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If your love of cars isn’t being expressed quite enough in your current home décor, you might check out this alarm.  There have been other alarms similar to this one, but luckily this one is a little cheaper than the others I’ve seen.  If you’re on the lookout for a gift for a guy impossible to buy for and he has a love for cars this would be an easy gift to pick up.  I’m sure he’d get a kick out of waking up to the sound of a high-powered V8 engine.

Chunghwa Telecom has set December 13 as the official date of iPhone 3G available in Taiwan. The company would sell iPhones with a two-year service contract for a minimal month fee of NT$1,049 (about US$ 31).

People can get a free iPhone with 8GB memory space by signing up a two-year contract with a monthly charge of NT$2,549 (about US$ 76). Another option is also available: buy the iPhone from this operator for NT$26,600 (about US$ 800) and get a prepaid number.

It’s not uncommon to see a shiny mouse, decked out with some overly feminine design.  However, there is rarely a mouse seen that uses decals that are just cool as opposed to pretty.  Well this pirate mouse will help you on your way to any devious planning.  The seemingly evil mouse would also be a great tool to pwn noobs and leave angry comments on YouTube or your blog of choice.

Today Nokia announced a bright new addition to their CDMA portfolio, the Nokia 2608. With its high-gloss exterior, racy stripe down the middle and three colorful options, the Nokia 2608 fold phone was designed for style enthusiasts and consumers who want convenient functionality when they’re on the go. Whether it’s fuchsia with pink stripe, silver with green stripe or black with blue stripe there are choices for expressing individuality.

There’s nothing quite like a nice heater in your home to combat the harsh chill of winter, and the Vornado TouchStone Vortex Heat 600 does not look as though it will disappoint. Heck, even the manufacturer has already dubbed it the “world’s smartest heater”.

According to AvianResearch, here are the top 10 selling cellphones in the US for the month of October: 1. Blackberry Curve 2.

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WARP10 (Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform) is a new component that will be part of DirectX graphics technology in Windows 7. WARP10 is a high speed, fully conformant software based rasterizer that can be used as a low end alternative to emulate Direct X 10.x utilizing your computer’s CPU processing power.

It's cute that someone has made a Stylophone simulator for the iPhone, but there's no way I'm about to pay $6 just to dink around with a simulation of what was, let's face it, a fairly annoying little musical instrument in the first place.

iStylophone product page [VeryCoolSoftware.com]
Dübreq iStylophone purchase link [iTunes] (Thanks, Daniel!)

What hath videoblogging wrought? It is my honor and personal shame to present my video review of the Freestyle Audio Soundwave underwater MP3 player. Using the miracle of not showing you my junk, this is my first nude videoblog, but remains safe for work. Except for my dancing, which if everything goes to plan, will induce crippling nausea.

If you'd like a direct download — I'm looking at you, my furry fanbase — then here is a direct MP4 link.

Kim Zetter at Threat Level spoke the jury forewoman who helped convict Lori Drew. The picture that emerges is of a panel unwilling to apply the original felony counts due to lack of evidence. However, they had no reservations about using anti-hacking statutes to criminalize breaking a website's terms of service.

While I can't think of any gadget that would actually withstand water in its memory card slot, these new waterproof SD cards from Elecom would be good accessories for those that use their gear out on the deep blue sea — if they ever make it to our shores, that is. (Elecom is a Japanese company.)

No price yet, but they'll certainly be much more expensive than a regular card. Perhaps more expensive than a regular card and a waterproof case!

Elecom's New Waterproof SDHC Card [Akihabara News via Oh Gizmo!]

This concept R1 motorcycle has a single-sided front swingarm and four-bar steering system that enables a vertical steering axis that's impossible to recreate with a traditional forked front. Fancy dreamers Tier Motorsports tout the following benefits:

1. More controllable motorcycle on rougher roads. Road imperfections tending to steer the wheel will not be fed back into the handlebars like it does on standard forks equipped motorcycles. This is illustrated here in contrast with a theoretical worst case 90 degrees steering axis (courtesy of Tony Foale):

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The Taiwan-based manufacturer Foxconn releases a new barebones desktop PC which is dubbed as the R11S2MI-BA. This computer supports an Intel Atom 230 (MiniITX motherboard), an Intel 945GC chipset, 2GB of DDR2, and CF/SD/MS card slot. You can purchase this barebone PC from December 6th onwards for 14,800 Yen (€120). [Press Release]

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Microsoft's image search engine added another feature that uses image analysis: for each result, you can find similar images. The related images have nothing to do with the original query, so Live Search shows images that include similar patterns.

"With Live Search, you can now use images, rather than additional keyword queries, to refine a search and discover more content," explains Live Search's blog.