone is now available at AT&T. It is a cute phone if you ask me. I especially like the main red color with silver highlights. It also comes in the clamshell design that I like. When you flip it open you’ll see the inviting, full-colored display. Aside from its attractive façade, the Pantech C610 also hosts a number of advanced features. It supports 3G/HSDPA for people who want to stay connected to the internet while on the go. It also includes a 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder, stereo Bluetooth, music player, AGPS and a microSD card slot.

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Avoid Embarrassing Email with Mail Goggles

Mail Goggles

Have you experienced receiving emails that are so hard to comprehend? That after glancing at it you can’t help but sympathize at the state of the mind of the person who wrote it? Well, it could have been a wrongly sent letter because the sender might be under the influence of some substance like alcohol and probably don’t know what he’s doing. With the newly launched Mail Goggles there’s be no more scenarios like this. This free service has been added last Monday and Google expects that will lessen instances of sending vindictive email messages, which usually happens only when the person is under the influence. Mail Goggles is not active 24/7. It is only activated late at night during the weekend. If you want to make some changes to its activation time you can tinker with the General settings.

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Check out RIM’s Blackberry Storm Touchscreen

RIM Blackberry

Research in Motion finally unveiled the handset that will be its competitor to the iPhone. The Blackberry Storm looks like it has what it takes to rival the iPhone with its all-touch-screen design. Yup, you can already gain access to the various applications by merely touching the screen, a feature which RIM calls as Click-Through Technology. You have to physically press the screen to activate the application you need to. Four buttons are found at the bottom of the screen that users can click if they don’t want to use the touch-screen. This new device supports 3G as well as Verizon’s EvDO rev Network. Bluetooth and GPS are also functional within the phone. Be warned though that it does not have Wi-Fi.

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AMD: One Becomes Two

Due to the losses it has experienced in the past six quarters Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is making a drastic move, the last resort in order for it to keep up with its competitor, Intel. AMD is now breaking into two companies. One will be dedicated to designing the chips while the other one will be involved in the manufacturing. Two firms from Abu Dhabi will also be investing in AMD’s two new companies. The Abu Dhabi firms will give $6 billion and will help out in building a new chip factory in Albany, New York as well as in refurbishing another in Germany.

The factory that will be build in New York has been named Foundry Company, but that’s only for the time being. This factory will be the one to manufacture AMD chips and all the while it will also produce chips for other companies. 44.4 percent of this new company will be owned by AMD while the rest will be controlled by Advanced Technology Investment, one of the investment firms from Abu Dhabi.

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Changing the World with Project 10 to the 100th

Google 10th anniversary

Google will be celebrating its 10th birthday and for a wish it wants to change the world! For the better, that is why it launched a program called Project 10 to the 100th.
You pronounce it as Project 10 to the 100th. This project is aimed to gather ideas that will change the world by helping as many people around the world as possible. The company is giving $10 million dollars for the said program. Out of the thousands of ideas that will be submitted, Google will get the top 100 ideas. These 100 choices will be narrowed down into 20 through Google users’ votes. Then, once the final 20 has been chosen, a panel of judges will deliberate and choose 5 ideas that will receive final funding.

According to Google ideas can be diverse. It doesn’t matter whether they are big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple, all that’s required is they must have impact.

If you think you have an idea that can help change the world and people’s lives you can submit it now to Google. Submissions are already being accepted and will run only until October 20. There’s a submission form provided where you can give the essence of your idea. A 30-second video must accompany the said form. Online voting of the selected 100 ideas will start on January 27.

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Fujitsu Reveals Break-Apart Phone Design

Fujitsu Break-Apart Phone Design

If there was a cell phone that comes in two separate parts would you buy one? If your answer is yes, then, you are obligated to buy Fujitsu’s handset of the future. This company which teamed up with NTT DoCoMo of Japan recently revealed its break-apart phone concept. I’m not sure how long Fujitsu thought and planned this concept but finally they let the cat out of the bag. Instead of just a one-piece phone you will be getting a phone that is comprised of two separate pieces. One of the two halves contains the display while the second piece carries the keyboard. One of the halves is a touchscreen that offers virtual keyboard, numeric keypad, and game controller.

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