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Nokia is showing why it remains the top vendor in unit shipments. Simply put, the company continues to crank out new phones for consumers. Nokia this week added three new handsets to its product line. The handsets include the Nokia 6600 fold, Nokia 6600 slide and the Nokia 3600 slide.

The Nokia 6600 fold includes a nice 2.13″ OLED screen which offers up to 16 million colors. The phone features a high-gloss surface with an outer display which can “wake up” when the user taps it twice to receive time, incoming messages, missed calls and other information. Double tapping can also snooze alerts and silence incoming calls. A 2 megapixel camera is included with double LED flash. The camera also easily integrates with online services including Flickr or Yahoo! Go. The Nokia 6600 fold will retail for 275 EUR.

The Nokia 6600 slide features the double tap convenience of its fold cousin to snooze alerts and silence calls. Instead of a 2 megapixel camera a 3.2 megapixel camera is offered in addition to a larger 2.2″ QVGA display. Nokia Maps is integrated into the phone and is compatible with the optional Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W. The Nokia 6600 slide will retail for 250 EUR.

Finally, the Nokia 3600 slide features a contemporary style making it look good while its features make it very functional. The phone comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera and a double LED flash. The phone also has a TV-out feature allowing photos and video to be displayed on television sets. The Nokia 3600 will also feature the Nokia Maps application. The thing that makes the phone stand out from other Nokia handsets is that it is the first to feature background noise cancellation. This technology is complimented nicely by the phone’s built-in music player and support for an optional 4GB microSD card. The Nokia 3600 slide will retail for 175 EUR.

Read more from the Nokia press release.

Brian’s Opinion

Why is Nokia on top? Just look at the diversity of features offered within these three phones alone. Motorola can learn a lot from the products Nokia offers and the diversity of features within them.

Nokia seems to have a phone for whatever the market seems to be demanding. Some phones feature powerful cameras while others feature built-in music players. Some phones fold while others slide. Certain models are stylish while others are more functional.

The company just seems to know what consumers want. That explains why they not only continue to be the top handset manufacturer, but they also continue to gain market share while companies like Motorola lose it. Honestly, mobile phones are a little like journalism. In journalism you are only as good as your last great story. Manufacturers are only as good as their last great phone. That explains why Motorola is rebuilding and why Nokia continues to be successful.

Now the USB Cleaner Mouse is a rather nifty idea - after all, not only does it allow you to navigate through the Windows environment with greater ease compared to using keyboard shortcuts, it even comes with a built-in vacuum cleaner within which sucks up dirt and dust from your desk at the touch of a button. I wouldn’t leave the vacuum on while using the mouse as a pointer though, since it will definitely cause enough ruckus to irritate your cubicle neighbors. Well, at $19 a pop, this isn’t such a bad device to try out just for kicks, but it isn’t recommended if you’re into precision movement (especially for gamers).

I know that I spend more on my electric bill every month than I probably should. But with as many computers as I have running in my house, it’s not really a surprise. I can easily pinpoint where the main power drains are coming from, however, some people prefer to know exactly how much power some of their larger equipment uses. Here’s a cool power strip that will tell you how much energy each individual device in an area uses.

The strip features a large LCD screen which will tell you in kilowatt-hours how much energy a device uses over an hour, day, week, month or year. You might be surprised at how much power some of your bigger gadgets used. Of course like all gadgets that help you save energy, it’ll cost you. This Cost Controller Power Strip is going to set you back a cool $100.

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by Thomas Ricker, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 2:00AM
var While greeted with heaps of initial skepticism, forum jockeys over at OQO Talk now seem convinced that a junior member by the name of TRF has successfully hacked the OQO to run OS X Leopard. Adding a video filmed by Mr. Blurry Cam didn’t hurt the cause. TRF’s OQO is setup in a dual-boot Vista / OS X mode which boots Leopard in about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. WiFi, sound, power management and Bluetooth… it’s all there with applications popping with serious snap. The only thing missing at the moment is WWAN access which TRF is now testing. While not yet a “plug and play” hack, it’s “definitely doable,” he says. Perhaps, but we’ll need more details to say the least. Video excerpt posted after the break.

