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Wow, this is hot.

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[Updated: 4 May] Laptop Magazine’s mini-review on the Lenovo IdeaPad U110 is up, link here.

This PS3 laptop is the most talkabout gadget this weekend as it’s the one and only one built by Ben Heck and it will be auctioning off by the guys over at alibecks. The specification to the notebook -

• 17-inch LCD HDTV screen: 720p
• HDMI-DVI connection (same as last Xbox 360 laptop)
• Built-in keyboard, USB ports, stereo speakers, headphone jack
• Size: 17 x 13.75 x 3-inches
• Weight: 16 pounds!

For more information, check out alibecks’ YouTube site, link here.

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My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “BELL+HOWELL Genie III Keychain Camera”. Click here for the read.

While we’re talking about pregnancy, might as well link this video from Oprah.  Think it’s a she with moustache, what you all think?

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Talking about geekiness, this gadget from PTeq (US$17.99) definitely ranks amongst the top of the list. Imagine this, you pee on the absorbent test strip on the end of the stick, remove the cap to the USB connector on the other end, connect it to the computer, the power from your USB port starts the electrospray ionization process, creating a spectrograph of the various masses for your analysis.

According to ThinkGeek, “the mass spectrometry software on the device comes with several sequenced hormones, including hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotropin), hCG-H (hyperglycosylated hCG - for detection before your first missed period), and LH (luteinizing hormone - for detection of your most fertile days).”

Other features -

• No batteries required - draws power from USB
• USB 2.0 compatible
• Plug and play, easy operation
• Operating Systems: Win 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Linux 2.4 or higher, Mac OS 8.6 or higher
• 20 test strips included
• 99% accuracy*

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Want to be the among the first to colonize Mars? if so, you should join Project Virgle (Virgin + Google). Well, this ain’t another April Fool’s joke but sure looks like one until I finished the whole video from Richard Branson. For more information on joining Project Virgle as a Virgile Pioneer, visit http://www.google.com/virgle.

For now, enjoy the video and see you on north side of Kasei Valles!

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Hmm… not a UMPC, but a HDPC.  Sure looks sweet and am looking forward to its launch in July.

The following write-up extracted from AVINGUSA’s report on the HDPC -

MIU(www.miubit.com) introduced its new wireless IP-based hybrid portable device dubbed ‘HDPC (Hybrid Dual Portable Computer)’ in Korea market, which is equipped with dual OS(Windows XP/Windows CE 5.0 or Linux Qplus).

Adopting a keyboard of general PC and a 4-inch display with 800×480 resolution, the HDPC supports dual-mode function and wireless internet function. It is the concept that user can make a choice of any type of soft/hard ware according to users’ needs.

As the name ‘HDPC’ signifies, user can converge the stand-alone technologies of existing portable devices such as car PC, navigation, mobile phone, PMP, mp3, UMPC, electronic dictionary, internet phone, PSP, digital camera, voice recorder, mobile IPTV into HDPC.

The HDPC is expected to be available in July 2008, and the price would be between 400,000(KRW) and 500,000(KRW).

Source - AVINGUSA

Following my previous post on killer applications for Windows Mobile PocketPC Phones, I came across two more awesome and in my view must have applications for the Windows Mobile PocketPC Phones and they are -

Face Contact

If you like the iPod coverflow, you’re gonna love this application to death. It’s the Face Contact from CNetX (US$14.95). It’s a today plugin application where you contacts can be swiped left and right exactly like the coverflow. Once you hit the contact you want, you have a choice to call, send email, SMS or browse their homepage. Really nifty application and I’m loving it the minute I installed it. Bummer, I spent US$19.95 on FunContacts (thought that one was cool, this one even better).

ZoomBoard

I like Pocket CM Keyboard a lot not because it’s free, but the touch is really sensitive and seldom do I miss on any of my key inputs. But the downside is that since it’s still in beta, one have to go back and re-install it every now and then since the beta copy have a time-out function on it, real pain.

This week, I found ZoomBoard (US$9.95), another nifty keyboard input application from VITO technology. The input is accurate and quick, that is without the zoom function on. I personally turn off the zoom function but others might find it useful to double-check what key they hit.

You can get ZoomBoard from the link here.

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You figure this one out.

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What they called an unconventional review, the guys over at X-bits Lab ran a very thorough review on the new Apple MacBook Air and their verdict,

“This notebook is beautiful, innovative, mobile and quite functional and hence is very appealing to users. We can definitely recommend it to many advanced users, but not to all of them. The thing is that MacBook Air is only good until you start looking at it as at a fully-functional universal computer system. This is where the new Apple solution cannot compete against other products with more ports, optical drives, wired network support, better balanced hardware configuration, etc.

In other words, Apple MacBook Air is not a notebook in the common meaning of this word, but a gadget with notebook functionality…In reality, MacBook Air is not a mainstream solution at all. It is an expensive specific toy for techno-maniacs with futuristic views.”

For full article, go the the link here.

Source - engadget

Wondering what else is cooking from the guys over at Facebook.

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