At CES 2008, I talked with several companies, some for work and some for Speeds and Feeds.

Although I saw many interesting products, I’m really looking forward to one product in particular that isn’t due to ship until October.

The HydroPak fuel-cell power supply takes replaceable fuel cartridges

further details on crave

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Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google’s top three executives had pledged to work together for 20 years in a pact they made shortly before the company’s initial public offering in August 2004, Fortune magazine has reported.

Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin , together with Chief Executive Eric Schmidt say in a joint interview for Fortune’s February 4th issue that the three had agreed to work together for two decades starting one month before the 2004 IPO.

“We agreed the month before we went public that we should work together for 20 years,” said Schmidt, who added that he will be 69 years old by that time. Page would be 51 and Brin 50.

A Google spokesman could not immediately be reached to comment.

Schmidt is Google’s chairman. Page is president of products and Brin is president of technology. Each is a billionaire.

With a market capitalization now around $170 billion, the world’s most valuable Internet company is scheduled to report results for the final quarter of 2007 on Thursday.

Wall Street expects Google to report 2007 revenue around $16.6 billion, an increase of 57 percent over the prior year.

source : PCWorld

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Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder

Industry rumors are suggesting that Dell might be partnering with Google for its planned return to the mobile device business, releasing a cellphone based on the Android platform that Google - along with other members of the Open Handset Alliance - have developed as a way to leverage the search giant’s online applications in the growing mobile market.

source: phonemag

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A 92 year old New Zealander is claiming to have invented a product which can boil water using sound. The as yet unnamed device, which looks like a smooth silver golf ball, is baffling scientists, or at least one particular professor who’s taken a look. It could of course be a huge prank, […]

further details on redferret

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Similar to the slap bracelets from the 80s, this high-tech version features a bendable E-paper display that “possesses all its thin, high contrast, power efficient qualities.” Click here for one more picture.

The length can be adjusted by adding magnetic snaps to the ends. Best part is there’s no recharging needed. It gets all the power it needs via kinetic energy so go ahead, go slap happy

source : techblog

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Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder

I have a wireless mouse and I’ve never had difficulty taking it anywhere, it’s small as mice are and there are no cords so I could put it in my pocket if needed. Apparently, though, there is enough of a need for smaller mice when traveling someone has come up with the idea for something called a Jellyclick mouse.

The Jellyclick is an inflatable mouse. You blow it up and you’re set to use it and then when you’re done you just let the air out and roll the mouse up. What else can I say about it?

It’s just a concept and I probably don’t need to say it, but I think it’s a bit much/ridiculous. This is one of those moments when I think “what will they come up with next”.

source : slashgear

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Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder

USB-based musicality is great and all, but sometimes you want to cut the cord and play live. IK’s StompIO USB stomp box is apparently the ticket to such a life of freedom, since it packs in a good amount of software amps and software controllable switches and the like, but it also does all its own amp modeling when away from the computer. The bad news is that freedom comes at quite the price: StompIO is available now for $1,050.

source: engadget

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Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder

A new home theater remote-control from Tvcompass called the SR 1500 Digital Media Remote runs Windows CE, CONNECTS TO THE INTERNET via WiFi and enables couch potatoes to surf the web. Tvcompass will sell the device through satellite and cable operators and others, who can customize the remote. Because consumers are screaming for more complexity in their home theater systems.

further details on therawfeed

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Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder

Are you a shut-in? Live in your mom’s basement and spend our life on the Internet? Looking for a combo text-and-speech device to interact with others? Buffalo has what you need in this new QWERTY keyboard / Skype phone combo.

It’s just what it sounds like: a USB keyboard for your computer with a detachable handset for making Skype calls. When Skype goes all Skynet and takes over, it will be how you communicate with our technologically superior robot lords.

source : crunchgear

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Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder

If you want to listen to music but still be able to hear your surroundings then this is a cool solution, the Vibe Body Sound Headphones, listen to music through your bones.

The Vibe Body Sound headphones clip on to your outer ear and conduct vibrations through your skin and cartilage. Those vibrations rumble through your skull directly to your inner ear where you hear them clear as a bell. All the while, your ear canal remains uncovered, allowing the sounds from the environment access as well. Carry on conversations and never skip a beat.

They have 3 effective volume (vibration) levels, low, medium, and tectonic! Which sounds somewhat skull rattling.You can buy the Vibe cunduction headphones from Think Geek for $99.99.

source : coolest-gadgets

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Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder