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IBM’s Design Lab Peers Into The Future, Surfaces With Gadgets

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By David Ho

Beneath a glass pyramid rising abruptly from quiet woods, IBM is thinking about the future. It is a new kind of vision for a company known for its mammoth mainframe computers and business software. Here at Big Blue’s Corporate Design Center, also known as the “gadget lab,� there are prototypes galore. A speech-recognition headset that reads lips. An audio and video mixing studio the size of a handheld video game. A wireless handheld device for stock traders. Some are working devices while others are only steps beyond the imagination, but IBM engineers think their gadgets could change the way people work and play. The effort is part of the company’s larger strategic shift toward the consulting and services business.

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Desktop Personal Air Conditioner

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Desktop Personal Air Conditioner

Staying cool and comfortable has never been easier, thanks to the Desktop Personal Air Conditioner! Designed for ease of use, it utilizes frozen water to create a personal climate controlled system anyone can use! Don’t let hot summer months ruin your code. Stay calm, collected & cool…

Simply fill the supplied bottle with water, freeze it, place it back in the chamber and turn the power switch on. That’s it! Now you are ready to enjoy a cool, relaxing gentle breeze any time, anywhere and since it uses only natural water for cooling, the Desktop Air Conditioner is economical to use. Ideal for use wherever personal cooling is required.

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Annual cell phone sales to reach 1 billion by 2009

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By Elle Cayabyab

Wow. A study of consumers in 12 countries predicts that sales of cell phones will exceed 1 billion handsets each year in 2009, becoming the most common consumer electronics device in the world. An estimated 2.6 billion people will own one by then, according to the Gartner Group, who conducted the study, and handset manufacturers will reap the profits, with vendors such as Nokia and Samsung generating combined revenues of US$1.7 billion in 2009. The Asia Pacific region is seen as becoming even more important, with one out of every three mobile phones sold in the area in 2009, up from one in four this year. The growth in cell phone sales can be attributed to developing nations eschewing traditional land-line telephone service in favor of cell networks, which are much cheaper to implement.

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Apple Releases Mighty Mouse

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Today Apple unveiled Mighty Mouse, the innovative next generation mouse featuring the Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design.

Purchase the new Mighty Mouse here.

Read the entire Product Announcement here.

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TV-B-Gone

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TV-B-Gone

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 250 million television sets in the U.S. and we can guess that the majority of them are turned on a lot of the time. All in all, this is not bad (heck, we enjoy a good movie as much as anyone else) but there are some occasions when you just need to do everyone a favor and turn the TV off. A certain portion of television content is just plain questionable and about as healthy as second-hand smoke.

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World Future Society Conference to be held in Chicago

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By Jon Van

Many people talk about “thinking outside the box,” but the folks at the World Future Society actually live there. Their futuristic thinking will come to Chicago, by the truckload, in less than two weeks as the society brings its annual seminar, WorldFuture 2005, to the Hilton Chicago on July 29. The meeting, which bills itself as “the world’s fair of ideas,” will feature academics, consultants, lawyers, policymakers and researchers discussing technology’s social implications. One course that runs for two days–“How to Think Like a Futurist”–is an intensive introduction to studying the future that promises to supply useful techniques “including trend identification and extrapolation” and various methods used to create informed speculation.

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One Year Anniversary giveaway!

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The Geeks will run two contests from August 1st through August 5th.

The first contest will be a daily contest where the Gizmo of that day is given away. On each Gizmo of the Day from August 1st to August 5th there will be a clue to a code somewhere on our site. The first registered user to post a comment to the Gizmo of that day revealing the code will win that Gizmo of the Day! It sounds a little more complicated than it really is I promise!

The second contest involves gathering all the non-winning comments from each of the days from August 1st through August 5th and the Geeks will randomly choose a winner. How simple is that?

There are a couple of rules:
1) Only one prize per person;
2) If person does not live in US, a gift certificate to either Amazon or Apple iTunes will be presented for $20 instead of the Gizmo of the Day.

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Powers of 2 BCD Binary Clock with Blue Lights

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Powers of 2 BCD Binary Clock with Blue Lights

Tell time in hi-tech style with this incredible Powers of 2 BCD Clock! It uses the binary code (the language of computers) to indicate the time. After a few minutes of practice, you’ll be able to tell the time by simply adding the values of the blue lights in each column. This compact unit is not a typical light show, it’s actually a working clock! This Powers of 2 BCD Clock is a great gift for technical people or for anyone who wants to exercise their mind.

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Brits Pay More for Hi-Tech Gadgets than Americans

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UK Consumers could be paying almost double what they need to for their hi-tech toys, an investigation has found. The research, carried out by reporters at PC Pro magazine, found that a basket of gadgets and software cost £3,500 from UK shops, but was £1,000 less when bought directly from US websites. The saving varies by gadget but in many cases PC Pro found that US prices were half those in the UK. Software, laptops and portable music players were all cheaper overseas.

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Gizmos for Geeks Marks 1st Anniversary with Contests!

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On August 1, 2005, Gizmos For Geeks, one of the fastest growing gadget websites, is celebrating its one year anniversary. To mark the occassion, a giveaway will be held every day from August 1st through August 5th inclusive.

According to the company’s founders, Doug Felteau and Khalid Hosein, they set out to build a community website for visitors interested in learning about new and cutting edge gadgets. The website at gizmosforgeeks.com features a new gadget every single day as well as reviews, news, reviews, coupons & deals, contests, forums, and links to shopping sites and other gadget sites. In the year since launching, Gizmos for Geeks has experienced exponential growth in visitor traffic. Gizmos for Geeks also intends to launch new services in the next year.

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