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We’ve been toying with a VholdR ContourHD helmet cam for a few weeks now, seeing how well it blends in with our adrenaline-fueled lifestyle. We’ve mounted it on various helmets, tried it with some moderately extreme endeavors, and, now that we’ve had a chance to refill our asthma inhalers, we thought we’d share a few of those adventures and give our impressions of this helmet-mounted HD shooter.
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BenQ has further expanded its range of netbook PC with its latest Joybook Lite U102 that powered by Intels Atom 1.6GHz CPU, a 1GB of RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. Measures less than 0ne inch thick and weighs 2.3lb, the Joybook Lite U102 also features a 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen at 1024×600-pixel resolution, built in Wi-Fi, an optional 3G access and Bluetooth 2.1, 3-six or 6-cell battery, 1.3-megapixel webcam, and a dedicated shortcut key for switching between the two types of wireless networks. It is pre-loaded with Windows XP Home OS. No idea on pricing, but the Joybook Lite U102 is currently available in Taiwan, China, and Thailand markets.

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AgfaPhoto has just introduced its new 6-megapixel DC-600uw rugged point-and-shoot camera, means you can operate the camera under water for up to 10 meters of depths, thanks to shock, drop, dust and dirt-friendly chassis. There also a 2.4-inch LCD display, 32MB of internal memory but equips SDHC memory card slot for expansion, face recognition and digital zoom. It is requierd a couple of AA batteries as the power sources. The AgfaPhoto DC-600uw will be available in Europe from this for 149.

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Often companies will claim a “sellout” in order to hype incredible demand for its product. However, these claims are pointless without any firm numbers — after all, there’s a big difference between moving 100 and 100,000 units. Now we’re getting word from Japan that the heavily discounted Windows 7 upgrades that went up for pre-order on Friday are sold-out. While no numbers are given, the 17 retailers involved in the pre-order sales who presumably have no vested interest in trying to inflate perceptions on behalf of Microsoft, report sales as “considerable” and taking only 1.5 days (of the 10 days planned) to burn though the alloted inventory. A quick check on Amazon US and Canada shows the same pre-order prices we saw Friday. Still, it might be wise to take notice of the “while supplies last” disclaimer if you haven’t already. Read more »

So Microsoft France’s product manager for Windows Mobile, Audrey Zolghadr, is saying that the company’s upcoming Windows Marketplace launch will be accompanied by around 600 apps certified and available on day one. Depending on your perspective, that’s either ridiculously anemic — the iPhone’s App Store has a couple orders of magnitude more currently available, for example — or a veritable cornucopia. Though the Ovi Store has no shortage of “items” to buy, an overwhelming majority of those are currently wallpapers, ringtones, and the like, and Palm’s App Catalog launched with so few apps that many folks (we’re not naming names) literally had every app installed within a few minutes of buying the phone. At the end of the day, it’s all about signal-to-noise ratio; if Microsoft can deliver 600 apps and half of those are terrific, they’re on the right track — though at this point, we’re thinking the next battle in Smartphone Platform Wars doesn’t really kick off until WinMo 7 swings by anyway.

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Newman have came up with its latest portable media player (or PMP), known as the Newman Nunu X05. Measures at 78.8mm 39.7mm 7.4mm, this slim PMP features a 1.5-inch LCD screen, a 2GB of internal memory, and voice recording capability. It also support to playback AMV video files and WMA, MP3, APE audio files. At $29 price tag, the Nunu X05 will become yours.

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Wanna trade in some battery life and get a bit of extra speed in the deal? Lenovo is now offering its spanking new S12 netbook with a VIA Nano ULV 2250 processor and VIA Chrome9 HC3 graphics instead of the usual Intel Atom / GMA 950 combo, which should offer a little more pep (at least in some applications) and lops $50 off the original’s spendy $500 asking price. The Nano setup will draw more battery than the Atom, so you might want to invest that extra cash in another battery if you can track one down, but at least the $450 price includes a 6 cell as standard. Read more »

No, this isn’t Michael Jackson songs, but in memorial of the “king of Pop”, we need to share with you Michael Jackson theme for BlackBerry Bold 9000 that you can download for free. The theme itself was created by MP3ent.20, a member of T4BB. As you can see on the picture, the OTA is an L-shaped zen theme including six icons on the left bottom of the screen and an awesome Michael Jackson image on the background.

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Firms like Cradlepoint have been dishing out generic portable hotspots for years now, but it wasn’t until recently that US consumers had a carrier-branded option for creating their own WiFi zone via EV-DO. Novatel’s shockingly diminutive MiFi 2200 portable EV-DO router has officially arrived on both Sprint and Verizon Wireless, and while GSM followers have been unfortunately left out for the moment, we’re still eager to hear how early CDMA adopters are faring. Are you pleased with the convenience factor here? Have you had any odd and unexpected connection issues? Are you kosher with that 5GB limit on monthly throughput? Let us know if you think this thing’s worth its asking price, and if not, what would make it so. And… go! Read more »