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Rather you call it Japanimation or anime, the Japanese style of cartooning has a few distinctive factors which are hard to ignore. The chunky hair styles are angular and sharp, while the stand-out facial feature is undeniably the huge eyes and wide irises. While you can easily fashion your hair in anyway you wish with enough effort, changing your eyes to resemble an anime character was at one time, pretty impossible.

It seems that a few companies are now starting to produce Extra-Wide Contact Lenses which give you that deer-caught-in-the-headlights wide irised look. Ranging from prices between $30-$50 a pair, depending on the company you purchase from. Cosplay was never this realistic.

If your worried about your contacts having the proper prescription, don’t fret. These contacts aren’t limited to cosmetic purposes. Just send the companies your proper prescription and the lenses are made to order, so you’ll still see the world clearly.

There are a few companies which are offering these Extra-Wide Contacts, both Geo and Dueba will ship the pair right out to you when ordered from Shopping Times. So if you’ve been looking for the right costume for the next anime convention, you might be in luck.

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The Hitachi DZ-BD10HA HD camcorder can record to three formats, by adding the ability to record directly to blu-ray discs. The Hitachi DZ-BD10HA full HD / 1080p (1920×1080 pixels) camcorder features a 7-megapixel CMOS sensor and can record to a 30GB hard drive, SDHC cards, and blu-ray discs. As well as having a great selection of storage options to record to, the DZ-BD10HA also has the ability to, at the push of a button, dub/copy the video from the hard drive or SDHC directly to Blu-ray, eliminating the need to use a computer.

The internal hard drive of the Hitachi DZBD10HA allows for upto 4 hours and 20mins of Full HD (1920×1080pixels) of video of 8 hours and 40mins of 1440×1080 video. As well as recording and copying to blu-ray discs, you can also perform a number of editing functions and also transcode the HD videos to a standard DVD, all directly on the Hitachi DZ-BD10HA. So if using a computer for copying, editing and burning HD video is not your kind of thing the DZ-BD10HA can do it all for you, and of course, still retains it ability to copy all data to a PC.

The new Hitachi DZ-BD10HA is also 20% smaller than the model it replaces, and uses less power, providing longer usage and silent operation. Other features include the ability to take still digital photos, optical image stabilization and face detection to automatically focus on faces.

Expect to see the DZ-BD10HA for around $999 when it lauches in the US in September.

Real music ring tones, web browsing, camera, games and text messaging, you just name it and Virgin Mobile Arc will provide you with it all. A cell phone having an eye-catching color and funky design, Virgin Mobile Arc allows you to download stuff like graphics, chat parks, ring tones and games.

Features

• Full Color Internal & External Screens
• Camera Phone
• Bluetooth Wireless Technology
• Voice Dialing
• Text Messaging

With Virgin Mobile Arc, you get a talk time of up to 210 minutes and a talk time of up to 14.5 days. Measuring 3.8” x 8” x 0.7”, Virgin Mobile Arc weighs just 3 oz and is therefore easy to be carried in pocket all the time. Perfect for those keen in buying a stylish yet affordable cell phone, Virgin Mobile Arc sports a 1.8-inch internal display that supports 262,000 colors.

Price and Availability

Virgin Mobile Arc is available at a price of $ 49.99.
Source: Virginmobileusa

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I don’t know if you’ve ever watched a show on the USA Network called Burn Notice, but it is about a spy that was fired by his particular spy organization. He is now forced to do A-Team-ish jobs for clients in order to make a living.

I bring this show up because the main character, Michael, makes his own spy equipment from old cellular phones and GPS devices, and the Spy Kite is low-tech spy gear that he could just buy instead of making.

The Spy Kite is just what it sounds like, a wind flyer that has a digital camera mounted on the frame. This delta wing model is made of fiberglass, and can take pictures from 80 feet in the air. I believe that the 80 foot height requirement is because the string holder has a wireless remote that allows a picture to be taken.

Once you are finished with your spywork, you can reel in your kite and attach it to your PC and download your photos. I have no word on the resolution or memory of this camera, but I have my doubts on whether this would work. After all, every time that I fly a kite, it moves around too erratically, which is not ideal for shooting photos.

Well, if you’re willing to take a chance, perhaps you should try it out for about £29.99 or $57. You can purchase it at the Gadgetshop site.

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Gaj-It returns to winning ways, winning last weeks coolest gadget with the exceedingly cool Rovio Wi-Fi Robot.

This ingenious piece of gadgetry streams video and audio through a built-in camera, and can be controlled from anywhere. When I say anywhere, I do mean that you can be sipping mojitos in Hawaii and checking up on what’s going at home in London by controlling Rovio around your living room via the internet.

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In second place comes Decide What to Buy with the useful telephoto lens for your mobile.

