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A brilliant group of people have developed an online game designed to help the environment and fight poverty in the real world by turning game rewards into real-life help for social and environmental causes: Glupod - the first Video Game to deliver direct emotional fulfillment to the player. The game, called Glupod, will debut worldwide on May 30. Glupod players will be able to provide food for a starving child in Africa, protection for a whale species going extinct or offset carbon emissions and help fight global warming. In a nutshell, Glupod gives gamers a variety of real-world causes to choose from and enables them to convert their in-game winnings into actual help for that cause. (Read the full post about ‘Online Gamers Save Real Lives’…)

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Posted Feb 25th 2008 12:02PM by Joshua TopolskyFiled under: Desktops, Laptops Intel’s had its new processor plans slipped out to the public thanks to Sun, according to DailyTech. Details on the 6-core (!) Xeon Dunnington, as well as the kinda-sorta hush-hush Nehalem were apparently leaked out onto Sun’s public web server over the weekend, including plans for the new Xeons to overtake the company’s Tigerton CPU line. The Dunnington processors will have a 16MB L3 cache shared by all six cores, and will be pin-compatible with the Tigertons, thus making integration with your Clarksboro chipset slightly less painful… by being possible. (Read the full post about ‘Intel’s 6-core Xeon and Nehalem CPU info leaked’…)

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I discussed LG Voyager before, and I had a chance to try it out as a user last weekend. What I found was the LG Voyager could easily be my next cell phone. The first thing you should know about the LG Voyager is that it is the first phone on the market with a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard. The touchscreen works just like the iphone, but the Voyager has a vibrating touch system so the user has some tactile feedback. The phone then opens for a second screen with the QWERTY keyboard. This comes in handy when you surf the Internet with the HTML browser, and you can even flip it to the touchscreen for some net-surfing with just your finger. (Read the full post about ‘LG Voyager: I touched, I texted, I loved’…)

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Deutsche Messe (CeBIT 2008 organizers) in cooperation with Casio, will staging the first-ever CeBIT Photo Competition for photographers and photojournalists. The winner of the Best Pic of CeBIT 2008 will receive the new Casio EXILIM EX-F1 digital camera and a trip to India on a photo-reportage tour lasting several days in December 2008. Any accredited journalist who attends CeBIT 2008 is entitled to take part. The photos must be taken in connection with CeBIT 2008 (e.g. photos taken during stand assembly, at the opening ceremony or during the show itself), can be in black and white or colour, and can be professional photos or simply photos which have been taken more or less by chance. (Read the full post about ‘CeBIT 2008 Photo Contest’…)

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Microsoft has declared the XBox 360 HD-DVD add-on dead. The company will stop selling the players, although full warranty support will be provided for the 300,000 units sold so far (and presumably for any remainder stock bought by gullible consumers).Microsoft’s Blair Westlake made a statement containing this nugget: [W]e will continue to give consumers the choice to enjoy digital distribution of high definition movies and TV shows directly to their living room, along with playback of the DVD movies they already ownWhether that means Blu-ray players or optical media-killing HD downloads was left unsaid, although we’d lean toward an expanded download service. (Read the full post about ‘HD-DVD Deathwatch: Micosoft Drops XBox Add-On Drive’…)

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Mental Mugs - Sex Kitten Shaped Mug

Be the envy of your friends with one of these superb mugs. It has been carefully hand painted and is super quality. Just drinking out of these mugs makes you feel sexy!

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Who doesn’t want to dry themselves with a nice, warm towel? The Private Resort Towel Warming Shelf does the trick, although you have to cough up $119.95 for one of these in your bathroom. This compact heated shelf keeps towels comfortably warm, dry, and within easy reach while saving valuable floor space. Heat from the rails rises up through stacked towels and accumulates for maximum thermal retention and dispersion throughout the whole towel, so bath linens are pleasant to the touch whenever you use them. The efficient 65 watt dry heating element draws as little power as a standard light bulb so it can be left on continuously and can’t leak like oil-filled or hydronic towel warmers. (Read the full post about ‘Private Resort Towel Warming Shelf’…)

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PC World reviews the Samsung BlackJack II (i617) and writes, “Samsung took almost everything about the first BlackJack and turned it up a notch, making a good PDA phone a little better. Though the BlackJack II doesn’t look drastically different from the original and still leaves room for improvement, the subtle changes in design and components are a nice upgrade.” Read more about the Samsung BlackJack II (i617). (Read the full post about ‘Samsung BlackJack II (i617) Review - PC World’…)

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Hot on the heels of Havoc announcing a free version of its physics engine and animation offering, game developer Insomniac Games is initiating a similar scheme.

The tech sharing the company will be offering is called the Nocturnal Initiative and aims to offer developers around the world access to useful bits of code and presentations covering a range of subjects relating to the development of games.

(Read the full post about ‘Insomniac Games to share code with others’…)

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T-Mobile has decided to enter the VoIP landline phone service market in Seattle and Dallas in order to compete with AT&T. The new service offered by T-Mobile would allow current T-Mobile subscribers to add a VoIP-based landline phone service for as little as US$10 a month. This is a little different than the HotSpot@Home service, which allows unlimited home-based calling through a compatible T-Mobile wireless phone.

Bloomberg is reporting that the new service would allow customers to hook up any home phone to a router in order to use the service. This is the same type of connectivity offered by traditional VoIP service providers like Vonage.

(Read the full post about ‘T-Mobile to offer landline VoIP service for $10 a month’…)

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