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Add some spice into your kid’s bedroom with the Glowpets Nightlights from Prezzybox. After all, they’ll definitely bring some comfort to little ones who are afraid of the dark.

Glowpets night lights are soft, luminous animal night-lights that reassure young children with their comforting glow. These soft animals slowly change colour through pinks and greens, oranges and reds! Glowing gently they take the black out of the night and make a rainbow of the evening. They are made specifically for young children in mind with low-consuming LED’s so the Glowpets don’t get hot. Your little treasures can carry Glowpet with them wherever they choose.

You will be able to choose from Bunny, Kitten and Elephant designs, each retailing for £19.95.

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by Joshua Topolsky, posted Aug 24th 2008 at 5:03PM
It’s fairly obvious that the EOS 50D is on its way out into the world, especially considering those pics and specs we just caught wind of. Still, it’s nice to see some decent images of the 15.1-megapixel DSLR, and thanks to a brief Canon Japan website slip-up, we’re able to do just that. Check out one more view of the device after the break.

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Edison is a freeware application for your Windows XP or Vista machine that regulates its energy use, mainly by doing things like turning off your monitor, spinning down your hard drive and/or putting your computer into standby or hibernation.

Assuming you haven’t been a good boy/girl and already turned on some of those power-saving features, then you expect to save a good $20 to $35 per year per computer. Edison will also calculate your savings. Ok, so it doesn’t sound like a lot, but if you’re a poweruser who has a monster machine with more than 1 or 2 hard drives, a souped up graphics card and more, then you may well save a lot more. And of course, let’s not forget the significant benefit to the planet.

via Wired.com

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Some further information about the rumored upcoming Amazon Kindle student edition is now claiming that Amazon has confirmed the device is in the works. According to a recent report from the Seattle PI, Amazon has confirmed that “they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle.”

Based on the information available to date, the student edition Kindle will offer a larger screen, which I think makes sense when reading textbooks. Of course, we can only hope that text book pricing will be relatively inexpensive for the digital versions, because this could essentially kill, or seriously slow the used book market, which means no more quick cash at the end of the semester.

It also sounds like a student version of the Kindle will be a welcomed device, according to McGraw-Hill Education they already publish 95% of their textbooks digitally, but as of current they are not as popular because a good reading device is not yet available.

Of course, what I would suppose is the most important would be the pricing of the reader itself. However with the way text books are currently priced, I am not sure it would be hard to find a nice price point that is able to compete.

Read [Seattle PI] Via [TechCrunch]

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Some further information about the rumored upcoming Amazon Kindle student edition is now claiming that Amazon has confirmed the device is in the works. According to a recent report from the Seattle PI, Amazon has confirmed that “they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle.”

Based on the information available to date, the student edition Kindle will offer a larger screen, which I think makes sense when reading textbooks. Of course, we can only hope that text book pricing will be relatively inexpensive for the digital versions, because this could essentially kill, or seriously slow the used book market, which means no more quick cash at the end of the semester.

It also sounds like a student version of the Kindle will be a welcomed device, according to McGraw-Hill Education they already publish 95% of their textbooks digitally, but as of current they are not as popular because a good reading device is not yet available.

Of course, what I would suppose is the most important would be the pricing of the reader itself. However with the way text books are currently priced, I am not sure it would be hard to find a nice price point that is able to compete.

Read [Seattle PI] Via [TechCrunch]

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by Darren Murph, posted Aug 24th 2008 at 1:04PM
Not like Lenovo has been keeping this duo on the DL or anything, but the potent W500 and W700 are now available to order. Hailed as the company’s “most powerful notebooks ever,” the 15.4-inch W500 gets going from $1,629 with a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 CPU, Vista Home Premium, a WSXGA+ display, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, ATI’s 512MB Mobility FireGL V5700, a 100GB HDD, DVD combo drive, WiFi and a 6-cell battery. Overshadowing that is the 17-inch W700, which starts at $2,978 and features a WXGA+ display, T9400 CPU, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA’s 512MB Quadro FX-2700 and a 160GB hard drive. The W500 should ship within 1 to 2 weeks, while the W700 isn’t expected to head your way for a solid month. No worries — that gives you plenty of time to save up for the $1,275 QX9300 Core 2 Extreme option.

