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Darkness not only removes light from the scene when you’re driving, it also takes out contrast, leaving a night driver with the bright spotlight cast by the car’s headlights, and any other place where light is cast by streetlights, a full moon, billboard lights, etc. It’s a light/dark world with no degree of shade or contrast. High-end sports watch maker Tag Heuer has recognized that the ability to see varying degrees of light and dark can add that contrast and have created a pair of Night Vision glasses to help drivers to see – even when no light is cast. Here’s how they work:

Originally designed to help drivers in the 24 Hours of LeMans auto race, the Tag Hauer glasses amp up contrast by correcting the low-light short-sightedness of the human eye, which only sees about 10% at night. The pale yellow lenses offer constant clear, sharp vision with a very high light transmission rate in order to contrast dark blue and green surroundings without changing color perception. In addition, the lenses are anti-reflective to reduces glare and increase sharpness, taking added strain off the eyes.
The titanium frames come Wide and Panorama, and have anti-slip elastomere arms to keep them on your head.

Other designs include infra red glasses to see better in the harsh light environment of snow or beaches where ultra violet rays and infra read heat are reflected in the eyes up to 80%.

No word on pricing, but for those who make living on the road or at the beach or snow (like Ski Patrol), these glasses are easily must have tools of the trade.

Hat Tip - D’Vice

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JVC has introduced a new JVC GZ-MG330 Everio Hard Disk Camcorder featuring a slender design. The company prides in unveiling the worlds smallest and lightest hard drive camcorder in the market. With this hard disk camcorder one can shoot actively without exhaustion, and with lots of space left over in your bags while travelling.

Features

The new JVC GZ-MG330 also proffers novel functions assembling simple and intuitive operation. JVC GZ-MG330 features Laser Touch, a touch-sensitive scroll bar that simplifies operation and a new design that’s some 20 percent smaller than the previous model.

Availability

JVC GZ-MG330 Camcorder is available in 4 different elegant colors as Pearl Silver, Cerulean Blue, Claret Red, and Stylish black

Warranty

JVC GZ-MG330 is backed up with a warranty of 1 year.

Price

The JVC GZ-MG330 is available at an ERP of $323.00.

Source: JVC

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Its official: the new Montevina mobile technology from Intel will start shipping at the end of March and will be branded Centrino 2.

Right after the release of the Atom platform, Intel was quick to introduce the Core 2 Extreme QX9770 which will also be divided into 2 branding: Centrino2vPro for business portables and the Centrino 2 for consumer notebooks. The Centrino 2 is expected to provide faster performance so multitasking is a cinch, as well as higher bandwidth Wi-Fi at 802.11a/g/n. This new processor was also designed with saving power in mind so the laptop can hopefully last more than the usual 2 to 3 hours.

And since we’re slowly moving into the Blu-ray era, Centrino also offers Blu-ray disc support. It looks like the Centrino 2 production is going to offer better and faster computing since it also features WiMax wireless technology in addition to the Wi-Fi, and of course, graphics will improve by at least 300% with GMA X4500 silicon.

Read [CNET]

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The new 1400 series are part of Magellan’s fast growing GPS lineup. These new GPS units are very thin and designed to fit in the pocket and work as soon as you turn it on. Basically, these new GPS units all feature a 4.3-inch anti-glare touch screen, and a cool new interface called QuickSpell. This allows you to get the address you need without typing a whole lot. It also comes with SmartDetour, which does just what it says, it finds different routes in case there is a lot of traffic.

Overall, all of the GPS units in the 1400 series feature the following:

• 4.3-inch WQVGA full-colour, anti-glare touch-screen display.
• Centrality Atlas III GPS chipset.
• 2-D and 3-D map views with auto day/night mode switching.
• Trip computer and trip planner.
• QuickSpell, which intelligently searches and checks spelling when entering addresses.
• SmartDetour to route drivers around heavy or stationary traffic.
• Postcode search: 7-digit postcode searches in the United Kingdom and 6-digit postcode searches in the Netherlands.
• Pre-loaded speed-trap database providing known camera locations for each region.
• SD card slot for additional maps.
• USB port for PC connection and in-vehicle power.
• Worldwide reversible maps (where U.S. maps are compatible with EMEA products, and vice-versa).

More specifically, the basic unit which is just the RoadMate 1400, comes with NAVTEQ maps. The cool thing about this is that you can choose which maps you want to display so this will come in handy if you only need maps for a certain area. These areas are France, Italy/Austria/Switzerland, Sweden/Finland/Norway/Denmark, Great Britain/Ireland/Northern Ireland, Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Spain/Portugal and Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg. Another cool feature is that it comes with a database of safety cameras, which would show cameras for each region. So far, it is retailing for 179 Euros (around $275 US).

