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HTC announced the Touch Diamond yesterday in London and they’ve managed to pack even more features into a cell phone that many are already calling an iPhone-killer. At a minimum, it’s definitely a competitor.

The Diamond sports a 2.8″ VGA touch-screen running HTC’s own TouchFlo 3D interface and it promises some newer touch and gesture mechanism over the iPhone. A quadband phone, the Diamond is a smartphone with a slew of connectivity options including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, and HSDPA. It also shows off its auto-righting display technology so you can view pages in either landscape or portrait modes. I’m just touching on its many features too.

I know that Chief Gizmateer is looking to replace his current smartphone (a Treo that served him well), and he’s somewhat interested in a 3G iphone, but that’s not out yet. Unfortunately, I’m sorry to report that the Diamond won’t make it Stateside until the 2nd half of this year, which is code for maybe not until Xmas! While we’re not really focused on cell phones (entirely too many to cover), we’ve certainly featured more than 1 HTC model in the past as they produce some nice little gadgets.

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So what exactly is cloud computing? We all have an idea what the cloud does and how we use it, but trying to define the larger concept of cloud computing can get tricky. It is a term that has come to mean many different things, from how webmail operates, to online storage tools, to Amazon’s elastic computing service, EC2.

In this video the Joyent hosting crew asked a few well-known people how they defined cloud computing. The interviewees include Tim O’Reilly, Dan Farber, Rafe Needleman, Brian Solis, Stowe Boyd, and a number of other people who any self-respecting geek has heard of.

The Canon Selphy CP770 looks more like a toy for kids than a serious printer, and perhaps it was designed to target such a market. It comes with an integrated storage case and carry handle that makes it a snap to tote around, basically turning the Selphy CP770 into a printer-in-a-bucket. You get the following features with each purchase ;-

• Easy to use design - simple user interface and button layout
• Integrated storage solution with carry handle (CP770 only)
• 2.5” angled color TFT LCD
• Direct printing from most popular memory card formats
• Long lasting 100 year prints
• Auto Image Correction with Face Brightness optimization
• Auto Red-Eye Correction
• My Colors functionality
• Wireless printing via IrDA and optional Bluetooth adaptor

When it comes to the type of products that are suppose to be stress-free, I have my doubts that they really work. By looking at the description of the StressEraser, my guesses are probably right.

The working method couldn’t be much easier: stick your finger on the StressEraser for 15 minutes per day, for 2 weeks - afterwards you’re expected to feel more calmer, patient, and energetic. In case you feel the stress coming up during any time of the day, just use the Eraser once again.

Believe it or not, this device won a Frost & Sullivan’s 2006 Medical Industry Award.

Priced at 150.

The StressEraser focuses your mind and guides your breathing to synchronize with a calming BreathWav pattern.

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Well it only took about 18 months but the Zune is finally making its way into Canada. Beginning June 13 Canadians will be able to grab the Zune of their choosing. Well, except for a few small details, namely the lineup is not quite as complete as it is here in the US.

There will not be any 30GB model or green models. Do our friendly neighbors to the north have something against green? Anyway, up for grabs will be the Zune 80 in black or red for $249.99, the Zune 8 in black, red or pink for $189.99 and the Zune 4 in black, red or pink for $139.99.

Via [Engadget]

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If you’re not that much of a techie, and just aim for variety in most of your so-called “gadgets,” you might be enticed in considering Sotec, Japan’s newest wonder, an Athlon 64 X2 powered little lappie called the WinBook WV. You did want a laptop now, didn’t you?

Reading my write-up about its specs would be the modern-day equivalent of watching caveman paintings dry, but if you must really know, it will have a 1.90GHz Athlon 64 X2 TK-57 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 15.4-inch LCD (1280×800 screen resolution) and 2.9 hours of manufacturer-rated battery life. Wi-Fi b/g will be built-in as standard, and it also comes provided with 120GB of storage in a hard disk drive that I’m sure you’ll love to destroy at a later time.

How much for a piece? Only €610 or about $950 USD for you, because you’re a friend. Hurry, before all those bloggers consume all the stocks!

Via [Akihabara News]

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Concepts are great to play around with since you are only limited by your imagination and not technology like the real world. The Shine concept watch is a marriage of both luxury and advanced technology, featuring a unique laser projection system that sees time displayed simply by touching its logo. Constructed from hi-tech white ceramic and filled to the brim with more than 200 square cut white topaz gemstones, this is one blinged out watch which will definitely adorn the wrist of attention seekers around the world if it were real.

Cold drinks should remain cold, and hot drinks, well, hot, if they’re to be enjoyed the way it is supposed to be. Green-House aims to help you with that aspect of your favorite beverage thanks to its Green-House GH-USB-CUP2 USB cup cooler and warmer that caters to all seasons, regardless of whether you love drinking chilled or hot drinks. Temperatures can remain as low as 15? or even kept warm at 40?, although I would’ve preferred a larger range to work with. All you need to do is place your cup on your metal plate, plug in the device into any available powered USB port and you’re good to go.

Mvix launches the Mvix MV-2500U hi-def media decoder in ultra small size.

The Mvix MV-2500U supports the small 2.5-inchhard drive, but boasts of most of the key features of its predecessors like MX-780HD or MX-760. It can support HDDs as large as 250GB hard disk which is enough to carry 100 DVD quality movie titles.

MV-2500U comes in a stunning black look and just measures under 5 X 3 x 0.5 inches in dimension, almost the size of a PDA. “Extremely competitively priced, this black beauty fits everyone’s pocket, both in terms of size and dollars”, commented Mike.

Mvix MV-2500U uses a 2.5″ PATA / IDE HDD and supports large-sized hard drives.

The Mvix MV-2500U comes with a highly functional and ergonomically-designed IR remote control and it is capable of storing and decoding hours of standard or high definition digital video in over a dozen file formats.

If you’ve been a reader of CG for sometime, you’ve surely seen an assortment of ways to charge your gadgets in an eco-friendly fashion. Most of the time, these green gadget chargers are powered with a hand crank, which is fine for conventional purposes, but there are some circumstances that might lead to this method not being as effective as others.

For example, what if you happen be an amputee? With both upper limbs lost in some freak factory accident. Or maybe you’re just too lazy to sit around and churn a hand crank when you can be doing something more productive. This Pedal Powered Gadget Charger is a hands-free method for charging up your devices when you have better uses for your hands.

Besides the fact that you have an alternative way of powering up your gadgets without the use of much of an electrical output, the Pedal Powered Gadget Charger is sure to help you work up a sweat as well. Not only will you be adding a super charge to your device, but you’ll be pumping the blood through your veins and increasing your overall health and energy. And you can still always use your hands to crank the pedals if your legs are feeling a little too much like jello.

While it might not be a pleasant bike ride through a park on a sunny day, the added incentive of charging your device while earning some self-imposed brownie points for both your new found fitness / green power tool is all the drive you need to pick up your very own. You can grab a pedal charger for ¥14,800 ($141/£71/€91 equivalent) and stage your own Tour De France of eco-friendliness right in your own home.

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