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It seems that John Mayer may have some more connections than just with Apple, it looks like he is also in good with RIM as well. If you remember back in January he was lucky enough to get his hands on a macbook air before they were available to us regular folks, now its the recently announced and still unreleased blackberry Bold.

Showing off the Bold on his site, he also gives a nice little statement about how the word “geek” is dead and goes on to mention that the Bold “has blazing fast 3G and twice the screen resolution, and the fonts look like something out of the New York Times.” I guess, if nothing else it at least has the geek seal of approval from John Mayer. This almost makes me wish I had stuck with those guitar lessons when I was a kid, maybe I could also be getting cool tech toys before anyone else.

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You probably already know the lawn sprinkler systems are sometimes more of a hassle than they are a solution. Your typical sprinkler reaches only a few inches from the ground, spraying water in a 15 foot radius or so. The problem is that the small stature of these sprinklers can cause some major issues if there happens to be obstacles in the way, such as trees or shrubs.

The High-Rise Sprinkler, available from Sporty’s Tool Shop is the one shot solution for dousing your entire lawn, even if there happens to be a wall of shrubs in its way. No longer will you have to deal with that unattractive patch of dead greenery which plagues your lawn with ugliness.

The High-Rise Sprinkler guarantees a range of 5000 square feet, ensuring that every inch of your lawn, and probably every inch of your driveway and home, gets doused with a life-providing spray of H20. When not in use, the sprinkler can be folded into a compact 22″ for easy storage.

The $50 High-Rise Sprinkler might resemble a camera tripod, but is made especially with lawn obstacles in mind, features an adjustable 100′ diameter for reaching any length of your grass (providing you don’t live on some lofty estate or you’re trying to water a golf course.) Grab your own to unleash the pure aquatic fury on your lawn.

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Rumors have been circulating around the tech industry that Best Buy could be planning a buy out of mail movie rental service Netflix. AlleyInsider claims that Best Buy has been mulling the idea over to purchase the company for $44 a share, yet what could Best Buy’s purchase mean for the popular service?

Netflix has been touted as the superior of the mail rental services (mostly compared with Blockbuster Online), and some are hesitant to think that a buy out from Best Buy would be the best decision for the service. Of course, this all depends on how Best Buy would handle things if a Netflix acquisition were to take place.

So what could Best Buy actually do for Netflix that hasn’t already been done? For one, wouldn’t it be pretty cool if Best Buy started offering in-store movie exchanges, much like Blockbuster does? You’d be able to swap a shipped Netflix movie out at you local Best Buy for a new movie, and have an additional movie shipped right out to you.

An acquisition from Best Buy could also mean that some special customer packages might be included with certain purchases. Such as, if you were to buy a DVD player at a Best Buy store, you’d get a discount on monthly fees for a certain amount of time. Maybe they’d also speed up the development of the Mac compatibility with Netflix’s Instant Watch feature.

Of course, this is all wild speculation, but we’re not quite sure an acquisition would be a bad thing, as long as Best Buy stuck to offering the stellar customer service that Netflix has been known to dole out to their subscribers. A mismanagement of the situation could cause mass chaos within the Netflix community, but if things are done right, we can be expecting some great things for the future of online movie rental. This is even if Best Buy is in fact planning on the Netflix purchase.

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by Darren Murph, posted May 17th 2008 at 8:46AM
We’ll be frank — we really have no idea what Samsung’s getting at with its freshest Soul promotional video, but it’s certainly a fine piece of eye candy if nothing else. Put simply, the video shows a maniac darting about demonstrating ten optical illusions in just over two minutes, and in case you couldn’t guess, the Soul is saved for last. Should we have prefaced that bit with a spoiler warning? Too bad — vid’s still waiting after the jump if you’re interested, though.

[Thanks, Joel]

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Two Chinese companies, Zarva and Zippo recently came together to create a new MP3 player. This new player is dubbed the Zarva Zippo MP320 and Zippo is the official partner of Zarva.

Basically, the MP320 is going to come with a small screen, and is not going to support video playback. Nearly all MP3 players these days comes with video playback, so it’s pretty rare to see a mp3 player without video playback. Additionally, for audio, MP3 and WMA are the only formats supported. Other features include 7 EQ’s, integrated microphone, A-B repeat and USB 2.0 connectivity. Furthermore, it is going to be really cheap, only 188 yuan, which is around $27 US, and only available in a 1GB model. Expect the MP320 player to only be available in China.

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At CES this year, Sony showed off their 1st OLED (Organic LED) TV that will go on sale, except it was a puny 11″ screen. It was a sweet looking TV though at 3mm thick and with a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. But who wants 11″ of OLED when they can get 50″ of Plasma for the same price?

Now Samsung just showed off an 82″ OLED with backlighting. We may even start seeing some more reasonably sized screens coming to stores soon as well. Essentially, it’s not a question of technology but of economics - scale and cost.

via TV Snob.

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