LEGO LED lantern looks good, lights good

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LEGO LED lantern looks good, lights good

Somehow the thought of using this cute-looking LEGO lantern to get me through a dark path is visually more appealing to me than using the conventionally reliable torch.

And it may not be a big risk afterall, since the LEGO LED lantern claims to provide 360-degree lighting using 4 powerful white LED lights hidden within the torso. The hands hold up a swinging handle that you can use to hang the lantern on a hook or to carry it along a dark pathway. Just don’t forget to feed the boy with 4 AA batteries. That, always a pain. Read more...

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Belkin Acessorizes for a Good Cause

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Breast cancer continues to be a serious threat to women in the United States. And it’s important that we work together to find a cure for this devastating disease. To that end, Belkin, best known for its various accessories designed for consumer electronics will be continue its support of Susan G. Komen for the Cure with its latest iPod cases.

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LaCie launches Sound2 designer speakers, keeps it within affordable reach

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Those glamor kids at LaCie have created something eye-catching again. This time, it is a pair of gorgeous high-end speakers called Sound2, designed by Neil Poulton in collaboration with acoustic engineering company Cabasse. Read more...

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BodyGuard Pro helps you shield your camera even with the lens on

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The situation is this. You are not completely done with your shots, but you just want to set down your camera for a while, and still not worry about getting it scratched or even detaching the lens. The solution comes in the form of this handy accessory called the LensCoat BodyGuard Pro – a smart body cover that protects your camera so that you get quick storage when you want to stow it temporarily, and hassle free removal when you want to use the camera again. Read more...

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Bento personal database for Mac gains WiFi sharing, security

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By Jacqueline Emigh, Betanews

Launched on Tuesday, Bento 3 is the third major release of the personal database from Apple’s FileMaker division since the original rollout of the product in January 2008.

With the new Bento 3, users can employ Apple Bonjour, a technology intro’d earlier for iTunes and iPhotos, to let other users on a Wi-Fi or wired LAN locate and view information in their personal databases. Read more...

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US court vacates another jury’s huge patent verdict against Microsoft

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By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews

In the second colossal overturning of a jury verdict against Microsoft this month alone, a US District Court judge in Rhode Island has completely tossed out a 8 million patent infringement ruling against Microsoft. But rather than just accept the arguments that the jury’s formula was excessive — an argument that the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with last September 11 — the district court judge flame-broiled the case of an Australian inventor who claimed to have created keycode-driven software activation, as not only without merit but ludicrous. Read more...

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Google vs. Yahoo vs. Bing on ‘deep linking:’ Does it make any difference?

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By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews

This week, all three of the world’s top general search engines touted the addition of deep links to their search results, although Google has been actively experimenting with deep links since this time last year. The basic premise is this: For Web pages that have named anchors above selected subsections — for example, <A NAME=”Details”> — the search engine is capable of generating subheadings in its search results that link users directly to those subsections, or at least to subsections whose titles imply they may have some bearing upon the query. Read more...

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Vertu fits bling into a clamshell, releases Constellation Ayxta luxury phones

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Would you believe it if we were to tell you that Vertu has released its first clamshell phone? No wait, let us rephrase that. Would you believe it if we were to tell you that Vertu has released its first clamshell phone for – as the promos say – the “global citizen”? You would, only, now you would wonder if you can dare to belong to this mysterious genre called “global citizen” given Vertu’s historical exclusivity. Read more...

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Freecom struts out world’s only USB 3.0 external hard drive

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No frills, sauciness, or eye-candy here. Instead, it is a hard drive that claims to hold enough raw speed to help you cruise to USB 3.0 readiness, supposedly to become a worldwide standard by 2012. It is XS 3.0, the world’s first USB 3.0 external hard drive announced by Freecom. The hard drive guarantees rapid transfer speeds thanks to its ‘SuperSpeed USB’ technology, and what you will see on the grounds as proof of that claim is currently the quoted 130MB/s speed. Freecom is expected to launch a USB 3.0 “controller” to allow users to take advantage of the USB 3.0 speeds on the XS 3.0, though they don’t promise that anytime soon. Read more...

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Polaroid PoGo is Notalgic Fun with a Twist

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Call me old-fashioned, but there was something about those old school Polaroid cameras that really made me smile. The anticipation of waiting for the photo to develop coupled with the various methods people had to make the picture develop were priceless. Were you a picture waver, a blower, a combination of the two or did you have your own method? With the advent of digital cameras, we no longer have that kind of “stop and smell the roses” type of fun, or do we? Read more...

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