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Loop in-air wireless mouse for your living room PC

The Loop pointer from Hillcrest Labs is an in-air mouse that can be used to control a PC, Mac or PS3 connected to a TV with natural hand movements. A small RF Transceiver USB dongle that uses 2.4 GHz (2401 MHz to 2482 MHz) connects to the computer or PS3. You can buy one for …

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Do you care about HD radio for your iPhone?

Gigaware hopes you do as they have released an in-line controller that provides HD Radio for your iPhone or iPod touch. It attaches to the dock connector to allow you to receive HD radio signals that offer CD-quality sound. Song information, such as title and artist, appears on your iPod’s display, iTunes Tagging saves artist …

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Luke, I am your… USB Drive

Tyme Machines, makers of licensed USB drives, has just announced the release of its Series 1 sculpted 3D Star Wars character USB thumb drives.  The drives are sculpted replicas of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Storm Trooper and Yoda.  They are available now at www.tymemachines.com and range in price from 4GB to 16GB for $29.99 to …

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The Yeti is no longer just a big hairy missing link

Continuing their tradition of snow theme product names, Blue Microphones is announcing today the Yeti, the world’s first THX certified mic, USB for studio-quality recording at home. I still like and use the Blue Mic Snowflake microphone and can vouch for the fact that they make great quality gear. The Yeti will be priced at …

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Use your iPhone or iPod Nano to become the next Spielberg

Do you shoot movies with your iPhone or the latest iPod Nano, but end up deleting them because they look like they were filmed by someone with extremely shaky hands? The iSteady comes to your rescue. It’s a folding metal holder that will hold either device and stabilize it to create much smoother video capture. …

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Reusable water bottles that look stylish and benefit causes – KOR ONE

KOR ONE water bottles are BPA free 25 ounce bottles with flip top lids, threadless spouts and are dishwasher safe. An added benefit is the fact that a portion of the sales from each bottle are donated to select water related causes such as the Wetlands Initiative, Marine Research Foundation, Container Recycling Institute and Blue …

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Everyone wants on the eReader bandwagon – Cyberus Smart Info Engine

The Sungale Cyberus ID700WTA “Smart Info Engine” claims to be the 1st and only universal portable media player device that offers a large 7″ (800 x 480) LCD color screen and a user friendly touch-screen interface that allows instant one-touch access to read eBooks, watch movies and streaming video, upload, view and manipulate digital photos, …

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iDon’t Pay for Droid – Cash for Clunkers (I mean phones) FlipSwap Service

Have you been drooling over Bryan’s coverage of the Motorola DROID and want to buy one of your own, but don’t have the $’s? I have a possible solution for you. Use FlipSwap to trade your old iPhone(s) for cash, that you can apply towards the purchase of a DROID. They will pay as much …

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An instrument for the terminally tuneless – LaunchPad

If your previous attempts at learning to play an instrument ended in failure, the Novation Launchpad might be your ticket to musical bliss. This device is an audio controller that you can use with your computer. It consists of an 8-by-8 panel of buttons. Each button is used to launch an audio event – a …

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iPhone case that holds a folded Bluetooth headset – MoGo Talk

Remember the MoGo Mouse from Newton Peripherals? It was a Bluetooth mouse that could fit entirely into a PC Card slot. Now the same company has just announced the release of a series of Bluetooth headsets that are stored and recharged within plastic cases for cellular handsets. They remind me of the LG Decoy phone. …

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Another wall organizer – Light Switch Rack

Yay! Another nifty wall organizer. I love this stuff. First we posted the EZ Mount and then last week it was the Gadget Pocket. Today I want to show you the Paul Koh Light Switch Rack. It’s a powder coated aluminum switch plate cover that converts your light switch into a key holder and a …

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Wirelessly stream video with a Vue Personal Video Network

I enjoyed reviewing the Wi-Spi EX30 security camera from Brickhouse Security, it is missing one important feature – remote viewing from the internet. I think I may have found a better solution for those times when I would like to see what’s going on in my home while I’m at work. It’s the Avaak Vue …

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Planon introduces DocuPen Xtreme X-Series line of scanning pens

Planon has updated their DocuPen scanners with the new X-Series line, which improves upon the DocuPen RC800 scanner that I reviewed 2 years ago. They are now able to support image resolutions of up to 600 dpi (up to 1,200 dpi for the X50) and feature a 200 MHz internal processor and 64MB Fast SDRAM …

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