Amex Announces Cheapish Sleekish Portable Blu Ray Burner

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Scrolling through the Google Shopping results for “Blu-ray burner” brings us to $200 before we find a device that will actually author the high-capacity disks. And that’s the cheapest online price: The same Light-On unit is also listed for $380, So the

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Avaratec’s All In One is a Desktop Netbook

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Let’s be honest: the Averatec All-In-One is a netbook with a big screen. The 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor isn’t going to give you blistering performance, but in our experience it will give you enough power to do most everyday computing tasks.

Like a netbook, the

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Vertu Void Concept is As Air Headed as Vertu Users

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We knock Nokia’s premium line of Vertu cellphones not because, deep down, we really love them, but because they are cynical cash-ins, phones devoid of all but the most basic features priced to appeal to the moronic consumer who equates high price with high

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Boss Calming Service Lets Employees Clock In via SMS

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The headline at New Launches reads “HourDoc a new way to punch in to work”. When I read it, I immediately imagined Spidey’s arch-enemy Doc Octopus literally punching through a wall before crashing into his office and then

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Video Asus Eee Top Demo Shows Touch Screens Still Not Ready

The folks at German site EE PC News got their hands on the forthcoming Asus Eee Top, an all-in-one desktop with a touch screen. The Eee Top runs Windows XP, but also has Asus’ Easy Mode, a skin which looks a lot like the Eee PC Linux interface –…

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Down Low Glow Turns Bikes into Low Riders

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The Down Low Glow is a bright tube light for your bike. You strap it on to the bottom of the frame and it puts your ride right in the center of a pool of neon light. Apart from making your bike look like

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Windows Seven Will Come in 20 Separate Editions

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Over at BoingBoing Gadgets, Rob Beschizza (pronounced “Biscuit-Czar”) takes time off from blogging from a dystopian future to bring us a rather splendid swipe at Windows 7, which – according to Rob’s “sauce” – will arrive in a mind-spinning 20 versions.

But if

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Review A2B Electric Bike Puts Some Buzz Into Backpedaling

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Ultra Motor A2B

If you’re not a celebrity, but want to feel like one, then get yourself an Ultra Motor A2B. Wherever I rode this futuristic fully suspended machine onlookers were agog. Trips to Trader Joe’s, the gym,

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3G iPhones Get AT&T The Jackpot

Betting on Apple is paying off big time for AT&T which is exclusive service provider for the iPhone in the U.S as more users have switched to the carrier since the device’s launch.

AT&T connections associated with the 3G iPhone have risen for two consecutive months since the phone launched

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Objet Desktop Printer Churns Out 3D Models

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Forget about 3D cameras and TVs for a second and imagine a machine that spits out any object on your computer screen.

Industrial designers can do that in their offices now with

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Hacker Gives His Guitar Nintendo Wiimote Powers

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Netbook Sales On Fire Says IDC

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There’s no stopping the rise of netbooks as more customers have been springing for these low-cost, ultraportable devices in a weak economy and amidst sluggish growth in the PC industry, says research firm IDC.

"The proliferation of low-cost portable PCs

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Core Performance Center A Different Kind of Gym

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Mark Verstegen has trained some of the greatest athletes in the world at his Athletes’ Performance facilities in Arizona, California, and Florida. It’s the kind of place where you go if you’re hoping to be a top

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Pioneer’s XMp3 Is the TiVo of Satellite Radio

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Pioneer’s XMp3, which begins shipping today, not only plays satellite radio; it also records up to five stations at once. The player also has a 30-minute buffer to rewind and fast forward through live shows. It’s essentially

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Nokia’s Music Strategy Takes a Bite of Apple

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Now that the launch of the new Macbooks is out of the way, it might be time for Apple to take a look at iTunes and its digital-music-service strategy.

Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones, is nipping at

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Jobs Blu ray Is a ‘Bag of Hurt’

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After showing off a slew of sexy, aluminum Mac notebooks on Tuesday, Steve Jobs said Apple computers still aren’t sporting Blu-ray players to dodge extra licensing costs:

"Blu-ray is a bag of hurt," he said during a question-and-answer

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Cheap Easy to Mod NetBooks Are a Hacker’s Paradise

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Thanks to their utilitarian design and low prices, netbooks are inspiring a booming subculture of hackers souping up their liliputers with touchscreens, GPS and unauthorized operating systems like Apple’s Mac OS X.

netbook sales continue to

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Survey 10 Million Not Ready for Analog TV’s Death

DeadtvTelevision broadcasters are getting ready to ditch analog programming and go fully digital in four months — and 10 million U.S. households aren’t even ready for the switch, a survey says.

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MacBook Unboxed Packaged Like a Big iPhone

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It’s the natural order of all things Apple: First the announcement, then the un-boxing. Opening up a new Apple toy is always fun — the company pays almost as much attention to the box as what’s inside the box, and with the new MacBooks

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What’s Inside MacBook Pro Stripped Bare by iFixit

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Once you’ve peeled the packaging away from your shiny new MacBook Pro, what’s next? If you are iFixit, you just keep on going, cracking open the case to see what’s inside.

How does dissembling the new Unibody compare to the old style Apple portables? To

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Doctors Say Cellphones Cause Face Rashes

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Surprisingly, UK dermatologists are not claiming evil radioactivity as the cause for a new rash of skin problems. Instead, it’s plain old irritation.

The British Association of Dermatologists has interpeted studies on itchy, cheek-reddening eruptions which have been dubbed

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Android Market Terms of Service Confirm Googlephone Kill Switch

HTC-T-Mobile-G1_35908_1.jpgIt looks like the Android Market, the Googlephone equivalent of the iPhone App Store, won’t be quite the un-policed, anarchic free-for-all we expected. While anybody can still post any application for download to an Android-based device, the Android

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Hackintosh Update Installing a New Wireless Card

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Yesterday, I replaced the Ralink Wi-Fi card in my Medion Akoya Mini, the Gadget Lab netbook Hackintosh. When we first installed Mac OS X Leopard onto the Wind clone, there were a few things that didn’t work so well, and one of those was

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Iomega Announces Affordable Terabyte NAS

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As my tiny desk disappears still further under a mountain of crap, I yearn to just stick everything but the computer in a cupboard, the collection of cables and flashing LEDs safely contained. What I need is a NAS.

And if Iomega’s new terabyte box

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Review Internet Clock Radio Is Your Passport To International Tunes

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Aluratek Internet Radio Alarm Clock with Built-in Wi-Fi

You might easily be fooled by the Aluratek Internet Radio Alarm Clock’s dowdy, low-tech design. It’s easy to dismiss as one of those cheap, gray market knockoffs usually found on drug store

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