Walmart Value Of The Day: Creative Zen 2GB For Only $49

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The Walmart Value Of The Day is featuring the Creative Zen 2GB For only $49.
On Amazon the same player sells for $80.

The Creative Zen 2GB MP3 Video Player features a 2.5" color screen and 2GB storage.

Other features of this Creative Zen mp3 player include: FM Radio, voice recorder, SD memory card slot, photo viewer, video player (MPEG1/2, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4/5 and XviD formats). The Creative Zen 2GB supports MP3, WMA, WAV, unprotected AAC music formats Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:50:44 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dozens New Amazon Frustration-Free Packaged Toys For The Holidays Available

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Amazon offers way in time for the Holiday shopping season a new line of frustration free toys.
Fisher-Price and Mattel, two of the first brands to join Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging program, together have added 10 top new toys, including the popular Matchbox Mega Rig Pirates Ship, Little Mommy Walk & Giggle doll and Fisher-Price GeoTrax Timbertown Railway track set. Read more

Posted on Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:04:09 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Creative Announces Zen X-Fi2 Media Player At IFA

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Are you in the market for a touchscreen media player, but not one that costs as much as the iPod Touch or the Zune HD? If so, you might want to plant your eyes on Creative's Zen X-Fi2 multimedia player this holiday season. This new touchscreen player was debuted yesterday at the IFA conference in Berlin. It's got a very slim profile, and appears to be just a 3" LCD touchscreen with a very minimal frame.

Techtree reports that this media player can handle iTunes Plus, FLAC files, WMV9, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4/5 and XviD formats. It comes with a microSD slot, a TV out capability, a built-in microphone and an FM radio. It comes in three sizes; 8GB ($130), 16GB ($180), and 32 GB ($230).

Posted on Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:00:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Live at the CeBIT 2009

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As reported California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be opening the CeBIT 2009 today in Hannover, Germany.
The CeBIT organizers are going with the times and are offering a live stream of the CeBIT 2009 opening ceremony that also features besides the Terminator, Craig R. Barrett, Chairman of Intel Board and of course Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Arnold Schwarzenegger only Highlight at CeBIT 2009?

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The CeBIT 2009 opens on March 3rd and Governor Schwarzenegger will be there to open the IT trade show in Hannover along with Angela Merkel.
As announced last October, California is the partner country of the CeBIT 2009. California's economy is big enough to be counted as a country.

Despite the presence of the Austrian Terminator the CeBIT 2009 has lost over 25% of its exhibitors compared to CeBIT 2008. This year only 4,300 companies will exhibit in Hannover compared to 5,845 last year.
The CeBIT organizers still see a positive side of the steep exhibitor decline. The companies who still show up will be signaling plans to weather the economic crisis and will get more room to present themselves. CeBIT 2009 also managed to get 200 new exhibitors and also got Dell to come back. Read more

Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:35:38 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

DreamWorks CEO Katzenberg talks about 3D Super Bowl Ads

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The most exciting Super Bowl 2009 commercials will be the 3D Monsters vs. Alien and the 3D SoBe Lizard Lake. The 3D Super Bowl promotion is coming out of a partnership between Intel and DreamWorks. Intel is supplying the rendering hardware and software to DreamWorks to make 3-D movies for cinema under Intel's Intru3d technology brand.
Intel and DreamWorks partnered with SoBe to distribute 125 million 3D Glasses to Super Bowl 43 viewers across the Nation (Find out where to get your free 3D Super Bowl glasses.
Intel has published an interesting interview with Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks talking about their 3-D movie plans. You can watch the interview below. Read more

Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:03:13 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Creative Zen Mosaic MP3 Player with Speaker Value Bundle available at Wal-mart

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We already reported about the Wal-mart Value Bundles over the weekend. Wal-mart is still offering these bundles that make a perfect list and save money.
For instance you can get the cute 4GB Creative Zen Mosaic MP3 Player bundled with a pair of portable speakers at only $58. The 4GB Creative Zen Mosaic player by itself sells on Amazon.com for $78.54 right now. Read more

Posted on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:09:47 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Arnold Schwarzenegger to open CeBIT 2009

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California Governor and former Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would be interested in opening CeBIT 2009 together with German Chancellor Merkel.
California will be the partner country of CeBIT 2009. California is not a sovereign country, but when it comes to economy it can be found amongst the largest countries. Read more

Posted on Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Zen Mozaic unveiled by Creative

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Creative today introduced the Creative ZEN Mozaic portable media player for music, photos, and video.

Inspired by the artistic expressions of mosaic art, the Creative ZEN Mozaic is available in vivid pink, chic black, or cool silver colors.
The Creative ZEN Mozaic comes complete with a built-in speaker, vibrant 1.8-inch LCD color screen, FM radio, and voice recorder. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:45:59 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Creative Launches ZEN X-Fi and Zen X-Fi WiFi DAPs

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Today creative announced the launch of the new ZEN X-Fi and ZEN X-Fi with Wireless LAN DAPs. The players can play music, video, and photos and are the only DAPs using the Creative Xtreme Fidelity X-FI audio technology.

Creative says that the ZEN X-Fi with Wireless LAN is available today at Amazon, Buy.com, Creative.com, Frys.com and Newegg. The ZEN X-Fi version without wireless LAN will be available later in the month. Creative promises breakthrough sound quality for MP3, WMA, and unprotected iTunes music. The Wi-Fi connectivity allows the streaming of music from your PC to the DAP. The players also include premium earphones. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:59:30 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Creative Zen X-Fi official

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The first details leaked about the Creative X-Fi at the end of June. Today Creative officially unveiled their new portable media player Creative Zen X-Fi and Zen X-Fi with Wireless Lan.

