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Fuji FinePix Z700EXR Features Pet Detection

Don’t find pictures of human beings rewarding? Well, maybe pets are more up your street? Not only is the Fuji FinePix X700EXR able to detect human faces, it can also detect up to 10 cat or dog faces per photo. Of course, if your pet is a turtle or goldfish, then you’re probably out of luck. So if you’ve got a penchant for snapping hundreds of pictures of your cat/dog, this might just be the camera for you. The FinePix X700EXR will be going for $280 later this month.

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Kim Jong-il caption contest

Matt: “I see we just got the latest computer monitors. Take that, South Korea.”
Devin: “Zerg him, comrade”
John: “Our glorious gold farming initiative is the pride of the world.”
Dave: “What?? Doug left CrunchGear?”
Greg: “Our screens may not be bigger, but they are deeper. Take that, South Korea!”
Scott:”I always get sniped on de_dust, too. Don’t let it [...]

Fantasy gadgets: in-line A/V switch

Question: why doesn’t this thing exist? I’m reviewing projectors the size of decks of cards, and my phone has turn-by-turn GPS navigation, but I still need to use a full-size AV receiver when I need to plug my SNES into my home stereo? I was wondering about this, and just doodled up this little thing here. It seems like for less than $100, a little gadget like this, probably about the size of a paperback, should be able to instantly convert any input stream to another. Why do I need a separate adapter for every single kind of connection?

Pink Floyd only wants you to download their entire albums, not individual songs

There was an interesting debate on today’s Ron and Fez that speaks to a subject we’ve been whinging about for some time now: digital delivery of content, specifically of music. Pink Floyd has won a court ruling that will put an end to places like iTunes selling its songs individually. The band feels that their music can only truly be appreciated in the album format, from start to finish, and it never liked people being able to pick and choose what songs they wanted to download.

Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE

All the Apple marks are excited about the iPad. Not me, but whatever. What I am excited about, though, is seeing consumers use the items they’ve bought in the manner of their choosing. Say you’ve bought a bunch of books from the Amazon Kindle store. (Don’t tell Devin!) Those books are only “supposed” to work with the Kindle and the various Kindle readers, but with a bit of work you can read them wherever you want—yes, including on your iPad.

Microsoft loses second Word patent appeal, on the hook for $240 million in damages

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/world_news/Microsoft_loses_second_Word_patent_appeal’; And the intellectual property rollercoaster continues. Microsoft’s second appeal of that $240m judgment banning sales of Word with features infringing on i4i’s XML-related patents has been rejected, leaving the Redmond giant with a huge fine to pay atop its undoubtedly sky-high lawyer bills. The appeals court held that Microsoft was explicitly aware of i4i’s patents before implementing the relevant XML code into Word — undoubtedly because i4i had been selling an extremely popular XML plugin for years and had approached Microsoft about licensing it. Yeah, oops. Don’t worry, though, there shouldn’t be any consumer impact here: old versions of Word aren’t affected, and current versions of Word 2007 and Office 2010 don’t have the offending features. Still, Microsoft might be able to appeal yet again, depending on a panel ruling on the matter — at this rate, we’d expect it.

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The Playstation Move: Everything old is new again, if you ask Sony

So, this Move. I’m pretty sure it brings nothing new to the party. That’s too bad, because the PS3 is starting to take off (after three lackluster years) and it would have helped push units if they had an innovative motion control system. I mean, not everyone is into the motion controllers, but… seriously, Sony. [...]

Intel’s new Gulftown i7-980X CPU reviews well

Intel cut loose some benchmarking samples of their new, top of the line CPU, the i7-980X Extreme Edition. This is not a CPU intended for the causal use, but rather aim directly at the gaming market. MSRP for the CPU all by itself is a jaw dropping $999, and rumors are already circulating that the OEMs are already looking at coming out with systems that utilize the new processors.

Paper calendar takes the autumn route

Don’t you just love autumn, with falling leaves and all? Well, check out this unique calendar that will merge analog, digital, nature and poetic function in a single device. Every single day in autumn will see one page off just like a leaf, thanks to a clever mechanism located at its top. Meant for a promotional tool for clients by leaf blower manufacturer Stihl, this is one idea worth looking into.

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How the iPad, and the slate computer, will evolve in the next two years

With the iPad hitting pre-order in two days and shipping in April, it’s important to think about when and why to buy the iPad. Based on our understanding of the product lifecycle and expected moves by Apple’s competitors, we foresee big changes in the ultraportable landscape with the ultraportable/netbook as we now know it mutating [...]

The Russian Mr. Wizard would like you to suck on his fumes

As far as I can tell this is some begelled Russian Mr. Wizard showing off the production of mist from a melting piece of dry ice. While the mist is essentially carbon dioxide it’s probably not the best thing to give to kids. However, he does say “Nie boj sie,” meaning “Don’t be afraid,” when he shoots a stream of it into everyone’s faces, which suggests he’s been huffing this stuff for years with no ill-effects. Why? Триглав only knows.

Hard drive design leaving XP behind

Bad news for the XP diehards out there, hard drive manufacturers are tired of supporting you, and the next generation of controller technology is not going to work properly with DOS and Windows XP users. Of course it won’t be a major issue until 2011, and maybe not even then.