I just stumble upon this product from the Taiwanese company called ACARD, the ARS-2212. Apparently widely available in the US and in Europe this product is now also available in Japan. Basically our ARS-2212 is a slim 2.5” HDD enclosure which can store 2 HDD (side by side), and can backup if necessary your computer or you can without any hassle make sure you always have ALL you data and backup next to you in a compact size (163x16x163mm).

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Having heart problems is no laughing matter, and most people will have to take plenty of medication, keep up a good exercise regime and watch their diet. They too, will need a heart rate monitor of some sort in order to make sure nothing untoward happens during the course of the day. These devices tend to be bulky, and they’re awkward to carry around. Enter the Vital Jacket heart rate monitor courtesy of BioDevices, which is actually an ordinary t-shirt that continuously monitors heart rate and ECG waves, making it one of the most ideal solution for elderly patients with plenty of potential for fitness applications too.

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The ZapCam - YouTube Tazer is a cool new gadget that combines two gadgets into one: a Tazer and a video camera.

With the ZapCam you can tazer your friends and capture his funny moves on video and upload it directly to Youtube via Bluetooth.

The ZapCam - YouTube Tazer packs a non-lethal 60,000V bite and shoots the darts 15 feet.

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This modern twist on the classic pedometer doesn’t just track your steps, it lets you keep tabs on the quality of the exercise you get during your day-to-day life.

Unlike meters that just count your steps, the Seiko SlimStick uses modern dual-axis accelerometers to track the magnitude of your movements, giving greater value to more intensive exercise. Just clip the compact SlimStick onto your clothes or stick it in a pocket, and it’ll track your activity level.

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The Kohler Fountainhead VibrAcoustic Bathtub adds a whole new dimension to your bathtub, throwing in sound vibration, chromatherapy, and music to enrich your soaking experience. After all, research has proven that sound vibration, music, and chromatherapy works wonders when it comes to relieving one of stress while keeping the mind at ease. The only thing missing is a complimentary rubber duckie to keep me company during my relaxing baths in a Kohler Fountainhead VibrAcoustic Bathtub.

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Try to come up with idea for something weird to plug into your computer’s USB port, and there’s a good chance such a product already exists. Like this vibrating LCD alarm clock that looks like a washing machine.

Features:

Time, date and alarm clock LCD display

4 different melodies with vibration

Hourly chime signal with LED

12/24 hour mode switch

Clock setting by 3 control buttons

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Sony plans to double the annual production capacity of Bravia LCD TVs in Slovakia, up from two million sets in fiscal year 2007 to four million sets by the end of December 2008. The Slovak factory is set to become Sony's largest producer of LCD TVs worldwide. Sony built Nitra Technology Centre in Nitra, 40km east of Trnava and relocated its production function, in order to meet rapidly increasing demand for LCD TVs in Europe. Nitra Technology Centre started production of Bravia LCD TVs in August 2007, along with Sony's TV manufacturing facility in Barcelona, Spain.

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Creative has revealed some snazzy new color options for their ZEN iPod-rival. Behold the eye-catching pink and red versions. These look juicy in bubble gum colors. Other then the color, the PMP is identical to existing ZEN models. So, you’ll get the same 2.5-inch, 320 x 240, 16m color TFT display, choice of 4GB, 8GB, 16GB or 32GB flash storage and SD/SDHC expansion.

The ZEN also has an FM radio and microphone for voice recordings, is compatible with multiple audio and video formats (MP3, WMA, AAC (. M4A), WAV (ADPCM), Audible 2,3,4, MJPEG, WMV9, MPED4-SP, DivX 4 / 5 and XviD) and has a photo viewer (JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG & TIFF).

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Sony's latest mini-dome IP camera is designed with the great outdoors in mind as the SNC-DF80P comes enclosed in a casing that's vandal proof. Typical external locations would be areas such as covered car parks but we noted that the camera has no IP (ingress protection) rating so should not be mounted where it is exposed to the elements or can be splashed with water.

A key feature of this camera is its use of Sony's IMD (Intelligent Motion Detection) and IOD (Intelligent Object Detection) technologies. These add some intelligence to the camera's motion detection functions and come into play when you configure the camera for both moving and stationary objects.

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As of tonight NVIDIA's got one more notch to add to that bed post: the GeForce 9600 GSO, which is a little more on the cheap date end of the spectrum. The first of the card-makers to launch their 9600 GSO is EVGA, with a 650MHz, 384MB / 1900MHz DDR3, PCI Express 2.0 ditty (e-GeForce 9600GSO Superclocked 384MB), as well as an even lower end 550MHz, 384MB / 1600MHz version (e-GeForce 9600GSO 384MB).

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It has been a while since we have reported on Tanita’s products. Tanita probably makes the best weighing scales in the world, but one of their products, the BC558 is more of a “Segmental Body Composition Monitor” than a scale.

So what exactly is a Segmental Body Composition Monitor? It is a way of taking individual measurements for each body segment, including the trunk, right arm, left arm, right leg, and left leg.

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Pioneer unveiled the KURO KRF-9000FD full HD projector which features high reflectivity LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) technology in order to achieve a fantastic contrast ratio of 30,000:1. Other features on the KRF-9000FD include :

2x motorized zoom/focus lens

80% vertical and +-34% horizontal lens shift

600lm brightness

2 HDMI ports

24db noise level

280W power consumption

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This USB 2.0 compliant hub comes with seven ports that rotates 90 degrees.

Features:

90 degree rotatable

7 flexible hi-speed ports

Fully compliant with USB 2.0 specification

Backwards compatible with USB 1.1

Support data transfer rate at 1.5/12/480 Mbps

Individual port over-current protection

Friendly and ergonomic design

Plug and play

LED indicator

Support windows 98/2000/Me/XP or Mac OS 8.6 or above

Weight: 128g

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The SolarStore panels, which inflate from a backpack into a 2 meter square, are designed to replace hot water heaters, one of the primary consumers of power in most households. An English company, IDC, has announced plans to mass-produce an inflatable solar panel and make it commercially available for less than $200 , a great leap forward in making green energy available to the masses.

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Seagate today became the world's first company to ship 1 billion hard disk drive since its inception in 1979. So how much information Seagate has delivered in these 29 years? The 1 billion Seagate hard drives equates to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music! And in all these years, Seagate has certainly come of age. In 1979, Seagate’s first product, the ST506 hard drive, could store 5 megabytes of data or the equivalent of one MP3 song. The drive weighed about five pounds and cost $1,500, or $300 per megabyte.

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