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If you’re one of the many mobile phone users who sometimes experience getting cut while in the middle of an important call, and a cellphone charger is not around, IOGEAR has offered up a remedy - the GearJuice Rescue Charger GMP3001W6. Like what it’s name suggest, the GearJuice Rescue Charger, well, will rescue you when your phone battery has lost its juice. The rescue charger will give you an additional 15 minutes of talk time. And since the GearJuice Rescue Charger is supposed to be an added accessory that you have to carry around, the good news is that you don’t have to worry of having an additional weight on your already fully-packed accessory bag. (Read the full post about ‘GearJuice Rescue Charger gives you those 15 minutes extra minutes’…)

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When I think of a convergence device, I usually think of a mouse with three functions of a toaster that makes coffee. However, one doesn’t usually think about a walking stick with more than meets the eye. Sure, you can sneak a dagger or a pool cue into one pretty easily, however, wouldn’t a telescope be cool too?

This Telescope Walking Stick features a handle, which, when pulled out reveals a small telescope. Mind you, something this small is going to have only a 3x magnification, but that’s still enough for someone watching birds or hiking in the woods.

(Read the full post about ‘Telescope Walking Stick serves dual purposes’…)

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Want to use MS Office to open and save ODF spreadsheets, word processing, and presentation documents, but don’t want to wait until 2009 to do it?  Sun has got you covered.  Microsoft recently announced that native ODF support would be coming to its popular Office 2007 productivity suite with the release of Service Pack 2, currently scheduled for early to mid 2009.  Users who either can not or do not wish to wait that long have an alternative though, and it comes from one of Microsoft’s chief competitors in the market for office productivity software: Sun Microsystems.

(Read the full post about ‘Sun beats Microsoft to ODF compatibility in Office’…)

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I guess it is pretty easy to lay claim to being the fastest or largest device in the industry today, if you throw in plenty of other criteria into the mix. Take for example, Samsung Electronics who have placed their hands on both “fastest” and “largest” superlatives with the new 2.5″, 256GB multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface. This high capacity flash storage device was unveiled at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum, and is also touted to be the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface. I wonder just how many other SSDs fall under a similar category in order to go up against Samsung’s offering. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung develops fastest MLC-based SSD with SATA’…)

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I don’t know why I never saw these commercials. As a kid, I LOVED M.A.S.H. and I loved computers. Of course, I was more of an Atari fan back then, but I would have loved to see my old friends together in these commercials.

IBM hired the entire cast of M.A.S.H. to promote their new computer, the PS/2.

(Read the full post about ‘The Cast of M.A.S.H. Sells I.B.M.’…)

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Move over, 007 – the doors to spy craft just opened to the public. Sharp recently announced its new 5-megapixel CMOS camera (RJ63SC100), purportedly the world smallest. Measuring in at only 9.5 x 9.5 x 6.6mm, the device even offers auto focus for better image quality. The new camera will expected to be available for mass production in July. The camera’s diminutive size, surprising thinness, and high resolution would enable future devices (phones, etc.) to have ultra small cameras.  While it is easy to see its use in the race for smaller and sleeker phones, more inventive uses (shades cam? Camera in your shirt buttons?) are also possible.  Via [Hiptop3] Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! (Read the full post about ‘Sharp unveils smallest 5-megapixel camera’…)

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The band Weezer posted their new music video called “Pork and Beans” on YouTube. The video features a huge collection of “internet stars” from Tay “Chocolate Rain” Zonday to Chris “Leave Britney Alone” Crocker. Weezer even plays in front of a huge deluge tribute to “Coke + Mentos“.

Weezer’s new self-titled “Red Album” comes out June 3rd, 2008.

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by Thomas Ricker, posted May 26th 2008 at 1:23AM
As rumors go, the Canon 5D Mark II is one of the more venerable of those back-room whispers to grace these pages. Now we’ve got the Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital Field Guide on Amazon making a duplicate appearance on the publisher’s website. You know something we don’t Ms. Charlotte K. Lowrie? Guess we’ll find out in November-ish. (Read the full post about ‘Canon EOS 5D Mark II in November?’…)

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by Ryan Block, posted May 26th 2008 at 3:25AMOkay, they’re only embedded ARM chips, but le Inq is reporting that NVIDIA’s prepping not just the the Tegra APX 2500 we heard about before, but also a second line of high performance embedded CPUs. Supposedly the forthcoming CSX 600 / 650 will run in the 700-800MHz range, and be capable of 1080p / 24fps video playback. We’ll give these guys until, say, 2010 before they’re jockeying for AMD’s spot at number two in desktop processors.

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by Ryan Block, posted May 26th 2008 at 12:09AMSo news is making its way around the internets that at the Wedbush Morgan Securities Management Access Conference, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell proclaimed the end of PC gaming piracy as we know it, thanks to a “stealth encryption chip.” The magic chip he’s referring to that “will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay”? The TPM chip — what’s been on motherboards for years, that apparently Bushnell just found out about. While the tinfoil hats in the house will likely attribute TPM (Trusted Platform Module) and other onboard crypto-chips to the eventual downfall of privacy and personal computing, to date we’ve yet to see piracy stunted or civil liberties breached because of the little bugger. (Read the full post about ‘Atari founder cries wolf about piracy-ending chip’…)

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