Keep an eye on your home or business while you’re away or broadcast a live feed to a website using Toshiba’s Wireless Netcam. This WiFi network camera has a built-in web server and dynamic DNS support and captures live, high-resolution video that is viewable anywhere in the world through a standard web browser.
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Get connected with this easy to use USB combo kit. The kit is built around a retractable 4-1/2 foot USB A-to-B cable tucked away in a stylish white case. The kit comes with connectors that can allow you to use it with any variety of USB devices with varying types of USB connections. There are also connectors that turn the retractable cable into an ethernet or phone cable! With one kit being able to take on so many functions, we’re betting you’ll find a home for one of these in your laptop bag before long.
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by Janet Rae-Dupree
With all the snazzy new gadgets on the market these days, you’d think there would be snazzy new ways to power them. Yet batteries still work much the way they did when Alessandro Volta made the first one way back in 1800. SRI International’s researchers are working to drag the 19th century’s anode, cathode and electrolyte ideas into the 21st century.
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This USB A MALE TO B MALE retractable cable is perfect for connecting your computer to many digital cameras, and its retractable cable makes the device portable enough for travelling as well as keeping things tidy.
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By Melissa Kruse, Wired News
For many people, the Microsoft Optical Desktop with Fingerprint Reader may be their first brush with biometrics. Microsoft last week announced a keyboard and mouse set that comes with a fingerprint reader — a gizmo that’s meant to eliminate the hassles of remembering and typing user names and passwords. The premise is, users put their finger on a pad and the keyboard takes care of the rest.
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Make great use of that empty 5.25″ or 3.5″ drive bay in your desktop computer, and install this 9-in-1 multimedia reader/writer. Even includes a USB 2.0 port.
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iSight is a state-of-the-art video camera that’s the easiest way to video conference with your colleagues, friends and family over broadband. Featuring an autofocusing autoexposure F/2.8 lens which captures high-quality pictures even in low lighting, iSight also includes a dual-element microphone in its stylish compact aluminum body.
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By Leander Kahney
A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit. Transitive Corp. of Los Gatos, California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run “transparently” on multiple hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes.
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Need some company for those dull days and long nights at the office? The USB Optical Liquid Mouse provides a little companion you can keep close at hand. This optical mouse (with scroll wheel) comes with your choice of a floating fish or duck built right into the mouse. Watch these little guys bobble around in the water as you mouse your way through some heavy duty spreadsheets or just tilt the mouse back and forth and watch them surf the waves. Guess it depends on what kind of day you’re having.
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The THX certified Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS delivers 24-bit ADVANCED HD audio, 108dB SNR clarity across 8 channels, and is the only available PC platform to deliver Advanced Resolution 24-bit DVD-Audio playback in 24-bit/192kHz stereo and 24-bit/96kHz 5.1 surround. EAX ADVANCED HD effects produces ultra-realistic sound in supported games and multi-channel playback in 5.1, 6.1and 7.1 with over 400 existing 3-D games. EAX ADVANCED HD acoustic enhancements dramatically improve all your music with features including Bass Boost, Graphic Equalizer, Audio Clean-Up, and more!
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