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The future is interconnected, and that’s where the Papyrus e-book reader concept gets all its strength. Designed to be a low-cost and better alternative to current generation e-book readers, the Papyrus will be a student-oriented e-book reader that will take advantage of collaboration and connectivity. It’ll have a stylus-based touchscreen where contents on the current page can be tagged, to be gone back to at a later time or answered, just like discussion threads in a forum. The designers hope to put its price at lower than $100 in order to hit a far larger market than today’s e-readers can, and can last for up to 30 hours, which seems reasonable since most people can only really keep reading for a few hours a day. (Read the full post about ‘Student-oriented Papyrus could be e-book reader 2.0′…)

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B Movie Victims

You can have this for ?14.95

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Uniross are ahead of the current “Green” game with the long established rechargeable battery business. Now you can push that a little further by reducing the amount of electricity you use to recharge your batteries. The blister packaging was easy to remove, and involved no hacking with scissors like usual. The Uniross Fast Charger comes packaged with 4 x 2700mAh AA batteries, great for high drain applications like digital cameras and flashes, remote control toys etc. As an added bonus to the 3 pin mains supply, you also get a 12 volt car lighter socket adapter for on the more “power ups” . The base charger supports both AA and AAA batteries, in pairs of two. (Read the full post about ‘1hr Turn Around Uniross Battery Charger’…)

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by Donald Melanson, posted Apr 18th 2008 at 1:59PMAMD wasn’t exactly all that specific about exactly when its new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series graphics chips would actually find their way into some laptops when it announced them earlier this year, but it looks like they’re now finally starting to trickle out, with new laptops from Toshiba and ASUS now each receiving a boost from ‘em. For Toshiba’s part, it’s squeezed the lower-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 into its 17-inch Satellite P305 and P305D laptops (pictured at right), with other “select” P305 models also getting the more powerful Mobility Radeon HD 3650 model, which boasts 120 stream processors, a 128-bit memory interface, and 512MB or 1GB of VRAM depending on the system. (Read the full post about ‘ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 lands in Toshiba Satellite P305, ASUS M50 laptops’…)

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Ever since YouTube became really popular, lots of people have posted videos of whatever they wanted on it. Whether it was music videos, commercials, or their homemade videos. YouTube is a great source of entertainment and laughs, and many people try to post videos that get a lot of views. Two teens who live in Peoria, Arizona decided to try and post a video that would become very popular, but their plan backfired and had serious consequences. Their plan was to use a Mitsubishi Eclipse to fly in the air across an intersection. They managed to get in the air but as soon as they hit the ground the driver, a 16 year old, lost control and the car crashed through trees and rolled over. (Read the full post about ‘Teens reaching for fame, reach near death instead’…)

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Wise men say, “The world is your technological oyster.” Or not, but do you know what that means? Us neither. We’re just so digging this new pair of unconventional wedding rings designed for geeks to the bone who might want to get hitched. The female ring, the one on the left, will be available in four colors: turquoise, white, orange and black. While the male ring comes in only one version, transparent. Standing tall and probably prepared to strike anywhere with an Ethernet port. The maker Jana Brevick would be glad to ship an order of these to you for $7 a piece (only $5 when ordered with a separate item). What better item to promote the way of the geek? (Read the full post about ‘Ethernet plug wedding rings let you live geekily ever after’…)

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Locklite Mini Key Torch You can have this for ?3.99 Tags: lcd, gps, wi-fi, electronic toys (Read the full post about ‘Locklite Mini Key Torch’…)

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X-Ploda Roulette Xploda is the type of game that puts your heart in your mouth, though not in a Hannibal Lechter way. It's a bit like Russian Roulette, except that the bang at the end isn't terminal unless you suffer from a dodgy ticker. You can have this for ?9.99 Tags: gadgets, cable, digital, sat-nav (Read the full post about ‘X-Ploda Roulette’…)

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HP has taken their recently announced Upline service offline. An email from HP revealed the bad news that they have “suspended operation” and unfortunately gave no details as to when the service will return, other than a mention that they anticipate the downtime to be “temporary and short in duration” with a promise of email notification when it does return. An attempt to login simply offers a message stating: “The HP Upline Service is temporarily unavailable.” To take the outage a little further it seems the service was initially intended for users in the US only, however the online signup initially allowed anyone to register. (Read the full post about ‘HP suspends its Upline cloud-based storage service’…)

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Let me make this clear from the start, my idea of “roughing it” is when there’s no 24-hour room service. Still, I love this itty bitty camping lantern from Coghlan, which makes camping and outdoorsy accessories. Weighing less than one ounce with batteries and coming in under two inches, the Micro Lantern features an LED light with a conical reflector which makes it incredibly bright. As it’s designed to clip onto clothes and gear, I commandeered it for a keychain. And it’s not just adorable, it has an emergency strobe feature that will flash for 50 hours. See? It’s very practical, even for us city-dwelling types. A mere $7.99 at Coghlans. (Read the full post about ‘LED Micro Lantern begs “Take me camping”’…)

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