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The N95 (8Gb) edition is a beautiful black model, has a 2.8 inch screen instead of a 2.4 inch screen (same QVGA res), and improved battery life of up to 30% better. 3G, GPS, HSDPA, Bluetooth, A2DP, Infrared, USB, WLAN, Symbian OS ver 9.2. Still 5 megapixels camera but has no lens cap, and a Xenon flash instead of LED.

Looks more robust than the old silver flagship model but still a brick.

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I didn’t know motorcycles have GPS navigators too.
Designed with bikers in mind, rugged and waterproof, TomTom RIDER comes with RAM mounting hardware that fits almost any bike and a Cardo scala-rider® wireless headset for high quality voice instructions inside your helmet. US and Europe only…

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There was N-Gage, then there was N-Gage QD… Now there is N81. Though not hailed specifically as a gaming phone, the just-announced N81 caters to gamers.

N81 offers landscape gaming with dedicated game keys, 3.5mm headphone plug (via the Nokia AV connector), on top of its 2-megapixel camera, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity. It comes in two versions: One with a microSD card expansion slot, the other with built-in 8GB flash memory.

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LULL is a lamp that opens and closes like a flower. In the evening the lamp gives a warm glow, to give a feeling of safety while it slowly turns itself off. In the morning the lamp opens, gradually increasing the light intensity to give the user a more comfortable awakening. 
awakening. LULL is an award-winning product made for GiForm 2007, an industrial design competition in Norway.

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We are past half of 2007, cables still exist in electronic products, the world does not progress like during the world wars and cold wars where new gadgets invent themselves from weapons…

Cordhog is a ball like structure that wires wrap around and that is it! Simple and nice… Comes in a wide range of colors and sells for a buck each (in sets of six).

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Designed to mimic the look of a trash can, TEMPO is a unique hard drive storage device. Intended to protect the user from accidentally deleting files, it can also be used as an external storage device. As you delete files, they are automatically copied to the TEMPO. As it fills up, led’s light the “can” from the bottom up, informing you of how much space is available.
Tempo is just a concept. It hasn’t been technologically designed.

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This chair is made of 6 pack rings (the stuff the holds canned beers) that decompose after 3 months in direct sunlight, and the frame can be deconstructed to apply another layer of rings when needed. Nice.

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In-car GPS Navigator has been around for a while, then Nokia thought of a mobile navigator… and then Nokia realised, “Hey! If I have the facilities, capabilities and brand name, why don’t I just make standalone navigator and take the big market share!”

The GPS unit doubles as a Bluetooth handsfree set, and the regionally-tuned mapping software can offer up contact details of points along the way, which means a quick click-to-call without looking up numbers for, say, hotels and restaurants.
A built in MP3 player will beam tunes to your car radio via FM, and there are photo slideshow and video functions for times when the split screen traffic info service fails to bail you out of gridlock. Due in Europe this fall for €300, with a Worldwide rollout soon after.
Oh my… its affordable…

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Silicone rubber bottle stopper keep your vino fresh with a Genie to guard over the left-overs when you can’t make it to the bottom of a full bottle!

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The Abacus series of watches has no hands at all. Instead, there’s just a single steel sphere that rolls around inside the watch as you move your wrist around. But as soon as you level out to a horizontal position, a magnet behind the dial stops the ball at the current time. Since there’s no second hand, you won’t be able to tell exactly what time it is…
Each Abacus watch features a stainless steel case, with a leather strap and either mineral or sapphire glass face. They’re also water resistant to 30 meters.

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