The Verizon-bound Motorola Devour wasn’t much of a secret after the retail packaging leaked last week . We knew it was coming, but not so soon because big red VZW just announced it to the world. Don’t get too excited though, it’s not a Droid replacement as Android 1.6 is powering it instead of 2.0. That doesn’t mean it’s not another fine phone to add to Verizon’s stable.
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Verizon comes clean and announces the Android-powered Motorola DEVOUR with MOTOBLUR
Jelly Lens sells a variety of little stick-on lenses that you use with your phone’s camera. (It’s a sticky plastic that leaves no residue.) You can get a wide-angle lens, a close-up lens, starburst effect, color filters, kaleidoscope effect, and others. Each lens has a strap so you can keep it attached to your phone. At about $4.00 each, you’re not going to get professional quality optics, but you may find they add some fun to your camera phone pictures. Amazon.com has some of the lenses for about … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: Digital Cameras , News , Spotlight Gadgets Tagged: Cell phone camera lens Jelly Lens Special Effects Lenses for Camera Phones originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on February 3, 2010 at 9:42 am.
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Jelly Lens Special Effects Lenses for Camera Phones
Before the recession, job seekers were careful not to apply for jobs that they were not suited to, however with so many desperate job seekers out there, companies are now being inundated with job applications , many of which are not …
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This is a great FREE application from Logitech that I’ve had fun playing with! It turns your iPhone into a wireless trackpad mouse or keyboard for your computer. You do need to install a small piece of software on your Mac or PC then simply use the FREE application available from iTunes .
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Want to use your iPhone as a Keyboard or Mouse?
A sixteen year old teenager from new Mexico called Alexander Kendrick has developed a device that can be used to send text messages from up to 1,000 feet underground. Alexander Kendrick won the 2009 international science fair for his DIY device that lets you send a text message from a mobile phone deep below the earth’s surface. The device is designed to be used in caves, and it sends data using low frequency radio waves that can penetrate the rock easier than high frequency transmissions.
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DIY Cell Phone Range Extender Works From 1,000 Feet Below Ground
RIM is reportedly getting ready to launch two new BlackBerry smartphones this spring (the North American / European spring). According to The Street , one of the devices might resemble the BlackBerry Bold, but come with a “long-awaited, touch-enabled Web-friendly operating system” (thus a touchscreen), as well as with a full QWERTY keyboard.
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New BlackBerries (Magnum? Pearl 9100?) and software upgrades coming from RIM this spring
Late Tuesday, Apple released version 3.1.3 of its iPhone OS firmware. The update, which weighs in at over 200 megabytes and can be downloaded by attaching your iPhone or iPod touch to your Mac or PC, clicking the device in iTunes, then clicking the “Check for Update” button, adds the following fixes and changes: – Improves accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS. – Resolves issue where third-party apps would not launch in some instances. – Fixes bug that may cause an app to crash when using the Japanese Kana keyboard.
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Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.1.3 Update for iPhone, iPod Touch
Each weekday morning we feature a different “special” from our GearSponsor LogicBuy . For a while, it has been the site I went to first when looking for deals on electronics. (In fact, it’s where I found deals on my mother-in-law’s GPS and her HP notebook!!) For the past few months I’ve been the one posting the daily GearDeal from LogicBUY. As a result, I have become increasingly familiar with their site=.
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LogicBUY Expands, Includes More Video News and Reviews
There are lots of ways to make homebrew pressure sensors, but this method from Instructables user hiskeyd is the easiest I’ve seen: Jam two stripped wires into a piece of static dissipative foam and bend the ends over to keep them from pulling out.
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How-To: Quick ‘n’ dirty analog pressure sensor
I am lucky to live in an area where the weather is hot in the summer, but mild in the winter allowing for year round home construction. This helps keep prices low on homes, a home selling for $500,000 in California might be only $100,000 here. Some people who live in areas where the cost of homes can be expensive look to alternative construction methods like modular housing. A slick video of a Blu Element modular home being unfolded in place has turned up and it is amazing to see the process required to set the home up.
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Blu Homes folding modular house caught on video
Nettops come in all sorts of shapes, from Wii would-bes to keyboard come-alongs , but they’re all small, and most are running some variant of Windows. Not the Open-PC. It isn’t particularly svelte (345 x 425 x 100mm) and it is entirely free of commercial software, with a KDE core neatly wrapped in a collection of free software. It was designed by the community, specifications and even price determined by a set of surveys, and by the end of the month it will be available to those who said they wanted it — meaning it’s put up or shut up time, Linux fans. Price is €359 (including a $10 donation to the KDE project), a bit steep for a machine rocking an Atom N330 processor, 3GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive, but then again you can’t put a price on stickin’ it to the man
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Open-PC is the nettop for those who won’t be constrained by you and your corporate ways
Section: Audio , Portable Audio Nothing seems to have been officially announced in terms of a Zune HD price drop, however that has not stopped both Amazon and Newegg from recently lowering the price. Can you say price war? I hope so, because that generally means good things for the customers—well, potential customers. Bottom line, if you were looking for a Zune HD, now may be a good time to make a purchase. Anyway, at Amazon and Newegg the 16GB Zune HD is now $189.99 (a $30 savings) and the 32GB Zune HD is now $249.99 (a $40 savings).
