Now this is what I call relaxing. Who doesn’t want to feel like you’re floating on air, and listening to the sound of nature while you rest? This is an awesome lounger. It is oversized and will accommodate up to 600 pounds. This is a great product for just about any one who enjoys a little quiet time in the great outdoors. This lounger also has a canopy to keep any unwanted sun out of your face. This lounger looks more comfortable than any regular hammock or swing I have ever seen. This is perfect for those lazy summer days after you have your belly full from enjoying some good old fashioned BBQ.

Gimme!

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Price: $999.95
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by Darren Murph, posted Jun 1st 2008 at 5:47AM
Hate to say it, but Pleo ain’t got nothing on Sparky. Created by five interaction design master students, this robodog actually responds in sensible ways to positive / negative scenarios going on around it. For instance, the creature will drop its head, whimper and collapse down if faced with “carbon monoxide, cigarette smoke, alcohol, too much dark lighting, hitting and yelling.” Consequently, he’ll perk up and show signs of excitement when standing in broad daylight or going on walks. All the pluses of having your own pet, minus the excrement and doggy daycare costs — brilliant! Peep Sparky’s day out on the town after the jump.

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Now get equipped to answer any puzzle or crossword with the compact, all-in-one Sharp PW-E250 Electronic Dictionary. Covering the content of the world’s most trusted dictionary, Oxford Dictionary, Sharp PW-E250 Electronic Dictionary is a lightweight pocket reference. Get an instant access to over 150,000 entries like synonyms, senses and phrases in the Oxford Pocket American Dictionary and Thesaurus of Sharp PW-E250 Electronic Dictionary.

Features

• Filter Search.
• Super Jump.
• Oxford Essential Geographical Dictionary.
• Quick View.
• Oxford Essential Guide for Puzzle Solvers.

Sharp PW-E250 Electronic Dictionary also comes with functions like an Anagram Solver, Zoom Key, Phrase Search Function and a Crossword Solver. If you love solving puzzles then you can dream to win using the advanced feature Sharp PW-E250 Electronic Dictionary. Sharp PW-E250 Electronic Dictionary also covers more than 130,000 Spanish translations.

Price

Sharp PW-E250 Electronic Dictionary is available at a price of $ 42.05.

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Toshiba, world’s leading electronic maker has come up with its two new products called Toshiba e-STUDIO450S-500S Color Printers. Get the ease of printing 45ppm and 50ppm respectively with Toshiba e-STUDIO450S-500S Color Printers. Both these models are known for their effective paper handling and offer you to use the duplex option for printing.

Features

• Easy to use LCD Touch Screen Control Panels.
• Walk-up USB Flash Drive.
• Advanced Print, Scan, Copy and Fax Functionality Out-of-the-Box.
• Color Scanning.
• Standard Document Feeder.

500-Sheet Drawer, 2000 Sheet Drawer, Envelope Feeder and Duplex Unit are some of the options available with Toshiba e-STUDIO450S-500S Color Printers. You can upgrade these printers with 128 MB, 256 MB or 512 MB Memory cards. Featuring advance functions, these printers can be configured to handle up to 4,100 sheets at a time.

Price and Availability

Toshiba e-STUDIO450S-500S Color Printers is available at a price of $ 1,499 and $ 2,999 respectively.

Source: Toshiba

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Now carry your blackberry in style wherever you go with the stylish BlackBerry 7100 Series Leather Desktop Stand. Not just the phone, you can keep the charger in this smart leather desktop stand brought out by BlackBerry. Featuring two open slots, BlackBerry 7100 Series Leather Desktop Stand fits your charger and smartphone with ease. You can easily hook up your cell in it and charge it or connect it to a USB cable.

Features

• Folds up for easy transport.
• Attractive leather exterior.
• Accommodates BlackBerry device and charger.

BlackBerry 7100 Series Leather Desktop Stand is highly compatible with devices like BlackBerry 7100 series, BlackBerry 7130 series and BlackBerry 7105t. Ideal to be kept at home, office or to be taken on the move in car, the Leather Desktop Stand guarantees to keep your cell phone safe.

Price and Availability

BlackBerry 7100 Series Leather Desktop Stand is available at a price of $ 12.99.

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Now enjoy a comfortable yet trimming workout with the new NordicTrack AudioRider 400 Bike. It comes with a compact recumbent frame and an adjustable autobreeze fan that changes the airflow matching the speed of your exercise equipment. NordicTrack AudioRider 400 Bike makes best use of the new freewheel technology.

Features

• SMR Silent Magnetic Resistance.
• IFIT Workout Card.
• ClearView Backlit Display.
• Music Port.
• CardioGrip Pulse Sensors.

NordicTrack AudioRider 400 Bike incorporates all the advanced features like 1-Touch Workout Programming. Its 20 personal trainer workouts automatically adjust the pace and resistance of the bike while you focus on your workout. With NordicTrack AudioRider 400 Bike you get a Nordic Track Warranty.

Price and Availability

NordicTrack AudioRider 400 Bike is available at a price of $ 499.00.

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On my recent jaunt to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx to see the Darwin garden, I was too early for more than a few of the blooms in the Botanical Garden’s huge formal rose garden. It’s named for Peggy Rockefeller, source of the river of gold required to keep it going, but the rose garden’s true designer is landscape architect Beatrix Ferrand.

Ferrand worked her garden magic early in the 20th century. A woman in what was at the time a man’s profession, Ferrand is not as well known as she should be. No Wikipedia entry! A perfect project for some feminist green soul out there. Ferrand is not mentioned on the Botanical Garden website either — I learned that she designed the rose garden from a recorded tour guide.

A formal rose garden may not be your style. Not mine either; I like my roses rambling rather than clipped and managed to a fare-thee-well. But June in this enormous rose acreage is the best possible time and place to plan your own rose growing.

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by Darren Murph, posted May 31st 2008 at 8:42PM
Chalk another one up for Sharp. The company has landed yet another partner willing to utilize its solar panels in order to make news, wow onlookers and give Mother Earth a modicum of a break. Napa Valley winery Far Niente has flipped on its self-coined Floatovoltaic installation, which was developed by Thompson Technology Industries and installed by SPG Solar. Nearly 2,300 Sharp solar panels were secured for the job, and we’re told that the array generates 400 kWs at peak output, which “significantly offsets the winery’s annual power usage and provides a net-zero energy bill.” Don’t expect that coveted bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon to be any cheaper as a result, though.

[Via CNET]

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Pictures of a new Motorola slider phone have surfaced.  The phone, reportedly named the ZN5, sports a monster Kodak-branded 5 megapixel camera.  However, in a forehead slapping moment, the camera does not have autofocus.

Other specs include the phone’s ability to run on quad-band, however the data speeds are limited to EDGE (again, come on Motorola!).  The ZN5 runs on the MOTOMAGX platform, which is Linux-based.  The phone also has Bluetooth built in, along with 100MB of internal space plus a MicroSD slot.  The touch wheel used for navigation also doubles as a 5-way directional pad.

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by Darren Murph, posted May 31st 2008 at 4:01PM
First things first: considering the huge amount of press garnered by a recent position art scam, this here could indeed be just another spoof to get your hopes up. That being said, we’re pretty sure no one with any level of decency would do such a vile thing on Easter Sunday, which is precisely when the above bunny was purportedly created from waltzing about with a Magellan GPS and a digital camera. The artist himself admits that what you see above is a slightly cleaned-up version of the actual path, but we’re told that any edits that occurred had no huge bearing on the outcome of the piece. You be the judge.

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