The guys at ThinkGeek have come up with a rtaher cool gadget for all you frustrated drivers out there.I’m talking about the HornTones MP3 Automod that plays 256 megabytes of MP3s and comes with a USB slot so you can add new ones. The device can store up to ten different tones, so you can find one for every occasion.
$300 at Thinkgeek
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This is one gadget that is going to put a smile on those who wish to convert all those old negatives or slides into .tiff or .jpg format, the truth is Digital Cameras are aplenty these days but what about all that old negatives lying around in your house?.
Now with the Digital Film Scanner you can convert all your favourite old negatives and slides into digital images. This brilliant little piece of kit comes with holders for both negatives and slides, and at the press of the ‘Copy’ button will scan your historical (or possibly hysterical) images with its 5 MegaPixel SMOS sensor, and save them as either Tiff or Jpeg files on your PC. It comes complete with software for editing, cropping and re-sizing your images, and was designed for use by people who don’t really know what they’re doing, which is how we managed to figure it out. It’s an absolute joy to get all those old pictures from way back when and see them all afresh - at last you can turn the past into the present.
£89.99 at Iwoot
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Panasonic introduced a new addition to its award-winning TZ-family of LUMIX digital cameras, the DMC-TZ5 – packing a 28mm wide-angle, 10X optical zoom Leica DC lens in a compact design, ideal for the active user needing a versatile camera. By combining a 28mm wide-angle lens, which lets the user capture a wider-framed shot when compared to a traditional 35mm camera, with the TZ-Series 10x optical zoom – consumers are empowered to take expanded shots, both wide and far. Adding to these feature-rich digital cameras, Panasonic also expands its Intelligent Auto technologies with new Intelligent Exposure and Digital Red-eye Correction.
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ThinkGeek.com has something for you geeks out there this Valentine’s day, it’s an 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt.
Buy one of these glowing shirts for yourself, and gift one to your significant other (boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, fembot 2000…). During your normal activities two and a half pixelated hearts will light up on your shirt. Hey… you’re depressed and in need of a recharge. But get within hugging distance of your significant other wearing the matching shirt and suddenly the hearts on both of your shirts start to light up until you’re fully powered up. Go too far astray from the source of your affections and you’ll drop back down to two and a half hearts again. Got it?
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Social-network software maker Slide said on Friday it had closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook’s wave of popularity.
Slide, a 65-employee company founded by Max Levchin, 32, the Ukrainian-born co-founder of online payments company PayPal, is the creator of several of the most popular software programs running on Facebook and News Corp.’s MySpace.com. Its Facebook programs include Top Friends, FunWall, and SuperPoke.
In an interview, Levchin declined to name the institutional investors. But sources close to the financing deal said the investors were Fidelity Investments and T Rowe Price.
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Apple’s latest offering is the their new laptop or simply called “MacBook Air”, Mimicking the 13-inch silhouette of the current MacBook line, it’s .76-inch thick at its thickest part. Apple calls it the “world’s thinnest notebook.”
Though the MacBook Air is not quite the thinnest laptop ever, it is among the thinnest ever seen (the Fujistu LifeBook Q2010 and the Toshiba Portege R500 both measure 0.8 inch thick, but neither tapers to 0.16 inch as the Air does).
The MacBook Air includes the usual iSight camera, an LED backlit display, an ambient light sensor, and a big touchpad that works with multitouch gestures, such as rotating a photo by twisting your fingers on the touchpad.
As for what’s inside this slim laptop, we’re looking at a 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, custom-made by Intel to fit into the slim chassis, 2GB of RAM, and a choice of either an 80GB standard 1.8-inch hard drive or a 64GB SSD drive (which really should be standard for something so forward-looking).
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The price? - $1,799
More on the MacBook Air:
Apple introduces MacBook Air
Hands on with the MacBook Air
“MacBook Air” or just Hot Air?
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