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Sportline Creates All-in-One Fitness Watch

Believe it or not, figuring out how many steps you had taken and how fast your heart was beating required two different products before Sportline cooked up the 960 sports watch.

Logitech Launches PS3 Exclusive Peripherals

A cordless headset and keyboard designed especially for use with the PlayStation 3 will join Logitech's lineup this fall.

Lenovo Launches Solar-Powered Desktop

Among the many green touches on the ThinkCentre A61e, including an energy efficient power supply, processor and fan, the optional solar panel stands out as a first.

Toshiba Ships Ultra-Short-Throw Projector

The TDP-EX20U can project a screen 60 inches wide from just three feet away.

NEC Launches Snappy Displays for Gamers

Despite their relatively large sizes (up to 24 inches), all three monitors in the new CX and GX lines sport response times of 5ms.

Logitech Cranks up Laptop Sound

The Logitech's AudioHub offers 2.1 channel sound and three USB ports in a slim one-piece unit designed specifically for notebooks.

SanDisk Challenges Apple with Sansa View

Business is brutal in California. The Milpitas-based SanDisk makes no bones about going for the throat of its goliath, Cupertino-based competitor with the Sansa View.

AMD Introduces Opteron Quad-Core Processors

Performance is still an issue, but energy efficiency is the name of the game for AMD's latest processors.

Sony on a Roll with New MP3 Player

And you thought MP3 players only played music. Sony's newest device is like a dance party in a can, or egg, really.

Virgin Mobile Gets Onboard with Bluetooth

UTStarcom's Super Slice candy bar phone will be the first Bluetooth-enabled phone in Virgin Mobile's line. It's about time.

Nevo Q50 Remote Offers Total Customization

The be-all and end-all of remote controls may not promise easy set up, but for the price, most buyers will be paying someone else to do it anyway.

Toshiba Takes the Confusion out of Copying

Printing 45 pages per minute is nothing if it takes 10 just to figure out how to get a copier going, so Toshiba's latest copiers shoot for intuitive interfaces.

TI Unwraps DarkChip 4 DLP Technology

Improvements from labs at Texas Instruments have yielded a new DLP chip that boasts a 30 percent improvement in contrast levels.

Sharp Unveils Aquos Blu-ray Player

The first non-TV to bear the Aquos name will feature full 1080p output and special features for pairing it with an Aquos display.

Sanyo Debuts 1080p Projector at CEDIA

It certainly isn't the only high-def projector at the show, but with a price tag just shy of $3,000, it may just be the cheapest.

Mitsubishi Announces HC6000 1080p Projector

The update to the HC5000 will offer a better contrast ratio, better black to light transitions, and will cost nearly $500 less.

The Sims On Stage Beta Opens

No virtual lives here, just Sims fans singing their hearts out. EA's new online community lets members share recorded karaoke songs, comedy routines, and more.

Vigor Gaming Drops Five New Notebooks

Gaming on a laptop doesn't have to mean playing Solitaire. Vigor's newest mobile computers have performance hardware under the hood that nearly matches high-end desktops.

Dell M6300 Promises Power for Professionals

Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition processors and Nvidia Quadro graphics put Dell's latest Precision notebook model on par with desktops.

Epson Launches Two All-in-One Projectors

The MovieMate 50 and MovieMate 72 are as close as you can come to a theater in a box. The only things they're missing are a popcorn machines.

JBL Launches Headphones, iPod Dock at IFA

The audio company's new line includes two new pairs of reference headphones and a revamped version of the On Stage iPod dock.

IBM Publishes Nanotech Breakthroughs

The company's latest research could eventually lead to processors and storage a thousand times smaller than modern technology allows.

Sony Axes Connect Music Store

Sony has announced it's shuttering its Connect Music store in Europe and the U.S., although it will keep selling eBooks under the Connect name.

SanDisk Drops a Fistful of New Products

Yes, a fistful (they're small). The company's IFA 2007 releases include a memory card that can jack cell phones up to 8GB storage capacity, a new SSD, and a high-speed card reader.

NEC Spills New Plasma Lines Prior to CEDIA

The company's new display lines feature dual-purpose sets for TV and computer use, mammoth 60-inch sets for home cinemas, and a value line with sizes down to 32 inches.

Xbox Live Welcomes Family Guy to the Family

Microsoft and Fox have agreed to distribute the first and second seasons of the animated comedy through Xbox Live.

Sony Unveils First Walkman Video Players

The Walkman family gets bigger with two new video players, plus a compact new audio player.

Mtron Debuts Three New SSD Lines

Solid-state drives for consumer, commercial and industrial applications are all on the way in September, along with a 128GB 1.8-inch drive by the year's end.

EA Divulges New Details on EA Playground

October 23 will bring Nintendo gamers back to their youth with dodgeball, shooting marbles, catching bugs, and of course, spitballs.

Garmin Tracks Pedallers with Edge GPS Units

The Edge 605 and 705 provide cyclists with volumes of data about every ride they take, plus GPS mapping to get them home and an online community to share results.

Olevia Launches 65-Inch Full-HD LCoS TV

Liquid-crystal-on-silicon technology allows Olevia's newest rear projection set to reach full HD resolution.

Logitech Debuts USB PC Gaming Headsets

The ClearChat Comfort and ClearChat Pro are designed for voice chat, music and gaming.

SanDisk Unveils 8GB Thumb Drive

The newest Cruzer Micro lets users pocket music, pictures and video without sweating file sizes.

Iomega Releases Bare-Bones Network Drives

The Home Network Hard Drives line is a no-frills approach to setting up a shared hard drive without breaking the bank.

Yahoo Mail Gets a Facelift

In the face of increasing competition from Hotmail and Gmail, Yahoo Mail will get free text messaging to cell phones, integrated IM clients, and a host of other new features.

A Small MP3 Player with a Small Price

SanDisk's Sansa Clip delivers 1GB of storage, FM radio, voice recording, and a display for under $40.

Manhunt 2 Lands a Mature Rating

Rockstar's gory horror title has been back to the ESRB and returned with an M stamp of approval, triggering its US release.

PlayStation 3 Sales Spiked in July

Newly released sales figures show Sony's struggling console made a strong kick for the finish line in July, but still finished on the heels of the Xbox 360.