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Parrot SPECCHIO mirrored Designer Wi-fi Photo Frame

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Parrot SPECCHIO mirrored Designer Wi-fi Photo Frame Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Parrot offers a designer photo frame that pairs high tech with a unique look. The Parrot SPECCHIO Photo frame is a mirror and when switched on the digital photos are displayed.
The Parrot SPECCHIO is designed by Martin Szekely.
Besides its unique design the SPECCHIO is feature packed. Parrot SPECCHIO offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC capability. You can share and transfer your photos from your PC, Mac, mobile phone, and so on. Furthermore, the SD card slot and USB port make it easy to transfer the photos stored on your PC, USB flash drive or digital camera. Increase the frame's memory by storing your photos on an SD card and maintain the original dimensions of your photos. Read more

Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:27:21 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hot Weekend Sales available online and in-stores this Weekend

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Hot Weekend Sales available online and in-stores this Weekend Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Retailers are trying really hard to jump start the holiday shopping. This weekend lots of sales are happening online and in-stores. Some items on sale already are as low as they will be on Black Friday.
Of course there is always the chance that the retailers will go even lower on the actual Thanksgiving sales weekend. Black Friday Doorbuster deals will for sure be priced lower, but they are hard to get as you have to line up very early. If you want to take the pressure out of your holiday shopping this season then the early holiday sales are a good thing. Read more

Posted on Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:41:27 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Wal-mart Hot Toy Deals are here

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New Wal-mart Hot Toy Deals are here Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review We just received another list with toy deals from Wal-mart featuring the hottest toys of the season.
Of course Elmo Live cannot be missed on any hot toy list, but Wal-mart also named 14 other hot toys in the list below.
Fisher-Price toys can be found next to Lego Star Wars, Hasbro, and Playskool toys.
Check out the Fisher-Price Power Wheels Jeep Rubicon or the Fisher-Price Power Wheels Kawasaki KFX ATV both selling below $200 each. Read more

Posted on Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

RC Helicopters are still hot Holiday Gifts this Year

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RC Helicopters are still hot Holiday Gifts this Year Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Tiny RC Helicopters for indoor use really took off two years ago. Today there is a huge selection of tiny RC helicopters in all shapes and forms.
The dual blades have become a standard and offer better flight stability.
The Electric Mini Hughes 300 Fairy 2 Ch RTF RC Helicopter you see here is one of the bestsellers on Hobbytron, which carries a huge selection of RC Toys. Read more

Posted on Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

The Development of WowWee Rovio in Photos

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The Development of WowWee Rovio in Photos Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review The WowWee Rovio Wifi webcam roaming robot is one of the hottest gadgets for this Holiday season. WowWee has released several behind the scenes photos that show how the robot makers came up with the final design of the Rovio.
The photo shows the first prototype of the Rovio, which is basically a webcam mounted on a wooden block on wheels. Read more

Posted on Thu, 6 Nov 2008 03:26:25 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

The Nintendo DSi is a hot Seller in Japan

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The Nintendo DSi is a hot Seller in Japan Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Nintendo launched the new Nintendo DSi last weekend and based on the sales numbers of Enterbrain, Nintendo sold about 171,000 DSi in two days.

Nintendo has shipped apparently 200,000 units into the channel across Japan and is adding another 100,000 DSi consoles by the end of this week. Read more

Posted on Thu, 6 Nov 2008 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony Ericsson C905 and Nokia Supernova Photo Model Face-off

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Sony Ericsson C905 and Nokia Supernova Photo Model Face-off Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Mobile phone makers Sony Ericsson and Nokia are right now running campaigns featuring models. The campaigns have different underlying concepts but in the end just feature hot models to sell their phones.
Sony Ericsson partnered with FHM in the UK to feature a sexy fashion shoot in the December issue of the magazine. The clue: the photos are made with the Sony Ericsson C905 8MP camera phone. Read more

Posted on Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:59:33 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Motorola Aura Hands-on Photos

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Motorola Aura Hands-on Photos Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Motorola unveiled the Aura luxury phone with the signature round LCD screen about 10 days ago. Motorola's mobile phone unit is actually restructuring right now and a lot of phone designs get cut. The fact that the Aura still made it into the open is a bit surprising.
BGR has got their hands on an Aura and published several hands-on photos. Read more

Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Windows 7 Screen-shots released

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Windows 7 Screen-shots released Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review As reported earlier Microsoft unveiled the pre-beta of Windows 7 at the PDC 2008 today. Now screen-shots of the Windows 7 user interface got published by Microsoft giving a glimpse on how Microsoft achieves simplicity visually.

Pretty much everything is new. New desktop, new taskbar, new Windows chrome, new gadget support and more. The Windows 7 UI looks visually light and cleaned-up. It could be good if its snappy.
See the Windows 7 screen-shots.
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Posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:16:43 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony PS3 only $339.99 with hot Dell Coupon

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Sony PS3 only $339.99 with hot Dell Coupon Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review As reported Sony will not cut the price of the Sony PS3 for the Holidays. You only get the new 80GB PS3 for the normal price of $399.99. Dell just announced a new coupon giving you 15% off on Electronics in the Dell Home store. I just tried to apply the coupon on the PS3 console and it worked. I would get it for only $339.99 ($60 off).

