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If you are planning to get a new navigational device, here is one that could be the best choice. You can get a lot of advantages by buying Garmin eTrex Vista Handheld GPS System from a very popular GPS manufacturing company called ‘Garmin’. The device comes with Garmin eTrex Vista Deluxe GPS receiver which has the potential to receive signals from wide channels. You can buy this handheld system for your personal uses. The compact dimensions of the Garmin eTrex GPS System is: 5.1 cm width 3 cm depth 11.2 cm height 150 grams weight Here’s the list of the installed software - MapSource BlueChart MapSource Fishing Hot Spots Garmin Marine Point Database Garmin Atlantic Highway Basemap Some of the vital features are - Users can get high quality signals from 12 channels with great accuracy. (Read the full post about ‘Garmin eTrex Vista Handheld GPS System’…)

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Bourgeois Brass Knuckles are a product that would never make it into production outside of a David Cronenberg movie (my girlfriend mentioned something about Viggo Mortensen fighting naked in a sauna, but I don’t think she’s quite woken up yet). Needless to say, this novelty corkscrew takes a dangerous weapon and actually makes it more deadly. It is, however, awesome, and I’m fairly certian I could use it to take down BoingBoing gadgets’ John Brownlee and his rather wussy looking Ninja Tacks. (Read the full post about ‘Brass Knuckle Corkscrew Helps Spill Some Claret’…)

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Every once in a while, some company will improve on something that you wouldn’t think needed any improvement at all. Take the grand piano, for instance. Its sleek blank ebony framework and perfect ivory keys are a symbol of pure music. And yet, Yamaha has made the grand piano even more perfect with the recently unveiled Disklavier Mark IV, a piano that can “play itself, teach you to play, and perform in sync with your favorite CDs”. It is also one of the first pianos to have a Wifi connection with 802.11b specification. As far as I know, the Disklavier is also the only piano with a remote control. This PDA-type pocket remote controller has buttons and a full-color LCD touchscreen, and some models include a tablet-PC remove with 10.4 inch touchscreen. (Read the full post about ‘Yamaha Disklavier Mark IV is one Grand Piano’…)

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For the last several years, the still pretty crappy cameras on my cell phones have been my main camera. Knowing that I have the cam on the phone in case of impromptu photo opps (generally involving my dogs) makes me less likely to want to drag around yet another device. So now I have hundreds of great pictures, or pictures that would be great if they weren’t so low-res and crappy. They’re not suitable for framing or generally even for printing because they’d look like blurs. Unless… you’re printing with a Polaroid Pogo pocket printer, which prints small, 2″ x 3″ prints with sticker backs that are small enough to look good even with the resolution provided by most phone cameras. (Read the full post about ‘Polaroid Pogo pocket printer’…)

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Microsoft has some big plans for Windows Mobile for the rest of 2008 and 2009 according to a report by Reuters. Microsoft’s managing director for OEM embedded devices in Asia, Eddie Wu, has stated that “fifty percent growth is the minimum”. The key word in that statement is “minimum” which one can infer means Microsoft is hoping to do more growth than that.

When it comes to Windows Mobile Microsoft doesn’t share the same dominance that it has with the Windows operating system on PC’s. Microsoft must compete with other mobile operating systems, including Symbian.

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Dell CEO Michael Dell was showing off a cherry-red mini notebook at the D6: All Things Digital conference this week. This will be Dell’s first entry into the now-hot market for subnotebooks, which has taken off in the last 6 months with the unexpected success of the Asus EeePC. After eagle-eyed Gizmodo editor Brian Lam spotted the notebook, Mr. Dell gave him an exclusive closeup look at the thing, and a little later Dell officially confirmed the subnotebook’s existence. No details on specs yet, though the company is saying the product is a response to a call they made to the user community to help the company design a mini laptop. But if you go by the initial impression of the blog community, the unnamed mini-Dell might be one generation behind. (Read the full post about ‘CEO Reveals Dell Mini Notebook, But With Few Details’…)

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Are you an over shopper? No matter how many times you go to the grocery store you always wind up buying too much food. This surplus of extra food eventually expires and is quickly introduced to the trash can. But why? Why do we waste so much food when we can use it for creating something usable? The Kitchen Composter takes all of your leftover or rotting food and composites fully-usable fertilizer within two weeks using only 10 watts of power. The extra fertilizer not only saves you money from your local garden product dealer, but would be awesome to use on your home garden, growing your own family some fresh veggies. The composter does its thing over a period of two weeks and notifies you that the job is done with a red light. (Read the full post about ‘The Kitchen Composter’…)

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Most Macs I’ve seen so far are things of beauty, making this DIY Corkboard Mac look rather out of place with the rest of its brethren no thanks to the way it was constructed. Most of the innards consist of an older PowerBook, all held together by a series of colorful push-pins. Well, this is way too fragile for me to display openly whenever there are kids around, so I think it would be better off enclosed in a transparent glass case and placed in a museum instead. Creepy. Tags: mobile phone, gizmos, Hi-fi, electronic toys (Read the full post about ‘Corkboard Mac’…)

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Google’s been teasing the supposedly-called HTC “Dream” and its interface, Android, at the company’s I/O Conference in San Francisco. In case you didn’t know, it’s highly anticipated. It is the Google Phone (UI), after all. The Dream appears to be the real deal, though. Featuring a touchscreen, the model really is the one that Android is built for. In a demo of Android at Google Headquarters, the developers showed off the phone’s accelerometer by using it in “compass mode.” How else this will be used is not really yet known, but using Google Maps’ Street View feature, the phone can be a window into what you’re already looking at and give you directions as you move.

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Samsung is pretty adamant on calling its L870’s web browser Safari, which will definitely irk Apple fanboys to no end. Why all the confusion? Well, the handset is widely believed to carry a standard version of the Nokia Mini Map browser, which shares many similarities with Safari’s WebKit rendering engine despite the fact that the phone’s web application is a Symbian Series S60 version of the “Safari browser”, and thus equating it to Nokia software. Hopefully Samsung realizes this discrepancy pretty soon (if they haven’t already and prefer throwing caution to the wind), lest Steve Jobs sics his legal eagles on the Samsung team. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung Dubs L870 Browser Safari’…)

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