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Litl

Lisa Strausfeld, Yves Behar, and Abbott Miller Form Supergroup, Design Litl Netbook

The Litl netbook rethinks interface design, and boasts pitch-perfect design details. Too bad about the price.READ»

Ivan Glickman

Fashion & Technology: A Match Made in Heaven or Hell?

Last week Dell hosted an event intended to unite the worlds of fashion and technology bloggers. Their goal was to discuss how technology could be re-positioned as fashion in order to sell it to women. With Microsoft's research ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Tech Retailers Add No Value

When was the last time you saw an actual mobile phone on display in a mobile phone store? If you've had the misfortune to wander into one of these places recently you will notice that the walls and shelves of these places are ...READ»

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Philippe Starck Emblazons LaCie's New Drives With Egregious Logo

The new design shouts, "Hey guys! I was designed by someone famous!!!"READ»

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Why Best Buy Is Roaring Into the Electric-Bike Market

Best Buy is expanding the idea of consumer electronics by exploring home energy and green personal transportation. First up is the $12,000 Brammo Enertia electric bike.READ»

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Examining Design Values: Warm, Cold, or Just Right

How products can hit a sweet spot between traditionally female (Warm) and male (Cold) values.READ»

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How Companies Can Woo Women With Design

When shopping, men tend to go linear and deep, researching a product in detail and then going in for the kill. Women go wide, gathering information that goes beyond herself and her personal needs.
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Amazon Getting Into Own-Brand Accessories: The Start Of Something Bigger?

Soon you'll be able to buy Amazon own-branded basic electronics accessories, as well as the usual big-name electronics that you'll plug Amazon's gizmos into. It's a little surprising, but could well be seen as a sign for bigger Amazon ...READ»

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Sony's Sleek New Portable Mouse

In an attempt to complement its handsome netbooks, Sony's new mouse ends up getting things wrong--as usual.READ»

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LEGO's Block-Inspired Electronics Are Ready to Be Snapped Up This Fall

LEGO has teamed with electronics designer Digital Blue to create a line of LEGO-inspired consumer electronics for creative kids and nostalgic adults alike. Announced earlier this year, the final product will be available this fall, ...READ»

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Freescale's Concept Designs Push Netbooks Further

Earlier this week, Freescale demonstrated a smartbook mash-up that's bound for shop shelves later this year. But Freescale isn't stopping there: The company has crafted several concepts for how these netbook-like devices might look ...READ»

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Sony's Alpha DSLRs: New Outside, Old Inside

Sony's entry into the DLSR market with the Alpha camera range has been pretty well accepted. So the tech maker went back to the lab to tweak its lineup with new units--though, perhaps, this should be called an along-grade ...READ»

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The Strange Design Philosophy Behind Plantronics's New Voyager Pro Headset

Plantronics's successor to its much-loved Voyager 510 Bluetooth headset doesn't go on sale until tomorrow. (Best Buy got its shipment a few days early, due to a stocking mishap.) But we got a hold of a test model, and we're giving ...READ»

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Inside the Design Reinvention of Linksys

You may have noticed that routers are some of the best designed pieces of peripheral hardware out there, from Apple's Airport Extreme to Belkin's line of sleek obelisks. That placed an enormous burden on Linksys after it was ...READ»

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Worried About the Economy? Samsung says Buy a TV

The president of Samsung’s consumer electronics division has a curious recipe for getting through the recession: buy a TV. It costs less than a beach vacation, he says, and with Samsung’s new line of LCD HDTVs that use ...READ»

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Samsung's $300 Papyrus Confirms E-Books as the Next Lifestyle Gadget

When Samsung joins the e-book fray, where Amazon, Sony and Fujtisu are already playing, it confirms one thing: the e-reader is becoming the next "must-have" lifestyle gadget. The Papyrus, a touchscreen e-reader that ...READ»

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Could Palm Survive a Failed Pre Smartphone?

Palm's upcoming Pre wonderphone has been the focus of attention here and elsewhere in the media for two reasons: First, because it appears to be a serious contender; second, because it looks like Palm is betting the bank on the ...READ»

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Cisco Buys Flip Video Cam Maker for $590 Million

Cisco Systems, most commonly associated with business technology infrastructure and networking hardware, is using a chunk of its massive cash reserves to buy Pure Digital Technologies--creators of the highly popular Flip range of ...READ»

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Garmin-Asus Outs Its M20 Smartphone, Doesn't Herald GPSphone Revolution

News that Garmin and Asus were teaming up to produce the other type of convergence smartphone--marrying serious navigation power with a cellphone--only hit the other week, but the alliance has just stumped up with news on its first ...READ»

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Modu Modular Phone To Show its Tricks At MWC Tradeshow

The Modu, with its extremely lateral-thinking approach to cellphone design, created something of an Internet sensation when its maker revealed plans for a modular cellphone last year. And now, 12 months later, it looks like the device ...READ»

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FinePix F200 Camera Goes For Quality Not Quantity of Megapixels

Though the megapixel war in consumer digital cameras has calmed down since its hectic early days, it still rolls on with each new device sporting yet more sensing pixels. But Fujifilm has finally done the right thing: Its new Finepix ...READ»

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The Megapixel War's New Frontier: Cameraphones

There's a rumor going around about an upcoming cellphone from Samsung, due to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress, that possesses a 12-megapixel camera. Let's all give Samsung a round of applause for opening the megapixel war's ...READ»

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The Sidekick Gets More Smartphone-Like, Because It Has To

Lots of interest has been stirred up by rumors of a new version of the Sidekick that'll be smarter, better, and more 3G than previous incarnations. It's dubbed the Sidekick LX 2009, and details about it surfaced while a reader at ...READ»

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Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic Launch Brings Out Crowds

When we warned Apple to look out for Nokia's XpressMusic cellphones, it seems we were pretty near the mark: At the launch event in London yesterday for the 5800 XpressMusic cell phone some 150 people turned up -- with a line going ...READ»

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$300 Peek Mobile Email for Life - Today Only

Peek's slightly alternative mobile comms device, with its email-only service, has captured much interest since it was launched late last year. But today there is a particularly special offer: For a one-time $300 payment, you can get a ...READ»

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