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Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras

Yippee, it’s T700 day at Sony. First they launched the DSC-T700 digicam, now the T700 cellphone. The T700 candybar is mostly phone though with a smattering of camera just for kicks. We’re talking quad-band GSM and UMTS/HSDPA 2100 with 4.5-hours of 3G talk and a 3.2 megapixel camera with cell-id geotagging and photo light. It measures just 10-mm thin with Bluetooth A2DP, stereo speakers, 2-inch TFT LCD, and 512MB of Memory Stick Micro (M2) storage tossed in the box. Available in “select markets” in Q4 for what’s expected to be a middling price tag.

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Original post by Thomas Ricker

Filed under: Cellphones

Ask yourself this: Are you a statistic or a specific example? That’s the question being raised in the aftermath of a study in which researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people to determine their movement patterns. Such studies are considered invasions of privacy — and illegal — in the United States, but this one was done in an undisclosed industrialized nation. The subjects were chosen at random out of a pool of 6 million from a mystery wireless provider and tracked based on cell tower triangulation and other “tracking devices.” Study co-author Cesar Hidalgo at Northwestern University promises that researchers didn’t know the individuals’ phone numbers or identities, and offers that the results are a major advance for science. The study found that people are homebodies — most stay within 20 miles of their home and are rather habitual. Scientists say the findings — to be published in Nature on Thursday — can help improve public transit systems and even fight contagious diseases.

[Thanks, Doug]

[Via MSNBC]

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Original post by Joshua Fruhlinger

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We can’t say for certain that this is the most pointlessly sophisticated contraption we’ve ever seen built, but regardless of all that, we dare anyone to deny its greatness. In essence, the LeaveMeAloneBox does nothing more than turn itself off after a pestiferous human flips it on — time, and time, and time again. Really, the beauty of this thing can only truly be seen in video, so click on through for what’s likely to be the best 29 seconds of your day.

[Via MAKE]

Continue reading LeaveMeAloneBox perpetually closes itself, should win some kind of award

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Original post by Darren Murph

VoIP Supply announced a three-year, no-questions-asked, guaranteed replacement warranty, called Go3. As long as you purchase your VoIP hardware (IP phones, ATAs, SIP WiFi phones, IP-PBXs, etc.) from VoIP Supply they’ll replace the VoIP equipment no questions asked. Hmmm. Considering I’m constantly in the labs "kicking" the tires of various VoIP equipment and I have on occasion spilled Diet Coke on equipment , I wonder if they’d still replace a ’sticky’ IP phone that was drowned in Diet Coke? How bout if I drop kick it across the lab breaking the plastic? Or what if I don’t like the scratch across my color LCD display and just want a new phone. Can I break it on purpose and get a new one? Wow! This is almost as good as Costco’s warranty/return policy!

Well alrighty VoIP Supply. As long as I can abuse my VoIP equipment and you’re going to replace it no-questions-asked, you can have my business!

Of course, I get a lot of my VoIP equipment to test for free anyway, but that’s beside the point…

Full release after the jump…

Continue reading VoIP Supply Grants No-Questions-Asked 3-Year Warranty on All VoIP Hardware…

Tags: Go3, Guaranteed Replacement, IP-PBX, VoIP, VoIP Supply, warranty

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Original post by nafiz

Filed under: Storage

Yeah, companies have been trumpeting their ability to crank out discs that will last long after Martians come and evaporate our minds here on Earth for some time, but for archive junkies out there, more is always better. On deck today is Mitsubishi’s ARLEDIA DVD-Rs, which reportedly feature corrosion-resistant coatings made from gold and silver. ‘Course, you can only write to these at 8x, but they are expected to last about twice as long as traditional recordable discs. Not like you’ll be around to prove ‘em wrong, though.

[Via Impress]

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Original post by Darren Murph

Filed under: CES, GPS

Goodyear announced today that it’s licensed out the Goodyear name for series of eight GPS units to be designed and manufactured by a New York company called The NCC. The forebodingly-named ODM actually got its start making Christmas lights about ten years ago — “The NCC” actually stands for “The National Christmas Company” — but it’s been making electrical equipment under the Westinghouse and Stanley brand names for nearly eight years now. The NCC’s eight Goodyear GPS units will be its first push into higher-end consumer tech, and will range all over the map from the GY100K keychain receiver to the GY540 4.3-inch touchscreen device (pictured) with Bluetooth handsfree controls, media playback capabilities and a free year of MSN Direct. These are all expected to hit in Q208, check out some appallingly weak renders in the gallery and all the specs after the break.

Continue reading Eight Goodyear-branded GPS units to be released at CES

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Original post by Nilay Patel

Filed under: Networking

Remember that blisteringly fast channel bonding modem Comcast showed off earlier this year? Turns out that the firm’s CEO is apparently aiming to roll out internet services that can reach up to 160Mbps down / 120Mbps up sometime in 2008. As in, next year. In a recent interview with Fortune, Brian Roberts stated that service based on DOCSIS 3.0 technology would start “rolling out” sometime in 2008, and casually noted that it should provide “more than enough bandwidth to do multiplayer online gaming.” Additionally, Cable Digital News explains that the firm has plans to cover some 20-percent of its footprint with the uber-quick service before 2009, and while we’re left to guess what areas will be covered, we’d bet locales fetching FiOS could entertain some competition. Granted, we’ve still got aways to go before we can go toe-to-toe with a certain Swede, but we’ll take any progress we can get.

[Via ArsTechnica, image courtesy of AFP / BBC]
Read - Fortune interviews Comcast CEO Brian Roberts
Read - Comcast closes in on 100Mbit/s

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Original post by Darren Murph