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Heineken Beertender

post from Ployer on 29 February 2008 10:08:00 PM. © Ployer

Heineken Beertender will launch tomorrow, March 1 in the US. The BeerTender will be available from Williams-Sonoma for approximately $400. It will become more widely available April 1 with an expected estimated street price of $299. BeerTender is manufactured by Krups and is a personal draft beer system for home use.

The system consists of a draft beer dispenser and the exchangeable BeerTender kegs each holding and chilling four liters of premium European beer.

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Microsoft plans Mobile Dating Application

post from Ployer on 29 February 2008 10:00:00 PM. © Ployer

Gossips speculate Microsoft could enter the mobile dating industry after this new patent was revealed.

The patent, called Image-Based Face Search details how Microsoft could be developing complex facial recognition software. The patent explains how a photo could be uploaded from a mobile phone or PC and compared with millions of other pictures to find similar matching faces.

Another implementation of the software is a rating system

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WD Unveils All New My Book Storage Appliances

post from Gizmostuff on 29 February 2008 08:18:21 PM. © Gizmostuff

Western Digital, a leading global hard drive manufacturer with major manufacturing operations in[...]

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Members prizedraw : MARCH

post from GadgetSpeak - Member reviews, blogs and forums on 29 February 2008 07:37:00 PM. © GadgetSpeak - Member reviews, blogs and forums

For those of you that got the newsletter (if not please do - it's not that bad!) you'll have noticed we have a rather good prize lined up for March. Well March is here - and the prize is : the excellent Humax LGB-19DZT[...]

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Out With the New, In With the Newer

post from Daily Gadget on 29 February 2008 04:28:00 PM. © Daily Gadget

After two weeks the Blackjack II and I agreed on an amicablesplit due to irreconcilable differences. I really tried to adapt to WindowsMobile 6 Smartphone Edition and I tried to adapt it to me. However in the endwe just couldn't work it out.

The Blackjack II isn't at fault, its a great phone. I can honestly say it's thebest cell phone I've ever had. The strength of the wireless signal and thevoice quality during calls were the best I've ever had. As a phone I'd give ita 5 star rating. However, as a PDA I'd have to give it 3 stars. The limitationsthat Microsoft put on the Smartphone Edition of Windows Mobile 6 just make itso hard for me to work with.

I understand that they had to sacrifice some things in order to use it withoutthe touch screen that the Pocket PC based phones have, but it goes beyond that.It's they way they decided that you don't need to be able to do more than themost basic entry of new task and calendar functions on the phone. Not beingable to set custom occurrences without syncing to my PC where I could actuallyedit them was a pain.

I also found it to be difficult to use because you can't customize the Todayscreen and you can't customize the menus and folders that applications are keptin. Also, you can't create new Word or Excel files, Any of these things ispossible on the Professional version or Windows Mobile on the Pocket PC.

Clearly I either need a Windows Mobile Professional phone or I need to get aPalm Treo. My first option was the AT&T/HTC Tilt wiht a full touch screenand keyboard but it was too expensive at 3x the price of the Blackjack II. ThePalm Treo 750 is in between the Tilt and Blackjack II because it's got the samelayout as the Blackjack II but the touch screen and OS of the Tilt. It's only50% more than the Blackjack II so it's reasonable.

I chose the third option, the new Palm Centro. It actually came out right afterI got my Blackjack II so I didn't even consider it at the time. It's got thetouch screen and Palm OS I have been familiar with for the last 9 years butit's got the size and keyboard of the Blackjack II. It doesn't have all thebells and whistles of the Blackjack II. There's no GPS and the camera is only1.3MP, not 2+MP. It's also missing the G3 data speed. Still, it makes up forthose shortcomings with a familiar OS and touch screen. Also, I can use all myold applications and don't need to buy new ones.

I'll follow up with more of my experiences with my new Centro later.

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Pink Palm Centro winner!

post from Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women on 29 February 2008 01:57:00 PM. © Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

Okay, so being the winner of our "Pink Palm Centro Misery Giveaway" means you've been a big loser at love, at least once during Valentine's Day, but now you're getting the messaging phone extraordinaire and you can send hate...

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New portable Games break traditional Molds

post from I4U News on 29 February 2008 01:56:48 PM. © I4U News

By Scott Hillis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Bizarre little creatures that look like walking eyeballs and a puzzle-cracking professor may not seem to have much in common at first glance. ...

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Subterranean farm underneath Tokyo highrise

This looks like something we might see in a movie about futuristic space travel (like the film Sunshine), but is actually a real present-day subterranean farm underneath a bank building in Tokyo. The project, with the cool sci-fi sounding...

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New Sony Vaio customizable laptops

Sony Vaio laptops are always lust-worthy, with the exception of the wretched hard-to-use Vaio keyboards. Still, geeks will undoubtedly sneer at the girly new 15.4 in. Graphic Splash Expressions Collection Sony has just released. One of this line?s most...

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Clarion NAX973HD

Clarion's NAX973HD is one satellite navigation system that you can consider should you want to upgrade your car to cater for drivers who can't seem to find their way around without help from an electronic apparatus of some sort. Features include the following :p