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Sharp and Willcom have collaborated to release the Willcom D4 or WSO16H Ultra Mobile PC. Weighing at only 470grams and measuring 84mm x 188mm x25.9mm, the UMPC features with 1Gb of RAM, 40GB of HDD, a Centrino Atom Z520 (1.33GHz), a 5 inch Touch screen (1024×600) LCD with LED Backlight, Wifi B/G and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR. The gadget also has a 2MP Video Camera and runs on Windows Vista Home Premium OS. [ Source ] (Read the full post about ‘Willcom D4 ATOM Powered UMPC’…)

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Elvis Duck You can have this for ?6.95 (Read the full post about ‘Elvis Duck’…)

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Memory card readers come in all shapes and sizes these days, but few rely on a rechargeable lithium battery to power their . . . built-in cash note verifiers. Yes, this innocent-looking ladybug 3-in-1 reader ($16) is absolutely unforgiving against counterfeit currency. Don’t ask me how it works (I couldn’t tell you if you did), but the 2.2″ x 1.4″ x 1.0″ ladybug is packing a black light (?) somewhere under those wings that “illuminates” the security strip embedded into U.S. dollars. If you’ve never questioned the legitimacy of the cash in your wallet, you can still make use of the ladybug’s integrated USB charging cable and ability to read T-Flash, microSD, and microSDHC cards. Via GeekAlerts. (Read the full post about ‘Ladybug reads memory cards and U.S. dollars’…)

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Gadgets made for the Apple player are always popping up, that is why Coolest Gadgets has over 250 posts on the ipod gadgets category, right? This special light is just another item on that big list, but at least it is original and has useful functions. Priced at $100, the Entertainment Light is also known as E-light and can be used indoors, or outdoors. If you pick the outside, consider using it with an umbrella pole, but if chose the inside (of your house) just use it “normally”. So, why is the E-light so special? Because it is a cordless light that can be easily recharged, but that is not all… Since it has a headphone jack, you can connect almost any kind of audio source, be it (Read the full post about ‘E-light - Entertainment Light’…)

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There’s a healthy (or perhaps unhealthy) scene for people who mod their Windows installs to look and feel just like Mac OS X, but German case-modder Phyro-Mane has done one better: The home-made iMacmini. He took an old Windows laptop, stripped it down and rebuilt into this custom aluminum case, complete with side-mounted USB ports. The donor PC wasn’t capable of running OS X under the OSx86 project, so Phyro-Mane turned to Flyakite OSX, a free “transformation pack” which mimics the look of the Mac GUI. A sweet hack indeed. Now we want to see him do it with a cellphone. (Read the full post about ‘Home Made iMac-Mini Case Mod’…)

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If you want to teach your kids about saving money, there are a variety of ways to do that. While I won’t pretend to know a lot about banking and investments, but why not get them their own hi-tech safe to get them started? This safe looks realistic enough that your kids will feel like they own a bank. They will be able to program in their own secret code which will open the door. It has a separate compartment which will catch change as it is inserted into the safe, while a larger compartment can store other valuables. Sure, it probably won’t teach them the fundamentals of saving money, however, it’s better than a piggy bank. This safe will set you back $39. (Read the full post about ‘Hi-tech safe for kids’…)

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NEC will roll out the AtermWR1200H wireless LAN router in Japan that comes with a built-in antenna, measuring a mere 27mm x 85mm x 110mm that makes it 60% smaller compared to its predecessor, which is pretty darn small no matter how you look at it. Unfortunately, it goes to support only 802.11b/g and nothing more than that - which is a pity since newer products these days already feature support for the draft-N standard. No idea on how much it costs though. (Read the full post about ‘NEC AtermWR1200H Wireless Router’…)

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Toshiba has added a new notebook to its product catalog, the Portege R500-12Q. The new Toshiba notebook is being touted by the company as the world’s lightest notebook weighing just a mere 2.15-pounds (by standard notebook weight, which pretty much is light indeed). Toshiba is also brandishing the Portege R500-12Q as the only notebook with the slimmest optical drive at 7mm, the world’s first notebook with the transflective LED 12.1-inch widescreen display and one of the world’s thinnest notebooks at 0.76/1.0-inches in height. Aside from being the first in so many notebook aspects, it will be important to note the Portege R500-12Q is packed with a whooping 128GB SSD. (Read the full post about ‘Toshiba unveils 128GB SSD Portege R500-12Q notebook’…)

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Thanks to Sharp, we all just got a look at what will be the first device to be released with Intel’s Atom processor. The D4, which Sharp will be manufacturing for Japanese telecom Willcom, should be arriving some time in June and will be powered by a 1.33GHz Atom processor. The Z520 processor is a 2W (TDP) model with a 533MHz FSB which is part of the line formerly codenamed “Silverthorne”. The D4 is expected to be about one pound and arrive with 1GB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive. The screen is a 5-inch 1024×600 touch-sensitive model, which will probably be similar to that found on the Fujitsu U810. The D4 will also have a slide-out keyboard, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, and a 2MP camera. (Read the full post about ‘First Intel Atom device to be Sharp-Willcom D4 UMPC’…)

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Google has joined forces with charities, conservationists and non-governmental organizations to help raise awareness of endangered species around the world.

The new initiative is part of the Google Earth Outreach program, which aims to help non-profit and public benefit organizations to get the word out about what they do and make the public more aware. In this instance, Google Earth will have a new layer added that will offer users written, video and audio information on endangered species in different parts of the world.

The new layer has been made possible through the use of information already available through the ARKive project.

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