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Amazon, Newegg lower Zune HD pricing by $30 and $40
It’s a good sign that OS 5.0 is starting to move across carrier’s in North America. Yesterday both Sasktel and TELUS released OS 5.0.0.419 for the BlackBerry Tour 9630. It’s highly recommended if you have a Tour 9630 that you upgrade to this new OS. Follow the links below to download this OS, and remember your Tour 9630 doesn’t have to be from either of these carriers. Simply install the file and remove the vendor.xml file ( more details here ).
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BlackBerry Tour 9630 OS 5.0.0.419 Released by TELUS and Sasktel
Today Bitstream announced that version 1.7 of its Bolt mobile browser will add the ability to run widgets. According to Bitstream, the widgets will be installed directly into the Bolt browser, and users will be able to access their …
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Bolt Browser Pledges Widget Support in Version 1.7
The camera manufacturers seem to be releasing a lot of new models this week, the latest one is Nikon with the new Coolpix S8000. The Nikon Coolpix S8000 is extremely thin measuring just 27.3mm at its thickest point, it features a 14.2 megapixel sensor, and a 3 inch LCD display and 10x optical zoom. It comes with a range of features including the ability to record HD videos in 720p, with stereo sounds at up to 30 frames per second, plus HDMI out and built in image stabilization. The Nikon Coolpix S8000 will be available next month for about $3,00 and nit will be available in a range of colors which include, silver, black, red and bronze. via Cool Hunting This is a post from Geeky Gadgets , who bring you the latest cool Gadgets
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Nikon Coolpix S8000
Image courtesy of CinemaBlend Last spring Walmart and Best Buy made big news by announcing that they were entering the used game exchange business via a kiosk system. There were plenty of articles about what it meant for places like Gamestop and on-line game trading sites like Goozex. In the end, none of the hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing mattered much, as both companies have now stepped back out of the market, according to a report at MTV’s Multiplayer blog .
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Walmart & Best Buy Duck Out Of Used Games Market
This blogpost is brought to you by the letter S and the number 12. Last week, we saw the first of the #symbiancountdown, which was then at 108 . It’s been randomly counting down and now it’s at 12.
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Something Big with Symbian Tomorrow? #symbiancountdown at 12
Musicians have been using the internet to cut out the middle man for a while through fan-funded records and suchlike – and it looks like fashion models might be starting to do the same thing. A site called She Wears…
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She Wears Your Tee: Fasion Model cuts out middle man with new site
If you are using a digital camera with 14 or even 16MP resolution, you may be feeling pretty smug knowing you have a cam with lots of megapixels. If you are the sort that likes having things with the most and biggest this or that, Hasselblad has unveiled a new medium format camera that is going to give you serious megapixel envy.
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Hasselblad H4D-40 digital camera has 40MP Resolution
Intel and Micron’s recent announcement that their collective superhero body, appropriately named IM Flash , is sampling 25nm flash chips has been accompanied with a whirlwind tour of their Utah production facilities for a few lucky journalists. PC Perspective bring us the atmospheric photo above, along with some videos, as they prance about one of the most hallowed (and cleanest) environments known to gadget lovers. Apart from the die shrink, the lads also discuss Intel’s reputed plans for a G3 SSD refresh some time “later this year” with snappier controllers onboard, which apparently was echoed by Micron who also intend to pump out faster processors with their SSD products. While you wait for all that to happen, hit the source link to find out how and where the stuff that gets put inside SSDs is made. Intel swings 25nm factory doors open for a tour de fab originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:04:00 EST.
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Intel swings 25nm factory doors open for a tour de fab
The guys over at Engadget have spotted some new codenames in the latest Apple [AAPL] iPhone SDK for a couple of new devices which could relate to the next generation of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The codenames were found in a set of folders within the platform simulator in the SDK, the codename N89 was spotted which according to Engadget refers to the next generation Apple iPhone. Also spotted in the SDK was the codename N80, which likely refers to the next generation iPod Touch. This would tie in with Apple’s annual update of the iPhone since launch and we are likely to see the next generation iPhone released sometime before June if Apple follows their previous pattern. It is not clear what Apple will call the next generation iPhone, could it be the iPhone 4G
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Next Generation Apple iPhone, iPod Touch Spotted In iPhone SDK