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The Dell Studio XPS 16 is one of the better entertainment notebooks around these days, and it has recently gotten better thanks to the inclusion of a new graphics option in the form of the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 1GB as long as you are willing to drop another Benjamin to the total purchase price. With such a powerful graphics card for notebooks, you can definitely bring your gaming with you although you’d do well to keep a keen eye out for power outlets. In addition, GPGPU technology will allow specially written software to repurpose the GPU to perform other parallel processing tasks traditionally handled by the CPU. In essence, you can get even more work done within a specific time period such as working on a Word document while GPGPU technology quietly works in the background on on other processor-intensive activities such as encoding media, handling natural interface movements like facial recognition and gesturing, and the ilk.

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ProClip USA has recently announced a bunch of device holders which were specially designed to securely mount the recently released iPhone 3G S to car, truck and SUV dashboards alongside consoles. These were specially custom made to connect to vehicle-specific ProClip dashboard mounts, giving superior viewing and easier access. Of course, you can always attach the ProClip holders to other flat surfaces. Below are the new products available for your perusal.

The Padded Holder with Tilt Swivel is custom made with a neat and discreet design. It tilts 15 degrees in any direction for optimal viewing. Your iPhone 3G S easily slides in and out of the holder.

The Padded Holder with Tilt Swivel and Charging/USB Cable has a cable permanently attached to the base so when your device is slid into the holder it connects to the cable. Then the cable can either be plugged into your car’s 12V power outlet or any female USB connection. You can easily slide your iPhone in and out of the holder. The Holder angles 15 degrees for optimal viewing.

The Holder with Tilt Swivel and Pass-Through Connector will make docking and undocking, your iPhone 3G S, easier and more convenient. Attach your stereo cable, charging cable or any other iPhone compatible cable, to the bottom of the holder, to create a docking station. Your iPhone 3G S is conveniently on the dash within easy reach and slides in and out of the holder with one hand. The holder is custom made with a neat and discreet design and tilts 15 degrees, in any direction, for optimal viewing.

The Adjustable Holder with Tilt Swivel and Pass-Through Connector has all the benefits of the above Holder with Tilt Swivel and Pass-Through Connector plus it is designed to accommodate your encased iPhone 3G S. This Adjustable Holder will adjust from a width of 2.3″ (60mm) to 3.2″ (82mm).

The ProClip Vehicle Mount provides the mounting platform to attach any of the ProClip holders. The ProClip Vehicle Mount is the only vehicle specific, consumer installable mounting bracket in today’s global market. The mount clips into the dashboard seams, providing a very sturdy and tight fit. Average installation time is 2 minutes. No dismantling of the dashboard is required and there is no damage to the vehicle’s interior!

Guess there is a little bit of something for everyone, unless you don’t own a vehicle, of course, then you’ll just need to stash your iPhone 3G S into your pocket while you get about on public transport.

Press Release

Perception Digital Limited has recently announced its latest device, the Live-Lite fitness aid which was specially designed to help walkers and joggers of all fitness levels make every step count. Sounds serious, doesn’t it? Well, if you are really serious in keeping fit, then the Live-Lite looks set to be an essential device for any fitness buff. According to Jeff Chui, Executive Director at Perception Digital, “Medical experts agree that everyone benefits from brisk walking. This means walking between three and four miles per hour, or between 7,000 and 10,000 steps per day. But most people get bored with exercise. They need feedback and a way to measure their success. With Live-Lite, they can keep track of their progress, listen to music while they walk and know the exact amount of fat and calories that they’re burning. This is an important step to staying motivated, losing weight and meeting fitness goals.”

The Live-Lite is tiny enough to be clipped onto a sleeve, where it will get to work by measuring steps for walkers and joggers, helping monitor one’s heart rate by one-touch sensing and plays superior-quality of music. In addition, it is also capable of providing the user with the ability to calculate calories burned based on steps. Specially developed to monitor one’s heart rate immediately before and after exercise, the Live-Lite will accurately count the number of jogging and walking steps, helping one keep track of the exercise times with stop-watch functions while calculating the distance traveled and calories burned, ensuring valuable feedback for folks who want to meet their fitness goals.