The Creative Zen X-Fi is the only portable player to feature Xtreme Fidelity X-Fi audio technology.
Other features of the Zen X-Fi include 2.5-inch TFT display, 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB storage, SD-card slot, Built-in FM radio with 32 presets, microphone for voice recording, WMV, AVI, MJPEG, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4 and 5, and XviD, Outlook sync for contacts, calendar and to-do list, and Instant Messenger (Wi-Fi model only). Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:54:12 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Creative Zen X-Fi

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Information about a new Creative Zen Wi-fi music player surfaced. The Create Zen X-Fi features X-Fi technology with two effects: Crystallizer and Expand.

The leaked details are still sketchy. Apparently the Zen X-Fi features MP3, WMA, AAC, Wav and audible audio format support, WMA, MPEG4-SP, Divx 4/5, Xvid, and MJPEG video, FM tuner, Voice recorder, speaker, and possibly 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities. Read more

Posted on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Samsung Hauzen VC-RE70V Robot Vacuum Cleaner

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Samsung unveils a new robotic vacuum cleaner with the Hauzen VC-RE70V.

The new Samsung Hauzen VC-RE70V Robot Vacuum Cleaner uses cameras to automatically generate a map of where it has cleaned the room already. Read more

Posted on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:47:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

BaselWorld 2008: Zenith Defy Xtreme Zero-G Tourbillon

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Our watch news site Wrist Dreams reports that Zenith will exhibit a new over the top wristwatch with the gravity defying Defy Xtreme Zero-G Tourbillon at the BaselWorld 2008.

ZENITH has devised a Zero-G (zero gravity) system. The gyroscope cage Tourbillon comprises an escapement mounted on cardan joints rather like marine chronometers. The instrument, which is sensitive to changes of position, is kept in a constant horizontal position, thereby ensuring optimal amplitude for the spiral balance-wheel. Read more

Posted on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sno-baller Makes Snowballs without Frozen fingers

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First off, no the Sno-baller isn’t a new white rap star. This is a device to make snowballs that are perfectly round and ready for tossing at your friends. The device looks like a big pair of scissors with a hemisphere on each side.

You scoop the snow up with the Sno-baller and squish the two halves together by squeezing the handles together and you get a perfect snowball. Read more

Posted on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:31:03 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Creative Announces 32GB Zen Player

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Creative announced its latest Zen PMP today with a whopping 32GB of flash-based storage. Creative says the 32GB Zen can store up to 8,000 songs in MP3, WMA, and AAC formats. The player is also compatible with iTunes.

The display is a 2.5-inch TFT with 16.7 million colors. Video formats supported include WMV9, MJPEG, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4/5 and XviD. Read more

Posted on Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:48:33 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Zenith makes lots of Money for LG

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LG Electronics bought U.S. based Zenith Electronics back in 1995. It looked for a long time that the $500 million LG spent for Zenith have been a bad investment.

Things have turned around though for Zenith. The company is now making sizable profits from the digital TV market.
Zenith developed the 8-VSB digital transmission system at the heart of the ATSC DTV standard adopted by the FCC. The company holds numerous patents essential to the production of over-the-air digital television receivers.
Other digital TV manufacturers pay $5 per TV license fee to Zenith. Read more

Posted on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Latest Wristwatch News: New Citizen Bluetooth Watch

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Our Wristwatch news site Wrist Dreams reported last week about a new series of Bluetooth wristwatches from Citizen.

The new Citizen i:virt features display and vibration alarm for incoming calls, incoming e-mail, or news.
This compact Bluetooth watch also allows you to read previews of emails and trigger the camera of a compatible mobile phone via the watch. Read more

Posted on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Zeno Robot Debuts at Wired NextFest

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A robot called Zeno from Hanson Robotics debuted at Wired NextFest recently. The little robot reminds me a bit of Chucky from the cheesy Child’s Play movie. Zeno uses AI technology and when connected to the Internet he learns.

Hanson robotics collaborated with Massive software to develop the AI simulation software. Massive Software was the developer of the AI on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Zeno features a speech engine and has vision and decision-making capabilities. The robot can recognize and remember faces and react accordingly. Read more

Posted on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:28:20 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

SigmaTel Announces New Creative Zen Uses its STMP3700 SoC

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SigmaTel announced that the new Creative Zen PMP launched last week by Creative is the first device powered by their SigmaTel 3700 SoC. The ARM-based, 90nm STMP3700 is a highly integrated media processor.

SigmaTel says that the processor allows manufacturers to build more integrated devices. The STMP3700 allows for up to 60 hours of music and 6 hours of video. Other features of the STMP3700 are QVGA, MEPG4, H.264, and WMV video support at a full 30 fps. Read more

Posted on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:06:18 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Creative offers Zen V Plus with 16GB

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Creative offers a 16GB version of its Zen V Plus DAP in Singapore only.

The high capacity Zen V Plus will sell for $399 SGD (~$260) online and in selected shops in Singapore starting August 8th.

Features of the Creative Zen V Plus include 1.5-inch OLED display, FM Tuner, 15 hour battery life, line-in recording and built-in calendar, contacts and tasks functions. Read more

Posted on Sat, 4 Aug 2007 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr