ASUS X55C-DS31 15.6-Inch Notebook

The X55C-DS31 is another newly shipped notebook from ASUS that packs a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 LED-backlit display, a 2.40GHz Intel Core i3-2370M dual-core processor, an Intel HD Graphics 3000, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a webcam, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The X55C-DS31 is priced at $434.99.

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Eton FRX3 American Red Cross Emergency Radio review

Unless I'm in the car, I don't listen to terrestrial, broadcast radio anymore.  At work I have satellite radio, and at home it's an iPod in a dock.  I haven't had a dedicated “AM/FM” radio in ages, but since I live in earthquake country (San Francisco Bay Area), I'm overdue.  Thank goodness the Eton FRX3 American Red Cross Emergency Radio landed in my lap.
The FRX3 American Red Cross Emergency Radio is part of Eton's lineup of preparedness-oriented products.  The first thing you notice is the folded crank on the front to recharge the internal battery.










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Celebrate Game of Thrones season 3 by making your own paper flying dragons

HBO's popular fantasy series Game of Thrones is back tonight with episode 1 of season 3. You can get in on the fun with the Paper Flying Dragons book by Pat Murphy. This book includes fully illustrated punch out parts that will allow you to create 12 paper dragons includes: 5 foot long flyers, 5 dragon hatchlings, and one Design-Your-Own Robo-Dragon.

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Smart Herb Garden Grows Herbs, Vegetables Without Sun Or Soil

Being able to grow a garden if you're a shut-in is pretty much impossible considering how much light plants need on a regular basis. But a new garden called the Smart Herb Garden may allow those of you who completely shun the daylight to finally be able to grow those “herbs” you've been dying to have. The Smart Herb Garden uses an LED growing lamp to grow your herbs and a few select vegetables without any need for that dastardly sun. All you need to do is snap in your plant cartridges, fill in the water reservoir, and sit back to have the Smart Herb Garden do all of the actual growing for you.

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Alleged Canon EOS 7D MK II Test Camera Specs Revealed

The Canon EOS 7D MK II is expected to be announced sometime in the future, when exactly remains unknown. However for those looking forward to hearing more about the successor to the EOS 7D, the folks at Northlight have managed to get their hands on what seems like alleged specifications of said camera. Keep in mind that these are alleged specs and might not necessarily be the real thing, so approaching it with a hint of skepticism will probably go a long way preventing yourself from being disappointed.

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2014 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG S Wagon is one hot hauler (video)

Mentioned at the debut of the redesigned Mercedes-Benz E-Class back in January, Mercedes has finally pulled back the curtain on the E63 AMG S, which was on display at the New York Auto Show in wagon guise. The 2014 E63 AMG S ups the ante even more from a "base" E63 AMG, improving the car's performance and styling – not that it needed help with either to begin with. Our favorite S-model upgrade is the added output tweaked out of the 5.5-liter twin-turbo V8 producing 577 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque, which represents a substantial gain of 27 hp and 59 lb-ft of torque over the stock E63.

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Dospara Note Arumas T-11 Touchscreen Ultrabook

Dospara has dropped a new touchscreen ultrabook for the mass market. Called the Note Arumas T-11, this ultraportable system is equipped with an 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 multi-touch display, a 1.80GHz Intel Core i5-3337U dual-core processor, an Intel HM77 Express Chipset, an Intel HD Graphics 4000, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 128GB SSD, a webcam, a multi-card reader, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The Note Arumas T-11 sells for 109,980 Yen (about $1,167).

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Gridcase Reactor Is An iPhone 5 Case Which Features A Hand Crank

We've seen some pretty standard iPhone battery cases that will fit around your device and supply power to it, some of them even allowing you to choose when it needs a boost in power the most by turning the feature on or off. The Gridcase Reactor is an iPhone 5 battery case, but it features a unique method of charging the device. The Gridcase Reactor features a hand crank that you can attach to the back of the case to crank your way to more power for your iPhone 5. The kit will come with a two-piece case with a built-in micro-generator, a 400mAh boost battery, and a 500mA manual generator.

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Egyptian Criminal Divers Caught Cutting Undersea Internet Cable

For several days, Egypt has been experiencing Internet service disruptions and it looks like they finally may have figured out what could have been the problem. Divers have attacking their undersea Internet cables. According to Reuters, Egypt's coastguards stopped a fishing boat near Alexandria and arrested three divers who were caught cutting through an undersea Internet cable yesterday belonging to Egypt Telecom, which is the county's monopoly landline provider.

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2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive is headed for US

Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What Daimler is being much more clear about is that the B-Class EV is coming to the US earlier than you might expect, in early 2014. The car has a range of "around 115 miles" and is being unveiled today at the New York Auto Show. Last year, there was a hint that the electrified small Mercedes-Benz would have a range extender, but the information released today is all electric, all the time.

