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November 4, 2008

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Gamers rejoice: New Alienware Gaming Notebook launched at just $1,399

Alienware has announced the launch of their new gaming notebook, the M17 that offers ATI CrossFireX technology with dual ATI mobility Radeon HD 3870 graphics controllers. The M17 gaming notebook can be customized to a great extent. It supports either a Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel Core 2 Extreme QX93000 processors, upto 4GB of DDR3 memory, upto two hard drives, gigabit ethernet and a 17-inch display sporting 1,920 by 1,200 pixel resolution. The M17 gaming notebook sports hard drive

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October 22, 2008

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Nike’s ‘hindsight’ concept glasses improves your field of vision

Here’s a great concept design from Nike. It’s called Hindsight glasses that uses specially designed Fresnel lenses that not only greatly improves the peripheral vision but also increases your field of view by 25 degrees. Such an improved vision could help motorists and cyclists spot oncoming vehicles easily without getting distracted. This concept glass is aimed at safety and in my opinion it’s a great idea that should be put to production. I can forsee a large potential market for

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October 22, 2008

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LED light bulb concept: An alternative bulb to CFL that lasts 30 years

The LED light bulb concept by frog design is an attempt to provide us with an alternative to the CFLs (compact fluorescent lights). When the project was launched, their goal was to improve the CFL bulb but they ended up designing a new bulb altogether using high-powered LEDs instead. The concept bulb is similar to the regular bulbs, so it will fit in the regular bulb sockets without any problem. The designers of this bulb expect it to last much

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September 16, 2008

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Google releases lighter and faster Google Desktop 5.8

Google has released Desktop version 5.8 which seems to be entirely based on performance improvements. Based on the community feedback, Google has made several enhancements to the product and released lighter and a faster version of the product. They claim that they have found a way to cut the memory utilization during startup by about 50% and the shutdown of the software now happens five times faster. If any of those two caused any performance issues on your system, you

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September 4, 2008

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TiVo releases HD XL DVR with terabyte of storage

For those of you who are big fans of TiVo, there’s a reason to rejoice. The new TiVo HD XL now offers upto 150 hours of HD content storage when compared to the earlier TiVo Series 3 that could store only 20 hours worth of HD content. TiVo HD XL features TiVo Glo backlit remote and will work with virtually any cable provider that offers support for CableCARD. The player is priced at $600, which seems to be overpriced. That’s

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August 31, 2008

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An indestructible waterproof keyboard that you can wash

If spilling tea or coffee over your keyboard sounds like a common thing that happens all the time with you, here’s a keyboard that’s made just for you. It’s a virtually indestructible keyboard that is very soft to operate and something you could just roll up and keep in your bag or shelf. The keyboard can be washed with water – now that’s something you can’t imagine doing to a normal keyboard. The keyboard seems to be eliminating the negative-angle

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August 31, 2008

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CinemaOne: An all-in-one home theater system from Philips

Philips has announced a home theater system that’s of the size of a small round box measuring 10.75 inches in diameter and 6.75 inches in height. The CinemaOne home theater from Philips features a DVD and CD player, a five channel amp, an iPod dock, six speakers and a sub-woofer – all inside a box. CinemaOne can process Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG2 multichannel or stereo sound tracks. It can play video files of almost any file format such as DivX,

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