Gadget Dose

If you are an IE user, you will perhaps love this announcement from Microsoft where they reveal that the Internet Explorer 8 is now available for download.

It’s features and the press release are after the cut…

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Sony Ericsson today announced its latest mobile phone, the T707, with tennis star and style icon Maria Sharapova, who perfectly epitomises the phone’s sleek and elegant qualities.

The T707 truly interacts with the user – it lights up when you receive a call and you can personalise the light settings to each of your friends, so you always know who wants you.  If you are too busy to answer, simply end the call with a wave of your hand over the screen – you can also do the same gesture to snooze the alarm – your very own magic wand!

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In order to stay competitive and relevant in this digital age, Blockbuster has partnered with TiVo with its OnDemand Service, allowing users to rent or buy movies via the DVR unit.

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For owners of the latest iPod Shuffle from Apple who are dissatisfied with its neutral gray colors (in light and dark gray), here’s a case that’s supposed to add color to your musical device.

The iLuv isn’t an official Apple product release, but it is quite a good alternative. It comes in two types — the iCC12 and iCC14.

The iCC12 is made of silicone and comes in four lovely colors of pink, blue, white, and black. While the iCC14 is made of a hard case in clear and tinted black shades. It would have been greater if there are more colorful options but I guess this should do, right?

At the back of these cases is a cutout area for an easy access to the shuffle’s clip.

The cases come at about $12.99 each and is available at iLuv.

These cases are great for the fun, light and breezy season of spring and summer. Known as fashion wraps, these are fitted hard shell cases made for the iPod Nano 4G and the iPod Touch 2G.

The prints to these cases are decidely girlier with pattern names like BubbleSpotDot Aqua or CheeryPlum Purple.

The cases feature a hard shell design with durable vinyl and fabric.

• This hard case brings clear protection to the front of your iPod and a cool fabric wrap to the back, creating a comfortable feel and original look for your trusty device. The simple, snug, snap-together design gives you full access to your viewing screen, click wheel, earphone plug and dock connector.

The cases retail for about $29.95 at Speck Products.

ARM, a mobile chip company, has announced that they will be building Xbox quality games which will be made available via cellphones. The mobiles will be marketed at about $100. Expected for release this winter, the company has already started with Project Gotham Racer and says it looks so much like a game running on an original Xbox unit, with all the performance and features one should expect.

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Apple has unveiled and has broken down the following features of the latest Mac Mini desktop computer.

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The problem with desktop computers is mainly portability and the fact that you have to have too many wires connected to it. The problem with laptops? It doesn’t have the convenience of a desktop in terms of stable use. I mean, try working on this with your laptop on your….well, lap and you’ll see what I mean.

Shuttle seems to have found the solution by combining a desktop and a laptop with this Shuttle X50.

The Shuttle X50 is all-in-one touchscreen nettop featuring the following:

• 15.6-inch touchscreen
• dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor
• thin and light body
• with a very unique carrying handle that doubles as stand
• widescreen display
• thickness of only 1.4″
• no internal batteries, so it must be plugged to function most times.

This nettop is deal for classroom and office use.

This machine is expected to retail at about $500.

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Next Generation of Wireless Memory Cards Feature More Capacity, Lower Prices; Eye-Fi Also Announces New iPhone Application

Eye-Fi Inc., makers of the world’s first wireless memory card for digital cameras, today announced the release of two new wireless SD memory cards that will upload videos directly from a digital camera to a computer and the Web. Videos are growing in popularity, and more than 144 million videos were viewed online in 2008, according to comScore. In addition to automatic photo uploads, the next generation Eye-Fi cards effortlessly deliver their video clips to YouTube or Flickr.

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According to a data from NPD, sales of PCs for the month of February has met an increase while Apple gadgets have been failing. Windows laptops were up by at least 36% against Macbook’s decrease at 7%. Desktops though fell by 10% and 36% respectively.

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It’s wonderful how small and compact this notebook is! I love the convenience of having to carry a laptop like this. Look, you can even put it in your pants’ pocket!

This newest netbook from Lenovo is called the Pocket Yoga.

The gadget comes with an ultra-wide screen and a display that is so much like the VAIO. It also has a touchscreen feature as you can work this baby with a stylus. You can fold it up or flip it like you would any regular notepad or notebook (the ones made of paper).

The gadget has not been officially announced yet, and there are no technical details as of this time but I can bet you it is already generating a lot of interest.

But Lenovo’s director, Johnson Li, has actually blogged about the concept, here.

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Its shaped is so sensuous isn’t it? The arc just seems so graceful and fluid. But is it ergonomically functional? This new Arc Mouse from Microsoft gets a review from Crunch Gear.

The mouse will sell for $50 once released.

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Dell is marketing this latest touchscreen desktop as a Kitchen PC. I don’t know how many people actually need one, especially with the wide options of laptops available in the market today. But if you’re one of those who actually prefer a desktop….for the kitchen, at that…then you can probably look into this.

According to John New, Dell’s Marketing Executive, the Studio One 19 PC is for home users who prefer a multi-media machine where one can “watch HD content, play with your photos, surf the internet or do your taxes on a machine that is full featured”.

This desktop is already made available in Japan and should hit US retail stores in the coming weeks.

The Studio One 19 comes with the following features:

• a choice between Intel’s Celeron, Dual Core Celeron, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad Core processors.
• a choice between Nvidia’s GeForce 9200 or 9400 graphics.
• a choice between a touchscreen and a non-touchscreen model
• 4GB of memory.
• 750 GB of hard disk drive
• six USB ports
• web cam
• an option for Blu-ray disc player

The design includes fabric frames with color choices like black, red, pink and blue.

Priced at around $700 to $800.

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With the lighter seasons coming, eventually we’re going to need to switch on the fan to help cool down. Here’s one that not only does that, it also has a built in mp3 player, for music accompaniment.

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The Vivicam 8027 is looking really retro chic in it’s rich leather finish. This latest digital camera is the newest in the lineup of compact cameras from Vivitar, known all over the world for their camera’s affordable and practical prices.

The Vivicam has a metallic body to complement the leather finish. The leather, by the way comes in two other colors —- black and yellow. But surely, it is the red one that seems very well suited for it.

The camera packs the following features:

• 8.1 megapixel resolution
• a 2.4″ lcd screen
• 3X optical zoom
• antishake technology
• a movie mode and red eye reduction
• rechargeable lithium ion battery

Price has not yet been revealed but it is expected to fall somewhere below $100.

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