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by Joshua Topolsky, posted Jun 8th 2008 at 4:27PM
Like something out of Bizzaro World, word on the street is that hunky dreamboat Leonardo DiCaprio will play Atari uber-nerd Nolan Bushnell in an upcoming biopic. According to reports, the film will detail Bushnell’s life from his early work at amusement parks, through founding Atari and eventually building the Chuck E. Cheese’s empire in a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington meets Tucker” fashion. We understand there will be a thrilling montage where Bushnell soundly defeats every Atari staff member at Pong, then builds the first animatronic Jasper T. (Read the full post about ‘Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Atari founder biopic’…)

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by Ryan Block, posted Jun 8th 2008 at 2:46PM
Yep, Apple’s big developer conference kicks off in under 24 hours. We know some of you won’t sleep well tonight, but you’ve got some time to kill, so why not take a moment to make your original iPhone feel appreciated one last time — before you kick it to the curb in favor of the new 3G model His Steveness will be announcing. Everything you need to know is below, and don’t forget to bookmark the keynote page. There there, original iphone, it’ll be okay.

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El WWDC empieza este lunes 9 de junio a las 10:00 PST USA… (Read the full post about ‘WWDC 2008 is tomorrow: 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET, be there’…)

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Live leaked images are typically something that come as a welcomed event, and in the case of the X800 from Philips the handset has a decent look but sadly that is where it stops. It simply does not have the specs to match the design as its missing some important support.

The handset is missing something that many have just come to expect, especially considering it offers such a large (2.9-inch) touchscreen display. It is lacking support for WLAN, 3G and even EDGE.

This handset was officially announced by Philips back in May, along with the Xenium X-Connect, but they have still not released any further information regarding pricing or availability.

(Read the full post about ‘Live images, specs of the Philips X800′…)

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Previously, NDrive’s G400 was the only GPS to have an integrated breathalyzer, but now, the Italian company AvMap, has followed and added a breathalyzer into their own GPS. With a GPS unit dubbed the Geosat 6 Drive Safe, it only seems appropriate that it includes a safety feature such as a breathalyzer.

The Geosat 6 Drive Safe comes with a built-in breathalyzer that can tell you your blood alcohol level and let you know if it is advisable to drive, or if you should call up a friend.

“Thanks to Geosat 6 Drive Safe, drivers can now check their blood alcohol level before driving.

(Read the full post about ‘AvMap adds Breathalyzer to GPS’…)

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by Joshua Topolsky, posted Jun 8th 2008 at 12:26PM
Here’s a little something that might put the brakes on some buyer’s 3G iphone dreams this week — a real, live shot of the forthcoming blackberry touchscreen phone, the Thunder. There’s not much info to glean from this image, save for the fact that it will be practically loaded with buttons (including send, end, back, menu, dual convenience keys, volume, lock, and play / pause) and will be headed to Verizon. (Read the full post about ‘BlackBerry Thunder touchscreen phone in live shot’…)

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The upcoming BlackBerry Thunder finally has a live shot, and while it does not cover all the internal specs, it does give us a good idea of what we have in store for us on the outside. Aside from the large touchscreen display, the Thunder has just about all the convenience (button-wise) as any current blackberry model. From the image we can see it has the standard send, end/power, menu and escape keys that you would expect. It also has a lock key in the upper left, a play/pause key on the upper right, as well as a left and right convenience key and external volume controls. It also clearly confirms that it will be headed to Verizon—at least initially. 3G iphone who? (Read the full post about ‘BlackBerry Thunder; live shot, confirmed headed to Verizon’…)

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The Eclipse Intuit Phone may very well be just a concept, but its one that is hard to deny has some good looks. In the past, as nice an idea as a solar powered gadget would be, the overall look has not really been visually pleasing, however these images hardly reflect that feeling.

In addition to the “chemically based thin solar skin” that will be able to power your phone, the Eclipse Intuit also a 5-megapixel camera with built-in photo editing software, a large touchscreen display, slide-out QWERTY keyboard with tactile feedback.

The Eclipse Intuit also appears to offer up a variety of ‘buttons’ on the top depending on which mode the handset is in.

(Read the full post about ‘Eclipse Intuit; a solar powered concept cell phone’…)

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by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Jun 8th 2008 at 10:16AMNormally we get excited when a slab of silicon makes our games run at 60 frames per-second, but in this case we’re impressed with a new chip that filters out cancer cells. The device, created by some impressive souls at Princeton and Boston University, directs and focuses streams of cells in a liquid. Like a change sorter, it then separates regular cells form unusual ones. The silicon wafer is tacked with tiny pillars that catch abnormal cells that are, in the end, potentially cancerous. (Read the full post about ‘Silicon wafer directs and filters out cancer cells’…)

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If you’re tired of boring gray and black electronics this cute little butterfly will be a refreshing change.  That is if you’re female, I doubt many guys would be overly pleased by a brightly colored butterfly webcam.  Then again I’m sure there are at least a couple exceptions to that.  The webcam easily attaches to the back of your laptop and peers over the top of it to catch a glimpse of you while you type away at whoever you may be broadcasting to.

It also features a nice bendy neck giving you angles that some webcams might not want to bend to catch.  In addition to being able to fasten to your laptop it can also sit on its stand.  Which isn’t really all that different from every other webcam on this earth.  The cam comes in both blue as well as green and is USB powered.  Thankfully, it isn’t overpriced either.  It’s being sold for $20, so anyone with the urge to have such an overly girly webcam won’t have a problem dealing with the price.  You can pick it up at USB Geek which seems to have every possible bit of USB devices you could possible desire.

Source: geekalerts

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While the FCC images usually keep most of the details tight and secure, this latest bit of information seems to be holding a little more than usual. We have here what we can only guess is the successor to the Shadow, which is officially known as the HTC CONV100 and will hit the market as the Shadow II. While the details are light, it looks like the Shadow II will offer up a nice set of improvements and include an 1100mAh battery, as well as Windows Mobile 6.1 out of the box. In addition, it is also expected to include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and come in either silver or black. As you would expect with the FCC information, pricing and availability timeframe still remains as much as mystery as it was before. (Read the full post about ‘Has the FCC leaked the T-Mobile Shadow II?’…)

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