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CounterPath eyeBeam Enhanced 1.5.18.1.46320

CounterPath’s eyeBeam 1.5 a multimedia communicator designed to enhance the user’s communications experience in Voice by IP. Whether you are a consumer or Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) user, eyeBeam allows you to stay connected and manage your calls and availability with a comprehensive suite of carrier-grade Voice, Video, IM and Presence features.
Whether you are having a simple voice conversation or hosting a conference shout with multiple collaborative applications, eyeBeam offers users the ability to personalize your softphone and manage your availability.
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LG Secret

LG has announced the latest phone in their Black Lable Range. It’s called the LG Secret, and it has a couple of features that really stand out. It has carbon fiber and tempered glass to protect it from the elements, which plus makes it difficult to scratch the screen. And it additionally has a built in motion detector, like the Apple iPhone so the screen automatically rotates depending on orientation. Check out the link for a review.
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Turbo Charge For IPod

Most gadgets that you buy now days run on batteries. And they all have something in their documentation stating the life of those batteries. In other words, how distant your device will hold a charge. Well, most of the day, those claims are wrong, and you need an emergency source of ability. Two things that you take everywhere are your iPod, and your cell phone. Here is a Portable iPod battery that should be on your list of iPod accessories. The best way to save your battery life is to let your device die before you recharge it. That’s a well known fact. that gadget works with iPod Nanos and iPod video players. It will charge your portable gadgets without overcharging and causing damage to them by using two AA batteries.
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Bluetooth Headset Displays Caller ID

Here is a cool notion. that Bluetooth Headset additionally displays Caller ID with its OLED display. And it additionally supports A2DP bluetooth so that you can listen to your music in stereo. “Right on the device there are Play, Pause, Stop, Prev, Next, Rewind/ Fast Forward, Volume Up/Down controls for controlling your music.” that would be great, I would think for the bulkier SmartPhones. Costs about $50.
Via |The Caller ID Stereo Bluetooth Headset
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Refrigaquarium

This is a home fish tank with a difference. The Refrigerator Aquarium is designed to produce food that you can eat. At the bottom of the fish tank is another tank that contains freshwater fish, and at the top there are pods for growing vegetables. The plants filter the water for the fish, and the fish fertilize the water for the plants.
The Local River concept is based on the locavore philosophy, which advocates eating locally produced foods.
VIA [ Dezeen ]
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Quickies Notes

I would not have imagined that you could do anything else with a Post-It note, but some folks from the MIT Media Lab have invented a system called Quickies. What they do is take ordinary sticky notes, and manufacture them digital and intelligent. These gadgets were developed by a grad student named Pranav Mistry. Quickies use an electronic pad and embedded RFID tags to figure out not only what is written on the note, but additionally where the not is stickied. “Quickies are just a functional demo right now, but it won’t be enlarged until printing RFID tags on paper get cheap sufficient (and RFID readers get ubiquitous enough) that it’ll assemble sense to have Post-Its that are just a little bit more intelligent than your average piece of paper. “
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Iomega Media Xporter Drive

Everyone with the latest generation of video game consoles knows that they go beyond being just gaming hardware. They can additionally play back videos, MP3’s, and even digital photos, without using a PC. Well, you need storage for that. The Media Xporter USB Hard Drive is suppose to be made for video consoles. But to me, it looks like just a 160 GB hard drive with a green paint job. additionally included is the Prism Video Converter MX software, which converts to various formats for various consoles. Cost is about $100. But it doesn’t work on the Wii.
Via Iomega website
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