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The Mr Jones Accurate watch will be the perfect gift for yourself, your lover, or your mortal enemy. That’s because the Accurate watch’s casing is made of stainless steel, it has a black leather strap with white stitching, it’s waterproof up to 5ATM, and best of all, the hour and minute hands are fitted with legible words. And not just any ordinary words. Mind you, these words seem very well researched. The hour hand says “remember” while the minute hand says “you will die.” Perhaps the best reason why this is perfect for giving out death threats! (Read the full post about ‘Grim Reaper’s watch will remind you of time, certain death’…)

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How long does it take you to earn $10,000? For Charlie Miller, of Independent Security Evaluators and former NSA employee, it takes him about two minutes. Last Thursday, Miller won the PWN 2 OWN competition at the 2008 CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, by successfully hacking a macbook air. In fact, Miller isn’t a newcomer. He is well-known as the first to successfully hack the iphone back a year ago. The PWN 2 OWN contest involved a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and a MacBook Air that were up for grabs to the first person able to hack into one of the machines and read the contents of a file. (Read the full post about ‘Gone in 2 Minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest’…)

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USB hubs are always welcome in my home, especially with the vast amount of USB gadgets in the market these days. Some USB hubs come with a poorly-designed exterior, where the ports are placed too close together that you can’t make use of all of them whenever you’re faced with USB products that have rather fat connectors. The USB Rotatable 4-Port Hub offers the convenience of utilizing all four USB ports available, since it can be rotated accordingly. No harm in dropping $12 for a gadget like this IMHO, as it will definitely come in handy on your travels. (Read the full post about ‘USB Rotatable 4-Port Hub’…)

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Posted Mar 30th 2008 12:31PM by Ryan BlockFiled under: Laptops Sounds like we’ve finally got a price and a date for the XP powered Eee PC: $400, and April 9th. The hardware’s identical to current-gen Eee PCs, though, so if you’re happy with your little white lappy and are itching for XP you might try to pick up a license on eBay. Still, if all goes well for ASUS, they’ll be selling 4x what they did the first time around, innit?P.S. -If you are, for whatever reason, itching to read more about current hardware running the 7 year old OS, Laptop’s got a hands-on. (Read the full post about ‘Windows XP-powered Eee PC laptop: $400, April 9th’…)

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Urban Outfitters have just unveiled a couple of headphones that are really too large for their own good, making an extremely pronounced stand where music playback is concerned. The Grande headphones will ship in a neon pink and green color or just plain black (which always stands against the test of time), accompanied by a coiled cord that makes carrying it around a whole lot less bulky. In addition, you can use the Grande headphones with your cell phone, allowing you to listen to your mom with greater clarity as she nags you on the umpteenth time to clear the room. As for the Stiloso headphones, they’re even more retro looking, so it really depends on your budget as to which headset to pick up. (Read the full post about ‘Urban Outfitters say it out loud’…)

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Posted Mar 30th 2008 11:02AM by Nilay PatelFiled under: Wireless Although several other companies have submitted white space devices to the FCC — we know Philips has one in, and Google’s making a lot of noise about new and improved reference designs — it looks like Microsoft’s run of bad luck with the tech continues, with yet another white space transceiver unexpectedly failing during FCC tests last week. There’s no word on if the latest unit failed for the same power-related reasons as the previous test devices, but Microsoft’s doing a little damage control and saying that the FCC hasn’t found any interference with TV signals so far, and that it’s easier to pull the plug now and let other, non-MS devices finish out testing. (Read the full post about ‘Yet another Microsoft white space device fails FCC testing’…)

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Let’s face the facts - the iPod doesn’t exactly come with the largest display in the world now, does it? Being a portable media player to boot, screen real estate is a very important criteria to consider if you plan to watch countless hours of video on it. This is the portable DVD player that integrates with 5th Generation video iPods, allowing you to watch iPod videos on a 8 1/2″, 16:9 widescreen LCD that is 2 3/4 times larger than the iPods screen. Using active matrix technology, the LCD can redraw images faster than typical LCD monitors, resulting in a sharper, more detailed resolution. (Read the full post about ‘Portable iPod Video Enlarger And DVD Player’…)

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The Nokia N96 seems to be the epitome of an all-in-one. It has a nice, large 2.8-inch QVGA screen that displays up to 16.7 million colors. Stereo speakers are built-in for audiophiles, as well as a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack. It will let you connect to all the right places using a Mini-USB port, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, WiFi, HSDPA, and DVB-H TV Tuner. It’s got a whopping 16GB of internal memory and that can be supplemented with up to 16GB MicroSD cards via the previously mentioned Mini-USB port. And it’s got a 5-megapixel camera like most other top-notch camera phones currently available. Now although these are all a bunch of really great features, I have to say something’s missing. (Read the full post about ‘Nokia N96 rumored to have Xenon flash’…)

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The highly rumored WiMAX-enabled Nokia N810 may have gotten “unofficially” confirmed with an image spotted on Nokia’s Tableteer site, which comes a few days shy of CTIA. It appears the sneak peak at the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition was unscripted, as the teaser image and related links can no longer found on the website. Judging by the picture, it looks exactly like the old N810 Internet Tablet, except the WiMAX version sports a black suit. At this point, little else is known; however, Nokia is scheduled to roll out a press release on Tuesday, the same day CTIA begins, called “Press Conference in the Sky”—which should settle this rumor once and for all. Stay tuned. Read [Internet Tablet Talk] Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → Tags: Ogg, dvr, lcd, tests (Read the full post about ‘The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition’…)

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Posted Mar 30th 2008 5:46AM by Darren MurphFiled under: Handhelds, Laptops, Tablet PCsEver since Intel compared the criticality of its (still) forthcoming Silverthorne (which now goes by Atom, if you couldn’t guess) processor to the original Pentium last June, we’ve all wondered just how fantasmical our worlds would become when this thing finally dropped. Now, however, Tom’s Hardware has discovered that the release may actually do more for Intel than we geeks. (Read the full post about ‘Atom processor to cost Intel just $6 to $8?’…)

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