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The Big Skinny Wallet review

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Categories: Accessories, Clothing, Misc. Tech, Product Reviews

While overly-thick wallets are not an oft discussed problem in our modern world, having a big fat wad of a wallet in your pocket can lead to back strain and unsightly bulging of the pants. The folks over at Big Skinny have an ingenious (although blindingly obvious) solution: a line of thin, lightweight wallets.

We got our hands on two of their most …

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Windows Mobile 7 leaked: Microsoft’s mobile savior?

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Categories: Cell Phones, CES, CES 2008, Design, Handhelds, Portable Audio / Video

The Inside Microsoft blog has scored an exclusive first look at Windows Mobile 7, and boy is it hot. Taking some user interface cues from the iPhone as well as throwing some truely unique and possibly revolutionary ideas the whole package looks slick, usable, and very much ‘the future’. The OS features a multi-touch interface similar to the Microsoft Surface table, and additionally features …

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CES 2008: Monster announces Beats by Dr. Dre Headphones

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Categories: CES, CES 2008, Home Entertainment, Music, Portable Audio / Video

Monster Cable has announced Beats, a new line of high-end headphones coming this summer. The headphones are promising to provide audiophile quality sound in a stylish set of cans. The $399 headphones have been made in partnership with Dr. Dre and other big names in the music industry, and are aiming to bring the sound of completely un-portable $5,000 sound systems to the mobile iPod and iPhone user on the go. Check out our Beats by …

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Liveblogging the 2008 CES Bill Gates keynote

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Categories: Announcements, CES, CES 2008, Household, Internet, Microsoft

Gear Live’s live coverage of the 2008 CES keynote! Refresh this page to keep track of the announcements!

6:39 The lights are up, and Bill has walked on stage!

6:40 Bill is talking about the last decade. Photos and music have made a huge transformation from analog to digital. “Information anywhere” seems to be a major theme.

6:42 Lots of partners have contributed to this digital decade - While this …

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CES 2008: Pioneer AVIC f500bt GPS - voice command iPod control

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Categories: CES, CES 2008, GPS, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Transportation

For the ultimate in convergence check out Pioneer‘s latest in-dash GPS stereo unit. Like some other units the GPS the high-resolution 5.8” screen can pop out to provide GPS and tunes on the go, but unlike the competition this new head unit keeps drivers safe with voice activated navigation and music controls. When the GPS unit is popped out you can take it on the go …

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CES 2008: Samsung 500GB Spingpoint laptop drives announced

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Categories: CES, CES 2008, Misc. Tech, PC / Laptop, Storage

With a standard laptop hard drive form factor and more than 500GB of storage capacity Samsung‘s new Springpoint drives are sure to make a splash. The 2.5-inch hard drive is a mere 9.5mm thick allowing for installation into most standard laptops and sub-notebooks. The new drive has three 166GB platters spinning at 5400RPM with 8MB of on-disk cache and a standard SATA3 interface.

With the drives …

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CES 2008: Samsung announces 30, 40 GB CompactFlash microdrives

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Categories: CES, CES 2008, Handhelds, Portable Audio / Video, Storage

Even in the age of high-capacity SSD‘s Samsung belives in the hard drive based microdrive. The newly announced A1 features 30GB and 40GB capacities, a 3600rpm rotation speed, 2MB buffer memory, and a greatly increased shock resistance of 650G’s (650 times the gravity of a stationary object on earth).

As for how they managed to cram 40GB of storage onto a 1” …

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CES 2008: Samsung announces 128GB SSD

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Categories: CES, CES 2008, Misc. Tech, PC / Laptop, Peripherals, Storage

Samsung has unveiled their new 128GB SSD (Solid State Disk) here at CES 2008. The new 1.8” drive connects to laptops via the SATA3 standard, and features a 70MB/sec write speed. These newly bumped up write speeds combined with the durability and low power consumption of SSD disks should mean a whole new crop of hard drive free laptops springing up in 2008 with stunning …

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CES 2008: Harmony One: The one remote to rule them all

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Categories: CES, CES 2008, Misc. Tech, Movies, Music, Peripherals

As always Logitech has raised the bar for home media automation with the Harmony One. The CES-unveiled Harmony One shares features previous Harmony home theater remotes by offering the same easy to use action based control, wizard based setup options on your computer, rechargeable batteries, and a contextual 2.2” LCD screen.

The Harmony One has touch sensitive buttons that both look and feel far more modern than …

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Hand crocheted Mario 1-Up Mushroom scarves - pricey yet priceless

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Categories: Culture, Internet, Nintendo, Retro

Etsy user UrbanPrincess is offering up custom Super Mario 1-Up mushroom crocheted scarves. At $150 a pop they are kind of pricey, but at the same time a priceless addition to the winter wardrobe of any true gamer. Each scarf is hand made and custom made-to-order so if 1-Up mushrooms aren’t your thing you could elect for the delicious delicacy of a mega-mushroom here or there.

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