This universal lens also connects up to a tripod and transforms your phone’s humble camera into a 8x zoom machine. Now all you need to do is fit the thing in your bag.

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Finally in third place we have the not so useful but pretty cool R/C Dead Fred Zombie.

Halloween comes a little bit early with the remote-controlled Dead Fred. This 4-foot long realistic looking zombie is powered by a quartet of DC motors and two 12-volt batteries, allowing it to groan, scream and talk in full digital audio thanks to an onboard amplifier and speaker (complete with trailing entrails).

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If you’re trying to be careful about how to best utilize your desk space, a set of speakers like these would be convenient.  They stack straight up and down, so only a small square on your desk is being used.  Granted you could probably just buy a set of mostly square speakers and attempt to stack them in the same fashion.  However, these look like they lock together nicely to keep them sturdy.  Plus when you feel the need you can lay them out next to each other instead of stacking.

These come from PBTeen and this isn’t the first time I’ve come across one of their teen products that would look great for adults as well.  Especially those in their 20’s that are either in a small dorm or living in a small apartment, since a lot of their products are focused on space saving.  The speakers come in several different colors; pink, light blue, light green, dark blue and gray.  They measure 3” and will work for either your ipod or iphone.  The Stackable Speakers will cost you $129.

Source: Gadgenista

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Real music ring tones, web browsing, camera, games and text messaging, you just name it and Virgin Mobile Arc will provide you with it all. A cell phone having an eye-catching color and funky design, Virgin Mobile Arc allows you to download stuff like graphics, chat parks, ring tones and games.

Features

• Full Color Internal & External Screens
• Camera Phone
• Bluetooth Wireless Technology
• Voice Dialing
• Text Messaging

With Virgin Mobile Arc, you get a talk time of up to 210 minutes and a talk time of up to 14.5 days. Measuring 3.8” x 8” x 0.7”, Virgin Mobile Arc weighs just 3 oz and is therefore easy to be carried in pocket all the time. Perfect for those keen in buying a stylish yet affordable cell phone, Virgin Mobile Arc sports a 1.8-inch internal display that supports 262,000 colors.

Price and Availability

Virgin Mobile Arc is available at a price of $ 49.99.
Source: Virginmobileusa

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Get the best sound effect with the award winning 251 Environmental Speakers launched by Bose. Perfect to be mounted on your exterior walls, Bose 251 Environmental Speakers come in black and white colors. A superb combination of design and technology, Bose 251 Environmental Speakers allows you to enjoy music by the pool, on the deck or any corner of your home.

Features

• Weather-resistant brackets and hardware
• Syncom computer tested
• 2 ½ Twiddler drivers with glass composite cone and silky light surround
• 5 ¼ woofers with polymer fiber composite cone and butyl rubber surround
• Mineral and glass-filled polypropylene cabinet

Bose 251 Environmental Speakers features two 2 ½ full-range rivers in an Articulated Array speaker design for you to enjoy a consistent and lifelike sound effect. Apart from these, Bose 251 Environmental Speakers incorporates one 5-¼ woofer in a patented multichambered enclosure.

Price and Availability

Bose 251 Environmental Speakers is available at a price of $ 358.00.
Source: Bose

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The folks over at Slacker are offering up three (3) one year subscriptions to their premium internet radio (a $120 value). If you aren’t already using Slacker we highly recommend you check it out and enter the giveaway, so you can upgrade to premium for 1 year at $0. The premium service gives you the ability to save songs for on demand play back, unlimited song skips, and is 100% ad free. Check out our review here.

To enter: Via the comment form below, tell us what song you are currently listening to. It can be online, on your ipod, in your car…wherever!

This giveaway will close on Monday, August 18 at 11:59pm EST, then we’ll pick the winner at random.

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by Thomas Ricker, posted Aug 12th 2008 at 7:31AM
As the military industrial complex surges forward, so do advances in technology for the public sector. At least that’s how the cold-war wisdom goes. Case in point: QinetiQ is developing a lens-less, mirror-less, battlefield imaging system with some help from your DARPA’s deep pockets. The LACOSTE project (Large Area Coverage Optical Search while Track and Engage) aims to set aloft high-altitude (about 20km) drones and air-ships fitted with a special, thousand-strong microscopic sensor array (a “first of their kind,” according to QinetiQ), a “mask,” and image processor to decode the scene and extract an image of the quickly changing conditions on the battlefield or, you guessed it, city streets. The resulting lightweight and highly-durable system should feature a “super resolution” mode with the ability to “detect and simultaneously track large numbers of moving vehicles in dense urban areas with a high degree of accuracy, 24-hours a day.” And here you thought CCTV was intrusive.

[Via BBC]

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