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Helio’s latest promotion has their Ocean for just $99. Of course there is a small catch to get that price, the phone is actually going for $199, and you will get the $100 difference back in the form of a mail-in-rebate. Which would make this a good offer only for those that are good at making sure the take care of the paperwork. Aside from the mail-in-rebate, the offer requires a new activation which means a two year agreement, and you have to sign up for a plan that retails for $60 or more per month. Of course when you consider Helio has a 500 minute plan for $65, a 1000 minute plan for $85 and an unlimited plan for $99 that should not be an issue. (Read the full post about ‘Helio offering the Ocean for just $99′…)

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Usually, when a laptop is stolen its gone for good. But, the thieves who took Kait Duplaga’s MacBook will be counting themselves unlucky after being caught by way of a photo Kait took of them after they had stolen her laptop.

The thieves broke in to an apartment shared by 3 young individuals. They managed to grab all of the typical gadgets you would expect to find in a young professionals abode including flat-screen TVs, DVD players, iPods, videogames and 2 laptops. One of those laptops was Kait’s MacBook, however, and she works in an Apple store therefore having an intimate knowledge of the software contained on it.

After the laptop had been stolen a friend of Kait sent her a text message about getting her laptop back.

(Read the full post about ‘Thieves caught on stolen MacBook webcam’…)

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by Ryan Block, posted May 12th 2008 at 5:34AMDean Kamen’s done a lot of work over the years building technologies for the disabled, which lends a bit of irony to the fact that his most well-known consumer transport, the Segway, is seeing some increased use by veterans. A non-profit by the name of Disability Rights Advocates for Technology (DRAFT) has snapped up some 150 units over the past few years — 30 of which just went out last week — to help amputees get around quicker and further than with your run of the mill wheelchair. (Read the full post about ‘Segs-4-Vets hooks up veterans with Segways’…)

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by Ryan Block, posted May 11th 2008 at 10:12PM We’d heard Renault was prepping a new electric car in conjunction with EV start-up Project Better Place, but no one had actually seen the thing until its unveiling today in Tel Aviv. The car itself only has a 125 mile range, which is where Project Better Place’s network of charging and battery swap stations come in. (Read the full post about ‘Renault / Project Better Place shows off new electric sedan prototype’…)

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