In the 2002 Tom Cruise movie “Minority Report,” there is a scene where Tom Cruise is walking through the city and is being automatically recognized by advertisements along the side of the street. This wasn’t a good thing, since Cruise didn’t want his whereabouts known. Advertisements knowing your location sure sounds like science fiction, but it’s not anymore.

CBS Mobile announced a partnership with Loopt to offer the first location-based mobile Web site ads in the U.S. Loopt is a social mapping service and is currently offered by Sprint. The power of location-based ads will be that advertisers will now be able to direct marketing to perspective customers based on location. Targeted advertisements like this are a dream to marketing agencies and departments.

Advertisements shown to individuals who have no chance of becoming customers is really wasted money for companies. A good example might be a television ad for a store that doesn’t have a location close to you. Now, with location-based technology, companies can make sure they don’t waste time advertising goods and services where it doesn’t make sense. After all, you don’t want to pay for mobile ads for surfboards displayed to someone who is in Kansas.

Read more from the joint press release.

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We know you’re probably past the stage of flipping out at the thought of needles (at least, we hope most of you are), but wouldn’t the world be a much better place if there’s another way to administer injections?

Taking advantage of the LEDDT (Laser Easy Drug Delivery Technology) technology, which is a transdermal method of drug delivery, P.L.E.A.S.E. says bye bye to needles for administration of high molecular weight drugs. By P.L.E.A.S.E., we meant the Painless Laser Epidermal System.

The device administers the drug via creating aqueous micro pores in the skin’s epidermis. It won’t hurt because it doesn’t reach the dermis where your nerves are. For people who need regular injections like diabetes patients, P.L.E.A.S.E.will definitely be a big help.

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If you dream about cheap wireless printing, Crave has spotted a Lexmark Z1480 wireless color inkjet printer for $29.99 (after rebate, until tomorrow) at Circuit City. The printer connects via USB and WiFi-G to received documents from Windows or Mac OS. At that price you get an entry-level printer that is probably “good enough” for anything except nice quality photos.

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While it is not new that pilots are sometimes given drugs to keep them alert (or just awake), a military report from Israel says that the “Viagra family of drugs” might get the job done better because the improved blood flow induced by the drug allows pilots to perform better at higher altitudes.

Side effects can include long-term blindness, but in the short term it might work as long as the pilot uses the right stick… [more at Wired]

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Acer, the market leader in the production of computers, has this time come up with the 20 inch widescreen LCD. The Acer Ferrari F-20 LCD very well proves the concept of beauty with the brains. It has got the most charming and mesmerizing looks. This beautiful device comes in a rich black and luster red. Furthermore, it has CrystalBrite Technology which separates Ferrari F-20 from other LCDs prevailing in the market. The distinctive feature is that you can have the ecstasy of playing games on such a wide display. It has the resolution of 1680 x 1050 along with VGA and DVI-D connectors, contrast ratio of 800:1 and 300 cd/m2 of brightness.

With the usage of the CrystalBrite technology, the Acer Ferrari F-20 LCD offers you higher contrast, sharp finish and dazzling colors supported upto 16.7 millions. Boasting a high-speed response time of 8ms the TV assures high quality moving images. Further there are two 5W bezel integrated speakers which adds more magic to the multimedia experience. We can see the logo of Ferrari embedded on the flat panel. The total weight of the Acer Ferrari F-20 LCD is 15.0 lb.

Dimensions: -

• 17.5 inch high
• 20.1 inch wide
• 8.1 inch deep

Warranty: -

The Acer Ferrari F-20 LCD is backed by three years of warranty period for all the parts.

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Posted Feb 8th 2008 10:54AM by Paul Miller
Filed under: Portable Audio
Isn’t that cute? It’s like two music players, but they make a heart! Oh, and look, there’s a crack down the middle, it kind of looks just like two people kissing. Maybe you can stick the Juno soundtrack on there and give half this Newman DAP to that special someone. It’s like giving a piece of your heart, only with plastic and silicon. What’s that? She doesn’t appreciate your finely honed taste in indie music? Well that’s no problem, just glue the two players back together and look at what you’ve got: a broken heart. Yeah, we can tell that this February 14th will be one to remember.

[Via Newlaunches]

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Posted Feb 8th 2008 2:10PM by Paul Miller
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Digging the 32GB of NAND, but not so hot about the $499 pricetag on Apple’s latest iPod touch? Creative would like to remind you that it got there first, for less, with the Zen, and has slashed the price to $299 from the original $349 to keep that margin healthy. Sure, the 2.5-inch screen is a bit smaller, and we’ve given Creative a bit of a hard time over the years for an occasional failure to innovate, but reviewers seemed to love on the Zen, and it’s hard to argue with this deal.

[Via DailyTech]

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The Motorola C261 VGA cell phone is blessed with the most stylish look along with reasonably priced cost. It is encumbered with embedded games, polyphonic ringtones, integrated VGA 0.3 mega pixel camera, large size phonebook and many more features! This ultra slim phone offers access to internet, instant messaging service, multimedia messaging service (MMS) and SMS service.

The Motorola C261 VGA cell phone is provided with 5MB of memory. It has a screen with the resolution of 128×160 pixels. Four way navigation feature facilitates navigating menus in the cell phone. It includes polyphonic ringtones up to 32 channels. The Motorola C261 VGA cell phone is embedded with 820mAh Lithium-Ion battery. It is also comprised of GPRS, WAP, phone messaging. You can also download wallpapers, ringtones and wallpapers. The total weight of this trendy phone is 91g.

Enhanced features: -

• GPRS of class 8
• Handsfree speaker
• Alarm clock
• Continuous talk time up to 7.5 hours
• Calculator
• Standy time up to 11days
• Phonebook
• Games and downloads
• MMS, SMS, IM
• Frequencies – GSM 1900 and 850 MHz

Dimensions: -

• Width – 49.9 mm
• Depth – 14.9 mm
• Height – 109.9 mm

Source: Motorola

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Hewlett-Packard (HP) has always been known for its eminent products in the production line of electronics devices. With the introduction of the HP iPAQ 111 Classic cell phone, HP has tried to revive the cell phone revolution. This extremely fashionable and reasonably priced phone comes with the facility of Wi-Fi, contacts, to-do works, calendar and what not! You can also download the games from the internet. It provides you with the wide touch screen of 3.5 inch, windows media player 10 mobile and Bluetooth peripherals for connecting them externally.

The HP iPAQ111 Classic cell phone is empowered with the latest Marvell PXA310 processor of 624MHz. Further, with the power of Wi-Fi, you can check your mails any where you want and can transfer the data whenever you want to. It stores your personal documents and make you relaxed. This wonderful gadget comes with windows mobile 6 classic OS, Microsoft office Outlook mobile and Microsoft office mobile. The HP iPAQ 111 Classic cell phone can run all PDF formatted files and documents.

Warranty: -

The HP iPAQ 111 Classic cell phone is backed up with the 1 year limited warranty period.

Price: -

The HP iPAQ 111 Classic cell phone is available at the ERP of $299.99.

Source: HP

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Just recently we told you about the ongoing campaign to help “save Windows XP” from its certain death. As it stands now Microsoft will stop issuing new licenses for XP as of June 30, 2008 and based on their latest response it seems that date will hold true.

A Microsoft spokesperson recently stated that they are “aware of it” when referring to the campaign, and went on to state that they are listening “first and foremost to feedback we hear from partners and customers about what makes sense based on their needs.” Well at last count the petition had just over 75,000 signatures on it, if that is not enough customer feedback than I am just not sure what they would be looking for.

Via [PC Pro]

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