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Korean company DigiFi has developed a product known as the Opera, which has nothing to do with a certain genre of musical theater. However, if you want to use it to listen to opera, it will work for that. This might not be obvious from the photo, but the Opera is a pair of headphones that are designed to wrap around the back of your head with an ear bud on each side. Even though the ear buds are attached, there is no cord connecting this headset to the iPod. Instead of a cord, it uses Kleer technology. For those of you who are not familiar with Kleer, it is a wireless technology that claims to have better specifications than Bluetooth. (Read the full post about ‘Opera Heaphones use Kleer Wireless Technology’…)

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Financial Times has an interview with Hank Nothhaft, the CEO of Danger. Not a whole lot of substance in it other than he mentions his love for horses a lot, and a couple of business mistakes he made. The part that has us interested in is the first question he was asked: What’s in your pocket? A prototype of the next Sidekick (mobile-cum-internet device). It’s thinner and less wide but has a bigger keyboard. Now I no longer keep it on a belt, I’m always losing it. I was known as the “absent-minded professor” as a student. A prototype of the next Sidekick? Could this be the Gekko/Aspen that we’ve been hearing about? I’m trying to wrap my head around how they could be making the keyboard bigger AND make it less wide. (Read the full post about ‘What does Hank have in his pockets?’…)

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When was the last time you found yourself in a store looking to purchase a new CD player? I’m not talking about one for your car, or even a portable one, but just a CD player for a room in your house. If you’re anything like me, it’s been a very long time. This is why companies that still make such devices are trying their hardest to make CD players more appealing to consumers. Take this strange CD-T300 Pro for example. Shanling, the company responsible for creating this device specializes in making rather unique products. They stand apart both inside and out. It’s easy to see how the neon lights and interesting shapes are going to draw a few strange glances from visitors in your house, but that’s not what really sets this apart from the rest of the crowd. (Read the full post about ‘Crazy CD player is out of this world’…)

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The Branch Light from Michail Komarov you see here plays with the idea of constructing your own lighted pieces of art, thanks to a bunch of different curved and straight segments that come in a wide variety of colors. The indecisive will probably have a harder time trying to fit all of it into the living room, being a perfectionist and all while the more indifferent folk probably could not be bothered to fix it up properly. Each segment is connected through spherical plugs housing circuit closings. (Read the full post about ‘Branch Light Concept’…)

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Best Buy and Geek Squad have announced partnership with FixYa, a community contributed website that offers product care support. The group has launched a co-branded website which will allow Best Buy and Geek Squad customers to help each other out with support issues. FixYa boasts 7 million users who post around 100,000 support questions and solutions each month. It is a welcome reprieve from the often complex and frustrating world of company tech support solutions, which often involve long hold times, language barriers, and less than helpful or canned email responses. From their press release: “Best Buy is renowned for its commitment to its customers and once again demonstrates its leadership in customer service by adding another dimension in online social tech-support. (Read the full post about ‘Best Buy, Geek Squad partners with FixYa to offer free online tech support’…)

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You know, if you’re going to demo your product on video, at least do it properly. To the untrained eye, the clip of Joey Roth using the high-tech teapot, the Sorapot, to make a cuppa seems fine. It certainly shows how the steel, glass and silicone pot works.

But Joey, next time you make tea, talk to somebody from Britain. (Read the full post about ‘Sorapot Teapot. Just Add (Hot) Water’…)

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It’s amazing what a little imagination and a few spare parts can do. For example, the people over at Hack N Mod have taken a webcam, a box, some paper and a picture frame and have turned it into an inexpensive multitouch surface controller.

While the device doesn’t look very attractive, after all it is a cardboard box, the fact that it appears to work as well as a touch controller off the store shelf is very impressive indeed. With a few tweaks, perhaps you could have something similar to Microsoft’s Surface multitouch table at home.

(Read the full post about ‘Build your own multitouch surface controller’…)

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I don’t know about you, but somehow many people still equate Asians, especially the Chinese, to be too thrifty for their own good. I suppose it is payback time for Microsoft as they are working on price cuts for its Xbox 360 console in Asia, trimming the recommended retail price by a measly 5% to nearly 20% in a quartet of areas throughout the region. South Korea benefits the least with a 5% cut, while Taiwan’s 20GB model will receive a 17% discount. Singapore benefits the most from this price revision exercise with a 19.5% drop. As for Sony, they took the opposite route in Singapore by raising its 40GB PS3 price to $394. (Read the full post about ‘Price revision for Xbox 360 and PS3 in Asia’…)

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We all know a person like this. You know the one I mean. Every ache leads to a fatal illness. Every headache MUST mean that they have brain cancer. The word is hypochondria, and it’s everywhere we turn. This sub-branch of extreme personality trait is the perfect crowd for scientists performing research studies on EMF cellphone emissions to prey upon. “Talking on cellphones too much can lead to brain cancer!” This might lead to a hypochondriac cutting their phone use significantly, or even disowning the device all together. Put their minds at ease with the CellSensor EMF Detector, a home solution for measuring both radio frequency radiation and extremely low-frequency magnetic fields. (Read the full post about ‘CellSensor EMF Detector: Perfect For Hypochondriacs’…)

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Well looky looky what we have here. Some say storage = snore-age. Know what? Those people are mostly right. Except when you get in the world’s first notebook that contains a grand freaking total of one terabyte (!) of hard disk space . First impressions? The m70 comes with Vista Home Premium (Meh.) and weighs a bone crushing 9-pounds. Seriously, it’s pushing the limits of portability. Asus still hasn’t gotten back to us yet about how much the unit’s price. Our IT guru said it’ll probably cost about $2500-$3000 considering the specs. To give you an idea of what it would take to fill up the hard drive, hit the jump to see the breakdown on how much porn, MP3s, DVDs, games, and pictures would be needed to fill the roomy storage. (Read the full post about ‘First Look: Asus m70 1TB Laptop’…)

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