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Gadget like an iPOD Nano
February 5th, 2006
Shenzhen Keming Industrial offers a thin Gadget MP3 player for OEMs with iPod nano measurements.
They even call the player “NANO 2″ and provide a product image that has the same setup as one of the initial Apple iPod nano product shots.
This Gadget knock-off is as thin as the Apple original. Its measurements are 90×40x6.8mm. The “NANO 2″ features an 1.5 inch color OLED screen, FM tuner, MP3 and WMA audio file support, photo viewer, voice recorder and text viewer.
There is no information on how much Flash memory can be configured.
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Google Earth - Explore, Search and Discover
February 5th, 2006Google earth is a new product from google.
You can fly without wings and you can fly with your coffee or tea on your hand.
You can View specific places, Zoom to a specific areas, and others with your computer and google earth.
This image is from Google Earth, it is amazing!
If you’ve got a broadband connection, then get this, it truly is incredible. The privilege of being able to fly to anywhere in the world and zoom in close enough (in some places) to make out cars is something else.
Google says “The idea is simple. It’s a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Satellite images and local facts zoom into view. Tap into Google search to show local points of interest and facts. Zoom to a specific address to check out an apartment or hotel. View driving directions and even fly along your route.” Read the rest of this entry »
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4 GB Portable Memory Card for Console Xbox 360
February 4th, 2006
Datel are due to release a 4GB hard drive for the Xbox 360 shortly, and have sent a sample to Lik-Sang for their review. Note should be taken of the fact that the hard-drive connects via the USB port of the 360, and so will not store game saves, Live content etc - it is only for media files.
The announced preorder price for the card is scheduled at $135usd; the device will not replace your current Hard Drive or the official Memory Card unit, even if it does share a similar color scheme.
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iPod cause hearing damage
February 4th, 2006 
JKP is reported to allege that iPods “can produce sounds of more than 115 decibels, a volume that can damage the hearing of a person exposed to the sound for more than 28 seconds per day” and are “inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss”.
The report says that “Apple was forced to pull the iPod from store shelves in France and upgrade software on the device to limit sound to 100 decibels, but has not followed suit in the United States, according to the complaint”. There’s no suggestion in the complaint that iPods are any more likely to cause hearing damage than other portable music players so our presumption is that JKP has looked around to see who is the biggest name in MP3 players and then taken aim at Apple.
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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty review
February 4th, 2006 
Since the original Sound Blaster Live and the EMU10K1 audio processor, Creative’s new soundcard releases have been characterized by incremental jumps rather than revolutionary changes. Although the Audigy series was indeed a welcome improvement, it was still built upon features from previous generations; much like we are used to see in the world of processors or GPUs.
Enter the new Sound Blaster X-Fi series, a truly new soundcard release from Creative in several years. Based on a completely new audio processor that Creative Labs like to call the “Xtreme Fidelity Engineâ€Â, the chip was in development for five years at the Creative ATC (Advanced Technology Center) in California.
Having owned almost all of Creative’s soundcards since the SoundBlaster 16, I have had the chance to experience many of those incremental jumps in the technology used, be it on the hardware or software side (e.g. EAX), the X-Fi offers several significant architectural changes such as the Ring Architecture, S-SRC, Quartet DSP, as well as 24-bit Crystalizer, and CMMS-3D.
You can read full review at Techspot
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