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Posted Feb 18th 2008 1:37PM by Darren MurphFiled under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment Nah, Samsung’s M310 isn’t nearly as diminutive as its MBP-100, but it’s still quite the cutie. Hailed as an Ultra Mobile Pocket Imager, this DLP device features a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 150 ANSI lumens, VGA input, SVGA native resolution and a pleasantly small footprint. Mum’s the word on an official price / release date, but we’ve all ideas this is one case where more won’t cost less. [Via AboutProjectors]Tags: gadgets, consumer technology, sat-nav, PDA (Read the full post about ‘Samsung shows off M310 Ultra Mobile Pocket Imager projector’…)

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You remember that Sprint rolled out its Unlimited Access Pack on February 6th? Guess what? Verizon is going to the same thing and of course, that’s something that might be interesting to heavy users. Verizon’s offering seems a little bit more expensive than Sprint’s and to be honest, the plans are a little more complex than they should be. Head to BGR for more details. Tags: computers, DVD, Ogg, camera (Read the full post about ‘Unlimited Plans: Verizon Says Me Too’…)

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Mother always said not to play with your food, but with the Tic Tac Toast, that warning comes across as harder to follow. Another good reason to play with your food! The Tic Tac Toast stamper combines the fun of tic-tac-toe with the tastiness of toast. Just press this 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ plastic stamper into a piece of bread, then put your bread in the toaster. The resulting toast will be branded with a tic-tac-toe grid! When the toasted gameboard is ready, all thats left to do is pick some tasty toppings and play a game. No prizes for guessing who gets to ear the toast. At least you know both peanut butter and jelly will be more or less evenly spread out. (Read the full post about ‘Tic Tac Toast’…)

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Citing a lack of action on the part of eBay, both Adobe and Symantec have decided to take action against certain sellers offering pirated software on the auction site.

The lawsuits have been started by the Software & Information Industry Association Auction Litigation Program. This program represents a wide range of companies that counts well know names such as Adobe, Symantec, McAfee, Oracle, Apple, Autodesk, and Borland on its list of members.

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Posted Feb 18th 2008 9:41AM by Paul MillerFiled under: Misc. gadgets, Transportation Some Penn State researchers are taking a cue from nature and have built the first solar cell that can effectively split water to harvest the hydrogen. While the technology and efficiency of electricity-gathering solar cells has been humming on nicely, cells that can pull hydrogen out of water directly (instead of using solar-harvested electricity to do it) have found that the catalysts conducive to separating hydrogen and oxygen are usually pretty good at putting the two gases right back together again. (Read the full post about ‘New solar cell cuts out the middle man, harvests hydrogen from water’…)

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Sumvision really has, er, some vision when it comes to MP3 players. This 4GB model comes with a 2.8″ touch screen display (don’t they all try to emulate the iphone these days), all decked out in a stainless steel case and a microSD memory card slot just in case you want to lug around an additional 2GB worth of songs. At £60 a pop, is the Sumvision ICE 1000 worth every penny? You check out the specifications after the jump and decide. Screen: 2.8 inch (320 x 240 pixels) TFT panel. Capacity: Built-in flash memory, up to 4GB. Memory Card Slot: Supports microSD card, up to 2GB. Operation buttons: Touch-panel. FM Stereo Radio: 20 channel presets manually and automatically. (Read the full post about ‘Sumvision ICE 1000 PMP’…)

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Do you know anyone in your circle of friends who does not yet own a cell phone? Probably not, as all and sundry have already picked up a handset regardless of age and economic background. After all, cell phone manufacturers have long catered their handsets to people from all walks of life, ranging from super cheap phones to high ends ones that seem to be able to do everything. The keyword for the latter group is ’seem’, as Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser thinks otherwise. The man says that everyone will eventually carry at least a couple of cell phones since there is no perfect handset that is capable of doing everything you want and provide everything you need. (Read the full post about ‘Two phones for everyone’…)

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DLO VideoShell for iPod touch Clear hard case with kickstand for iPod touch DLOs VideoShell surrounds your iPod touch in crystal clear protection. Youll find easy access to the touch screen, earphone jack, hold switch, and the dock connector so you can plug in and sync your ipod without removing it from the case. You know your iPod deserves the best protection; and VideoShells polycarbonate body, handy kickstand, and screen protector wont let you down. (Read the full post about ‘DLO VideoShell for iPod touch Clear hard case with kickstand for iPod touch’…)

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Back in the late 80’s when most PC games involved rudimentary graphics or were text-based games, Apple’s reined supreme in non-console gaming with graphically intense and gorgeous games like “Falcon”, a flight simulator that PCs took a decade to catch up with! Since then, times have changed and game developers have treated the Macintosh platform as a secondary port to PCs, if game developers entertained the Apple market at all.

Now it seems gaming developers are starting to warm back up to the Mac platform as big names like Electronic Arts announced games like “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, “Battlefield 2142″ and “Madden NFL ‘08″ for the Mac.

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Posted Feb 18th 2008 1:54AM by Thomas RickerFiled under: Desktops, Handhelds, LaptopsThink you’ve mastered Intel speak? Impressive, it’s no easy task keeping Intel’s brand names and in-house silicon language straight. Now rumor has it that Intel’s Montevina will carry a new Centrino 2 branding in hopes of clearing up any confusing amongst consumers. Probably a good idea what with Centrino providing the catch-all since the launch of those Carmel, Sonoma, Napa, and Santa Rosa platforms running Pentium M, Core Duo, Core 2 Duo branded Banisa, Donthan, Yonah/Merom and Merom/Penryn processors. If true, a Centrino 2 sticker would indicate 5th generation, Montevina-class Centrino with support for 45-nm, Core 2 Duo Penryn CPUs, a 1066MHz FSB, DDR3 memory, and mobile WiMax. (Read the full post about ‘Intel branding Montevina platform Centrino 2?’…)

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