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The newest gadget form Heineken is the draught keg. Heineken Draught Keg keeps the beer cold and lets you enjoy the great beer taste of a Heineken draught. The DraughtKeg must be placed in the refrigerator for at least 10 hours in order to ensure that the temperature of the beer in the keg is just perfect. The draught keg official site offers details about how this gadget works and where you can get one. If you want this beer gadget you can use the store locator. The gadget is an environmentally-friendly product: the packaging is 100% recyclable and just one package holds 5 liters of beer. (Read the full post about ‘New gadget form Heineken the draught keg’…)

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While the latest round of details to surface for the Paris are not exactly as flattering as the rest, this should still prove to be a worthy handset. The new details that have come to light reveal a solid offering coming from SE. The P5 is a slider style phone with a QWERTY keyboard and will be UIQ based. The handset also offers a touch sensitive display with one-touch screen rotation, the ability to browse or view bookmarks without sliding the handset open and one-touch zoom in/out navigation. The Samsung based camera with auto-focus comes in at a nice 5-megapixels, and we can also expect to find Wi-Fi, an FM radio and standard Walkman player. (Read the full post about ‘Sony Ericsson’s Paris; the leaked details continue’…)

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Laptops aren’t generally known for having the largest hard drives out there. If you pick up a cheap one, you might not have more than 80GB of space, which some people can easily fill up. If you’re looking for an easy way to add more space without cracking the case or carrying around an external drive, you might look into one of these new ExpressCard drives from A-Data. Many newer laptops feature ExpressCard slots, which aren’t always used, so why not fill yours with 16GB or 32GB of storage? What’s really cool is that if you want to access the files from another computer, you can simply plug in a USB cord and treat it just like an external drive. (Read the full post about ‘Add 32GB of storage to your laptop without cracking the case’…)

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OmniVision’s latest 8 megapixel imaging sensor will probably make its way into cell phones sometime in the near future, as this CMOS image sensor apparently solves the pixel size problem thanks to a workaround using backside illumination (BSI) technology. BSI maximizes photon collection by “circumventing obstructive metal and dielectric layers on the top-side of the sensor die”, resulting in improved light absorption, thinner overall camera modules, and increased sensitivity as well as F stops with reduced crosstalk. While BSI is not new technology, OmniVision seems to be the first out of the stables to make this technology available to the masses. Just how many megapixels does a phone camera need, anyways? (Read the full post about ‘OmniVision 8 megapixel Imaging Sensor’…)

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Instead of whipping out your notebook and booting it up just to find an available WiFi signal, why not take the easier route of using your iphone or other WiFi-capable portable device? Well there is an even easier way now with the WiFi Signal Finder Pen. All you need to do is press the switch and let the LED light flash, where it will then pick up any WiFi signal in the vicinity. There is a working range of up to 50m outdoors and 30m indoors. Too bad it doesn’t pick up draft-N networks, nor is it capable of letting you know whether there is WEP encryption or not. The WiFi Signal Finder Pen will retail for $19.90 a pop. Well, at least you can use it to put down your John Hancock. (Read the full post about ‘WiFi Signal Finder Pen’…)

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With summer coming around, it makes perfect sense to kick it off with a party, or even parties if your budget permits it. Apart from good food and drinks, it is essential to get everyone into the party mood, and this USB DJ Plasma Tube will definitely come in handy! Using the latest plasma technology, the light emitted will groove along with the rhythm, so picking up just one won’t be enough for your resident DJ. Available in blue, green and red colors, each $15 purchase comes with a sonic switch as well as an adjustable tube lamp lighting strength level that can be adjusted via a knob. From afar, people will probably think it is some sort of Jedi party.
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by Darren Murph, posted May 27th 2008 at 5:24AMJust in case you felt there wasn’t quite enough screen real estate on the ultra-sleek V8, RAmos is giving the display even more attention on the Blue Magic T8. The player features a 4.3-inch display, 10-millimeter thick enclosure, built-in FM radio tuner and the potential to play nice with a not-yet-developed dock that would enable video output. (Read the full post about ‘RAmos reveals Blue Magic T8 PMP’…)

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VHS. Some of you won’t be old enough to remember video tape. And those of you who are doubtless have a stack of low resolution cassettes somewhere in the basement, maybe next to the box of 8-Tracks and Zip-Disks. Good news. Now you can rip those tapes to digital files, and even burn them to the next soon-to-be-obsolete format, DVD. Ion’s VCR 2 PC is a VHS player with a USB port. It converts movies into MPEG-4 files, and the included software will take those files and make them ready for various portable devices. That’s pretty much it, but if you, like my father, have the entire collection of Star Trek: The Next Generation on VHS, the $250 player is a lot cheaper than re-buying all those episode’s on DVD. (Read the full post about ‘VCR Converts Your Old Tapes Into Digital Video’…)

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Jakob Nielsen is a web usability consultant who has worked at Sun Microsystems, the IBM User Interface Institute, Bell Communications Research and the Technical University of Denmark. Every year he produces a web habits report that summarises our current state of using the Internet.

This year he has found we are becoming a lot more selfish in our browsing habits. We no longer take our time viewing a single site, instead, we want to get to the information we are after as quickly as possible. Nielsen says users now have a 75% success rate doing what they want to do online compared to just 60% in 1999.

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by Paul Miller, posted May 27th 2008 at 7:14AM VIA’s trying its hand once again at the “mini-note” form factor, with a new OpenBook reference design. Its first go round, the NanoBook, was generally panned in light of the ultra-successful Eee PC, but certainly wasn’t ignored. The new design is right in line with the new wave of subnotebooks, with an 8.9-inch 1024 x 600 screen, connection options including WiMAX, HSDPA and EV-DA, three USB 2.0 ports, VGA out, a 4-in-1 card reader and front and back 2 megapixel webcams. There’s also room for 2GB of RAM and a 2.5-inch HDD, and you can run Vista, XP or your Linux flavor of choice. (Read the full post about ‘VIA unveils OpenBook subnotebook reference design’…)

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