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Texting to Track Terrible Teen Drivers

A new services allows parents to buy "How's My Driving?" stickers for their kids' cars, allowing other drivers to text in complaints through an anonymous number.

LG Lotus Blends Fashion, QWERTY Keys

The Lotus gets an unusual square shape and a QWERTY keyboard hidden within its clamshell form factor, along with the option of a loud purple paint job that makes quite a statement.

Belkin Updates Cases for New iPods

Many of Belkin's existing iPod cases, including its sport armband, silicone and metal models, will get updated versions in mid-September for the iPod nano 4G and touch 2G.

AT&T Tacks on A-GPS, Adds New Nav Apps

A-GPS will use AT&T towers to help compatible GPS devices get a lock on location faster, while two new navigation applications will offer subscribers alternatives to AT&T Navigator.

Web App Simplifies Universal Remote Setup

Universal Electronics' new Xsight remotes use a Web application to load and modify device profiles and tweak personal settings, making them easier for novices to set up out of the box.

Mitsubishi Prices LaserVue at $7K

The company's super-efficient big-screen displays will debut this fall with a 65-inch model, priced at $6,999.

Smartphones Gather Steam as Prices Plunge

According to NPD Group, smartphones accounted for nearly a fifth of total phone sales this year, doubling their share of sales from only a year ago.

Mad Catz Releases Fender Bass for Rock Band

Mad Catz has become the first peripheral manufacturer to bring a bass guitar to the Rock Band aftermarket with its Fender Precision Bass replica.

Plastic Logic Supersizes E-Readers

The company's upcoming e-reader boasts roughly the same form factor as a pad of legal paper or magazine, making it larger than the Kindle and other competitors.

Hitachi UltraThin Plasmas Reach 50 Inches

Hitachi has grown the line of 1.5-inch plasmas Hitachi launched at CES to include a new 50-inch model.

Microsoft AutoCollage 2008 Slices Photos

By intelligently recognizing "regions of interest" in photos and ranking them accordingly, AutoCollage can assemble a seamless collage without any user expertise.

Samsung Poised to Snap up SanDisk

The Korean electronics giant may be planning to purchase the American manufacturer, potentially putting two memory companies under one roof.

Sony’s Wi-Fi Frame Does Web Radio, RSS

The Vaio CP1 will deliver your favorite photos, music and headlines from the Web using an ordinary Wi-Fi connection.

Dell’s Mini 9 Netbook Goes on Sale

The Eee-like Mini 9 boasts an Intel Atom processor, 9-inch screen, and weight of only 2.28 pounds, with prices as low as $349.

JBL WEM-1 Unwires Any Pair of Speakers

The company's wireless expansion module makes any pair of ordinary home audio speakers wireless.

Top 20 Worst Fashion Gadgets Ever Part 1: From Bad to Atrocious

This week, we scratch the surface with retro gone wrong, good ideas that turned out badly.

Four Reasons Google Chrome Will Topple Firefox? but not Microsoft

It?s not just hype ? here?s why Google?s attempt at a browser will be the chrome bullet that takes out Firefox.

Navigon Budget GPS Offers Free Traffic

At $229, Navigon's 2200T may be one of the most affordable GPS units available to offer a lifetime of free traffic updates with purchase.

iRobot Launches Pet, Pro Series Roombas

Whether you have problems with cat-hair tumbleweeds or sawdust, iRobot has a new Roomba to help.

Slender-but-Rugged V950 Comes to Sprint

The Motorola V950 will endure dust, shock, vibration and blowing rain, work with Sprint's push-to-talk network, and do it all without feeling like a brick in your pocket.

USBConnect Mercury Makes 3G Easier

AT&T's newest HSPDA card plugs into a USB port and delivers speeds of up to 1.7 Mbps, with software pre-installed onboard for easier setup.

Line Rider to Debut on iPhone, iPod Touch

After gathering a cult following online, Line Rider will bring its brand of creative, endless gameplay to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch this month.

Asus Dresses up Notebooks in Bamboo

The company's Bamboo Series notebooks not only use renewable resources in their construction, they also boast tweaked power settings that deliver 35 to 70 percent power savings.

B&W Adds Four New CM Series Loudspeakers

One of the company's more conservative, mid-priced speaker lines has picked up four new models with range of improvements.

Motorized Flatscreen Mount Tilts on the Fly

OmniMount's new Motion40 motorized wall mount accomodates screens up to 40 inches across, then pans, tilts and swivels by remote control.

Sharp Aquos XS1 Hits 1,000,000:1 Contrast

Sharp's new flagship display boasts unbelievably high contrast ratios, fast refresh rates, and measures only 0.9 inches thick.

Samsung BD-P2500 Supports BD Profile 2.0

Samsung's fifth-generation Blu-ray player joins the small crowd of players with BD Profile 2.0 capabilities for pulling content from the Internet.

iPhone Worker Finds Stardom with Snapshots

An iPhone that slipped out of the factory with pictures of a worker inside has rocketed the girl featured to Internet fame, for better or worse.

Samsung Cheapens SSDs for Netbook Market

The company's latest SATA II drives won't be the biggest or fastest, but Samsung hopes the price will be just right for portable device manufacturers.

SanDisk’s Extreme III SDHC Cards Hit 30MB/s

The latest SDHC card out of SanDisk moves data at strikingly quick 30MB/s, making it appropriate for next-generation DSLR cameras like Nikon's brand new D90.

Garmin Axes Subscription Fees on Nuvis

The upcoming Garmin 2x5 and 7x5 series will have built-in traffic receivers standard, and free traffic updates for life.

M-Audio Debuts New Reference Speakers

The Studiophile DSM1 and DSM2 use an array of digital electronic wizardry to tweak their sound for any scenario.

Adobe Appeals to Amateurs with Elements 7

Photoshop and Premiere Elements 7 make it easier for hobbyist photographers and digital video enthusiasts to tune up their snapshots and clips without submerging themselves in manuals for hours.

Nokia to Bring N96 Smartphone Stateside

Nokia's flagship do-it-all smartphone will be heading to North America soon, but don't hold your breath on the price.

Cowon Shows off Three Stylish Touch PMPs

The S9, 02 and L3 will all debut at the upcoming IFA 2008 show, but in the mean time Cowon has slipped out a few choice details and photos to whet appetites.

Iogear KVM Taps into Laptop Controls

The company's USB Laptop KVM Switch allows notebooks to control other computers, transfer files and share devices with a single USB connection.

Sony iPod Dock Handles up to 10 Speakers

The AIR-SA20PK serves as a base station to stream your iPod tunes to up to 10 separate wireless speakers, which can be located all over the house.

Peek: The $100 E-mail-Only Device

With no calling, texting, IM or other features, the designers of the $100 Peek hope it will be able to outperform so-called convergence devices by concentrating on e-mail and e-mail alone.