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You can almost imagine the Vudu executives huddling together after taking a look around the CEDIA A/V installer conference two months ago:  "You mean we can charge way more money for a giant box of HD content, under the bogus pretext of the ‘highest quality standard’ promised by the custom installer market? Really? And we can do this when the sensible thing to do in this economy is to market the regular Vudu box for $200? Ok, let’s do it. Let’s go to Bubba Gump’s to celebrate.” Vudu’s new $1,300 HD HL2 box comes packed with a terabyte-sized drive for storing about 500 1080p HD movies and it will only be available for custom jobs. (Read the full post about ‘New Vudu Comes on The Scene With a Big Rack’…)

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Some jobs you really need someone there to hold a flashlight for you.  However, there isn’t always someone around to help out with odd jobs like that.  That’s where these bracelets come in.  Yes they do look a bit like something that belongs at a party or something along those lines.  However, they also would be great to illuminate whatever it is you’re working on.  Which would be far more convenient than trying to hold a miniature flashlight in your teeth. (Read the full post about ‘The Wrist Light for when you can’t hold a flashlight’…)

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Aldebaran Robotics’ Nao robot has been a hit among robot enthusiasts who participate in the Robocup challenge, the annual humanoid robots soccer game. Nao developed by the French company replaced Sony’s Aibo dog as the standard platform for the competition last year and that has helped boost its popularity among a select crowd of enthusiasts. But the robot still has a way to go before most general users can get near it. The fully programmable robot is packed with features. With its humanoid appearance can be made to do any number of tasks and comes with x86 AMD Geocode 500 Mhz CPU, 1 GB flash memory, 256 MB SDRAM, two speakers, vision processing capabilities, Wi-fi connectivity and Ethernet port. (Read the full post about ‘Humanoid Robot To Be Ready For Prime Time In 2010′…)

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Having kids is a good thing - once they’re old enough, you can always boss them around the house with this thing called “chores”, and shoveling snow from the driveway is one of those tasks involved. The Roofus concept could be a replacement for kids with heavy bones though, as it is able to collect and dump snow automatically or via a remote, where the latter is certainly much more fun as you get to perform your house chore from the comfort and warmth of your home with a mug of hot chocolate on the table, waiting to reward you once the chore is done. Good thing the designers have decided to make the Roofus versatile, as it can be hooked up to a bunch of attachments for use around the garden even after winter is over. (Read the full post about ‘Roofus Helps You Shovel Snow’…)

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It’s simply too great to play games while enjoying comforts of the home. The development in technology over the past few years has changed the gaming world. Games have gone more realistic as the graphics have improved greatly. Present day games offer exciting gameplay when compared to old games. Companies release new games every now and then, and they keep making improvements so as to offer great gameplay.

Now, thanks to development in technology, you can boost up your gaming experience with the help of gaming servers.

(Read the full post about ‘Boost up your gaming experience’…)

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TeamSpeak is similar to Ventrilo as it is also used to enable people to communicate with each other over the Internet. It comes with a client and a server program. The server acts like a host to several users available in different parts of world. It allows different users to get into a conference and communicate with each other while they are connected to the same server.

Like Ventrilo, which is run on the Ventrilo servers, the TeamSpeak also requires a server for its execution.

(Read the full post about ‘TeamSpeak Server Hosting’…)

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Ever since I glued rhinestones on my first blackberry, I’ve flaunted the fact that I’m a geek girl with style. (It was also handy as I worked at AOL at the time and at meetings you had to leave all communication devices outside on a table. Believe me, no one ever picked up mine by accident:) So I actually love this bubble-gum pink portable hard drive by Simple Tech which boasts 250 GB! (Read the full post about ‘Mini Bubblegum - 250 GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive’…)

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Barack Obama may have to relinquish his ever-present blackberry for security reasons when he becomes U.S. President in January, but no way will he give up exploiting the digital technology he built his election campaign on. Obama has launched brief weekly talks and will be posting them on YouTube. Among his promises in the first chat: putting $150 billion toward creating 5 million jobs by creating a new green energy economy. Your response may depend on your politics. You can look at this reaching out as transparency in government - or as plain old politicking, notes Lidija Davis on ReadWriteWeb. Find the video and a link to the transcript of the 3 1/2-minute talk there too. (Read the full post about ‘Obama now a YouTube regular’…)

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TV Tuner And USB Drive From BuffaloNov 18, 2008 Many people, whose life is related closely to computes, sometimes have no time to watch TV. But actually there is no need for this. All necessary new we can get threw internet. Nevertheless, Buffalo - the Japan company presented a new gadget. Actually I was surprised, this gadget combines a 8Gb USB drive and 18eg TV tuner. This novice was named DH-KONE8G/U2DS 1Seg 8GB. You can use it with PC platform and Mac PC. Apart from watching TV and listening FM radio you can also record about 40 hours of video and AppleRemote. Size of this gadget is 79 x 20 13 mm, weight - 23g. The cost of DH-KONE8G/U2DS 1Seg 8GB in Japan is 138 Euro. (Read the full post about ‘TV Tuner And USB Drive From Buffalo’…)

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Everybody loves a survey (especially me) as it is a great way not only to identify the underlying social changes within the growing world, but also a good chance to laugh at the astonishing number of people who can’t identify where Australia is on a map.  This is no exception, as a survey released by YouGov in conjunction with their sponsors AMD showed that 77% of Europeans asked are addicted to the Internet. However, one thing that surveys like this have told me: beware of gross assumptions.  So I dug out a dictionary (yes, I thought that given the subject of this survey it would be too ironic if I used the Internet) and found the definition of an addict: add’ict noun  One who has become dependant on something  The actual answer that 77% people who answered the questionnaire ticked was:  “”[The person in question] could not live without daily access to the Internet.“  I think that counts as addicted. (Read the full post about ‘Internet:  It’s the most important thing in people’s lives’…)

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