Features of the Live-Lite include :-

• 3-D motion analyzer, which distinguishes between running and walking and automatically calculates calories burned.
• Heart rate monitor delivering personalized heart rate zone for maximum benefits.
• Voice prompt, which provides instant exercise feedback and session status information, allowing user to adjust pace based on distance, steps, time duration and heart rate, as well as remaining distance to target.
• Armband, waistband or collar clip mode.
• Built-in MP3 player with superior sound quality, supporting music library and EQ functions.
• HeartPal, a software download that analyzes exercise data and count steps on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
• Facebook interface to share fitness accomplishments with friends.

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Genius, a peripheral manufacturer on the, well, periphery, is back with a couple of new devices for those artsy-fartsy folks. These two models would add to the range of digital tablets in the form of the EasyPen i405 and MousePen i608, targeting business professionals, graphic designers and artists who are always on-the-go. These tablets will play nice with both Macs and PCs and they are accompanied by a variety of useful software. Let us take a look at both the EasyPen i405 and MousePen i608 in further detail right after the jump.

The EasyPen i405 is equipped with 28 programmable “Hot-Keys”, while the MousePen i608 comes with an additional one that enables instant and easy access to common Office and Internet functions. For the cordless pen, it will comes with 1024-level pressure sensitivity and two buttons for controlling shapes and thickness while you’re busy drawing or writing. The working area of the EasyPen i405 measures 4” x 5.5”, making it a snap to tote around when you’re out on your travels. This working area is suitable for use in a car, coffee shop or any type of mobile office, although we’re wondering why you would want to work around in a car when it is all bumpy. As for the MousePen i608, this model will feature a larger 8” x 6” working area that is equipped with a cordless mouse with integrated scroll wheel for ease and convenience while using the tablet.

Both tablets are suitable for writing, drawing, sketching and/or signing documents, helping save time while creating a great solution to paper waste. Users can also use these tablets to edit their photos, make comments, personalize documents and navigate their workspace for the perfect personal touch. It is perfect for creative types who like drawing, bloggers, artists, and anyone craving a digital pen as opposed to a keyboard, which only allows typing. The EasyPen i405 is going for $79 while the MousePen i608 is more expensive at $99.

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With reading about concept designs, you never know what you’re going to get.  Sometimes they’re fairly reasonable and then there are others that are just far fetched and ridiculous.  Then there are those you just hope the technology is out there to make it possible, because it would make things far more simple.  Which is where this design would fall into.  It is a dock for your iPod, but it allows for other things to be stacked along with it, besides just ordinary speakers.

You could choose how many speakers you wanted, along with adding a couple of things you might not expect.  Things like a light to give a nice glow along with your tunes, as well as an air purifier.  Adding an air purifier to it would make it so that you didn’t have a separate purifier cluttering up your desk.  The design was created by Sang-hoon Lee.  It may never make it to an actual store, but it’d definitely be nice if it did.

Source: SlipperyBrick

Most people have a few different areas that are just dark.  Be it a coat closet that lacks a light or an incredibly deep cabinet that stays constantly pitch black, there are just bound to be those areas.  Some are willing to grab a flashlight for those times when lighting is needed.  However, if your hands are usually full when you’re dealing with a particular linen closet, it can be highly inconvenient.  Which is where this Philips SpotOn light would come in extremely handy.

It’s an affordable little light that is hung on the wall itself.  When it senses movement, it just automatically kicks on.  So you won’t have to worry about flipping a switch when your hands are already full.  It’s a small light with a total of 3 energy efficient LED lights.  It shuts back off within 20 seconds if it doesn’t sense any further movement.  To keep it running you’ll need 3 AAA batteries.  You can purchase it for $15.50 from Energy Circle.

Source: BookofJoe

This is one of those lamps you really wish you could afford so that you could place it in your child’s room.  Then investing quite a bit in giving the room a highly whimsical theme and creating basically a dream land.  Odd lighting that no one would ever expect to see always makes for a great way to change up a room.  Even a normally plain room would be perked up with something like this.

It can be tossed onto the floor, placed on a table, hung on the wall or even used as a chandelier.  It’s also easy to wash, so for those of you that would use this for a kid, it’d still be a great option.  The cover itself is completely removable and made of 100% cotton, while the frame is made of powder-coated metal.  They don’t actually give any indication as to what type of light bulb this would need or if it’s an LED light.  You can purchase this Light Pillow, designed by Linus Kutavicius, for $189 from Generate.

Source: RGS