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FROM APPLETELL - Maverick Software has announced its line of iphone and iPod Touch games that will be available through Apple’s App Store. All these games are built from the ground up and are fully native to the ipod Touch and iPhone. With four new games, this company really wants to make an… MORE » Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → Tags: dvr, pvp, buyers guides, camera (Read the full post about ‘Maverick Software has your iPhone and iPod Touch games’…)

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by Donald Melanson, posted Jul 4th 2008 at 3:41PMAttempts to launch a solar sail into space haven’t exactly been met with success in the past, but NASA now looks set to try to notch one up in the win column, with the agency reportedly on track for a launch of its own as soon as July 29th. As the name suggests, its new NanoSail-D is smaller than previous sails, with it consisting of four 3-meter wide sails made of a plastic film coated with aluminum. Also, like similar missions, this one is primarily a proof of concept one, which NASA hopes will demonstrate the feasibility of deploying sails in orbit, including the possibility of using them to bring satellites back down to Earth when they’ve outlived their usefulness to keep space a bit tidier. (Read the full post about ‘New solar sail aims to not repeat recent history’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 4th 2008 at 6:30PM Now that you’ve had a little over a month to cram down popcorn while enjoying your shiny matte new Roku Netflix Player, we’re interested to find just how pleased (or displeased) you are with the $99 purchase. Has it lived up to your expectations? Is the quality sufficient for you? How does it look on your HDTV? Is wireless performance up to par, or were you practically forced to run an Ethernet cable all the way downstairs? We already know what the paid professionals said — we want the cold, hard facts straight from the users themselves. Let us have it comments below.PermalinkEmail this15 CommentsFiled under: Home EntertainmentTags: high definiti (Read the full post about ‘How would you change Roku’s Netflix Player?’…)

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A Japanese accessory manufacturer has added a unique twist on an ordinary household gadget, the flashlight. They have added a 300,000 pixel CMOS camera and microphone. Carrot Systems created this so-called AD-1500 flashlight to enable security personnel and crime fighters to record the actual events as they happen. All activities are recorded in MP4 format and it automatically switches to infra-red mode when used at night or in dark areas. The AD-1500 can only cover a distance of up to 4 meters but I think this is enough to capture evidence and actual events in real time. However, internal memory is limited to only 128MB. This innovative approach to ordinary gadget makes sense. (Read the full post about ‘Flashlight with built-in video camera now in available Japan’…)

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by Donald Melanson, posted Jul 4th 2008 at 2:37PM Well, it looks like Group Sense’s once mighty line-up of Palm OS-based handsets has finally been shown the door with the whole lot now replaced by a single, Linux-based device. (Read the full post about ‘Group Sense’s Palm OS line-up give way to lone, Linux-based phone’…)

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by Donald Melanson, posted Jul 4th 2008 at 1:34PM Sanyo’s Gorilla GPS devices are certainly never lacking when it comes to non-GPS-related features, and it looks like its new NV-SD585DT model is no exception. This one shrinks things down slightly from the last model we saw with a 5.8-inch touchscreen, although you’ll still get a 1Seg mobile TV tuner, 4GB of solid state storage, an FM transmitter, an SD card slot, and that same ECO driving mode seen on previous Gorilla models — not to mention all the usual GPS-related features like weather and traffic information. (Read the full post about ‘Sanyo rolls out 1Seg-packing “Gorilla” NV-SD585DT GPS unit’…)

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With the deal closed on the Dictionary.com purchase, Ask.com has now become, at least according to comScore, the ninth-largest web property. The all-cash deal originally began back in mid-May and had Ask.com purchasing Lexico Publishing Group LLC. The web properties that were included were Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. Ask.com is reporting that this will give them an increase of around 15 million additional users on a month basis, which would put them up to a monthly audience of around 145 million. Terms of the acquisition, such as how much was paid were not disclosed. Read [Reuters] Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! (Read the full post about ‘Ask.com finalizes Dictionary.com purchase’…)

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Do you remember back when only the super-wealthy could afford to have video cameras? Now, with today’s cheaper digital camcorders, practically everyone has one. Of course, the one trouble that everyone has is transmitting digital formats directly to DVD. Fortunately, Sony has created the DVDirect DVD Burner, a device that is starting to gain some popularity in the consumer video camcorder market. The DVDirect DVD Burner allows the transfer of content from other media straight to a DVD without the PC middleman. The Burner has a 2.5 inch color screen that allows you to preview your material. It also has five memory card slots for transferring digital video content, and has a dual recording mechanism to store up 8.5 GB of footage on a DVD+R Dual Layer Disk. (Read the full post about ‘Sony DVDirect DVD Burner’…)

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When I first saw this device, I thought it was some sort of new TV antenna or something. Not that we need one, since TV is getting all digital on us. I was very surprised when I found out this contraption is actually a wind turbine from a famed designer named Philippe Starck, a man who literally came out of retirement to create this energy-efficient device. Believe it or not, this wind turbine thing can somehow crank out twenty to sixty percent of the power necessary for a house. This also has an unusual aesthetic, and this design comes in stainless steel, signal orange, or even transparent. There is no doubt that future homes will want to be less dependent on “the man” for energy as their power bills keep climbing. (Read the full post about ‘Philippe Starck’s Wind Turbine Design’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 4th 2008 at 7:24AMHey USers — we know where all those “delayed” Winds are. Just take a look across the pond. bit-tech managed to wrap their paws around a retail unit of MSI’s Eee PC fighter, and while early reviews sang a lovely song, this one was just a bit flatter. All in all, reviewers found the machine to be useful and totally practical, but it was glaringly obvious that they were none too pleased about MSI jacking up the price of its own machine while the completely identical (save for branding) Advent 4211 was selling for less. If you’re listening to these guys / gals, you’ll gloss right over the Wind and nab yourself a rebadge, but whichever edition you end up getting, it’s sure to be “great” in the grand scheme of things. (Read the full post about ‘MSI Wind gets reviewed’…)

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