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We’ve seen the smaller Kaossilator Touchpad Synthesizer and the Mini-Kaoss Touchpad Effects Processor in the past, but the KP3 Touchpad Dynamic Effect Sampler beats those out in terms of functionality.

By simply touching, tapping or sliding your finger over the touchpad, the all-new KP3 allows you to control multiple effects parameters and manipulate samples in real time. On stage or in the studio, these gestures and moves can become powerful and expressive performance elements. More than a processor, the KP3 is a complete instrument allowing you to manage, recall, and play back samples; sample on the fly; and add dynamic processing to any audio signal or to the samples themselves. A new pad lighting system places 64 individual LEDs in an eight by eight grid under the pad, providing visual cues as to the current program, held position, etc. – it can even scroll a custom message across the pad!

With 128 sound effects to choose from, the $399.99 KP3 Touchpad Dynamic Effect Sampler would surely make a suitable present for whoever has more than a passing interest in making their own grooves.

Adopt a Vine Gift Pack
Now here’s a novel idea for all manner of wine lovers. It attaches your name, or the name of a loved one, to a real, live, growing, wine-producing vine for a whole year. And because we instinctively believe that British is best, the vine is located right here in Blighty, happily growing away on a thoroughly respected vineyard in darkest Oxfordshire.

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Overview

Sporting a 2” TFT LCD full-color display, COBY MP-705 Super-Slim MP3 and Video Player with Touchpad Control is one of the sophisticated MP3 Players available in the market at a very affordable price. Be it playing music, video, storing photos or sharing text messages, COBY MP-705 Super-Slim MP3 and Video Player with Touchpad Control lets you enjoy it all. Moreover, this MP3 and Video Player lets you play digital music from the popular online stores and subscription services as and when you wish to hear your favorite music.

Features

• ID3 tag support for song information display.
• USB 2.0 Hi-Speed for fast file transfers.
• Integrated FM radio,
• Integrated rechargeable battery,
• Elegant touch pad interface control with LED backlight.

COBY MP-705 Super-Slim MP3 and Video Player with Touchpad Control supports many langauges like English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Italian. Its 176 x 220 display resolution appears very appealing for the user. COBY MP-705 Super-Slim MP3 and Video Player with Touchpad Control comes packed with a memory capacity of 1 GB, 2 GB and 4 GB. You can choose to buy this MP3 AND Video Player from COBY in black, red and blue color.

Box content

The box comprises of COBY MP-705 Super-Slim MP3 and Video Player with Touchpad Control, Installation CD, USB Cable and Stereo Earphone.

Source: Coby

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While everyone else in the world seems to be forgetting about snail mail, here comes the US Postal Service putting the old way of communicating into a fresh and yet good use – recycling electronics. The US Postal Service is advocating the recycling of electronic products, such as mobile phones and inkjet cartridges to name a few. If you’re sick and tired of your broken iPods you may put them in an envelope provided by the USPS and send those electronics via snail mail. The envelope will be provided by the USPS and will be strategically placed in 1500 post offices across the US.

The USPS “mail back” program does not only promotes and encourages environmental sustainability but it will help consumers to de-clog their homes and workstations with dead electronic products as well. 

Helping out the USPS in carrying out this noble project is Clover Technologies Group, a nationally recognized company that promotes the 3R’s in inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges and small electronics – recycle, remanufacture and remarket. Clover Technologies takes care of the postage for the mailed envelope.

Concerned individuals can use the envelopes located in post offices with no limits. Individuals can use as many envelopes as they want, as long as they only contain old pieces of electronics. The “mail back” program is currently set for testing in 10 areas across the U.S. has the potential to become a phenomenon. If the mail back program gets positive reviews from early participants, it will grow and become available in more areas. Hopefully, Clover Technologies could handle the influx of electronics junk once the recycling program gets a head start.Hats off to USPS and Clover for this noble program.

Via [Lifehacker] Read [USPS Postal News]

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There is nothing quite like a red hot pair of lips to get your blood coursing through your veins, and this Kiss Me Phone is more than able to cause that effect in any hot-blooded male at first glance.

Hard-wired phones seem to have moved from essential to retro in virtually no time at all, and this landline phone cleverly disguised as a sexy pair of lips is no exception - indeed it’s more of an objet d’art than a phone. Nevertheless it’s still irresistible. Whether you’re a lothario or a vamp, or just into retro kitsch, the Kiss Me Phone is a piece of kit that pushes all the buttons, in a manner of speaking. It comes with UK and European telephone cables, has a push button operation concealed in the top lip, and is just crying out for some hushed, wicked and no doubt lascivious conversation.

This 22cm x 12cm x 5cm novelty phone retails for £19.99 and is a surefire conversation starter in more ways than one.

I’m all for getting into the spirit of the season with some holiday decorations, but spending $45 on a thermoplastic resin bunny and carrot paper towel holder for Easter is a bit much.

Then again, the green and blue figures standing guard beside the 13.4″ carrot look more like mind-controlling alien children wearing rabbit ears than the Easter Bunny. And those kids are festive year-round.

Via Nerd Approved.

Electric Espresso Pot

You can have this for ?39.99

USA Land Gift Pack
Now you can not only own a slice of the States, but 50 very small slices - one for every state in the Union. And that’s no small undertaking for a limey Brit.

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Posted Mar 22nd 2008 5:52AM by Ryan Block
Filed under: Storage

What’s supposedly the largest deep-sea remote-controlled robot ever built was rolled out this week: the SMD Ultra Trencher 1 (UT1), a 50 ton, £10m ($19.8m) ROV the size of a small domicile (25.5 x 25.5 x 18.3 feet). Capable of sucking up two megawatts of power while using its “jet swords” trench deep sea pipelines up to a meter wide and 2.5 meters deep into the sea floor (while operating at a depth of up to 1500m), the UT1 is clearly just in time. We hear the CIA errant anchors are due to snip another three or four deep-sea internet backbone cables, so the UT1’s got its work cut out for it.

Check out the new 2575 notebook PC from Averatec which combining powerful dual-core processing with infotainment capabilities in an ultra-portable as well as ultra-light form factor. With a price tag of $1100, you’ll get a Vista Home Premium OS, 12-inch (1280 x 800) LCD screen with 1280 x 800-pixel resolution, an AMD’s Turion 64 X2 Dual Core chip, a 2GB of main memory, ATI RS690 integrated graphics engine, a 250GB of hard drive, Super Multi DVD burner, and 1.3 megapixel webcam. It also included ExpressCard 34 / 54, 4-in-1 memory card reader, and USB port for connectivity.
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