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D-Link Offers Wireless N Speeds Over Your Electric Wiring

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D-Link’s DHP-1320 Router allows you to make extra fast connections throughout your home via your existing electrical wiring. The DHP-1320 offers speeds of upto 300Mbps throughout a huge area of your home.

Because the router is in the PowerLine series it can be used to get a wired internet connection almost anywhere in the home, and at a fraction of the cost of having new phone sockets and wiring installed.

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Plug-In Compact iPhone/iPod Speaker Dock

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Similar to Quirky, Kickstarter is another website that helps back designer’s innovative ideas, as long as enough money is pledged to the product. The idea we’re featuring today is the WALdok – a iPhone/iPod plug-in speaker, and has already met its funding pledge so will go into production on the 9th of April this year.

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CrashPlan Offers Multiple-Location Backup for $1.50/Month

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Stop for a minute and think about how you’d cope if you lost the contents of your hard drive. If you hadn’t thought about backing up your data because of cost, security reasons or because you didn’t true the backup companies, it’s definitely time to think again. Another good product we’ve found to back up your data is CrashPlan, but we really love BackBlaze which we mentioned in our daily must-use products.

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Best Buy Offers TiVo on Insignia Internet TVs

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TiVo, the DVR entertainment company, has announced that it is going to integrate its services in with Best Buy’s range of Insignia TVs to give another medium for their services to be viewed on. The deal will put Best Buy in a more competitive position with Wal-Mart, who acquired Vudu last year. Sources say that this move will allow them to offer their own on-demand video services that Best Buy has been developing for some time now, through TiVo’s software.

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Hitachi-LG Pack SSD and Blu-Ray into One Bay

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Hitachi-LG has managed to come up with an improvement to one of their hybrid drives. They now offer a solution for customers where space and performance are equally key by combining an SSD with a Blu-Ray optical drive.

The idea behind it is that the Blu-Ray and SSD hybrid can fit into one bay and share just one SATA connector. Their initial model needed 2 SATAs but Hitachi-LG has now integrated them into one. This allows premium laptop makers to boost their storage memory and still include a Blu-Ray drive.

The drive is available in sizes from 8GB up to 256GB, but no word on price currently. The typical setup is to have the operating system and other key files to be held on the SSD with a different HDD in another bay being used for any user files. The drive will be hitting the shelves in May this year.

Touch Revolution Lets You Build Touchscreen Devices

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Ever had an idea for a great touchscreen product? Here’s your chance to make it a reality. TouchRevolution is a supplier of touchscreens of a variety of formats which can be used for almost any purpose with ease. It allows you to get your product idea off the ground without developing any touch hardware for it.

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The Ultimate Backpack for Technology-Inclined Travellers

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Quirky have churned out some neat products recently, and they currently need your support for their new Trek Support Electric Backpack. This is a backpack for travellers to fit in their essential gadgets, and have them recharged by the internal battery as they’re going about their business. The battery can last around 7 hours depending on what devices you’re charging up and can hold gadgets of any size in its ‘gadget mesh’.

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Samsung Digital Camera Can Be Controlled With Android App

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The Samsung SH100 is a pretty standard, but quality, Wi-Fi digital camera. It packs an impressive 14.2MP, has 5x optical zoom and takes MicroSD and SDHC cards.

But it’s also got a hidden secret. Download the associated Android app for your smartphone and you can control the camera over WiFi using your phone, take photos with it and even view your photos afterwards.

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Blind Man Drives Car Around Daytona Speedway

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Technology for blind people is advancing rapidly – recent new discoveries have been made that offer some degree of sight through a person’s tongue, but now imagine a car that can be driven, completely independently, by someone who has little or no sight.

The National Federation for the Blind (NFB) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, College of Engineering have teamed up to create this. The car uses ‘non-visual’ signals to tell the driver the location of obstacles, such as cars in other lanes, or cars to the rear or front. This means the car can actually be fully driven by a blind person, and doesn’t have to rely on a computer to do any of the thinking or decision making.

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