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The instant camera goes digital with the Polaroid Socialmatic camera

Most people my age and older have heard of Polaroid instant cameras, although they went out of style once digital photography became mainstream. Recently, Socialmatic LLC announced that they have an agreement with Polaroid to market a new-age instant camera, the Polaroid Socialmatic camera. This camera brings the old style of printing out photos directly from the camera into the digital age by allowing you to take a digital photograph, manipulate it with a variety of photo filters, and print it out (or share it on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter) via its touch screen. The Socialmatic camera will utilize the Android operating system.

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2014 Cadillac CTS debuts new design, twin-turbo power, Vsport model (video)

If ever there were a Cadillac to truly rival the world's best, this could be it. Now comes the 2014 CTS, an all-new sedan that aims to improve upon everything Cadillac learned from the ATS project, making its official debut this week at the 2013 New York Auto Show. We've already had the chance to check out the car in person, and everything seems to be a bit sharper with this new CTS, and we aren't just talking about the bold front end.









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Blue Lamborghini Aventador flambées eyeballs on New York City school run

Regardless of how unsure we are of the back story in this video, we don't doubt how cool it would be to get picked up from [insert place here] in a Lamborghini Aventador. In this case, the driver says he picks up his former neighbor's daughter from New York-area high school in an Aventador, and with most of us heading to the Big Apple tomorrow for the New York Auto Show, we're wondering if this guy might be available to shuttle us from the airport to the hotel. It never hurts to ask. After picking her up, they then head for a quick tour of Times Square with a trio of GoPro cameras recording the whole thing...



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Levenger's Pocquettes iPad mini Travel Case

Levenger is offering another beautiful entry in their line of tech cases.  The Pocquettes iPad mini Travel Case is made of textured full-grain leather.  If it's anything like my Pocquette's checkbook cover, the leather is buttery soft but strong.  The case measures 7.5″ wide X 9″ tall X 0.5″ thick. It has two zippered pockets on the outside to hold your cables, earbuds, phone, or the like.  The main pocket is padded and big enough to hold an iPad mini or similarly-sized small tablet or eBook reader.

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Apple Acquires WiFiSLAM, An Indoor Navigation Company

A person familiar with the matter has revealed that Apple has purchased indoor navigation company WiFiSLAM. It has reportedly paid $20 million for the company based in Silicon Valley. An Apple spokesman did confirm that the company has made this purchase, and added that Apple does purchase smaller companies from time to time, but doesn't necessarily reveal what it plans to do with them. No further comment was made, and WiFiSLAM hasn't commented at all on the deal.
WiFiSLAM is a two year old indoor navigation company. It developed technology that allows apps to determine the user's location in a building, based on Wi-Fi signals.

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Budget iPhone Will Release In 2013 Without Retina Display [Rumor]

It's the end of a new week and we almost got away with not hearing another rumor for the budget iPhone Apple is reportedly currently working on. But, alas, another week is yet to be complete without a regular dose of a budget iPhone rumor, so let's just get this one out of the way, shall we. The budget iPhone Apple is reportedly in the process of creating will come with fewer bells and whistles than people originally anticipated. A recently published note to investors by RBC Capital Markets' Amit Daryanani says Apple is expected to launch “multiple new phones” between June and July of this year.

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Ford of India in hot water for Figo celebrity bondage ads

Apparently sensibilities in India, at least in the case of some Ford marketing partners, are downright lascivious at times. Case in point are a new series of print ads, presumably touting the vast cargo capacity of the Ford Figo hatchback, that involve more than a whiff of T&A, S&M and other sexy abbreviations. In all seriousness, the advertising campaign is taking some major heat in the Indian press for being outrageously sexist. All three images – which seem to be produced by a graphic artist with some Heavy Metal work in his/her portfolio – show bound and gagged people stuffed into the Figo's boot.

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BlackBerry Z10 Now Available In The U.S. On AT&T

If you've been drooling at the BlackBerry Z10 ever since it was announced in late January, today is the day you U.S. BlackBerry owners have been waiting for as AT&T is officially the first carrier out of the gate to make the Z10 available to anyone and everyone that wants one. As we reported a few weeks ago, AT&T now has the BlackBerry Z10 available for $199 when you sign for a two-year contract.

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Jobs Biopic Starring Ashton Kutcher Release Delayed

Steve Jobs' Biopic, simply called “Jobs,” was expected to be released on April 19 to celebrate the 37th anniversary of the founding of Apple Computer. Unfortunately, it looks like the movie won't be released when it was originally intended to as Open Road Films has delayed the film's release. Open Road Films has yet to confirm a new date for Jobs to be released saying they wanted to have more time to market the film, although we think the Internet has given the film a healthy amount of promotion ever since it was first revealed such a film would exist.

