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  • iPod Touch Launches: The iDon’tPhone

    iPod Touch Launches: The iDon'tPhoneApple have launched the next generation of the iPod, the iPod Touch. Not surprisingly with a name like that, it’s got a touch screen, a la iPhone.

    Think of it as an iPhone without the phone – let’s call it the iDon’tPhone shall we.

    All of the big fuss that’s been jabbered about for ages on tons of news sites and blogs for the last month or so has come to pass – much the same as day follows night. Can you tell we’re pretty jaded about Apple at the moment? That and the _endless_ hysterical excitement associated with it.
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  • Microsoft Stumble On Open Doc Standard

    Microsoft Stumble On Open Doc StandardThere’s been general surprise at Microsoft’s failure to secure their ‘Open XML’ interchangeable document standard to be accepted by the ISO – International Standards Committee – and the IEC – International Electronic Commission.

    It is important to Microsoft as Governments around the world are looking to allow simple document interchange between all of their systems.
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  • Sony Cyber-shot T200: Auto Smile Photos: Video: IFA

    Sony Cyber-shot T200: Auto Smile Photos: VideoWe got excited about face recognition in digital camera when we first heard about it – when the FinePix F31fd came out back in Septemeber 2006 – but now it’s becoming run of the mill.

    Sony have taken it one step further with the Cyber-shot T200. Not only does it spot faces, but it will automatically take the photo when the person in shot smiles.

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  • Nikon P50, s51c, s700 – More Digicams

    Following our piece on the Nikon Coolpix P5100, other Nikons that were announced at the same time include the Nikon Coolpix P50, an 8.1 megapixel compact digital camera offering some enthusiast- chuffing manual controls, a 3.6x 28-102mm equiv. lens, software-stabilization (rubbish compared to a proper optical job) and ISO 2000 capability, all for £199.99.
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  • Palm Centro For September UK Release?

    Palm Centro For September UK Release?Rather unexpectedly, Palm seems to be readying its budget Centro smartphone for a UK/European launch as early as next week.

    Speculation about a new, slimmed down, cut-price Palm phone started a few months back after photos were leaked on to the web of a handset going under the name of ‘Gandolf.’
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  • Nikon Coolpix P5100

    Nikon Coolpix P5100Sitting at the very top of the range of seven digital compact cameras announced by Nikon today is the Coolpix P5100

    Its new flagship digicam updates the P5000, adds a new digital image processing engine and wedges in a slightly beefier 12.1 megapixel sensor.
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  • Pure Digital Tempus-1S Comes With Natural Sounds

    Pure Digital Tempus-1S Comes With Natural SoundsDAB digital radio dynamos PURE Digital have announced the TEMPUS-1S, the third update to their popular TEMPUS family of DAB bedside radios.

    Sporting the same bedroom-friendly real wood, cherry veneer casework, the TEMPUS-1S hopes to soothe twitchy sleepers and all-night insomniacs into a deep slumber with its collection of ‘Natural Sounds.’
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  • $2 Multi-touch Screen: Video

    Many thanks to megamani, a new subscriber to our YouTube channel, who pointed us to a video of a $2 multitouch screen.

    Much was made of the Microsoft multi-touch table when it first came out, well, with a plastic bag, some blue dye and water – and a bit of trickery, some clever wag has created the same effect.

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  • Philips Power4Life: Traveling With Gadgets Gets Easier: IFA

    Philips Power4Life: Traveling With Gadgets Gets EasierPower4Life is a new range for Philips with two prongs.

    Power2Charge
    Power2Charge tries to get over the problem that anyone who travels with battery-driven technology knows only to well – that of having to carry a seperate charger for each device.
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  • Nikon Coolpix L14 and L15 Budgets Camera Announced (Part Two)

    Nikon Coolpix L15 Budget Camera AnnouncedEarlier we looked at the Nikon L14. Now we take a gander at it’s big brother.

    Nikon Coolpix L15
    The L15 is more or less identical to the L14, substituting an 8.0 megapixel sensor and adding optical lens shift VR (Vibration Reduction) image stabilisation at the sacrifice of the superlong battery life.
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