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by Darren Murph, posted Aug 24th 2008 at 11:09AMWe’ve stated it before, but this time you really have ran out of excuses to run. Thanks to Yamaha’s BODiBEAT, you can expect your tunes to automatically sync with your steps, giving you new reason to get out of the house and get to steppin’. Granted, the $299.99 price tag is pretty steep for just 512MB of space and 12-hours of battery life (marathon, what?), but we’re sure there are a few of you out there willing to pay the premium to keep your head nodding perfectly in line with your pace. Oh, and if you completely skipped over the headline, it’s shipping now. Right now.

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Think your government is technologically inept?  If you happen to live in England, you’d probably be more correct than the rest of us.  Sometime last week it seems the British government has lost a flash drive containing data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales and “30,000 people with six or more criminal convictions in the past year.” Theoretically this wouldn’t be such a horrible thing, you’d think a government would have several layers of security on a flash drive in just such a case.  Apparently, this flash drive had none, it was completely unencrypted.

This isn’t the first time this has happened to the British government, which would just add to the embarrassment.  Hopefully this leak will at least teach them, and others, something important: data security.  If you have sensitive data on a flash drive, it would be a wise idea to use some sort of encryption software like Truecrypt, which is free and open source.  Of course there are other options, but that would seem the most reasonable, at least the cheapest.  So, if you’re ever carrying around the names, addresses, and expected release dates on the entire prison population of your nation, make sure it’s well protected in case you “forget” it somewhere or something.

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Next in the series of new notebooks that Asus has recently announced is the B50 notebook which is geared for the business professionals. According to Asustek, it is the ultimate notebook computer for the business environment. Featuring the latest Express Gate technology, the Asus B50 boasts of an 8-second boot-up time for fast access to various desktop applications and online connection.

This powerhouse machine also boasts of Asustek’s exclusive Power4 Gear Extreme for efficient power management which extends usage beyond 5 hours. Another notable feature of the Asus B50 is its spill resistant keyboard which can pretty much assure the users that their notebooks will not be damaged even if some liquid gets spilled into it. A special built-in LED light for the keyboard also adds extra use for the notebook even when in a dimmed meeting room.

For security purposes, the Asus B50 features an integrated biometric fingerprint scanner and a Trusted Platform Module which ensures security of data and transactions through B50A without making access to them difficult. And for extra feature, Asus threw in a docking station which lets you connect various peripherals such as power and communication devices easily.

Other features and specs of the Asus B50 include and Intel Core 2 Duo procesor, Windows Vista, Mobile Intel GMA5 Express Chipset, up to 4GB of RAM, a 15.4-inch WXGA/WXGA Color Shine LCD, up to 320GB of hard drive storage, a DVD Super-Multi Light Double Layer, Wi-Fi and a built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam. Also, since mobility is one of the main considerations of business professionals when it comes to mobile computing, the Asus B50 fits in perfectly with its ideal weight of 6.61-pounds with an 8-cell battery.

Pricing and release dates are not yet available though. But we expect the Asus B50 to begin hitting the market sometime soon.

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by Paul Miller, posted Aug 24th 2008 at 4:05AM
Today’s generations of gee-whiz graphics and analog controls have brought with them one unfortunate addition: beefy, expensive wireless controllers that we’re loathe to dash against the floor or to bash against an adjacent sibling. The creatively-termed “USB Metal Game Pad” from Dream Cheeky is just what it says on the box, doing your basic assortment of SNES-era joypad work with some USB pluggability and Mac / PC compatibility, but being conveniently built out of metal. Sure, it looks shoddy and uninspired, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. No word on price or where to nab one.

[Via technabob]

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