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Posted Mar 27th 2008 10:25AM by Paul MillerFiled under: GPS Looking out the window while driving is way overrated. The new hotness, in Korea at least, is super-detailed 3D maps that leave nothing of your route to the imagination. Thinkware’s iNAVI K2 is just such a device, with purty 3D graphics showing up on its 4.8-inch 800 x 480 screen. There’s 8GB of memory, 256MB of RAM, and a fancy “geomagnetic 3-axis sensor” that helps keep mapping on track, but face it, you’re going to buy this to see if they mapped your house. (Read the full post about ‘Thinkware iNAVI K2’s 3D maps are just like being there’…)

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Posted Mar 27th 2008 12:42PM by Donald MelansonFiled under: Displays It’s been a little while since we caught sight of Kodak’s last batch of digital photo frames, but the company’s now come back for another go ’round with a trio of new EasyShare frames, each of which pack Kodak’s newfangled “Quick Touch” borders. That feature lets you scroll though photos simply by sliding your finger along the border, as well as giving you control over all the frame’s other functions via the interface pictured above. Apart from that, the frames appear to be pretty standard fare, with the M820 and M1020 models boasting 8 and 10-inch screens, respectively, along with the usual audio and video support, 128MB of built-in memory, and accommodations for all the most used memory card formats. (Read the full post about ‘Kodak intros new EasyShare photo frames with Quick Touch borders’…)

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Sling has announced their upcoming release of SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian UIQ. With no specific date for launch, the SlingPlayer Mobile is expected to be available this summer and will support the Sony Ericsson P1i, P990i, W960i, W950i, M600i and the Motorola MOTORIZR Z8. In addition Sling also has some good news for Nokia N95 owners, the current version of the SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian S60 also has an update in the works, look for that sometime in the Spring of 2008. A specific release date has not yet been announced, however we will be looking for more information to come during CTIA next week. Read [Sling Media] Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → Tag (Read the full post about ‘Sling Media makes it official; Symbian UIQ, Nokia N95 support coming soon’…)

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The I Spy Fisheye Camera helps you add a little bit of artistic license to your images, so what you get for $75 is described below. This Fisheye Camera is an entertaining and interesting way to bring life into the same old photos and encourage a little bit of artistry while you’re at it. This version of the classic Fisheye comes with a sleek black and chrome exterior, wrist strap, editorial book and manual. Get your graduates and gadget geeks something they can have more than their fair share of fun with, and something you won’t mind enjoying along with them! (Read the full post about ‘I Spy Fisheye Camera’…)

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Logitech Squeezebox Duet Logitech’s little black box liberates your music collection from the confines of your PC, streaming it via Wi-Fi to your Hi-Fi (or powered speakers). It also streams from Rhapsody, Pandora, Slacker, internet radio stations, local radio stations, and can even pull down podcasts and RSS feeds. A sweet iPod-style remote controls all the action. Sound like any other magic music box you know? Yep, the Squeezebox Duet challenges the much pricier Sonos Digital Music System for in-home streaming supremacy, and almost comes away the winner. But not quite. Setup is about as fun as getting glass shards stuck in your eye — especially if you configure Logitech’s SqueezeCenter software to tap your iTunes library. (Read the full post about ‘Review: Logitech Wireless Music Streamer Spreads Media, Joy’…)

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Comcast, which prevented the BitTorrent file sharing system from working properly on its network and lied about it, will now "work together" with BT as part of Comcast’s reinvention, reports the Wall Street Journal.

"The companies are in talks to collaborate on ways to run BitTorrent’s technology more smoothly on Comcast’s broadband network, and allow Comcast to transport video files more effectively over its own network in the future, said Tony Warner, Comcast’s chief technology officer."

Comcast ultimately confessed to interfering with the bandwidth-sucking protocol, but presented its misbehavior as a form of quality assurance and management— which was precisely the kind of network engineering newspeak that Network Neutrality nerds always said they’d end up excusing anticompetitive behavior with.

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We’ve seen a number of ipod speakers with pass-through dock connectors, but we’ve never really understood the point — why would we listen to music on our iPod when we’re already sitting at the computer, which has better speakers? iHome’s latest rig, the iH69, tries to bring it all together, though, with an iPod dock integrated directly into a set of upright computer speakers. We’re not sold on the idea until we actually hear ‘em — or we get a sub in the deal — but those of you looking to save on some cable clutter should look for these bad boys to drop sometime in June. (Read the full post about ‘iHome’s iH69 computer / iPod speakers’…)

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The Parrot DF7700 digital photo frame allows users to send pictures to it from anywhere in the world thanks to MMS messaging. This nifty little device will debut at next week’s CTIA convention in Las Vegas, featuring the following :- Built-in SIM card with dedicated phone number SD memory card slot USB port 7″ TFT monitor Automatic horizontal/vertical orientationThere is no word on pricing or availability as at press time. Tags: gprs, lcd, mobiles, wireless (Read the full post about ‘Parrot DF7700 is Cell Phone Friendly’…)

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Microsoft is offering free support to Vista users who have encountered problems when updating their installations to the recently released Service Pack 1. What was normally offered free by Microsoft to those who purchased the retail product is now also available even for users who have OEM copy installations of the operating system. The free support was caused by the numerous complaints from users who have installed the Vista SP1 update on their machine and then later on experienced endless reboot cycles and struggled with broken Vista application. Under the support plan, Vista users will have three options to get the free support. (Read the full post about ‘Microsoft gives free support for Vista SP1 installation’…)

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This MP3 player from Thanko can be hand-cranked, ensuring that you get to enjoy your music no matter where you are, and it sure as heck is better than relying on the sun for juice if you’re rocking to a solar-powered charger. A single minute of cranking will net you 10 minutes’ of music. Capable of storing up to 1GB worth of audio, this hand-cranked mp3 player supports MP3 and WMA formats - not much, but functional to say the least. Heck, it even has a built-in flash light to help you find your way around at night. The hand-cranked MP3 player retails for approximately 40 Euros a pop. (Read the full post about ‘Cranking MP3 Player’…)

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