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The new AS-101 Mobile Digital TV single chip receiver comes in a tiny footprint that measures a mere 5mm x 5mm and will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress later this month. Touted to be the smallest digital mobile TV receiver for DVB-H/T applications in the world, it comes with a multi-band RF tuner, an advanced OFDM demodulator, memory and interfaces all packed onto a single 90nm CMOS die. Guess the AS-101 will herald a slew of new gadget releases that will come in ever smaller form factors which allows you to view digital TV, but shrinkage of the device size must stop at some point as nobody likes viewing movies and soaps on too small a screen. (Read the full post about ‘AS-101 Mobile Digital TV Receiver’…)

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Researchers have been studying Geicos for years trying to mimic the stickiness of their feet but it seems that a commercial application is coming. UC Berkeley and Clark College have announced that their teams have created a tape that works like a Geico’s feet: it sticks with horizontal pressure but releases vertically (that’s how the Geico can lift its feet), making it ideal to…hang frames, for example. It’s cool but when can we have gadgets like geico-gloves and geico-shoes? Tags: lcd, TV, digital, plasma (Read the full post about ‘Gecko Glue’…)

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Like the idea or not, TiVo does keep track of just what we are watching on a “second-by-second” basis. With that information, based on approximately 10,000 households they were able to provide us with this great Top 10 list of the most TiVo’d commercials from the big game.

1. E-Trade: “Baby”
2. Pepsi Co: “Justin Timberlake”
3. Doritos: “Mouse Trap” (user-generated)
4. Coca-Cola: “James Carville and Bill Frist”
5. Ice Breakers: “Carmen Electra”
6. Bridgestone: “Headlights”
7. Bud Light: “Cavemen”
8. Vitamin Water: “Horse Race”
9. Cars.com Plan B: “Witch Doctor”
10. Life Water: “Thriller”

Noticeably missing seems to be Toshiba’s HD DVD commercial.  In case you missed any of the commercials you can check them out over on Spike.com.

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Angry iPhone buyers have started a petition calling on Apple to boost WiFi functionality in the iPhone by adding support for 802.1x, a security protocol used by many school and business networks. The iPhone can’t accept 802.1x instructions, so many college student have found it useless with their campus wireless networks. Looks like the kind of thing that could be fixed in a firmware update, if Apple is listening.The iPhone 802.1x hole [iPhone Atlas] Tags: lcd, players, consumer technology, tests (Read the full post about ‘iPhone’s 802.1x Hole Locks Out College Students’…)

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For the latest info on the coolest gadgets, emerging technology and wired madness, subscribe to our full news feed or have it delivered to your inbox. Always free. Always unique. Thanks for visiting! For those of you that find it impossible to suffer the indignity of camping without a blender, Coleman has just the thing. With a couple of six volt batteries you will have enough for 20-30 pitchers of blending action. That is at least a few days worth of margarita madness or a mango smoothie a day for twenty to thirty days. It might seem that I am being cynical or even a little sarcastic; I can assure you that I am not. (Read the full post about ‘Coleman Battery Powered Blender Brings Margaritas to the Road’…)

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With the Franklin MWD-1490 Dictionary / Translator you can do so much. It features: Offers instant access to essential information on grammar rules and usage and reinforces grammar knowledge with quizzes. Has over 300,000 words and 500,000 synonyms in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian with the updated Merriam-Webster Electronic Dictionary & Thesaurus with Comprehensive Reference Set. Includes spell check, Merriam-Webster® geographical dictionary, Confusables® function, SAT word list which improves your reading and writing skills amd more.

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I suppose if the upper management awards you with one of these, you’d best buck up in your job. It probably means you aren’t running fast enough to keep up with the rest of the team, or you’re simply walking while the rest of your colleages have completed a couple of laps ahead of you. Alternatively, you can send a similar message to your minions by forking out $12.99 for this rather cute USB hub. At least it doesn’t come in the boring square or rectangle form factor we’re so used to these days… Tags: wi-fi, gadgetry, Gadget, ipod (Read the full post about ‘Athletic USB Hub’…)

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Wiinja Deluxe Nintendo Wii

The WiiKey Deluxe Wii Mod Chip is a popular Wii mod chip and is one of the cheaper mod chips available.

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The Thumbs Up Mini Spy Cam claims to be one of the smallest video and audio recorder in the world, at least commercially. Who knows what other secret government bodies have to check up on your movement anyways? I digress - this Mini Spy Cam is small enough to be stored in a pack of chewing gum or even a half-empty box of cigarettes, going about its recording business in the most discreet manner. Each full charge allows up to 4 hours of recording onto a microSD memory card in 3GP format, in full color and with audio to boot. I wouldn’t put too much faith in the quality of 3GP files though, so be prepared for less than satisfactory results during your voyeuristic travels. (Read the full post about ‘Thumbs Up Mini Spy Cam’…)

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When a company has hard times with selling its products about the only way to improve its current situation is to invent something new that would help to increase significantly the number of total sales. Of course it’s not an easy task but in case any company succeeded in doing so, its problems would probably disappear. Motorola that is not doing well these days is just in the similar situation. Motorola has recently filed patents for a rollable cell phone display. It seems that this new display will feature “an interface that is made of a flexible material and has an active and inactive position. The interface is coupled with a reservoir. The reservoir is used for storing electrorheological fluid. (Read the full post about ‘Rollable cell phone screen’…)

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