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eMotion 3-in-1 Desktop Media Player

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eMotion 3-in-1 Desktop Media Player

These digital picture frames are evolving! Not only will eMotions Picture Frame show photos from SD, MS and MMC memory cards or loads directly via USB from the camera or computer, but the eMotion 3-in-1 Desktop Media Player will play DVDs, VCDs, music CDs and MP3! If you aren’t watching anything, the screen becomes a mirror.

With a 7″ LCD screen and a 16:9 aspect ration you could bring this gizmo on the road to look at pictures as well as use it as a DVD player.

In a few years, digital picture frames will be what everyone buys when they go to Walgreens, Eckerds or a Wolf Camera instead of the old fashioned picture frames.

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Upgrade Your Thermostat in 5 Easy Steps

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This article reprinted courtesy of Smarthome.

As temperatures begin to drop, there’s no better time for upgrading your outdated, mechanical thermostat with a programmable thermostat, which gives you the ability to set your heating system to turn on only during the hours you’re home to enjoy it, for significant cost savings. Programmable thermostats can be used as direct replacements for most existing thermostats. Best of all, the upgrade process is much easier than you would imagine. Just follow the five steps described below.

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InPhase Technologies Develops Tapestry Holographic Media for Consumer Devices

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InPhase Technologies, the leader in holographic data storage media and systems, today announced that it has developed and is shipping the first Holographic-ROM

(H-ROM) media targeted for use in consumer devices. Data is recorded into the TapestryTM HDS4000 media with the same wavelength red lasers used in CDs and DVDs.

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CES 2006: Chief Gizmateer’s Day Three at CES

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Unfortunately I was unable to attend the last day (or half day) of CES 2006. Regardless, we ran ourselves ragged to cover this year’s CES with more indepth articles coming in the weeks ahead. I’ll try to run through some highlights from my CES experience on day three.

The third day started with a “wow” reaction while viewing LG’s 42″ 3D LCD prototype. Next we toured through Philips space to check out their latest products. The Geeks had to check out a Best in CES candidate by Jensen… an in-dash car PC! As mentioned in the Chief Gadgeteer’s post we watched the CNET awards where they mentioned the big trends this year are in home electronics and small MP3 players. Nothing earth-shattering there! Also, like the Chief Gadgeteer, I am stunned by the Creative Labs Zen Vision being awarded the Best in Show! I conducted a short interview with some of the Sony Locationfree guys. Apparently Sony sends newbs to CES whereas their main (and only?) competitior Sling Media sends the entire knowledgeable company as Sling managed to answer my questions and Sony simply said their product was cool! We checked out the Centrino Duo tablet at Toshiba coming out next month and wrapped up with a great little outfit called dreamGEAR that seems to have a lot of Gizmos for Geeks. We ended the day watching Washington beat Tampa Bay on a gorgeous Pioneer Elite Plasma Display Panel.

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Review: Sid Meier’s Civilization IV

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Review: Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Producer: Firaxis
Distributor: 2K Games

A perennial favorite, Sid Meier’s Civilization series has set the standard in the past for turn based strategy games. Now the 4th generation in this series is released, with a new fully 3-D graphics system and some changes to the tried and true formula that has made Civilization the masterpiece series that has spawned imitations and hybrid versions (namely Sid’s Alpha Centauri, and Colonization.) How does this new version fare?

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Panasonic PV-GS250 Digital Camcorder

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Panasonic PV-GS250 Digital Camcorder

We’ve already featured a DVD Recordable Digital Camcorder and a Hard Drive-based Digital Camcorder so now we’ll feature a top selling MiniDV based Digital Camcorder.

This camcorder has all the great features which have become standard including 3CCD technology, image stabilization, a color viewfinder and digital still mode for grabbing pictures.

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Fiber Optic Nightlight

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Fiber Optic Nightlight

The fiber optic nightlight from Harriet Carter flashes in multiple colors from a plume of hair-thin fibers. The strands don’t actually move, but the changing colors have an undulating effect, which hopefully can hypnotically induce sleep. Hundreds of delicate strands form a shimmering fan of reds, greens, purples, yellows and whites above the plug-in nightlight.

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Discovery Color-Changing Projection Clock

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Discovery Color-Changing Projection Clock

How many geek chic items can you fit into one clock? Discovery Store believes the magic number is four. First, the clock has a LCD screen that changes colors between green, red, blue and violet. Second, the clock projects on to a wall or other surface. Third, the clock displays temperature as well and the forth and final geek chic item…. the clock syncs with the U.S. atomic clock!

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Roboraptor: Mark Tilden’s Latest Robot

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Roboraptor: Mark Tilden's Latest Robot

Remember the Robosapien, the super cool robot designed by Mark Tilden? Well, here’s the Roboraptor, its successor. The Roboraptor has multiple sensors, realistic motion. It also has ‘personalities’: aggressive hunter; methodical and cautious; friendly and playful. You can use 40 pre-programmed functions to control it via a remote control or let it roam around in an autonomous mode.

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Deck LED-Backlit Keyboard

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Deck LED-Backlit Keyboard

It seems like the Geeks have featured quite a few keyboards lately, but for some reason we have seen quite a few groovy ones lately. This “Deck LED-Backlit Keyboard” is no exception… just check out the picture!

The keyboard is available in four colors including Fire (red), Ice (blue), ToXic (green) and Gold (yellow) so you can match for your favorite team or any other lights on your computer. Also for you pasty-faced geeks you can control the brightness level so you don’t have to worry about too much light!

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