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Even the most expensive, impressive laptop will look like junk, if its strewn with random cables. Everybody knows that when your charging your iPod, cellphone, laptop, plugging in a monitor and tracking speaker cables around, things are going to get a bit messy. Bluelounge is finally releasing a do-it-all dock that has pins underneath for wire collecting and can take 4 USB cables. For example, a printer, mouse, cell phone and ipod, and convert them into one output, for efficiency in your laptop.

The dock sits 5mm above desk height, and the manufacturers claim that when you put your laptop on top, it tilts it towards you, making typing more ergonomic and creating a passage for air to cool the underside of your laptop. The Bluelounge Spacestation dock is available in white and will retail for $79.95. Perfect.

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Sony has just introduced a new dock for iPhone and iPods, that has the double function of working as an alarm clock - call it the ICF-ClipMK2.

In terms of functionality with the Apple products and making life easier for the users, there is a remote control to navigate on the iphone and ipod menus, so you can easily pick a song, change the volume, etc.

As for the alarm clock, it offers 3 ways to wake up: the normal and irritating buzzer, radio, or your favorite songs. While this is a dock made for iPods, you can also connect other players thanks to line-in jack, and the included cable.

The Sony ICF-ClipMK2 is priced at $100 and will become available in May.

Adjustable brightness control over the LCD display provides easy readability.

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Love your white Apple earbuds, but are tired of getting tangled in the wire. The Sony DRC-BT815 will come to the rescue. Plug any pair of headphones into the DRC-BT815 and they become pairable with any Bluetooth audio device or phone. Including an embedded microphone, the DRC-BT815 can also be used as a hands free headset for your mobile phone.

It could use a little more juice, it offers just 6 hours of usable time, thanks to the rechargeable lithium-ion battery. At $130, the DRC-BT815 isn’t going to fly off shelves, but hopefully it finds a place in my pocket.

Via [Gizmodo]

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Ah, remember the days of Tupperware parties? It seems like it was only yesterday. Actually, they still do them, but there is a new trend in this marketing campaign: Taser parties.

That’s right, these are parties devoted to Tasers. According to my source, the idea was conceived by Dana Shafman, and it is where the lady of the house invites all the other ladies and shows them the latest trends in Taser-ware. The cute little electric guns you see to your left are just a few in the latest trend of taser fashions.

I suppose taser parties give housewives and other Pyramid company users the chance to make a little money on the side while giving others a feeling of security as they carry around some serious electric stunning action. Please remember that these tasers aren’t as harmless as say, mace or pepper spray.

I can just see someone trying to promo these: “Now I’ll demonstrate this on Debra.” ZZZZap! “And guaranteed for maximum shocking! Now available in nine different patterns to accessorize with anything!”

I realize that this seems obvious, so I’ll say it in writing: “Don’t tase us, bro, don’t tase us.” Once these parties get around, though, it will be too late.

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Car horns have only one tone, but multiple meanings. Often, honking it can not only be misunderstood, but it’s omnidirectional nature means it just about everyone within earshot gets the message. Now, you can’t do anything about the omnidirectional nature, but you sure can add more meaning to your honking by changing the message from time to time. HornTones helps to do just that.

Horntones is basically a car horn married to an mp3 player. The player has 256MB on board memory for MP3 audio clips and a USB slot to upload more. Like a stereo, 10 preset triggers allow the driver to customize and assign tones for just about any given situation. New tones can be converted by uploading your file to horntones.com and and downloading it back ready to install via USB key. One important thing to remember, it is illegal to use siren wails, bells, and whistle sounds. Those are reserved for emergency vehicles.

Additionally, Horntones doesn’t replace your normal horn, it operates alongside it. For $299 (three hundred in disquise), you get the Horntones Player including mounting bracket and thumbscrews, cable, audio amplifier and the Horntones sounder (an additional horn speaker). Installation requires some degree of mod skills, so the faint of digital heart may want to have it installed professionally.

Hat Tip: Think Geek via TechEBlog

PC World reviews the AT&T Tilt and writes, “The device can function as a full-featured mobile computer, thanks to its mobile versions of Microsoft Word and Excel, its multimedia playback (via syncing with Windows Media 10 on your desktop), and its built-in GPS for use with the TeleNav GPS Navigator (an extra-cost service priced at $10 a month for unlimited routes). Whether you use the Tilt to type notes or to watch videos, its revolutionary adjustable and angled screen makes viewing a pleasure. And, hey, it’s also a versatile cell phone.”

Read more about the AT&T Tilt.

FogScreen has brought one- and two-meter walk-through projection screen made up of dry fog in the past, and now the company wants to collaborate further with advertisers so that their brands will be able to be presented in an entirely new medium. This shift in the vehicle of choice will definitely attract the attention of consumers, and what better place to debut this new technology than at the Las Vegas Nightclub & Bar Convention which will be held this week. this week.

The FogScreen One (one meter) and Inia (two meter) both utilize patented technology to create a thin layer of fog that is dry to the touch and environmentally safe. The one-meter-wide screen provides the option of seamlessly linking with additional FogScreen One projection devices to create a fog-canvas as large as the imagination desires. Both the FogScreen Inia and One have fully interactive capabilities that can be implemented as well.

