The first preview of the Nokia N8 that surface did the device no favors. Another preview has now surfaced and the N8 looks much better this time around. HP has purchased Palm and apparently, at least some of Palm’s shareholders are not happy . An investigation is underway after some felt the $1.2 billion buyout shortchanged shareholders.
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Nokia N8 second preview, HP Palm buyout prompts investigation, T-Mo G1 gets Android 2.1 ROM
Layar has just introduced a partnership with PayPal which will let publishers and creators on Layar charge for their online experiences. They’ve set up a store where customers can buy Augmented Reality layers and publishers can sell them
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Layar opens up a store for Augmented Reality apps
An inherent problem with webcams is that hackers are aggressively finding ways to take control user’s PC through malware to peep into user’s homes. Other than putting tape over the webcam’s lens, Chinese camera specialist Gsou has this nifty USB webcam with a new new “anti-peep” technology. Their interesting approach is having a robotic arm that will automatically cover this camera lens of this one-eyed buddy as soon as a video conferencing session completes. This fella will put down his hands when it detects incoming Skype / MSN video calls. If you still fear the malware might still take control of the webcam’s arms, there’s an override function that allows you to use the unit’s physical button to uncover the lens only when needed
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Chinese "Anti-peep" USB Webcam with Robotic Arms for Complete Privacy
Sky will turn its news channel high definition on UK election night, presumably hoping to make each bead of political sweat more highly defined and clearly visible. The move to HD news broadcasts was always going to come and…
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Sky News will launch in HD on Election Night: prepare for highly defined beads of sweat
Makers of offender tracking devices – Pro Tech – just got their latest Smart One Wearable MTD through FCC meaning soon you’ll be able to see this on your favorite offender’s ankle (??!). For obvious reasons this is a live tracking device which utilizes a sensitive, low power GPS receiver, as well as a GSM/GPRS module transmitting location information to the ‘base’
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Pro Tech offender tracking GPS ankle unit
We covered Siri the personal assistant app a little while ago in Siri: the virtual assistant iPhone app that we want in the UK and news has just come that the start-up has been bought out by Apple.
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Siri – voice controlled virtual assistant app – bought by Apple
Salt and pepper have long been natural table companions, but now they’re closer than ever. You can use each half of our Split Salt & Pepper shaker independently or you can shake them together for a perky condiment combo. Hidden magnets keep the two halves perfectly aligned. Get Them Here: Cool Stuff Cheap
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Split Salt and Pepper Shaker
Not to be confused with garminfone or nuviphone M10 Garmin and Asus partnership just announced another Android powered phone called Garmin Asus A10 . Of course its focus is again on GPS navigation; however more so for pedestrians rather than drivers which probably means it’s probably not going to make it to the U.S. where driving almost always takes precedence. The press release actually says it will be available in mid-2010 in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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Another snooper stick is here to help you clean up your world. The ChatStick is a USB drive with a custom application loaded on it. The ChatStick , once inserted, launches its chat analysis software, which scans the computer in question, pulling all the logs of conversations, even deleted ones, onto the drive itself
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ChatStick, Perfect Snooper Drive to Complement Porn Detection Stick
Pretty much the only real downfall that shopping online has, versus in person, is not being able to really get a feel for the product. The next best thing for web entrepreneurs is the interactive 360 product picture that lets you rotate the product around and around to view it from any angle.
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Rotisserie Product Photographer Creates Easy 360 Degree Images
TomTom just announced their latest GPS navigation system for bikers called TomTom Urban Rider . Expected to go on sale in Europe at the end of May for 249 € the new Urban Rider tries to make things very easy for hands with gloves on such as even bigger icons, glove friendly touch screen, and only two button operation
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TomTom Urban Rider GPS navigation for bikes
April has been a strange month for us Brits as election frenzy has taken over, and every TV show you watch has smarmy politicians trying to convince you that they have your best interests at heart. Add to that the late release of the iPad which has Apple fans crying themselves to sleep and the over enthusiastic London Marathon taking place, well, we’re all over the shop really. I could share with you related apps and election chit chat, but I think you’ll prefer an attractive overview of some of the strangest and sexiest gadgets we’ve feasted out eyes on this month
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Tech from a Small Island: Gymbox Shock Exercise Classes and Smart Brabus Color Coordinated Electric Cars
My 2-year-old son is obsessed with the movie Cars . Obsessed, I tell you! While surfing the net for pictures of Lightning McQueen, I stumbled across this little oddity. An illustrator named Jake Parker wondered how the insides of one of Pixar’s cars might work, considering that these vehicles are “strange machine/flesh hybrids,” in Parker’s own words.
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Car guts
Once again, I am off topic of USB, but sometimes you get ultra cool products that you must mention. Today I found a great gadget from our buddies at Gizmos For Geeks . It’s the Gear Ring. Very elegant in design and intrigues the engineering in all of us. The Gear Ring is comprised of 6 mini gears which rotate in unison as you twist the top portion. The product is high quality stainless steel and engineer to very tight specifications. This makes for an easy and smooth feeling as you twist the ring. Although I’m not a ring guy myself, other than my wedding ring, it is intriguing enough that I’m going to buy one. It’s not THAT much, only $165. Ring sizes include 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Source: GizmosForGeeks .
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Off USB Topic – Have You Seen The Gear Ring?
So the 3G iPad is set to launch this Friday at 5:00 PM , and AT&T has finally got on the ball and given full details on how their 3G data plan for the iPad will work. First order of business, you get two data plans that work in the US – the charges are automatically billed on a monthly basis, but you can start and stop that at any time right from the iPad 3G, and both options are contract-free: $14.99 per month for 250 MB $29.99 per month for unlimited data Unlimited access – no added cost – to AT&T’s 20,000+ Wi-Fi Hot Spots That third one is a nice bonus. Basically, if you have an active iPad 3G subscription, then you get access to any AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot at no additional cost
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How the AT&T iPad 3G data plans will work
Nokia busted out the specs of a new phone this week, by releasing details of the N8 a big Amoled touch screen with a massive 12 megapixel camera. Last week we stacked up the iPhone 3G, the Android powerhouse…
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Nokia N900 v the N8 v the X6: the Nokia smartphone throw-down
Nokia busted out the specs of a new phone this week, by releasing details of the N8 a big Amoled touch screen with a massive 12 megapixel camera. Last week we stacked up the iPhone 3G, the Android powerhouse…
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Nokia N900 v Nokia N8 v Nokia X6: the Nokia smartphone throw-down
If you’ve heard of a little something called the iPad, then you’ll probably know it’s not available in the UK yet. But if you’re into the whole browsing the internet on a touchscreen computer idea – you may be…
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iPad rival – the JooJoo Internet Tablet – now on sale in UK
If you have been waiting for that Puma phone to land here in the states, your wait will is getting shorter. The Sagem Puma phone has finally cleared the FCC, the downside is the device isn’t expected until next year.
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Puma phone clears FCC, Sprint loses big for quarter, Kin ROM hints at carriers
Just spotted a interesting change on Facebook which suggests FB is moving towards making everything into pages.. and making private profile information into publically visible fan pages. On the ShinyShiny profile, a dialogue box popped up prompting me to..
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Would-be pranksters: get out a pad and pen. You’re going to want to take notes. Rob Cockerham , prankster extraordinaire, recently noticed something that (surprisingly) no one else ever has: the price tags Costco uses on its shelves are just basic text in a common font, on plain white paper. Hence, they’d be remarkably easy for anyone to create
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The Costco Prank