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Hello Kitty strikes again, this time in the form of the 1-Seg TV receiver. Of course, the most notable feature would be Hello Kitty’s face taking main stage on the pop-up screen design. When it is not used as a TV, you will be toting it around as a Hello Kitty face - something not every man would be willing to do. Power consumption is extremely low, as it sips a mere 1W from its rechargeable lithium ion battery that can last up to 4.5 hours per charge. Folks who collect all things Hello Kitty can pick this up in Japan this July 18th, and it will retail for a shade under $200 - $197 to be exact. (Read the full post about ‘Hello Kitty 1-Seg TV Receiver’…)

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HTC Touch Diamond users will be able to prolong the use of their smartphone with the introduction of a new $80 extended battery, and that purchase will be accompanied by new replacement back cover that helps cover up the added bulkiness. This original HTC product will feature a capacity of 1350 mAh, adding not desired thickness and weight to your sleek device, but it is all in the name of longer hours of productivity even when you’re out of the office. Would be nice to see the replacement cover being flat, but I guess you can’t have everything you want in the world. Are you willing to sacrifice beauty for functionality? (Read the full post about ‘HTC Touch Diamond Gets Better Battery’…)

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The renovated BMW Museum in Munich, Germany, offers one of the largest spaces for focused car-design ogling, and is as large (5000 square meters) an expression of the company’s outsized engineering expectations as it is an interesting new space for art. The latter label comes mostly from the mechatronic piece by ART+COM called the Kinetic structure, an awesome installation project made out of moving, sliver spheres. ART+COM is a media development company that creates high tech installations, and they take an abstract approach with their concept —- depicting the design of a car and its eventual relationship with the elements through real-style ‘animations.’From the looks of the videos, they’ve succeeded- the illustration of each silver sphere according to a point in space is so precise that if the clip is fast forwarded, it will resemble the real movements of a half-car moving. (Read the full post about ‘Kinetic Structure at BMW Museum Interprets Car Design Process’…)

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by Paul Miller, posted Jul 14th 2008 at 12:54PM There’s a lot of tech speak to cut through, but if Lucid Logix’s claims are true, we might be looking at a revolution in the high-end gaming segment. Lucid is building a new “real-time distributed processing engine” system on a chip called HYDRA, which can mix and match any GPU from any manufacturer and work with any chipset, and piles it all together for performance scaling that Lucid claims is “near-linear” or “above-linear.” It’s the above-linear part that particularly makes no sense — how can you squeeze more power out of cards than is there to begin with? — but we’re gonna give Lucid the benefit of the doubt for the moment and wait for the benchmarks. (Read the full post about ‘Lucid Logix HYDRA tech brings together any GPUs for powerful matrimony’…)

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On Saturday morning, Apple’s servers recovered enough to start serving the iPod Touch 2.0 software update, and — because I was left iPhone-less on Friday by Spain’s favorite telco, I spent the weekend killing both my ipod Touch’s batteries and my own bank account, alternating between playing Monkeyball on the beach and surfing the App Store. Here are some first impressions of the new iPhone applications. NetNewsWire NetNewsWire Mobile is the read-only mobile version of the Mac RSS reader NetNewsWire, the grandaddy of news aggregators. Up until this release, the only way to read and keep your NNW on the iPhone was to use the online Newsgator site, which syncs feeds with NNW. (Read the full post about ‘App Store is Like a Sweet, Sweet Drug: Five IPhone Applications Reviewed’…)

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Now maximize your business results using the advanced featured HP iPAQ 211 Enterprise Handheld. Capable of running your work applications, it sports a large 4” touch screen. It features high-capacity SDIO and Compact Flash expansion. Features 4-inch TFT Touch Screen. Integrated Microphone, Receiver, Speaker. Integrated WiFi-802.11 b/g with WPA2 security. 128 MB SDRAM main memory, 254 MB Flash ROM. HP iPAQ 211 Enterprise Handheld incorporates Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Classic Operating System. Apart from it, this handheld includes a Marvell PXA310 processor. The Handheld works efficiently with a 2200 mAh Lithium rechargeable battery. Price and Availability HP iPAQ 211 Enterprise Handheld is available at a price of $ 449.99. (Read the full post about ‘HP iPAQ 211 Enterprise Handheld’…)

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Trusted Reviews has a review of the Samsung SGH-J700 and writes, “This is a slider handset and its looks are pretty standard in comparison to some of Samsung’s mobiles. It doesn’t have a touchscreen and isn’t amazingly tiny, nor does it have a fancy mega-sophisticated camera and in fact it doesn’t claim to be super-duper at anything…At 1.3-megapixels this is actually more entry-level than mid-range. As you would expect its performance isn’t wonderful. Over exposure is its key problem I discovered and it is a biggie.” Read more about the Samsung SGH-J700. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung SGH-J700′…)

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Panasonic, world’s leading electronics maker, is proud to present its new product called Panasonic BL-MS103A Camera Management System. Simply connect the video cable to a TV and watch all your camera images on this new product. Using its fully operational remote control, you can easily move the camera lens in any direction.

(Read the full post about ‘Panasonic BL-MS103A Camera Management System’…)

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Belkin aims to do away with your infestation of set-top-boxes with yet another set top-box. The FlyWire is a $1000 video transmitter which will send hi-definition video (up to 1080p) around your home. You hook up your Blu-ray player, games console or media center to the main FlyWire transmitter and it will send the uncompressed signals to a receiver plugged into the HDMI port of a TV or monitor. Thus, you can hide the tower of tech away in a cupboard or den and enjoy clutter-free movies or gaming. The FlyWire works on the 5GHz band, so it should remain free of the microwave oven and cordless phone interference which plagues older Wi-Fi setups. It is also HDCP compliant, so you can use it with the paranoid DRM solutions out there. (Read the full post about ‘Belkin FlyWire Beams Hi-Def Video’…)

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Over at CrackbBerry, the BlackBerry blog, these photos of the Thunder have surfaced, and they confirm the speculation that the new device would drop a physical keyboard in favor of an iPhone-like on-screen keyboard. As you can see, the soft keyboard changes depending on orientation, although somewhat strangely in portrait mode you are forced to use Blackberry’s SureType – which makes the keys do double duty – instead of a proper QWERTY keyboard.

According to CrackBerry, the iPhone similarities don’t end with the keyboard. The Thunder also has a glass screen, which will feature multi-touch, and will be using a Webkit based browser, just like Mobile Safari.

(Read the full post about ‘Photos: Touchscreen Blackberry Thunder’…)

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