[Thanks Albert L. and lambda jones]

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In order to complete Jedi training and become a full-fledged Jedi you must build your own lightsaber. This is just how it is done. If you lived long ago and far away and had just finished your Jedi-learning, you would be stopping by the local W’Al M’artt and buying yourself an Adegan crystal. Then you’d cram it into your saber hilt along with a power source, add a little bit of loving care, and voila: a lightsaber fit for a Jedi. Alas, there are no more Adegan crystals for sale. But don’t cry - we have the next best thing. The Star Wars DIY Force FX Lightsaber Kit.

This Saber Kit is just what you need to build your custom saber. One main saber unit with a tri-color blade (flip a switch and choose red, green, or blue - each with corresponding and different sound effects) and a slew of parts let you assemble the saber you’ve dreamed of. All the parts are based on actual screen-seen components, so your saber will look like an awesome mashup from the movies. And the coolest part is, you don’t have to choose between the Jedi and the Sith - because you can switch back and forth with the flip of a . . . well, switch.

Gimmie!

Suggested Price: $99.99

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by Nilay Patel, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 1:46AM
Sending electrical shocks into the brain via a “brain pacemaker” has already led to dramatic breakthroughs like the revival of a man trapped in a vegetative state for six years, but new research may mean that the technique is soon a common treatment for disorders like depression and OCD. Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic, Mass General, Harvard Medical School and Brown Medical School implanted the Medtronics brain pacemaker into 17 people suffering from depression and tracked them for a year, finding significant improvements in mood as well as social and occupational functioning, while 26 patients suffering from OCD were followed for three years and also showed “marked improvement.” Findings will be presented to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons this week in Chicago, and clinical trials are scheduled for later this year — in other news, sales of “The Terminal Man” to neurosurgeons recently skyrocketed for unknown reasons.

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by Darren Murph, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 6:44AM
Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: we can’t deny that the Iron Man Mark I case mod took some serious work (and skill). That being the case, it’d take a pretty hardcore fan of the character (or the new flick, we guess) to love this one with reckless abandon. Reportedly, the whole shebang was built in just three weeks, and while we’re still waiting for the full work log, feel free to hit the read link for an array of angles.

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by Darren Murph, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 9:44AM
Those looking for another good reason to set up camp in Sweden have just found it. Okay, so maybe Manodo’s oh-so-informative display isn’t that astonishing, but it certainly gives a select few apartment residents in the country access to an enviable amount of information. Reportedly, the screen is being installed in several Swedish cities as part of a larger pilot project, and aside from dishing out details about the next available train, who exactly is standing outside their building and how much energy folks are currently consuming, it also serves up data on how many pounds of CO2 you’re responsible for releasing while kicking back in your pad. Unfortunately, we’re not sure if said solution is available en masse (or if it ever will be).

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Have you ever been so mad to wake up in the morning that you smash your alarm clock? Hopefully you don’t do that every day, or that would be one expensive habit.

However, you could purchase the Throw Alarm Clock, a special type of alarm clock which actually requires you to bounce or throw it in order to switch it off.

As you can see, the Throw Alarm Clock is a cushioned ball with an LCD display. It also has all the features of an alarm clock such as a time, date, as well as an hourly chime and the aforementioned alarm.

This Throw Alarm Clock is available in several sport ball shapes such as Cricket, Golf, and Football (aka Soccer). It also comes with a circular stand that mounts the ball, so it will not roll off of the nightstand.

So if you are the type who really needs to let out your aggression on your alarm clock, then you owe it to yourself and your wallet to purchase the Throw Alarm Clock now on the Boy Stuff site for £9.95. That, or you can truly deal with your anger management issues and try and wake up with a cheery disposition.

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by Nilay Patel, posted Apr 28th 2008 at 9:48PM
The stumbling blocks keep piling up as white space networking struggles to get off the ground: it looks like the manufacturers of healthcare equipment are set to join NAB in opposing the technology. Wireless medical telemetry devices like heart monitors have been operating in broadcast white spaces since the late 80s, and manufacturers like GE Healthcare say that the Microsoft- and Google-backed white space networking initiative could potentially “directly interfere” and “prevent patient monitoring.” For its part, the FCC has set aside all of channel 37 for medical telemetry devices in 1998 after interference from a nearby TV station shut down the system at Baylor University Medical Center, but it wasn’t mandatory, and hospitals that haven’t made the switch could face millions of dollars in upgrade costs. That’s not say that medical telemetry concerns are a problem that can’t be solved — the new Google push includes a channel 37 exception, for example, and there are some other compromise solutions on the table — but it seems like there’s no end of issues for a technology that hasn’t really even been demonstrated working yet.

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