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Forget about air fresheners (whether manual or time-release models) once you realize what an enormous advantage the ScentWave System has over its rivals. The ScentWave System is about the size of a small toaster, comes in white or black and emits a fragrance of your choice (remember there are 48 to choose from). Your personal taste and style will be complimented and completed with this inconspicuous system. The ScentWave system was designed to harness this simple concept. Just insert a fragrance cartridge into the system and a small, built-in fan begins to evaporate the oil. As the aroma is naturally released, the fan helps to maximize the fragrance delivery. (Read the full post about ‘ScentWave System spices things up nasally’…)

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Most standard office chairs weren’t designed with your total comfort in mind. Most companies throw a few pieces of plastic and cushions together and call it a seat, but what about our aching backs? Years of sitting in a computer chair can cause serious damage. This excellent Smartchair takes our comfort into consideration and would be a welcome addition into any home office. Instead of relying on a cheap padded adjustment system, the Smartchair uses a combination of auto-adjusted spring formations and biofeedback sensors to automatically adjust to your muscle pain. A PDA sized electronic device on the left arm acts as a controller unit. The 3″ touchscreen on the unit works as a control button and a function display. (Read the full post about ‘Smartchair Offers Biofeedback For Every Muscle Twinge’…)

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The Sony Bravia V4000 series is Sony’s new V series, which builds on the impressive V3000 series. The Sony V4000’s look very impressive with a sleek and stylish design, and is packed with all the latest features. All of the key elements and more are found in the V4000 models to get the very best in HD quality, such as a full HD 1080p LCD screen with dynamic backlighting, and the new Bravia Engine 2 technology which provides rich and vivid images. According to the Bravia Release Schedule the larger Sony V4000 models will be available first in July 08, as the 40-inch Sony KDL-40V4000, 46-inch KDL-46V4000, and largest 52-inch Sony KDL-52V4000. (Read the full post about ‘Sony V4000 | KDL-40V4000, KDL-46V4000, KDL-52V4000′…)

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The Snap Capp is something very special, and yet is so simple. Simply put, the Snap Capp is “a plastic re-closable top designed to snap onto virtually all 12 and 16 ounce aluminum beverage cans”.

I would have to say that this product is a long time coming. After all, the pop-top can, portable and convenient as it is, has a lot of limitations. As soon as the top is open, you cannot close it, and so begins the exposure of your beverage to the elements.

You may have discovered this effect whenever you put a can of a carbonated drink in the fridge. The drink will stay cool, will completely lose all of its fizz.

(Read the full post about ‘Snap Capp’…)

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I guess it is pretty easy to lay claim to being the fastest or largest device in the industry today, if you throw in plenty of other criteria into the mix. Take for example, Samsung Electronics who have placed their hands on both “fastest” and “largest” superlatives with the new 2.5″, 256GB multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface. This high capacity flash storage device was unveiled at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum, and is also touted to be the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface. I wonder just how many other SSDs fall under a similar category in order to go up against Samsung’s offering. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung develops fastest MLC-based SSD with SATA’…)

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Tags: toys, AAC, PDA, mobile devices (Read the full post about ‘Dinosaur Plant’…)

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Want to use MS Office to open and save ODF spreadsheets, word processing, and presentation documents, but don’t want to wait until 2009 to do it?  Sun has got you covered.  Microsoft recently announced that native ODF support would be coming to its popular Office 2007 productivity suite with the release of Service Pack 2, currently scheduled for early to mid 2009.  Users who either can not or do not wish to wait that long have an alternative though, and it comes from one of Microsoft’s chief competitors in the market for office productivity software: Sun Microsystems. (Read the full post about ‘Sun beats Microsoft to ODF compatibility in Office’…)

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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 users, listen up. Mozilla has stated that RC1 contains ten “high-priority” bugs, which have been marked as “critical.” Released almost two weeks ago, RC1 was thought by the developers as a possible final product, but now that these flaws are coming to light, the company is debating whether to release Firefox 3 Final with the updates or ship out another release candidate for further testing from the community. “We are making a go/no go decision early next week, as we are still collecting feedback.” Some of the bugs include certain websites crashing the browser, Ubuntu 8.04 breaking “3.0pre’s addons,” the spell checker once disabled is not able to be re-enabled again, and drag and drop bookmarks not being usable. (Read the full post about ‘Firefox 3 RC 1 has ten critical Flaws’…)

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It’s a well-known fact that many laptops heat up considerably when in use for any long period. This of course has spawned hundreds of devices meant to cool off your notebook using any combination of heatsinks and pads. This Log Pillow takes a different approach to the situation. Rather than trying to directly cool off the parts of the laptop that would be resting on your legs, this Log Pillow raises it up away from your legs to keep them cool. The “logs” are soft and cushy which not only keep you comfortable, but allow for better air circulation to the underside of the notebook. The front one even acts as a nice wrist rest for additional comfort. (Read the full post about ‘Cool your lap with a Log Pillow’…)

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It was only a couple of months ago when we said that Samsung was planning to roll out a new 256GB SSD by 2009. And look what we have here right now, Samsung just announced its new ultra-fast 256GB SSD. Yes, folks Samsung was really dead serious in upgrading its previously released 128GB model with this new higher capacity flashSSD. The 256GB flashSSD doubles the reading speed of the 128mpbs model with its own 200mpbs sequential data reading speed. Even better is its writing speed which now runs at 160MB per second as compared to the 70mbps writing speed of the previous model. And not only is the 256GB SSD ultra fast, but it is also enclosed in an ultra-thin chassis which measures only 9.5mm in thickness. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung announces the 256GB flashSSD ealier than planned’…)

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