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Imagine this: any portable device with a Wi-Fi module won't ever have to be plugged into a wall, ever again. We know you think we're crazy, but RCA has a technology that could one day (soon) prove that scenario correct. Shown for the first time this month in prototype form, the Airnergy is a hotspot power harvester that can convert Wi-Fi signals...
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If you're interested in turning your computer into a HDTV and DVR, then Elgato's new EyeTV One may be something you're interested in. This digital TV tuner connects to your TV antenna and delivers over-the-air TV broadcasts to your Mac or PC. Best of all, since these over-the-air broadcasts are free and offer excellent quality, you could finally...
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Do you remember the iBUYPOWER Battalion Touch CZ-10 Multi-Touch gaming notebook we told you about last week? Well, it's now available for preorder. iBUYPOWER says the system will ship starting January 22nd though readers with a keen eye may notice that iBUYPOWER's website says the system could ship a couple days earlier. Either way, this 15-inch...
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Kingston's original 40GB SSDNow drive has been a real hit for the storage company; or, at least that's the impression that we're getting now. In order to reach out to even more potential consumers who would love to swap out at least their boot drive to a solid state drive, the company has just announced the SSDNow V Series 30GB Boot Drive....
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AMD just sent over a note with an interesting link that you all have to see. To coincide with the release of the new, sub-$100 Radeon HD 5670, AMD is embarking on campaign to entice users to upgrade. The slogan? "It's so easy, a monkey could do it!" "It’s been a hot season for PC gamers, with the recent releases of...
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If you've an avid PC user, and you dig the Internet, you've probably run across this problem before. You've got a file that's too big to send over email, and the idea of mailing a physical disc or USB stick in the mail just turns you off. The solution? Up until now, only a few sites out there (MegaUpload and Drop.io...
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MSI's Wind Top all-in-one PC lineup seems to have been a surprising hit for the company. Usually, it produces a few machines here and there and remains content until the next big CPU/GPU introduction. This range, however, has been seeing somewhat frequent updates an awful lot lately, and the new Wind Top AE2400 is living proof of that. This...
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Stating that things "just got real" wouldn't even begin to do this situation justice. Google, which has maintained a Chinese search portal (Google.cn) since 2006, has just upended the nation's stronghold on content, and while it remains to be seen if any other search engines will follow suit, there's no denying that...
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AMD continues their barrage of DirectX-11 class GPU releases with the affordably priced ATI Radeon HD 5670. If you remember all the way back to September of last year, AMD had committed--or at the very least planned--to release multiple new GPUs, at various price points up and down the spectrum. First came the Radeon HD 5800 series, quickly...
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AMD continues their barrage of DirectX-11 class GPU releases with the affordably priced ATI Radeon HD 5670. If you remember all the way back to September of last year, AMD had committed--or at the very least planned--to release multiple new GPUs, at various price points up and down the spectrum. First came the Radeon HD 5800 series, quickly...
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This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a little dry in spots, partly because so many companies decided to pre-announce there latest and greatest products weeks before the show. That said, there are a select few manufacturers that like to keep some of the good stuff bottled up until showtime, so...
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Bill Gates will never live down his quote about having enough memory to last a lifetime, but more now than ever, we're realizing that storage can never really be large enough. There's hardly a better place to look for proof of this than in the smartphone realm, where people are storing heaps and heaps of files onto...
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Dell's stable of OptiPlex machines haven't exactly garnered huge public interest outside of the corporate world in the years past, but with design clearly a focus of the company now, we're guessing that the new OptiPlex XE desktop will actually catch the attention of more than just some big purchasing managing...
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Man, this took long enough, did it not? After literally years of rumoring, Nintendo's Wii is finally going to stream Netflix movies. The Wii joins the PS3 and Xbox 360, both of which have been able to tune into Netflix Watch Instantly queues for months upon months now, and while it may be last, we get the idea that...
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Accessories aren't usually able to grab our interest unless they really do something that hasn't been done before, but the new Cable Caps definitely have our eyes. Considering just how many USB peripherals we encounter on a daily basis, there's something special here that really connects to our daily experiences. These community developed...
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Kodak announced a few new cameras at CES that are designed to provide easy sorting and uploading to popular sites such as Facebook, Flickr, Kodak Gallery, and YouTube. The most noteworthy camera among the new offerings is the Slice, which is half camera, half photo album. This 14 megapixel camera features a 3.5-inch touchscreen for image playback....
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iHome introduced a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch called iHome+Sleep. This app provides a full-screen clock display along with weather widgets, the iPod control cluster, and a customizable background image. iHome+Sleep also introduces the Sleep Card, which lets you create multiple profiles for wakeup times, sleep and wakeup...
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There were a few stand-outs at this year's 2010 CES, like Intel's WiDi Wireless Display demo and of course NVIDIA's impressive Tegra 2 demo. However, if we were to call in a close 3rd runner-up to those two, it would have to be the absolutely HOT looking new Dell Alienware M11x gaming notebook. Dell was pre-announcing this machine...
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In late October of last year we kicked off a pretty sweet contest and give-away with the folks at Asus, called the Xtreme Design Contest. For this contest Asus was looking to stir buzz and interest in the enthusiast do-it-yourself community for their new line of P7P55 Xtreme design series motherboards and of course they were looking...
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Some of the most impressive booths at CES 2010 used walls of screens that were spanned and combined to display one scene. The experience is similar to walking into Best Buy and standing in the middle of the TV section while surrounded with LCDs and Plasmas, but perhaps on a grander scale. While companies have been using this tactic for...
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Some of the most impressive booths at CES 2010 used walls of screens that were spanned and combined to display one scene. The experience is similar to walking into Best Buy and standing in the middle of the TV section while surrounded with LCDs and Plasmas, but perhaps on a grander scale. While companies have been using this tactic for years...
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The Korea Times said on Tuesday that a new version of the iPhone is coming to KT, Apple's partner in Korea, in April. They called the device the 4G iPhone, but it's unclear if the paper meant "fourth-generation" rather than 4G wireless capability.One phrase stood out, however: "at the earliest." That means the timing could be later,...
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