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Posted Feb 18th 2008 12:03PM by Paul MillerFiled under: Laptops It was absolutely inevitable, and now it’s arrived: you can get a macbook air in any color you choose thanks to those paint huffers over at Colorware. The big draw here is probably going to be the all black version — for rugby fans and those PowerBook 2400c users out there that never stopped believing — but not only do you have 34 other color options, you can also customize the laptop part by part with whatever combination of colors you choose. (Read the full post about ‘Colorware attacks MacBook Air with crayons, comes out with 35 flavors’…)

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Sumvision really has, er, some vision when it comes to MP3 players. This 4GB model comes with a 2.8″ touch screen display (don’t they all try to emulate the iphone these days), all decked out in a stainless steel case and a microSD memory card slot just in case you want to lug around an additional 2GB worth of songs. At £60 a pop, is the Sumvision ICE 1000 worth every penny? You check out the specifications after the jump and decide. Screen: 2.8 inch (320 x 240 pixels) TFT panel. Capacity: Built-in flash memory, up to 4GB. Memory Card Slot: Supports microSD card, up to 2GB. Operation buttons: Touch-panel. FM Stereo Radio: 20 channel presets manually and automatically. (Read the full post about ‘Sumvision ICE 1000 PMP’…)

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Posted Feb 18th 2008 10:59AM by Paul MillerFiled under: Gaming We spotted this Guitar Hero clone while strolling the floors of Toy Fair 2008. It’s hard to really get up in arms about “Guitar Fever” swiping intellectual property with Rock Band all copping Guitar Hero’s style, and it’s great that you can pick up one of these for $50 and plug it straight into your TV with no console required. (Read the full post about ‘Keepin’ it real fake, part CXI: Guitar Fever’s only prescription is more cowbell’…)

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Posted Feb 18th 2008 11:29AM by Donald MelansonFiled under: TransportationJapan’s world’s fastest maglev train may still be quite a few years away from becoming a reality, but it looks like the country can now brag about another slightly smaller but similarly contactless vehicle, with a new suitably futuristic bus now making its debut at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. As if that bit of technology wasn’t enough, the bus is also a hybrid vehicle, and promises a sixty percent reduction in carbon emissions compared to those old 20th century-style buses. (Read the full post about ‘Contactless hybrid bus put into service at Tokyo airport’…)

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Posted Feb 18th 2008 9:41AM by Paul MillerFiled under: Misc. gadgets, Transportation Some Penn State researchers are taking a cue from nature and have built the first solar cell that can effectively split water to harvest the hydrogen. While the technology and efficiency of electricity-gathering solar cells has been humming on nicely, cells that can pull hydrogen out of water directly (instead of using solar-harvested electricity to do it) have found that the catalysts conducive to separating hydrogen and oxygen are usually pretty good at putting the two gases right back together again. (Read the full post about ‘New solar cell cuts out the middle man, harvests hydrogen from water’…)

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I guess reindeer don’t quite make the cut for Santa any more as he is sick of flying second class. Fly Santa right into your living room with this neat 2CH RC helicopter. It is made of a unique material that withstands crashes, and also it is very lightweight. It comes with auto stable and precision speed technology which makes it easier to fly. The Santa Mini RC Helicopter comes with an internal 3.7v 60mAh Li-Poly battery, the newest in RC battery technology. It comes with a full function super wide infrared controller which allows you to go up, down, left, and right. You can even fly with your friends with 3 different frequency bands. (Read the full post about ‘Santa Infrared Mini RC Helicopter’…)

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Mother always said not to play with your food, but with the Tic Tac Toast, that warning comes across as harder to follow. Another good reason to play with your food! The Tic Tac Toast stamper combines the fun of tic-tac-toe with the tastiness of toast. Just press this 3 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ plastic stamper into a piece of bread, then put your bread in the toaster. The resulting toast will be branded with a tic-tac-toe grid! When the toasted gameboard is ready, all thats left to do is pick some tasty toppings and play a game. No prizes for guessing who gets to ear the toast. At least you know both peanut butter and jelly will be more or less evenly spread out. (Read the full post about ‘Tic Tac Toast’…)

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We saw the FCC approval came for the Samsung U940 back in late December and now we are seeing some of those wonderful FCC-style pictures. A release date and pricing information is still not know. The FCC also has a bit of possible bad news for anyone who was excited about getting the U940 as a web phone, the user manual is stating that the browser is WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) and not HTML. That could be disappointing, especially considering the U940 was becoming a highly anticipated phone. Keep reading for a few more pics of the Samsung U940… Read [Phone Arena] Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! (Read the full post about ‘Verizon Wireless Samsung U940 FCC style pics’…)

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Back in the late 80’s when most PC games involved rudimentary graphics or were text-based games, Apple’s reined supreme in non-console gaming with graphically intense and gorgeous games like “Falcon”, a flight simulator that PCs took a decade to catch up with! Since then, times have changed and game developers have treated the Macintosh platform as a secondary port to PCs, if game developers entertained the Apple market at all.

Now it seems gaming developers are starting to warm back up to the Mac platform as big names like Electronic Arts announced games like “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, “Battlefield 2142″ and “Madden NFL ‘08″ for the Mac.

(Read the full post about ‘Mac Gaming Coming Back?’…)

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Rumor has it that Verizon Wireless is going to begin offering unlimited voice, data and message plans. With some good news that these will become available as early as February 19. The rumored plans are said to have several options to include: $100 - Nationwide Unlimited (voice) $120 - Nationwide Select Unlimited (voice, SMS, MMS) $140 - Nationwide Premium (voice, SMS, MMS, VZNav, VCAST, email) $150 - Nationwide Email and Messaging (voice, SMS, MMS, and data) $170 - Nationwide Global Email and Messaging (voice, SMS, MMS, and international data) $200 - Family plan with two lines, $100 per additional line. (Read the full post about ‘Verizon to begin offering unlimited plans?’…)

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