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The Eyeball sounds great, but it looks more like a loose leaf tea strainer than a Webcam.

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Webcams aren’t the first product to spring to mind when you think of Blue Microphones. The company has a solid reputation in the pro audio world for making …

Samsung Electronics is adopting the Nano processor from Via Technologies for its NC20 Netbook.

The NC20 is set to be Samsung’s successor to the NC10, which, like most Netbooks on the market, has an Intel Atom central processing unit.

The new Samsung NC20 Netbook.

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Via’s Nano chips are its first 64-bit, superscalar processors …

Updated at 12:25 p.m. on Saturday with notes about Hearst’s plans to charge for some content online.

It looks as if the e-paper revolution is really about to start.

Hearst, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, announced on Friday that it has developed an …

The iRex 1000 line: add white for Kindle of the future?

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Back when the rumors of a Kindle 2 started last year, there was also some chatter about a larger form factor Kindle that would be designed partially for the educational market. Well, now that the Kindle 2

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If you do a lot of work that involves transferring data from one hard drive to another, you’ll probably love the NewerTech Voyager hard drive dock.

This the first quad-interface hard drive docking station that supports FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0, and eSATA. The device can turn any 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA hard drive, up to 2.0TB, into a fully bootable and hot-swappable external drive solution.

NewerTech Voyager is compatible with both Macs and PC and features plug-and-plug installation with no software or driver needed. All you need to do is plug in a new hard drive, and format it if need be. You can of course–and I believe this is the main use of the device–put in an old hard drive to access data from it.

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If you’re a couch potato, there’s now a way for you to exercise your brain and socialize, a little bit, while watching TV.

Mobui, a mobile-application developer that acquired Action Engine awhile back, announced Thursday the launch of Mobui Audience Chat.

Basically, this is a mobile app that …

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I don’t know why, but somehow I can’t resist butterflies (or puppies, teddy bears, or anything pink). For this reason, even though I don’t have an iPod, I think the new iPod dock from Vestalife is cool.

It’s called, well, the Butterfly, and it …

Companies that wish to make Blu-ray devices will very soon have a less expensive and simpler licensing process, according to a joint announcement Wednesday from Sony, Philips, and Panasonic.

A new license will be established by mid-2009 as a “one-stop shop” for device makers. The license will include all necessary …

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If you’re looking for hot, sexy, revealing pics, then you know Crave is the place to be. Today we’ve got a treat for all you naughty boys and girls. OK, I really can’t do the faux erotic thing (yes, that’s what I was going …

This was originally posted at ZDNet’s Between the Lines.

Roy Blount Jr., president of the Author’s Guild, argues that the Kindle 2’s ability to read text aloud like one of those automated customer service robots is a substitute for audio books. Blount also adds that Amazon should be paying audio rights for the Kindle 2’s text-to-audio feature.

In The New York Times, Blount writes:

The Kindle 2 is a portable, wireless, paperback-size device onto which people can download a virtual library of digitalized titles. Amazon sells these downloads, and where the books are under copyright, it pays royalties to the authors and publishers.

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There are some people of means who are desperate for everyone to know they are people of means.

They (men and women) wear gold chains to adorn their leathery necks. They (men and women) wear earrings that sparkle like the eyes of an orgiastic llama. And they (men and women) …

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With the NC10 Netbook that runs Intel Atom CPU just like most Netbooks on the market, Samsung has decided to do something different and adopted the Nano processor from VIA for the successor to the Netbook, the NC20.

The new Samsung NC20 Netbook.

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VIA Nano platform is the …

Looks like the e-paper revolution is really about to start.

Hearst Corporation, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, announced Friday that it has developed an electronic reader for newspapers and magazines, the way that Amazon’s new Kindle does for books.

Soon you'll be able

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The iRex 1000 line: add white for Kindle of the future?

(Credit: iRex)

Back when the rumors of a Kindle 2 started last year, there was also some chatter about a larger form factor Kindle that would be designed partially for the educational market. Well, now that the Kindle 2

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