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JIVO UtUNE fm transmitter And Car Charger For iPod

The Jivo Utune wirelessly connects to your car or home stereo. Simply Plug the Jivo Utune into the headphone jack of your device and tune your car stereo or receiver to any clear FM frequency and enjoy your digital music. Run the Jivo Utune using the Car Cigarette Lighter or alternatively insert two AAA batteries into the battery compartment and connect the stereo connector to the audio player. The Utune has a USB port which allows you to simultaneously charge your iPod or other deviceBacklit LCD for ease of use. Displays FM frequency, battery status, time and temperature. Save up to 10 programmable channels. Play songs through your audio device, including iPod?, MP3 player, CD, DVD, PDA, Laptop, PC, recording pen and mobile phones with a headphone jack. Charges your iPod or other device through Dock connector to USB cable Scans in 0.1MHz intervals seamlessly

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Just yesterday in Europe, the Pioneer AVIC-F500BT, which is now known as the NavGate 500 was announced officially. This new GPS is a very nice one but is sure to cost you a lot of Euros, but if you’re looking for a high end model, this is definitely one to consider.

It starts off with its nice, big touch screen, which measures in at 5.8-inches. It has a 800×480 pixel WVGA resolution, which is similar to the HP iPAQ 310, and the Garmin Nuvi 5000. Other features include Bluetooth capability, RDS/TMC module for live traffic information, voice prompts, a 600 MHz processor, and a SiRF Star III GPS chip.

Maps are provided by TeleAtlas, which includes maps of 30 European countries - including Greece, Poland, the Czech republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania and Turkey. Also, it will be able to connect to your car stereo, comes with AV, USB port, a handy iPod connect, and an SD card.

Furthermore, expect this to be shipping in May costing around 699 Euros (I warned you), or about a little over a $1000 US.

Via [NaviGadget]

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Posted Feb 1st 2008 4:24PM by Joshua Topolsky
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Features

Well we finally got our grubby mitts on the recently discovered Agfaphoto DV-5000G camera / camcorder / game player, and we’ve got pictures to prove it. Unfortunately for us, seeing the device in person didn’t change what we already know is true — you can’t play NES games on it, thus making ownership of the device a way less attractive offer. Of course, that’s our little niggle with the camera — you may think it’s just what the doctor ordered, and maybe these pictures will help you arrive at that decision.

Gallery: Agfaphoto DV-5000G game-playing camera hands-on

Hitachi of Japan has come up with a way to ease surveillance work, featuring a CCTV camera that relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and prioritize just a handful of humans from an entire sea of them for closer inspection. This system is capable of taking feeds from up to 100 online cameras, transferring them to a PC for image processing and a central server that searches through video archives for comparable footage. Subsequently, four of the most important video streams will then be pulled out and displayed in high resolution on a monitor while the rest remain as thumbnails. The system uses face-recognition as well as behavior-analysis software to root out the potential troublemakers. Data load is kept at a manageable 70Mbps thanks to its quartet of main streams. Hopefully more testing will be done so that the profiling process won’t be biased.

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Once upon a time in a vegetable patch far far away, a genetic experiment went horribly wrong.

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HP created a new process that makes the manufacturing of inkjet cartridges a much greener process. The engineering breakthrough allows for plastics to be taken from a range of sources and different grades, including drinks bottles, CD cases, and used inkjet cartridges, and then reused in the manufacture of brand new cartridges.

Although the announcement has only been made in the last few days, HP claims to have already manufactured over 200 million new cartridges using the recycled plastics. That equates to over 5 million pounds of plastic last year not going into landfill sites. HP has also set its target at 10 million pounds of plastic reuse in 2008.

The amount of recycled plastic making its way into new cartridges varies between 70-100%. Besides lower grade plastics from items such as drink bottles, HP also recycles its own ink cartridges through the Planet Partners program. This program not only reuses the plastic from the cartridges, but also the metal they contain.

Speaking of the recycling system, Michael Hoffman, senior vice president of the HP Supplies, Imaging, and Printing Group, said:

By developing the technology to use recycled plastics in Original HP inkjet print cartridges, we have the opportunity to reduce the environmental impact HP products have on the planet … HP’s considerable investments in building a recycling infrastructure made this achievement possible, and this is just the beginning of what we hope to accomplish.

Read more at CNET and the HP press release.

Matthew’s Opinion

Anything HP can do to make its cartridges more environmentally-friendly is good news. Plastic is one of the least recycled materials, I believe, with collections in the U.K. at least only just getting going and then only in limited form.

HP should also use this information in its marketing and on the packaging of its products. “Genuine” inkjet cartridges can cost significantly more than third-party alternatives, and with more of us becoming conscious of our impact on the environment, information like this may make spending the extra money easier to stomach.

I hope HP shares this manufacturing process with its rivals as well, although I am dubious of that happening. If all the printer companies were recycling million of pounds of plastic every year, the impact on landfills would surely be seen.

The Delkin ImageRouter is the stuff dreams are made of - it might sound like overkill to the casual user, but it actually comes in handy to folks who deal with tons of photos each day. Capable of plugging in a maximum of four Compact Flash cards and downloading them onto your computer simultaneously, it doesn’t get any better than that. No longer do you need to swap cards four times over when you can just transfer all those images in a jiffy. The downside would be its huge size and a relatively high price tag of $250 - hopefully this will sell enough to warrant future versions, which in turn ought to see a reduction in size and an improvement in design.

Nokia will be demonstrating its S60 Touch demo at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona next month, so those who are headed in that direction will definitely be able to get their hands dirty playing with it. One feature that everyone can look forward to is its haptic feedback, along with a new development toolkit for S60 known as the UI Accelerator Toolkit. It is also confirmed that Nokia’s web-browsing experience will be improved and be on display as well, thanks to Adobe’s Flash Lite technology.

Posted Feb 1st 2008 3:01AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: Storage

How do 200MBps reads and 100MBps writes in a storage device sound to you? Pretty sweet if you ask us. That’s the upper spec for Micron’s new highspeed 8Gb (Gigabit not Gigabyte, kids) SLC NAND co-developed with Intel on a 50-nm processes node. Once slapped together in an SSD, you can expect performance to easily outshine any existing SSD or mechanical drive on the market while easily kicking the SSD bugbear — random read/writes — to the curb. The rub, of course, is that SLC NAND is more expensive than MLC so you can expect to pay dearly for that performance. Watch for the speedy Micron flash to pop in cellphones, camcorders, SSDs (and pretty much every portable consumer electronics device out there) sometime in the second half of 2008 — sampling now to manufacturers.

The Samsung T819 is a slider phone offering a 1.3 megapixel camera with video capture as well as the following features:

* T-Mobile myFaves
* Stereo Bluetooth wireless technology
* MP3 player
* microSD slot for up to 2 GB of optional removable memory
* Multiple messaging options
* SMS, MMS
* AOL, ICQ, Windows Live, and Yahoo!
* Personal organizer
* Voice dialing
* Quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
* GSM/GPRS/EDGE
* 176 x 220 Pixel, TFT, 262K Color

Via MobileTechReview.