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Sonance FS1B IPORT iPort Freestanding Unbalanced Audio/Video Docking Station Bring your ipod into your home theater system with style. Sonances FS1 iPort dock fits in perfectly, anywhere you place it. It works seamlessly with your home stereo, A/V distribution center, or personal computer through unbalanced RCA, composite video, and S-video connections. Technorati Tags: Sonance Tags: cellphone, consumer electronics, wireless, DVD (Read the full post about ‘Sonance FS1B IPORT iPort Freestanding Unbalanced Audio/Video Docking Station’…)

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Onkyo and SOTEC partnered up on the new APX-2 HD audio PC. It comes with a Core 2 Duo T5500 @ 1.66GHz, 1 GB of RAM, 500GB of HDD, a digital audio amplifier, an HDD that is stored in a Super Floating HDD Unit, and a noise cancellation box (22dB max) as well as Vista’s volume mixer function and installed Pure Direct Audio Path (PDAP) to prevent audio loss from poor HD audio support. No word on pricing or availability. [Source] Tags: gizmos, dap, cellphone, gaming (Read the full post about ‘Onkyo APX-2 HD Audio PC’…)

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I’m not certain if there is a market for digital pens as yet, and I’m not certain why. When I was in high school and college, I would have given anything for something that could take my handwritten material and turn it into text. I guess students these days are taking their laptops into class and typing the notes out. But what about mathematics classes, where diagrams and drawings are the necessity? I had a chance to try out the Fly Fusion Pentop Computer, and while that had some nifty features, I also enjoyed the EPOS Digital Pen and USB Flash Drive. The Fly Fusion requires a special notepad to work, but the EPOS can use any paper. (Read the full post about ‘EPOS Digital Pen and USB Drive’…)

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Posted Feb 15th 2008 8:39PM by Darren MurphFiled under: Gaming Good news for folks with a GeForce 8 GPU and lots of questions about how the recent Ageia acquisition would affect them: your current card will be receiving PhysX support. When NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was questioned in a recent conference call, he noted that the firm was currently “working towards the physics-engine-to-CUDA port,” and it could be delivered as “a software update” to every card that’s CUDA-enabled (read: all of the GeForce 8 GPUs). (Read the full post about ‘GeForce 8 GPUs to acquire PhysX support via software download’…)

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Remember the good old days when you go online using a 56k modem? The Pocket IR Modem brings back the (not so) good old days, hooking up with various antiquated Pocket PC/Palm OS devices via IrDA, allowing you to surf at excruciatingly slow speeds. Well, it is meant for folks who work in the field to upload data instead of checking out what the latest gadget is on Ubergizmo. ENR Technologies claim to offer the Pocket IR Modem for $149 a pop, but if you have a huge group of Palm III users whom you know, they can be purchased in bulk for $80 apiece. Tags: video game, Ogg, tests, tech (Read the full post about ‘Pocket IR Modem’…)

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Posted Feb 15th 2008 5:35PM by Donald MelansonFiled under: Desktops, LaptopsIt’s not the first time it’s dabbled in subscription-based PCs, but Microsoft looks to be taking things up another notch, with it now making a fairly big push into Russia. To that end, the company’s teamed up with Russian cellphone operator Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, which will be offering the subscription-based PCs to all 85 million of its customers as part of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential program, although there’s no word on exactly what the PC’s will cost just yet. Details on the PCs themselves are also expectedly light, although they’ll not surprisingly run Windows Vista, and will reportedly pack built-in mobile broadband access, which certainly makes sense given that it’s a cellphone company offering them. (Read the full post about ‘Microsoft teams with Russian firm to offer subscription-based PCs’…)

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If you have ever had the unfortunate pain of a deleted hard drive, then you know the importance of backing up all your information. Believe it or not, the average consumer does not have any backup protection on their computer. The sad case is that most consumers want to backup their hard drive, but many of them do not know how. Consumers should be glad that there are now easy ways to back-up all their information. For example, the HD700 from ClickFree, a device that prides itself as being an automatic backup “for the rest of us”. The HD700 is very simple to use and works by plugging into a computer’s USB port. It then automatically downloads software to back up a computer’s entire hard drive. (Read the full post about ‘ClickFree HD700 Backup’…)

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Posted Feb 15th 2008 3:33PM by Nilay PatelFiled under: GamingAlthough word on the street is that Microsoft is planning to release the successor to the Xbox 360 in 2010, the company is still apparently planning on updating the 360 design several more times in the next couple years. Just like the “Falcon” motherboard now on shelves updated the original 360 design with a 65nm CPU, the upcoming “Jasper” revision should take the GPU to 65nm as well — but that’s more or less common knowledge. What we’re hearing now is that all those RRoDed 360s sitting in warehouses are going to be retrofitted with the same 65 / 90nm CPU / GPU combo as Falcon, but on a mobo design called “Opus” that fits the original Xbox case molds. (Read the full post about ‘Are “Opus” and “Valhalla” the next, next Xbox 360s?’…)

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