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The new iPhone has arrived

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you probably already know this: the new iPhone is coming! It finally has 3G, GPS and it's a hell of a lot cheaper. Gizmodo has a first hands-on review of Apple's newest shiny toy.
First impression: it's thinner, a bit rounder and the reception is a lot better. Probably has to do with the plastic back instead of metal. The feature everyone has been waiting for, 3G, works quite well. Gizmodo reported it's only slightly slower than Wifi. The GPS also works fine, and can be used to geotag pictures you take.
A bit of a surprise is the price: it starts at $199, wich is a lot cheaper than the original iPhone a year ago. I bet a lot of people are pissed off about this. Not only are they gonna buy a new phone with features that should have been there from the beginning, they are gonna be stuck with a year-old phone they payed $500 for! You'll probably find dirt cheap iPhones on eBay pretty soon...

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Wifi Detecting T-Shirt

If you want to find out if there's a wifi signal, there are several options. You can turn on your laptop, PDA or smartphone, you can use one of those Wifi detecting keyhangers, or you can wear this Wifi Detecting T-Shirt! A signal detector is built into it so the strength of the signal is shown on it by glowing bars. It is powered by a small built-in battery pack that takes 2 AAA batteries.
A small warning, perhaps. Obviously, you can't just wash this thing like any other T-shirt. You have to unplug the battery (of course!), hand wash it, don't wring it and dry it lying flat in the shade. Also, don't iron it over the image and for the love of God, no dry cleaning (would probably dissolve the entire detector)!

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Stealth Boat

This boat looks like it belongs in a James Bond movie, but you don't need a license to kill to play with one of these. A four hour charge gives it enough juice for thirty minutes, and it can reach speeds up to 30 kilometers per hour (18.6 mph). The propeller will only spin when it makes contact with the water, wich is a good thing because you don't want your fingers getting caught in it! Check out the following video for a demonstration of its speed and manoevrability.



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HTC Touch Pro

HTC has announced the HTC Touch Pro, their newest addition to the Touch line of Windows Mobile smartphones. It has the same slide-out keyboard as other HTC phones and a 2.8" touch screen with VGA resolution. What makes this phone even more unique is the TouchFLO interface, wich makes browsing through different tasks and options very easy. Also included are a MicroSD card slot, 3.2 meapixel camera with flash and autofocus and a GPS receiver.

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Rsstroom Concept

Here's another gadget that belongs in the category "What the hell were they smoking when they thought of this?". What is it? It's a printer that prints your favorite RSS feed on a roll of... toilet paper! And not only that, it also has a biometric toilet seat wich measures your weight as you sit on it. I wonder if it can also tell who is sitting on the toilet, so it can automatically select the correct RSS feed. It's just a concept, though, so it will probably never be available commercially. Would be nice to catch up on some Twitter feeds, though.

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Asus EEE PC 900 comparison

The following video compares the new Asus EEE PC 900 with the older 700 model. The most notable difference, of course, is the larger display. Also demonstrated is the multi-touch system, wich means you can operate the touchpad with 2 fingers at the same time.



Another significant difference is the upgraded storage. The 700 had only 4 gigs of storage, the 900 can have up to 20.

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Optimus Popularis prototype

The successor to the insanely expensive Optimus Maximus keyboard is already in the works. Here's a picture of the prototype. Art Lebedev isn't giving away a lot of information at the moment, but it's supposed to be a keyboard with transparent keys on top of a single TFT display instead of a small OLED display in every key. Although they promise it will cost under $1000, it will probably still be expensive as hell.

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