The new Dell Coupon code: PWXNZVNDRWWX1P expires on October 29th or after 3,000 uses. Excluded from the 15% discount are Dell Ink and Toner, Dell docking stations, Software, Power, Batteries, Monitors, TV's, and Cameras. Read more

Posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:16:29 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

G7 fires warning Shot on yen Surge

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G7 fires warning Shot on yen Surge Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review
By Kevin Plumberg

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Group of Seven warned the surging yen posed a threat to financial and economic stability on Monday in the latest coordinated effort by the world's richest nations to contain worst financial crisis in 80 years.
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Posted on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:59:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Kodak EasyShare W1020 Wi-Fi Photo Frame is I4U Top 100 Gift Tip #68

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Kodak EasyShare W1020 Wi-Fi Photo Frame is I4U Top 100 Gift Tip #68 Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review When it comes to digital Photo frames Wi-fi is the new thing this year. Kodak is on the forefront with a wi-fi enabled photo frame that also has a decent size at 10 inches. The Kodak EasyShare W1020 would display your kid’s photos nicely on the grand parent’s coffee table.
With Kodak's Picture Mail feature you can send your photos directly to the frame via the KODAK Gallery.
The Kodak EasyShare W1020 can do more than just display photos on its 10 inch 16:9 screen. Via Kodak's Quick Touch Border you can load content from the Internet including news, sports and traffic information. Of course the W1020 also has an MP3 player and you can program slide shows. Read more

Posted on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hot Wheels Turbo Driver Controller Review

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Hot Wheels Turbo Driver Controller Review Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Today we are looking at a game controller from Hot Wheels called the Turbo Driver Controller. The controller connects with Car-Tridges that allow kids to get additional cars to race in an exclusive game for the controller.

The controller can also be used to play games on HotWheels.com. Installation of the controller only requires a single USB port. Read more

Posted on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:42:57 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

WalkingHotSpot Gives Wi-Fi Access to Users for One-Time Fee

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WalkingHotSpot Gives Wi-Fi Access to Users for One-Time Fee Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review TapRoot Systems announced that its WalkingHotSpot connectivity solution for smartphones is available for direct purchase. The software makes Windows Mobile 6 and S60 3G, Wi-Fi smartphones into walking hot spots. On Windows Mobile Wi-fi sharing is possible with some tweaking. Wi-fi sharing on the iPhone 3G would be a real hot selling app, but I guess Apple and the carriers have something against that.

The service allows users to connect securely for email and web surfing. The application can be purchased for a one time fee of $24.99 for the lifetime of the phone. A monthly service is available for $24.99. Users can get a free 7-day trial. Read more

Posted on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

High School Musical 3 set to keep Franchise hot

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High School Musical 3 set to keep Franchise hot Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's hotly anticipated "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" arrives in movie theaters around the world next week, with bumper advance ticket sales and plans to keep the $1 billion-plus franchise hot with a fourth film.
Disney is planning a sumptuous roll-out starting on October 22 for the family-friendly movie -- the first to hit the big screen -- after its two made-for-TV forerunners debuted to much less fanfare on the Disney Channel.
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Posted on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New NVIDIA Quadro CX is a $2k Photoshop User's Dream

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New NVIDIA Quadro CX is a $2k Photoshop User's Dream Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review NVIDIA introduced its new accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, the NVIDIA Quadro CX. The Quadro CX was architected to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4. If you have $2,000 you can take your Photoshop experience to completely new levels.
With NVIDIA Quadro CX users can encode H.264 videos at lightning-fast speeds with the NVIDIA CUDA-enabled plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, RapiHD from Elemental Technologies; accelerate rendering time for advanced effects; and accurately preview what deliverables will look like with 30-bit color or uncompressed 10-bit/12-bit SDI before final output.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 software now has added optimization to take advantage of GPU technology, including the parallel processing capability in the Quadro CX GPU. Read more

Posted on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:48:33 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Wealthy Asians use Phones to blog, take Photos: Study

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Wealthy Asians use Phones to blog, take Photos: Study Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - For wealthy Asians, mobile phones and Blackberrys are much more than a way to stay in touch, with a survey finding portable communication devices increasingly being used to watch videos, take pictures and surf the Web.
The Synovate-Pax regional survey of nearly 10,000 respondents across seven countries in Asia showed 56 percent of affluent Asians use their mobile devices every week to take pictures, while more than 30 percent watched video clips.
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Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:51:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Exclusive: Models explain hot Gadgets on Video

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New Exclusive: Models explain hot Gadgets on Video Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review After a short summer break the I4U Gadget Models are back. This month we are happy to bring to you sweet Kristina featuring the hot selling easy to use Flip Mino camcorder.

Kristina explains to you in a short video why the Flip Mino is a great gadget. You will learn that short manuals mean ease of use and other essentials only a model can explain you about consumer electronics. Watch the video below until the end to see Kristina's bloopers. Read more

Posted on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Apple MacBook Pro Photo leaked

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New Apple MacBook Pro Photo leaked Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Tomorrow on Tuesday Apple will reveal new notebooks. Hours before the event two blurry photos of what is supposedly the new MacBook Pro leaked on Engadget.
Why we still see blurry photos with all the image stabilizers out there is beyond me. The new MacBook Pro would feature the black bezel around the screen as already reported about, when unseen MacBook Pro images appeared on German Shop operated by German Telekom in September. Read more

Posted on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:50:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Laptop Photos from the last 20 Years

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Apple Laptop Photos from the last 20 Years Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review In two days there will be new Apple notebooks. Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog took the opportunity to pull together photos of Apple notebooks from the last 20 years.
The little trip down memory lane starts with the Macintosh Portable from 1989, which has been a prime example of a "Schlepptop".
The evolution of the Apple notebooks continued through several years of PowerBooks until MacBooks, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air took over. Read more

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:30:52 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Look, new Photos of new MacBook Cases leaked in China

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Look, new Photos of new MacBook Cases leaked in China Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review New photos of the cases for the upcoming MacBook and MacBook Pro leaked on a Chinese Mac site. The photos are better quality than the ones leaked last week, but show the same aluminum shells.
There is not that much to learn from these case photos besides that the drive is on the right and ports are to be found on the left side of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. Read more

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:38:29 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr