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Gadget Charging Station in Airports

While traveling this weekend to Austin City Limits festival in Austin, Texas this weekend (more about that on my personal blog later, promise) I stumbled across this cool gadget charging station in the George Bush Intercontinental/Houston Airport (IAH) airport. The Charge Carte kiosk is brought to you by the same people who extort US$3 out […]

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Hands-on with the Apple iTV prototype

We’re as surprised as you, but Apple actually put their iTV units on display right after the show! Really, there isn’t a whole lot here that we didn’t already see in the keynote and up on their site, but it’s definitely Mac mini sized in terms of footprint, and is a sexy little bugger. Click […]

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Miuro: your iPod, on wheels!

Fresh from the ‘Who the heck would buy one of those?’ department, Yahoo.com reports: [edited] The Miuro turns an iPod music player into a dancing boombox-on-wheels. The 14-inch-wide machine from ZMP blares music as it rolls and twists from room to room. The $930 (yes, you DID read that right, ed.) Miuro — short for […]

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Analyst sees Zune, hears static

American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu said he has looked at the Zune documents that Toshiba filed last week with the Federal Communications Commission and is not impressed. “We are frankly underwhelmed by the much-hyped Zune device,” Wu said in a research note on Wednesday. “It appears that the Zune is essentially a repackaged Toshiba […]

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Gaming Goes Pink

The release of a new games console in Japan is always an event. Huge, police-managed queues are not uncommon. However, when the Nintendo DS lite was released in Japan, it wasn’t the length of the queues that made headlines, but their content. For the first time in gaming history, there were females in the queues. […]