Moving onto the next GPS, the RoadMate 1415, which is basically the same but it comes with text-to-speech functionality. It comes with NAVTEQ maps which feature maps of all of Europe, thousands of POI’s, and it is set to retail for 229 Euros (around $350 US).

Finally, we have the RoadMate 1425 which comes with live traffic updates, and a lifetime traffic subscription which updates in real-time. This will provide accidents along your chosen route, comes up with alternative routes, and changes the expected time the trip will take based on real-time traffic. It also comes with over a million POI’s, which is a lot more than the other 2 models. Expected retail price is 279 Euros (around $427 US).

“We are developing products at Magellan that are designed to exceed consumer expectations in price, content and connectivity. The RoadMate brand is an exceptional example of a value-priced line that delivers great GPS performance as well as unique and compelling features,” said Christian Bubenheim, vice president of product marketing, Magellan.

Lastly, all of the RoadMate 1400 models come with a windshield mount and a cradle, 12V car charger, and an adhesive disk for on-dash mounting.

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Did you know that doing a web search can also help find a cure for breast cancer? One site powered by Google is the new Search The Cure started by JDMedia. On this site 75% of the revenue generated goes towards fighting breast cancer, and you’ll be able to see on the site how much in donations has been made. Another site also powered by Google is Find It Girlfriend, which has links throughout to The Breast Cancer Site, on which just a click will help fund mammograms for the poor. Find It Girlfriend is designed specifically for girls with its bright pink background, so if you have more than one computer in your house, you could have Find It Girlfriend be the homepage on the chick’s computer and Search The Cure be the homepage on the dude’s computer.

These sites are a really easy way to help fight breast cancer. Using a search engine is something you would do anyway, and it doesn’t cost anything. Even if, unlike me, you’ve never known any victims of breast cancer, you can still show some support. So let’s hear it for JDMedia and Find It Girlfriend for coming up with these sites. Here’s hoping that they can raise a lot of money for breast cancer.

Via [Tech-Ex] Via [geeksugar]

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Cat Rechargeable LED Flash Light

Dymo hand action cat light with super bright LED cats eyes.

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The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1offers a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus, photo light, and video recording, as well as the following features:

* full arc-sliding QWERTY
* Windows Mobile 6 operating system
* 3-inch wide VGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display,
* A2DP Bluetooth
* GPS
* WiFi
* microSD
* 400MB
* quad-band GSM/EDGE
* 900/1700/1900/2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (or 850/1700/1900/2100MHz)
* 4-way key and optical joystick

Via Engadget.

Apple has finally released an SDK (Software Developer’s Kit) for the iPhone that answers the clamor by developers and enthusiasts who want to write applications for the iphone. Also released was a beta version of the 2.0 firmware of the iPhone.

While the SDK will be freely available for download and will quiet some of the noise for it, not everyone is completely happy  as the SDK only runs on a Mac, it costs $99 to publish an app through the iTunes Application store, and doesn’t appear to be completely open to accessing everything the iPhone can do.

The bright side of course is that there is an SDK and I’m sure it will evolve in time … and with some more clamoring. Get your SDK over at Apple’s Developer Connection site.

Posted Mar 7th 2008 5:49PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: cellphones

Is that an exodus we smell, or what? Nary 24 hours after Motorola’s chief marketing officer decided to start his weekend early by parting ways with the company, along comes word that the (now-former) president of Motorola’s Mobile Devices business is doing the same. According to a breaking release from Moto, Stu Reed’s departure is “effective immediately,” and Greg Brown, company president and CEO, made mention that the outfit “appreciates [his] many contributions and wishes him the best in the future.” As of now, there’s no word on who’s lined up fill Mr. Reed’s shoes, but it seems the pool of choices could be dwindling.

Phone watches banned from Thai exams

I had my good share of ways to cheat on exams when needed to, but it didn’t include any kind of “top-notch” technology, like it happened in Thailand. According to someone on the Ministry of Education, a student was caught cheating during an exam by using his phone watch - can you blame him?

The cheating system while using this kind of gadgets is pretty simple: take a discrete photo of the exam questions, send it via MMS to a friend that has the knowledge or knows how to look for the answers, and wait for a SMS with all the goodies.

The only problem is being discrete, and in this case, the student was caught while receiving/reading the text messages that were displayed on the watch. Thanks to this student, all normal watches are banned from exams, and the next step is to take a look at wall clocks.

Facebook now in German version

Facebook, one of the most popular social networks of 2007 (and 2008) has added a new language to their site - German. All the work was done by 2,000 Facebook members, that went into volunteer work and got the job done (translating the whole site) in less than two weeks.

Since 60% of the Facebook population lives on the US, it isn’t hard to understand why it only had a n English version until February, at that time, the Spanish language was added thanks to more volunteers.

Source - Reuters

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