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Unless every single song on your mp3 player is something you’d be happy to hear when you’re working out at the gym (good luck on staying “in the zone” when a sappy Michael Bolton ballad follows a round of rock tunes), your low-capacity gym companion needs a built-in screen.

That, of course, rules out both generations of the ipod shuffle. Consider instead the Creative MuVo T200, which so happens to have just received a flash memory upgrade. Previously offered with only 2GB of internal storage, the lightweight player that features a built-in USB plug, FM radio, 65K-color 128 x 32 display, voice recorder, and 9-hour battery life is now available with double the gigabytes.

Creative Japan has priced the 4GB MuVo T200 at 6980 yen (about $67), so you can probably expect to pay a similar amount in the US. The new capacity is already up on the Creative USA site, where the 2GB version can be had for $50, so it’s only a matter of time before that drop-down menu lists the 4GB as well.

Via SlashGear.

It looks like AT&T will not be the only North American carrier to pick up the recently announced blackberry Bold, in addition it will be available for Canadian customers through Rogers Communication. The release date and pricing still remain a mystery, however there is a notification page to keep you up to date. Of course we will also keep you posted here as well. With the AT&T release coming in the beginning of this summer, we can only imagine that Rogers will not be that far away.

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Luxim Corporation has just announced a brand new light source that will see action for street and area lighting. This LIFI Solid-State High-Intensity Light Source is touted to deliver 22,000 lumens with 120 lumens per Watt source efficiency and 30,000 hours life. Apparently, this source will feature a compact, directional beam with excellent color quality that lights up the night, and ought to be looked into as an option by those working in a line where area lighting is a must.

According to LUXIM Chief Executive Officer, Tony McGettigan, “The LIFI-STA-40-01 is our first offering in Street and Area lighting and we are very pleased with the strong interest shown by energy consultants, architects, lighting designers and fixture makers. Across the board we see the lighting community looking to increase efficiency, lower maintenance costs and improve the quality of light delivered. The LIFI-STA-40-01 provides all three benefits to applications like architectural, street, pedestrian area, sports courts, big-box retail and industrial high bay.”

By virtue of being compact, the LIFI Solid-State High-Intensity Light Source is able to be adopted rapidly by being retrofitted onto existing fixtures, further reducing the cost of installing totally new solutions that will require more manpower and definitely cause a bigger deficit in the already strained budget. Since the source is directional, a retrofitted unit is able to deliver higher fixture efficiency, improved light distribution and superior color quality. Luxim claims that the efficiency improvement can even be as high as 70%, although I would take that figure with a grain of salt. Since one can’t do much about old fixtures, new fixtures can be reduced where size is concerned, as designers will be able to utilize cheaper, lighter-weight materials in the process. Some of the controls enabled by the LIFI-STA-40-01 system includes rapid on, rapid restrike, dimmable, daylight harvesting, occupancy sensing, demand response dimming and more.

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