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New Samsung 8-inch Photo Frame Sports 1 GB of Storage

New Samsung 8-inch Photo Frame Sports 1 GB of Storage

Samsung is no stranger to the photo frame business, but the company has just rolled out its new SPF-87H Photo Frame featuring an 8-inch 800 by 480-pixel display and 1 GB of onboard memory for storing a library of photos. The idea is that users load their images into the onboard storage via USB from a handy-dandy PC: no Wi-Fi or networking to mess with, although the unit does sport an SD slot for loading camera media. The 87H also features Samsung’s Touch of Color design, as seen in its HDTVs and (lately) desktop monitors.

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Dell Cranks Up the Style for Studio Notebooks

Dell Cranks Up the Style for Studio Notebooks

Computer maker Dell is looking to further shed its image of making only boring grey PCs and notebooks, and to that end has just vastly expanded the number of Design Studio stylized notebook lid designs available for its Studio 15 and Studio 17 notebook models—although a handful are also available for Inspiron Minis. Dell has just added some 120 new designs to the collection, featuing artists like Deanne Cheuk, Maya Hayuk, TWEEQIM, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Filth, Robert Hargrave, and Keith Warner—including a total of 13 Product (Red) designs that direct $20 towards the Global Fund to fight AIDS and other diseases.

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Buying Tech & Gadgets in a Recession

Circuit CityIn November of 2008, Circuit City, just a few years earlier one of the top dogs in the entire retail landscape, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and closed 155 of its 722 stores in a desperate, last-ditch bid to remain afloat. Facing heightened competition, pressure from vendors, a severely troubled economy, and, some say, problematic management that refused to adapt to the times, the company did what it could in the following few months to stave off eradication. But despite its best efforts, Circuit City permanently closed its remaining 567 retail outlets on March 8, 2009, sending a total of 34,000 former employees into the jobless ranks.  Read more...

Logitech’s G13 Gaming Board Uses One Hand

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Logitech is certainly no stranger to gaming keyboards. After establishing itself with the G15 and G11 in years past, the company added a radical new one-handed version to the G-series on Tuesday with the announcement of the G13 Advanced Gameboard.

Designed as a game-centric supplement to the traditional mouse-and-keyboard layout, the G13 offers players 25 programmable keys within reach one of on hand, a contoured design, plus an LCD for displaying data like live stats, system info, and chat messages from other players.

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HTC Snaps up Fashion-Savvy U.S. Design Firm

HTC Snaps up Fashion-Savvy U.S. Design Firm

Though HTC’s Touch Diamond and Touch Pro smartphones may have been stylistically well-received, the company’s flagship G1 proves that the company still has a long way to go to master fashionable design. The Taiwanese company took a major step in rectifying that on Wednesday with the acquisition of One & Company Design, Inc., a design firm based in San Francisco.

One & Co. has worked with a number of other high-profile consumer electronics companies in the past, including Apple, Dell, Motorola, Plantronics, and Sony. It’s also responsible for HTC’s own iconic Touch Diamond, which its designers dreamed up back in 2006 in its first collaboration with the company.

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LaCie Takes Award-Winning Hub USB-Only

LaCie Takes Award-Winning Hub USB-Only

Peripheral and accessory maker LaCie raised a few eyebrows a year ago when it introduced its six-port Hub—then called the Huby—featuring an eye-catching, Medusa-like shape from famed designer Ora-Ïto. Now the company has updated the product, either improving or detracting from it (depending on your point of view) by eliminating the two FireWire 400 ports and increasing the number of USB 2.0 ports to eight. The new USB-only Hub also features a new, completely round base that enables the Hub to wobble around…and, again, whether this is an improvement might depend entirely on your point of view.

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Apple Refreshes iMac, Introduces iLife ‘08

At a press event today in California, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a new all-in-one iMac, featuring 20- and 24-inch screens and a new eco-friendly aluminum and glass design built with recycling in mind.

The new iMacs will be available with either 20- or 24-inch glossy LCD displays, powered by ATI Radeon graphics controllers. The systems will sport Intel Core 2 Duo processors at speeds up to 2.8 GHz (on the 24-inch model), handle up to 4 GB of RAM (accessible by removing just one screw), and offer from 250 GB to 1 TB of hard drive storage. Of course, the new iMacs will support 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking, and will also offer three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 400 port, and one FireWire 800 port, and a DVD-burning SuperDrive.  Read more...

Hop-on Claims A Flip Phone Design Patent

Telecommunications company Hop-on, which recently made news regarding their aggressive plans to enforce a design patent awarded to them around MP3 phones, announced today yet another design patent they plan to follow up with manufacturers on. Hop-on this time claims a patent for an "innovative flip phone design pending since 2005."  Read more...

Dive Into the Helio Ocean

Dive Into the Helio Ocean

Youth-oriented mobile operator Helio is bringing another high-tech handset to the U.S. market in the form of the Helio Ocean. The Ocean is designed to combine the best features of traditional phone handsets and messaging-equipped mobile devices, while packing the music, video, and Internet capabilities today’s hip technology power-users want. And the first thing you’ll notice is the Ocean’s dual-slider design, enabling the unit to offer both a traditional numeric phone keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard for messaging and online use.

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Microsoft Looks to Design Next Xbox Chip?

The New York Times‘ John Markoff reports (subscription required) that Microsoft has quietly created a new Computer Architecture Group to explore new ideas in system design and processor integration. The idea is to let the Redmond software giant respond more quickly to market forces by having a bigger hand in the way systems are designed and implemented, without having to wait for vendors like Intel, AMD, and IBM to supply them with finished chips. Two possible targets of Microsoft’s hardware research efforts: voice recognition and the design of the next version of the company’s Xbox gaming console.  Read more...

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