February 2006

Gefen Component Video Extender For HD Video Up To 300-Feet

WOODLAND HILLS, CA – Expanding its growing base of analog and digital video extension solutions, Gefen announced the availability of its new Component Video Extender, providing a powerful and affordable alternative to HDTV accessibility. The system enables DVD players, satellite television set-top boxes or any video device equipped with RGB connectors to be extended up [...]

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Commodore Gaming Announces Plans To Enter Mobile Games Market In Distribution Deal With Telcogames

Amsterdam, Barcelona, February 16th, 2006 – Commodore Gaming outlines its vision in the mobile games market at the 3GSM mobile conference in Barcelona and announces Telcogames as its preferred supplier of mobile games content. Commodore Gaming, the new mobile, PC and video games joint venture between Commodore International Corporation and The Content Factory B.V., is [...]

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Folding Cutting Board

Our fellow geeks over at Kitchen Contraptions suggested that we feature the Folding Cutting Board as a gizmo of the day. We agree that this simple design is just a good idea. The edges automatically fold upwards when the cutting board is lifted off the countertop allowing you to easily “pour” what you have just [...]

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Podcasting Lectures

No surprise here really. After all, students have been audio recording their lectures for as long as portable recorders have been around. The mildly interesting part is that there are a couple of companies in the education field that have gotten together to make this a way more polished product than some kid’s tape deck [...]

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Toshiba Announces New Notebooks and Tablet PC

IRVINE, Calif. (Feb. 7, 2006) – In response to the increasing mobility needs of corporations and individual users, Toshiba’s Digital Products Division, a division of ToshibaAmerica Information Systems, Inc., today announced the Tecra M5 notebook computer. The newest member of Toshiba’s flagship business notebook line, the Tecra M5 Series establishes a new standard for business [...]

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Iomega ScreenPlay

Iomega has created a gizmo that plugs into an AV receiver and TV allowing you to select songs, pictures and videos from on-screen menus through a remote. You don’t need to hook up your laptop to the TV anymore! The device holds up to 240,000 photos, 1,100 hours of music or 90 hours of video [...]

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Google’s Year of the Dog

2006 is shaping up to be a “dog” of a year at best for Google. The year started with a bust for Google when their much anticipated announcement at CES turned out just to be a pack of software readily available via the Internet. Google Pack does gather all the software in one place and [...]

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European 3G Users Embracing New Multimedia Mobile Culture

LONDON—7 February 2006—M:Metrics, the authority on the consumption of mobile content and applications, today announced the findings of its first European Benchmark Surveys. Although 3G users account for a low percentage of mobile phones users overall, 3G users in the U.K. or Germany are as much as five times more likely to use the multimedia [...]

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Sirius S50 Portable Satellite Radio & MP3 Player

The arrival of this type of unit was just a matter of time. It combines live satellite radio (courtesy of Sirius) and an MP3/WMA player. At 6.5oz, this satellite radio won’t weigh you down and the 1GB of storage allows you to store around 50 hours of content, either your own or recorded radio. For [...]

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Linksys Cordless Internet Telephony Kit for Skype

Sure, you can sit at your computer, plug in a mic and headset and Skype away to your heart’s content, but wouldn’t it be much nicer to be able to use a telephone handset like you used to? Linksys has come up just the thing – a cordless handset that lets you talk via Skype. [...]

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