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ASUS Rumored To Launch Intel Smartphone In June

When it comes to Intel-powered Android smartphones, there aren't that many manufacturers yet. However according to a report from Digitimes, they claim that according to their sources from the upstream supply chain, ASUS has plans to launch an Intel-based Android smartphone in June, targeting the mainstream market segment with an Intel Atom Z2580 device. The phone is said to share some characteristics with Lenovo's K900 and will sport a display ranging from 5-5.5". Apart from that not much else is known about the device, how it looks like or what other specs it will feature.

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List Of Samsung Devices Rumored To Receive Android 4.2.2 And Android 5.0 Updates

When a new version of Android is pushed out, the question many Android users are probably asking is when will they get it. This wait time will depend on a few factors, such as how long it takes for their manufacturer to push it to their phones, and if you're living in the US and you're tied to a carrier contract, you will have to wait for the update to go through your carrier first before pushed onto your device.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T431s Design A Departure From The Norm

In a world where not many things are certain (other than death and taxes, of course), it seems that the now familiar ThinkPad design from Lenovo has been a mainstay for years, being noted for their build quality, battery life as well as relatively lightweight chassis amongst others. Well, Lenovo seems to have gotten a little bit more adventurous this time around, with the latest ThinkPad T431s, which happens to be the first device that is based on an all new design for the ThinkPad series.

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Verizon To Adopt Pay What You Watch Only Model

It seems that Verizon has every intention of shouldering even more channels on its FiOS TV service, but they only want to fork out money for what their customers are watching at that point in time. According to the good people over at The Wall Street Journal, Verizon intends to pay the individual channels based on the number of “unique views” in a span of five minutes or higher that they rack up on a monthly basis, as compared to the mandatory monthly fees that each subscriber forks out with the current business model.

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Saints Row 4 Gets Announcement Trailer

Deep Silver has released the announcement trailer for their upcoming Saints Row 4 title. Just a bit of info, the game will be available on August 20th in the US and August 23rd in Europe.

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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite firmware 5.3.4 released

. Amazon has just released a new firmware 5.3.4 for their Kindle Paperwhite.

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Nintendo Wii U Sales Only Reach 64,000 In February

It was just a few days ago when video game industry analyst Michael Pachter said he believed Nintendo only sold 80,000 Wii U consoles in February. Considering Pachter made some outrageous claims recently in regards to the next Xbox outselling the PlayStation 4 and Wii U this holiday season before we've even seen the console, it was expected by many Pachter may not know exactly what he's talking about. Fortunately for Nintendo, he was wrong with his prediction. Unfortunately for Nintendo, it was far less than 80,000.

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BMW M4 sheds some camouflage for latest test run

Last time we saw the upcoming BMW M4 out testing, it was heavily clad with camouflage and decidedly homely looking (as most early development mules are). But in this latest set of photos, the M3 coupe successor has started to come into its own skin, and we're seeing a shape more closely akin to that of a rendering we brought you a few months back. Unsurprisingly, the M4 coupe looks very similar to the 4 Series Concept that BMW debuted at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year.

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Xerox Digital Nurse Assistant Offers Information On The Double

Xerox is a name that we would more often than not associate with that of digital copiers and photostat machines, but here we are with a system from Xerox that is capable of keeping track of both nurses as well as the medications which have been ordered for their patients. The system's core relies on a small digital tag which the nurse would wear, and that allows the system to recognize her whenever she enters a patient's room. All the patient's relevant medical information will then make an appearance on an in-room display, in addition to any specific data which requires attention.

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Scosche controlFREQ Car Stereo Receiver

Scosche has just announced a spanking new controlFREQ car stereo receiver as well as an accompanying app which will be able to transform the majority of smartphones out there into a touchscreen remote control. Not only that, it will also enable users to stream their favorite tunes from their smartphone or Bluetooth-enabled device without missing a beat, and this universally compatible receiver is also capable of playing music over a USB port, or if you prefer, you can store your music on an SD memory card, or via the front AUX port, as well as iPod direct control.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Hands-On Review

After several months of rumors and speculation as to what exactly Samsung has been cooking up with its Galaxy S4, today they finally pulled back the veil of secrecy. And the results are certainly an impressive display of what the company believes is its future in the smartphone business as the Galaxy S4 is equipped with a 5-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display, a 13MP rear-facing camera and will run on Android 4.2.2. But that's not all as not only has the company gone all out with its Galaxy S4, but a new suite of first-party software is also being introduced to further expand on an already impressive showing of hardware.








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