If you ever have dreams of being an evil villain like the one in a James Bond film, you might want to invest in the Paramount Parabolic Multi-Monitor Display. This unique set up from an oddly-named company called Humanscale has a frame for eight monitors.

Not only this setup perfect for evil villains, for anyone who is into multi-tasking. I myself usually have three applications going on one screen. For example, as I type this article, I have Firefox running with five tabs, Microsoft Word, and Windows Media Player so I can watch a DVD while I work.

Just think of what I could do with eight monitors! I could easily multiply my attention span to eight times, twenty four if I follow my current pattern. With all of these applications going on, I could easily work out my plan to…rule the world! Ha ha ha ha ha!

Okay, I’m not a megalomaniac, but I could easily multiply my productivity with this. I find it odd that the frame does not have the metal support pillar directly in the middle, but off to the side. At least that metal branch is there for added support.

This unique monitor mount should be available sometime this year, but I’ve heard nothing about a price.

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Always bugged about the dust that gets stuck behind your mobile phone screen that you cannot get out? Well Nokia has just the thing for you. Nokia is out with a concept phone called the Morph which is definitely the cleanest phone ever. This latest concept from Nokia hopes to use nanotechnology to great advantage in a cell phone in order to give the phone a flexible body that has a transparent display and can be twisted around and reshaped according to the user’s whims. Even the electronics and the circuitry inside will be highly flexible so that this phone can be shaped and stretched into any form. You can even bend it into a bracelet to wear around your wrist or bend it into a tablet form so it can fit anywhere. This way you can even clean it up.

The concept has been developed by the Nokia research center in collaboration with the Cambridge University. Though the actual phone is many years away you can always have a glimpse of the future on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Go take a look, who knows 10 years from now you could have that wrapped around your wrist.

Via [Gizmodo]

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Today, the Apple store was down worldwide - and this means some of your favorite Apple products have received an upgrade!

The MacBook Pro received a ton of new features today: the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard (upgradeable to 4GB!), the latest NVIDIA graphics processors (with up to 512MB of video memory) and the Multi-Touch trackpad (first introduced in the macbook air) in addition to all the standard features all MacBook models have.

From the Apple press release:

Build-to-order options for the MacBook include the ability to upgrade to up to 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, a 160GB or 250GB hard drive, Apple USB Modem, Apple Mini-DVI to DVI adapter, Apple Mini-DVI to VGA adapter, Apple Remote, Apple MagSafe Airline Adapter and the AppleCare® Protection Plan.

The 2.4 GHz, 15-inch MacBook Pro, for a suggested retail price of $1,999 (US), includes:

* 15.4-inch widescreen LED-backlit 1440 x 900 LCD display;
* 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB shared L2 cache;
* 800 MHz front-side bus;
* 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 4GB;
* 200GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
* a slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
* NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB GDDR3 memory;
* DVI-out port for external display (VGA-out adapter included, Composite/S-Video adapter sold separately);
* built-in Dual Link support for driving Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display;
* built-in iSight video camera;
* Gigabit Ethernet port;
* built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
* ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot;
* two USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port and one FireWire 400 port;
* one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
* Multi-Touch trackpad and illuminated keyboard; and
* 85 Watt Apple MagSafe Power Adapter.

The 2.5 GHz, 15-inch MacBook Pro, for a suggested retail price of $2,499 (US), includes:

* 15.4-inch widescreen LED-backlit 1440 x 900 LCD display;
* 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB shared L2 cache;
* 800 MHz front-side bus;
* 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 4GB;
* 250GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
* a slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
* NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB GDDR3 memory;
* DVI-out port for external display (VGA-out adapter included, Composite/S-Video out adapter sold separately);
* built-in Dual Link support for driving Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display;
* built-in iSight video camera;
* Gigabit Ethernet port;
* built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
* ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot;
* two USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port and one FireWire 400 port;
* one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
* Multi-Touch trackpad and illuminated keyboard; and
* 85 Watt Apple MagSafe Power Adapter.

The 2.5 GHz, 17-inch MacBook Pro, for a suggested retail price of $2,799 (US), includes:

* 17-inch widescreen 1680 x 1050 LCD display;
* 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB shared L2 cache;
* 800 MHz front-side bus;
* 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 4GB;
* 250GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
* a slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
* NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB GDDR3 memory;
* DVI-out port for external display (VGA-out adapter included, Composite/S-Video out adapter sold separately);
* built-in Dual Link support for driving Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display;
* built-in iSight video camera;
* Gigabit Ethernet port;
* built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
* ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot;
* three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port and one FireWire 400 port;
* one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
* Multi-Touch trackpad and illuminated keyboard; and
* 85 Watt Apple MagSafe Power Adapter.

Build-to-order options for the MacBook Pro include the ability to upgrade to up to 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, a 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 200GB (7200 rpm), 250GB (5400 rpm) or a 300GB (4200 rpm) hard drive, Apple Remote, Apple MagSafe Airline Adapter, Apple USB Modem, glossy widescreen display, 17-inch LED-backlit 1920 x 1200 high-resolution display and the AppleCare Protection Plan.

Available right now at the Apple Store.

[Apple.com]