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OSIM uSurf, tone up every part of your body

To me, the OSIM products are really great at helping you tone up muscles or giving you some good massages when you are off from a whole-day tiring work! Here is another fun product from OSIM, the OSIM uSurf, which is a surfboard, helps tone up every part of your body when you surf on it!

Have you seen a fat surfer? The answer is no. Surfers have great muscles. They get these muscles due to the need to maintain balance using their calves, thighs and upper body when surfing.

The uSurf is designed to simulate the motions of surfing, and to shape and tone targeted muscle groups. The uSurf has a wave-action deck, which rocks both back and forth and side to side, exercises your legs and core muscles. It includes a handheld tension cord, which you need for helping you balance for the first few rides and a infrared remote control makes it easy for you to change program without dismounting.

$499.00 at BrookStone

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Digital photo keychain

Whenever I put my car key that attached with a nice keychain on my work desk or coffee table, it always attracts my friends or co-workers to pick them up to have a closer look. In It’s pretty easy to show off the photos of your pretty girlfriend or your loved ones by having thier photos on a keychain.

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Wine lover, the way to keep your opened bottle of wine fresh!

The Wine Vac Vacuum Seal, a useful gadget for wine lover to keep wine fresh after opening. Just cap this vacuum seal on the opened bottle of wine before sending it into the fridge, it will automatically turn on, pump all the air out, and let you know on its built-in LCD when it’s completely sealed!

The LCD also shows you the wine’s temperature letting you know when it’s optical optimal time to be served! It runs on 2 AA batteries! Hope it’s still able to keep your wine fresh when its batteries gone flat!

If are a heavy drinker, this is just useless to you as you don’t have chance to keep your opened wine even for a day only!

$34.95 at SharperImage

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Apple iPhone is out!

Over weeks of speculation about Apple would release a new product this week! Now it’s out, it’s iPhone! iPhone again? Yes, it’s iPhone! Wasn’t it the name “iPhone” taken by Cisco last year in December! Still remember the Cisco iPhone, which screwed up the dominance of the “i”-brand in the market by Apple ? Apple is just not so easy to let go its “i”-brand like that and the Apple iPhone has great features!
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LaCie FireWire Speakers, a Super Mario’s Warp Pipe?

The LaCie FireWire Speakers combine Neil Poulton’s stunning industrial design with superb digital audio technology. With a frequency response of 90Hz-20kHz, they deliver powerful, vibrant sound for your music, movies and games. Easily connect them to your computer (laptop or desktop) or MP3 player* with the built-in FireWire cable!

Those folks at GizModo, who played too much Super Mario game when they were young, call it a Super Mario’s warp pipe!

$79.99 available for pre-order at LaCie

Technorati: LaCie, speakers, FireWire, shopping

Kodak digital Wi-Fi picture frame! Get all your digital pictures onto the walls easily!

Conventionally, if we want our digital pictures to go onto the walls, we need to send them for printing and then frame it with a traditional photo frame then hang it on the wall. With the Kodak digital Wi-Fi photo frame, you can just get all your digital pictures (from your computer or digital camera) onto the walls without printing it!

It has a built-in 128MB memory. Your digital pictures can be stored on its built-in, or on a memory card, or using Wi-Fi that comes directly from your computer or Internet! It has built-in speakers, which you can have some accompanying music, if you don’t feel it’s annoying. It comes with a remote control, for you to control and setup. It’s not restricted only to just pictures, it’s video-capable!

You will have various choices of frame faceplates, which include frosted floral glass or a whiteboard which you can write on. 10-inch version will be available in US in March for a price at $280.00 and the expected price in UK would be £150. The 7-inch version would be $50.00 or less!

Via [T3 Blog]

Technorati: Kodak, WiFi, picture, digitalcamera, gadget

Logitech Quickcam Ultra Vision

For those who like dancing or getting nude all night long in front of a webcam, the Logitech Quickcam Ultra Vision is a must-have! You can easily personalize your IM and video calls through this cam with exclusive video effects and avatars. It has a quick preview button for you to quickly check out if you have posed nicely before joining video calls. It works with Skype, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, and AIM. With superior picture quality. It includes a 1.3-megapixel sensor and RightLight technology for great images in any lighting situation

$120.00 (New) at Amazon

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OQO’s UMPC, model 02, appeared at Gate’s CES 2007

OQO, the company that makes small computers. Its model 02 appeared at CES 2007. This little device is a UMPC, an ultra compact full computer that capable of running all your Windows apps.

The model 02, which incorporates VIA’s recently released C7M ultramobile processor, is defined by OQO in the UMPC Pro category. It is because of its size is small enough to be pocketable (palm-sized, you even can call it “palmtop”) and with enterprise features and functionality! It’s Vista-capable!

Available at OQO’s store, starting at $1499.00 (Available with 3 options, for different OS, such as XP home, XP pro, different memory size, 512MB/1GB, different hard disk size, 30GB/60GB etc)

[Via UltraMobileLife] [Via MSNBC] [Via BroadCastNewsRoom]

Technorati: UMPC, OQO ,CES2007 ,Microsoft ,Vista

Nokia N95 in my wish list

The N95, the latest smartphone by Nokia, which was just released 2 weeks ago, is one of them in my wish list for replacing my existing old mobile PDA phone (It’s an Xda O2 mini). Some of the features that I particularly like about this smartphone are as follows:

* It’s 3G capable, well, this is common for today’s smartphones.

* 5 megapixels, with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus. This is one the features that attracts me. The 5-megapixel camera allows me to easily get a snapshot using only my mobile without the need for me to carry my digital camera with me.

* The 2-way slide concept also makes it a plus for easily switching between different modes (landscape/portrait), going from reading maps to watching a video with just a simple slide!

* Other goodies are GPS, and support for high-speed mobile networks, making it easier to watch and record videos, listen to songs, take high-quality photos, browse the internet, or catch up on email while on the move.

In short, its mutimedia capability is excellant.

$799.00 at MobileBee

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CN767, just a standard car GPS system

The CN767, is a new creation by the Taiwanese company, Compass System. It comes with navigation software that supports 2D/3D as well as night mode. It also has visual and multi-language voice guidance. The device has the common functions of a navigation system such as traffic jam avoidance function. It supports MP3 and image files.

Added to this are its standard 3.5″ touch screen, 32 MB ROM / 64MB RAM, a nice 20-channel GPS-receiver with SiRF Star III chipset, rechargeable lithium-Ion battery that can last 3.5 hours with continuous navigation. It has SD/MMC expansion slot (upto 2GB) and comes with built-in speakers as well as stereo headset jack. Pricing and availability is unknown.

Via UberGadget, Via NaviGadget

Technorati: gps, gadget, car, navigation