Dora Links Doll Ships Today

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One of the hottest toys for the Holiday season for girls starts shipping today: The Mattel Dora Links doll. The interactive doll was announced by Mattel and Nickelodeon/Viacom in February.

The Dora Links doll connects to a PC via USB and kids can change the look of the doll online at the Dora Links site. The Dora Links fashion doll changes according to the online choices. Besides the color of the jewelry the Dora Links doll also can change the length of her hair. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:15:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Rhapsody Approved for App Store, Pandora For Android Market

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Hip, hip, HOORAY! After a long and stultifying wait, the Rhapsody application has been approved for the App Store. If you've got an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you can now have access to any music that strikes your fancy. Yay for whim indulgence! If you want more details about the app, check out what the developer has to say.

Rhapsody brags a music library of over 8 million songs, all of which are available for streaming to their users. While the music you stream from Rhapsody isn't going to be of great quality, only the audiophiles among us will really notice. Sorry guys.

Posted on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:02:01 CDT | by Robert Evans

Dora Links Doll Is Available For Pre-Order

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The highly anticipated (at least by little girls) Dora Links Doll is available for pre-order for $59.99 (Update: New Low Price: $50.46) and will ship on September 29th from Amazon.com. This is going to be yet another hot Christmas gift for 2009 that is already shipping early.

Mattel and Nickelodeon/Viacom announced that Dora the Explorer is growing up in February. The new Dora doll is called Dora Links doll and connects to a PC via USB.
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Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:33:19 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pandora: Coming to Android Soon

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By its own definition, Pandora is a “personalized Internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites.” Right now there are Pandora applications for the iPhone, the Palm Pre, BlackBerry smartphones and phones with the Windows Mobile operating system. Conspicuously absent from that list are any Android smartphones.

Some of you may remember Pandora CTO Tom Conrad's attack on Android during a TechCrunch roundtable discussion. Although he took back his harsh words immediately afterwards, it was assumed that Android users were going to have to wait awhile for a Pandora app.

Posted on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:55:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Dora the Explorer is growing up in 2009 with Dora Links Doll

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Mattel and Nickelodeon/Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) announced today that Dora the Explorer is growing up. The new Dora doll is called Dora Links doll and connects to a PC. With the new doll a new online service called Dora's Explorer Girls gets launched.
The Dora's Explorer Girl service is accessed with the Dora Links fashion doll. The doll connects to a PC and kids can change the look of the doll online. Apparently the Dora Links fashion doll changes as well in the real world. It is not revealed what can change on the Dora Links doll and how it looks. Read more

Posted on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pandora Internet Radio to go Silent?

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The Pandora Internet Radio service might have to pull the plug because of the royalty fees.
Apparently this year the royalty fees will cost Pandora 70% of its projected $25m in revenue. This kind of cost would kill almost any business.
Pandora has about 1 million subscribers. The service is rather unique as it allows listeners to automatically create their own personalized radio channel. Read more

Posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Logitech Gives Squeezebox Owners Free Access to Pandora

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Owners of the Logitech Squeezebox can now get access to free radio from Pandora. The free service is available to owners of the Logitech Squeezebox Duet, Logitech Squeezebox, and Logitech transporter. Logitech says that it is the first network music player maker to provide Pandora access at no additional charge.

The Squeezebox players from Logitech allow you to listen to music in any room of your home. The players use Wi-Fi to connect to wireless networks in the home and play your personal digital music library and more. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:49:23 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Official Indiana Jones Fedora on Sale

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Gadget shop ThinkGeek has the officially licensed Indiana Jones hat on sale. You can be Indiana Jones for $99.99.

This is a fur felt fedora that you see in the Indiana Jones movies on close-ups of Harrison Ford. It's a hand made and features a leather sweatband and satin lining both emblazoned with Indiana Jones in the inside. Read more

Posted on Wed, 14 May 2008 06:15:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Deal: Dora the Explorer TV and DVD Player Combo

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Todays' deal in our I4U Shop is a great gift for the little Dora the Explorer fans in your family.

The Dora the Explorer DVD Player features a cute Dora design. The compact, easy-to-use DVD player loads from the top and includes a parental control options so you can restrict what your child watches. A matching remote control is included. Read more

Posted on Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Flying Doraemon RC Toy

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I’m not real sure what a Doraemon is or why it would be flying around, but apparently it’s related to a cat minus the ears. At any rate, we have been on a flying toy kick here recently and I ran across this one over at Hobbystuff4u.com.

The toy measures in at 34.5 x 30 x 13.5 cm and uses some weird sounding 6F22 and LR14 batteries that are not included. From the images on the website, it appears that the controller charges the flying toy similar to that of the Picco Z. Read more

Posted on Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Cute Doraemon USB Web Cam

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Japanese Doraemon cartoon character shows up this time as USB web cam.

The plush cat measures 34x14x27mm and features a 350k pixel VGA camera and integrated microphone.

Brando offers the USB Doraemon Web Cam for $32.
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Posted on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:58:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Cool Pandora Personal Radio Available on the Slim Devices Squeezebox

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Slim Devices announces the support of the Pandora personalized radio stream on the Squeezebox audio streaming device.

I just tried the Pandora music service that is based on the Music Genome Project, and it is amazing. You type in a song or artist and it will generate automatic a set of songs similar to your query. It even gives you a sentence or two on why it recommends the selected titles. One funny thing is that it will not play your selected song right away due to license limitation at least on the free player on the Pandora site (see screenshot below). Give it a try, it really is great way to find new artists and songs that match your taste.

Squeezebox CEO says about Pandora: "The first time I used Pandora on my Squeezebox, I was glued to my listening chair for the entire weekend. I used to get the thrill of finding a new song I liked once a week. Now I feel it one song after another, listening to any style of music."

I reviewed the latest Squeezebox V3 last November. Read more

Posted on Thu, 9 Feb 2006 04:05:17 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Bandai Doraemon Robot Speaks with Humans

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Toy maker Bandai Co. has brought popular Doraemon a little closer to life by producing a robot version of the cartoon character that can converse with humans.

The robot, which is 26.5 cm tall and weighs 1.3 kg, uses voice-recognition technology and sensors to make its interaction with humans possible.
It can use about 750 words spoken with the voice of the animated version of Doraemon, and can recognize nine human words including "Doraemon," "Let's play," and "Mouse." When someone says, "Doraemon, let's play," for example, the robot responds by asking, "What shall we do?"
The robot contains 10 types of light and inclination sensors, it can tell when someone has hit it on the head, and says, "Hey, that hurts." When it is stroked, it says, "If you're going to stroke me I wouldn't mind a bean-jam pancake as well."
More Details at Mainichi and Akibalive. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:52:43 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr