by Darren Murph, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 4:22PM
Surely you feel like buying an all new TuneCast Auto just months after picking up the original, right? Trust us, we can hear the groans from here. For the scads of iPhone 3G owners who are downright perturbed by the inability to charge the thing with some older accessories, you’ll be none too pleased when handing over $79.99 for this. But unless you flex your DIY muscle and come up with some other solution (please share, will you?), buying an iphone 3G-friendly alternative looks to be the only solution. This FM transmitter boasts ClearScan technology in order to hunt down and lock into the best FM frequency (good luck with that), but as we’ve already pointed out, the biggest boon is the iPhone 3G charging ability. Hey Apple, Belkin says “thanks.” Whatever that means.

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by Darren Murph, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 2:52PM
We can’t fully express the awesomeness of RoboStool with mere words, but we’ll try. A product of Norris Labs, this robotic foot stool can be navigated in a trio of ways: by using a remote control, by actually tapping into a satnav or by utilizing a thermal sensing system to make it follow its master around. We don’t suppose you need more than one guess to pick which of the three is our favorite, and there’s a nice demonstration video of said choice waiting after the jump. IKEA, you on this or what?

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by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 1:29PM
If you’ve been waiting for Gateway’s P-7811 FX gaming laptop, the wait is almost over: it will begin shipping August 14, that is, if an open-lipped Best Buy is to be believed. As for specifications, you’re looking at an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 (2.26GHz, 3MB L2 cache with 1066MHz FSB), PM45 Express chipset, 15-inch WUXGA display at 1920 x 1200, Nvidia GeForce 9800M-GTS with 512MB GDDR3, 200GB 7200RPM spinner, 8x DVD burner, HDMI 1.2, eSATA, a 5-in-1 media card reader, 1.3MP camera, and a 9-cell Li-ion battery. The $1,499 machine weighs in at 9.2-lbs and will be ready for your Crysis, Spore, etc. in a couple weeks.

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With the Kindle selling out in just a little over 5 hours after the initial release, its been something of a curious mystery as to just how many Amazon had actually sold. Well it seems that even though Amazon has not offered up any hard numbers, the crew over at TechCrunch are claiming that a “source close to Amazon with direct knowledge of the numbers” has given up the details, and that magic number is 240,000.

Still less than a year on the market and roughly about a quarter million sold is certainly is not a bad start, that would place the revenue for the hardware alone at an estimated $100 million, and that is not to include any of the books and other goodies that are available. I was not able to grab a Kindle when they first went on sale, but managed to snag one when the first came back, since then its been a pleasure to use, especially when traveling. I even think that it has encourage me to read a little more often, simply because of the easy access to new books from anywhere I happen to be.

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George Lucas and co. has confirmed that they plan to 3-Dize the 6 Star Wars movies. Nuff said. Apparently costs between $50k and $100k per minute to convert. Dang.

Fans are divided - some say spend the money on new projects. Others say bring it on. I say, hell yeah, I’ll go see at least 4 of those movies again in 3-D. Actually, I may not have liked the 1st 2 prequels much, but the CGI scenes were pretty stunning.

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by Darren Murph, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 3:20PMDon’t rule out the possibility that this is a complete and utterly disgusting fib, but a recent writeup in The China Post about HTC’s financial situation very clearly states when the hotly-anticipated Touch Diamond is coming to Sprint: this month. If you’re looking for the play-by-play, the article proclaims that the “company released its Diamond phone in Asia in June and will begin selling the handset through Sprint Nextel Corp. in August.” Look, we’ve seen a CDMA version of this thing donning Sprint garb, we’ve watched it fall into the capable hands of the FCC and we know it has to arrive sometime. If all of this doesn’t add up to Sprint getting the Touch Diamond in August, well, we’ll let you do the math.

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How many notebooks do you know come equipped with Dolby Surround Sound? Well, the MSI EX310 is one of them, and MSI has positioned this notebook to target the movie-watching crowd thanks to the second generation Dolby Surround Sound for a more realistic movie watching experience. Features include :-

* Integrated DTV receiver
* 13.3″ ACV widescreen display
* Magnesium alloy casing
* ATi HD3450 256MB 3D graphics card
* High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connectivity
* AI Array microphone
* 2.0 megapixel webcam
* Bluetooth 2.0+EDR connectivity
* Fingerprint reader
* AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-core processor

No idea on how much this puppy will cost though.
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Nothing could be worse than finding out your bike was nicked when you’re on your way home, or you’re in a hurry to ger some place. Luckily, there’s Immobitag to help you out.

It can’t exactly prevent bike thefts from happening, so don’t expect Immobitag to come with a couple of men dressed in black to stand guard over your precious bike. Nevertheless, if anyone ever grabbed your bike, you’d want to get them caught, or at least get your bike back, right? ImmobiTag is a radio frequency identification device. Basically, when your bike gets stolen, it’ll show up on the National Stolen Property Database and Second Hand Trade Stolen Property Register. So when the police gets your bike, they can scan the tag and you’ll get your bike back–hopefully whole and without a missing tyre. Of course, since it cannot stop no do-gooders from doing their thing, the ImmobiTag comes with menacing stickers to delude them into believing your bike is traceable: that is, of course, unless they’re reading this.

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Aside from the recently announced and fashionably stylish EX310 laptop, MSI has also unveiled the ultra-lightweight PR201 laptop PC. And when we say lightweight, we mean 3.97-pounds including battery with its clean and sleek-looking magnesium alloy casing. But of course, aside from beauty, this portable powerhouse also carries with it several features and specs to compete with the rest of the current Core 2 Duo-powered laptops available in the market today.

The MSI PR201 boasts of features such as a fingerprint reader for data security, HDMI capability for high-quality video output, Al Array Microphone and a built-in 2.0 megapixel webcam. For its technical specifications, the PR201 would give us a powerful machine with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Intel GM 45+ICH9-M chipset, a 12.1-inch TFT WXGA display, up to 4GB RAM, up to 320GB of hard drive space, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, a DVD super-multi drive and several standard I/O ports to include a memory card reader, mic-in/headphones, USB 2.0, RJ11/RJ45 and Dsub.

Similar to the EX310, pricing and international release details about the PR201 are yet to be announced. But with its specs and features, the MSI PR201 laptop is a piece of hardware that we all should look out for in the coming months.

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Aside from the recently announced and fashionably stylish EX310 laptop, MSI has also unveiled the ultra-lightweight PR201 laptop PC. And when we say lightweight, we mean 3.97-pounds including battery with its clean and sleek-looking magnesium alloy casing. But of course, aside from beauty, this portable powerhouse also carries with it several features and specs to compete with the rest of the current Core 2 Duo-powered laptops available in the market today.

The MSI PR201 boasts of features such as a fingerprint reader for data security, HDMI capability for high-quality video output, Al Array Microphone and a built-in 2.0 megapixel webcam. For its technical specifications, the PR201 would give us a powerful machine with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Intel GM 45+ICH9-M chipset, a 12.1-inch TFT WXGA display, up to 4GB RAM, up to 320GB of hard drive space, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, a DVD super-multi drive and several standard I/O ports to include a memory card reader, mic-in/headphones, USB 2.0, RJ11/RJ45 and Dsub.

Similar to the EX310, pricing and international release details about the PR201 are yet to be announced. But with its specs and features, the MSI PR201 laptop is a piece of hardware that we all should look out for in the coming months.

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