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ProLink Solutions is a name not to be trifled with when it comes to GPS golf course management systems as well as digital out-of-home on-course advertising, hence their announcement of introducing the new GameStar GPS system that is currently being used at The Hollows Golf Club (Montpelier, Va.). For folks who love hitting a fair number of balls on the green, The Hollows Golf Club is but a short drive from downtown Richmond, nestled in scenic and historic Hanover County, near Scotchtown, the home of Patrick Henry. It has been touted to be one of the areas most user-friendly links, where you will be able to indulge in three 9-hole courses (Road, Lake, and Cottage) that were specially designed to accommodate golfers of all skill levels.

According to Andrew Bemis, General Manager at The Hollows Golf Club, “Golf is a more enjoyable and less stressful game with ProLink, thanks to its accurate yardage and expert guidance. The system provides noticeable pace-of-play improvements and is an outstanding tool for managing the course.”

The ProLink GPS golf course management system comes with a patented 10.4″ high-resolution color screen which incidentally is the industry’s largest, and it is mounted onto a cart for dynamic, easy-to-read graphics that are easily accessible. Information derived includes distances to the pin and hazards, pro tips, pace-of-play timer and radial arc for cart-path-only holes. Should you feel your stomach start to rumble and your mouth itching for some nibbles, you will be able to place orders for food and beverage items with a touch of a button on the ProLink screen.

ProLink Touch is proud to be the golf industry’s first cart-mounted “Touch” screen. It is touted to be one of the most advanced and user-friendly unit on the market, where its innovative system will boast enhanced scoring functions that is able to automatically calculate “Nassau” and “Skins” results without resulting in you having a headache doing it yourself.

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We as gamers have it much better these days, as there are free content and demos floating around on gaming networks and download kiosks for us to enjoy a sneak peek of a particular title before deciding to drop some serious coin for the final product. Unfortunately, are these really “free”? After all, somebody has got to pay - and according to a report by MTV Multiplayer, Sony has started to charge publishers a per-gigabyte fee for bandwidth used when downloading content. This deal would seem rather strange as it gives off the vibes for not releasing popular content or demos on the service instead.

It also goes against conventional wisdom at this moment in time as Sony surprisingly has a large advantage over the Xbox 360 as this platform offers free online gaming and content downloads. While Xbox Live costs approximately $50â€"less if you get a deal, where there is a treasure trove of content made available to Gold members first and Silver members down the line, Sony will instead pass the bill onto publishers for these online features. We suppose the high road that Sony could take would be to absorb the bandwidth costs and hope that this incentive will cause publishers to be more enthusiastic about the PS3 by releasing better quality games that will let more and more people sign up for this as the gaming platform of choice instead of the Wii and Xbox 360.

It seems otherwise though as MTV Multiplayer has managed to get hold of a memo sent to publishers from Sony which changes the fees associated with hosting content on the PlayStation Store. Publishers will now have to pony up 16 cents per 1GB downloaded via the store for the first two months where free content is concerned, and in perpetuity for paid content. That’s not chump change by any means as a demo which is downloaded one million times will cost a publisher approximately $160,000 - all this on top of the regular fees that Sony charges to put content and games up on the store. Do you see a solution out of this, and is the Xbox Live model a better one to follow?

Source: Ars Technica

Hope you have that Friday feeling, it’s time to vote for what you think is this week’s coolest gadget (leave a comment for a chance to win a $50 Amazon voucher).

Dell’s Adamo World’s Slimmest Laptop

The complete specifications of the Adamo place it at 33cm wide, 24.1cm deep and the thickness which gives it the ultra-slim appearance at 1.65cm.

The full post can be found on EliteChoice.

Protect Yourself From Narcolepsy Related Injury With Pillow Suit for Workaholics!

The suit looks rather thick and it may not be very comfortable to wear during the summers.

The full post can be found on Trends Updates.

Sound Asleep Pillow

If you enjoy listening to music or radio in the morning then the Sound Asleep Pillow might just be perfect for those morning you feel like a lie in. On the other hand if you struggle to get to sleep sometimes then why not play some background music or a sound of your choice to help you drift off to sleep. All you need to do is plug your MP3 player into the Sound Asleep Pillow and your set for a comfy night of musical dreams.

