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Most people who experience nightmares often wake up in cold sweat, but here’s a device that might actually help interrupt your nightmare to bring you back to reality. Wearing the Night Sweat Alarm around your wrist or ankle will allow it to detect whether you’re sweating more than normal, waking you up in due time. I don’t see the point of paying $139 for this unless you frequently suffer from sweat-inducing nightmares, but if it is a one-off thing, I can think of much better ways to spend that kind of money.

Well, this isn’t a total grenade mouse per se, as it is more or less half of the fake explosive that it is. Stuffed inside an actual grenade shell (makes me wonder how do they get spare shells - are they rejects from an ammunitions dealer?), underneath the tough-looking case lies the innards of a Targus mouse. The entire user experience is nigh uncomfortable, but it will add at least a few more points to your manly factor at the office.

It looks like the detail floodgate has opened up for the soon-to-be released T-Mobile blackberry Pearl Flip 8220.  Although, it is not coming in as low priced as we had hoped for.  All things considered, it does seem to be pretty fairly priced, and in fact, it seems to be a little better than the deal that Rogers currently has for the same model.

The pricing with T-Mobile here in the US will, as usual, vary depending on contract length.  Those willing to accept a two-year agreement can expect to pay $149.99, however a one-year agreement adds just an additional $50 to make it $199.99.  That pricing is for new customers and both come after a $50 mail-in-rebate, but those rebates seem to be pretty standard nowadays.

As for current customers who are able to upgrade, they can expect to pay $167.99 and $217.99 for a two-year and one-year agreement, respectively. Similar to the new contract pricing, this pricing also comes after a $50 mail-in-rebate.

Finally, for those looking to purchase the Pearl Flip outright and not be attached with any agreement will have to part with $349.99.

Now, as far as availability is concerned, it looks like the Pearl Flip will be available from T-Mobile as early as October 15. Of course as we learned yesterday it is expected to be available at Best Buy beginning October 26.

With T-Mobile picking up some decent handsets lately it is becoming harder for me to not jump back to them, the G1 along with a Pearl Flip for my wife would make for a nice family plan, but sadly I must continue to resist as I am still tied into a contract with AT&T.

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Stephen Totilo from MTV Multiplayer has managed to snag some playtime with the PS3 keypad, and here’s his take on it.

I pretend-typed some messages using the device, but I did not have time to input anything into the PS3. Like the 360 keypad, the PS3 add-on is designed to ease console user’s efforts to input messages and passwords. The add-on was light, adding no significant weight to the PS3 controller.

For PS3 owners out there, have you picked up this peripheral, and do you think it was money well spent?

I always go nuts over Halloween, I love all the spooky decorations and of course the candy. Now, I happen to be one of the weirdos that all year round I will leave out a small zombie on my desk. Just because it gets around to Christmastime does not mean I will put all things dark and spooky back in their box where they belong. Well it looks like USB Geek has decided to release yet another spooky item that I wouldn’t mind using all year. That or I suppose you could have a seasonal USB drive.

I imagine the USB Human Skull Drive would be better for people like me who would use it year round. It seems silly to use a USB drive for all of a month or so, then toss the USB drive into a box along with the rest of the Halloween decorations. The thumb drive I’m sure would also make a fun gift for science lovers as well. To pick one up it will cost you $19 for a 2GB drive.

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It is amazing how many times I refer to the movie Minority Report when it comes to emerging technology. Hopefully we will never develop Precogs that can predict murders, but that gesture-based interface screen that Tom Cruise uses is something that I want.

It appears that an organization known as Fraunhofer HHI has made my dream come true with the iPoint Presenter. This interaction concept uses gesture based interface on a projected screen, and is ironically more advanced than the one used in Minority Report.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Tom had to wear these gloves that emanated some weird blue light. The iPoint Presenter requires nothing more than a user’s bare hands, as the iPoint Presenter can sense the user’s gestures with its infrared eyes.

The interface is a lot like watching an iPhone touchscreen projected against the wall. For example, the user can expand a window by widening the gap between their finger and thumb. Speaking of the iphone, I can’t help but wonder why the iPoint is somehow related to Macintosh with the “i” in front of it. Maybe it wants to be a Mac product.

This interaction can apparently be used on many applications including “interactive POI/POS, games, photo viewers, even Google Earth”. The iPoint Presenter is a concept now, but it is one that I want to see in my house soon.

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Rumors about the new Nintendo DS has been floating around lately, and just today it’s been confirmed!

The company unveiled the new DS model at a press conference held in Japan!

Early specs: (via Crave)

• The unit is said to resemble the existing DS Lite, but is 12 percent thinner thanks to the absence of a Game Boy cartridge slot.
• The twin screens are a bit larger–3.25 inches versus 3.
• 0.3-megapixel camera
• SD card slot
• downloadable games: download games over Wi-Fi, save them to the SD card

More news to follow!

[ Image source from Engadget ]

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It doesn’t look as though Sagem will hold out much longer judging by their track record where cell phones are concerned, but that has not stopped the French handset maker from coming up with the Sagem my421Z slider. This device comes with the following :-

• Tri-band GSM/GPRS radio
• 2″ TFT display
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• Bluetooth connectivity
• Integrated FM radio
• Music playback software

The French are justly proud of their cheese heritage, able to eat all manner of amazing fromage which would be considered both noxious and dangerous elsewhere. But when it comes to that beautiful “New Mac” smell, the one concocted years ago by the secret Cupertino labs, their gallic noses fail them.

French newspaper Libération reports that a scientist mistook the carefully crafted perfume for for toxic fumes — a benzene filled cancer-cloud that could seep into your bones and give you leukemia.

Apple’s reaction is customarily oblique. Apple’s Bill Evans told MacWorld that “We have not found anything that supports this claim, but continue to investigate it for the customer.” Clearly Apple is not going to give away the secret sauce of this heady tang, which we know to be the real reason for the recent tidal wave of Mac sales.

You’ve all seen Batman Begins, right? The weaponized hallucinogen activated by microwaves? This is the same, only with Kool-Aid. If you have ever wondered why Apple never seems to fix the runaway cooling fans in its computers, this is the answer.

Mac Pro, the seed toxic to Apple? [Libération via MacRumors]

Apple: No evidence of benzene in Mac Pros [Macworld]

by Darren Murph, posted Oct 1st 2008 at 11:48AM

Oh sure, we’ve already seen solar jackets, backpacks and all manners of like-minded creations, but having an energized trinket around your neck just seems so much more useful. Dreamed up for Samsung’s Young Design contest, the Prometeo is an admittedly large box that could be worn around one’s neck or arm and used to suck in energy from the beaming sun; once it’s juiced, wearers can simply plug a couple USB devices in there and let the good times roll. Additionally, there’s an integrated power meter to let you know just how full / drained the thing is, though we don’t see any sort of AC plug in order to power it up in a pinch. We know, you’re balking at the size of this thing, but don’t you think folks looked at Mr. T funny back in the day? Trendsetting ain’t easy, people.

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