The full post can be found on Tech Styling.

ThumbTack - The iPod Microphone

ThumbTack is a microphone for the Nano 4G and Touch 2G. Shaped like an ordinary thumbtack, this device plugs into the 3.5mm headphone jack and can be used as a voice recorder. Small and unintrusive, this may go well with the anticipated iPhone OS 3.0 mic applications.

The full post can be found on Coated.

Handpresso DomePod - Portable Espresso with Ground Coffee

Handpresso has announced a Handpresso DomePod which uses ground coffee instead of ESE espresso pods. Personally we prefer less mess when making out portable espresso, but if you’re a true espresso snob you’re going to want to grind and use your own. The DomePod allows you to pack up your favorite Arabica, Robusta, or Fair Trade coffee instead of being able to source your coffee in ESE pod form. The patented Handpresso Domepod system makes it easy to empty the coffee grounds â€" a simple click on the dome is enough. You can fill 3 DomePods and take them with you in the included case.

The full post can be found on Single Serve Coffee.

Scan Toaster: Wear your heart on your toast

This nifty Scan Toaster will transform your plain piece of bread into an art canvass, and the best thing is, you can still eat it. Once hooked up to your PC via USB, the Scan Toaster will download the design for your piece of toast. It has the ability to download everything from the weather to the latest news headlines. What better way to catch up on the news than by biting into it as you go?

The full post can be found on Gaj-it.

World’s Fastest Hard Drive

The Fusion ioDrive Duo is according to the manufacturer, the fastest SSD solution available today, and from the looks of the specification they might be right.

The ioDrive duo comes with 160GB of storage, for the basic model, with up to 1.28TB for the top model, it has read speeds of 1.5GB per second and write speeds of 1.4GB per second.

The full post can be found on Geeky Gadgets.

Shower for your iPhone

Touch screen gizmos are all very impressive but you have to touch them. Lots. And because your fingers are greasy, mucky and coated in a layer of unidentifiable gunk, beloved screens soon resemble windows dipped in chip fat and sprinkled with dust, dandruff and gawd knows what else. So thank goodness for the Procare Mobile Touch Screen Cleaning Kit.

The full post can be found on RGS.

SolarGorilla laptop charger

PowerTraveller make a range of portable batteries that can be used to recharge devices on the fly and the PowerGorilla is the largest of these, storing enough juice to recharge a laptop.

Charge the PowerGorilla before you leave the house and when you need juice just plug it into your laptop (adapters for common laptops included). It will also juice up an iPod or phone at the same time via a secondary power output.

The full post can be found on Coolest Gadgets UK.

Thanks again to all the sites for their submissions now over to you guys for voting (don’t forget to leave a comment with your reason for a chance to win a $50 Amazon voucher).

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The winner of last week’s coolest gadget competition is the Great Pyramid PC.

This has to be one of the coolest PC case mods we have seen so far here at geeky gadgets, the Great Pyramid PC Mod, made by modder polo360x from the Techpowerup forums.

This amazing case was made from a customized Luxor Pyramid case, which was made from laser cut aluminum, and is a combination of black and silver aluminum, the base measures 19 by 19 inches and the case stands 25 inches tall (there were only ever 200 of these cases ever made, and it looks like there is one less).

Congrats again to Geeky Gadgets.

In second place we have the Tiny worktop dishwasher.

This tiny dishwasher is small enough to fit on your worktop. It prides itself on being green and saving on energy and water and is ideal for people living on their own or for couples. Whoever uses it, it certainly beats washing up.

Finally in third place comes the Dolphin Monofin.

If you ever imagined what it must be like to swim like a fish, you may just get your chance. Engineer Ted Ciamillo has come up with a carbon fiber and fiberglass monofin, allowing a swimmer power through the water at 8 mph, twice the speed of Michael Phelps.

Thank you to everybody who voted, submitted, commented or told a friend. The randomly drawn winner of the $50 Amazon vouchers is:

Brandi (hamrickb@…), congratulations.

Thanks again everybody and good luck with the next CGOTW contest which will be posted shortly.

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