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SmarTone-Vodafone Hong Kong announced the migration of Toshiba Softbank 811T (TX80) phone at ITU Telecom World just 2 weeks ago. Gearfuse managed to grab not one, but three of these to snap pictures for you. Coming up is an exclusive spot review of the TX80 phone, first in any non-Asian language site on the internet. In any case, prior to ...

Trying to bring a bike with you on vacation can be a nightmare if you don’t have a huge car. If theres an easier way to feel like a kid putting a round peg in a square hole, then we’d love to hear it. Thanks to the Folding bike those times might be behind us for good. We must admit, ...

This might only be a rumor as of yet, but we heard through the grapevine that the next generation of Apple Cinema Displays might have HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) capability. It might not sound like much, but what HDMI allows is pretty impressive. HDMI enables the transfer of totally uncompressed streams of media, while keeping the HD goodness. Apple freaks ...

Asus currently takes up 1/3 of the world’s computer motherboard market, and they have been doing that by striving to expand the market themselves. At a press conference on Friday, Asus indicated that they would join forces with intel (not AMD), they even projected that their sales will increase by another 50% in 2007, if they manage to meet their ...

  The Japanese government has awarded this years Robot Award to Paro, the “Grandma soothing” robotic seal! This fuzzy robot was created to help calm the elderly as they sit and rot in their nursing homes. Paro allows us to get those damn geezers out of our hair for a while until they realize it’s not actually a real seal, ...

More and more companies are wising up to the fact that customer service is what makes or breaks customer loyalty. Microsoft is following suit of Apple and other subsequent companies and extending the warranties on the Xbox 360 from 90 days to an entire year! Jeff Bell, a VP of marketing at Microsoft said, “Customer satisfaction is a central focus ...

The networking capabilities of the Wii are slowly falling into place. The Opera browser specially designed for the Nintendo Wii has been released in public beta. You can now download the browser for free (because it’s beta), and later it will cost you some Wii points. Opera seems to be making some excellent business decisions lately, with removing the cost ...

The boys over in Japan at NTT DoCoMo created the newest type of mobile phone: solar powered. This new device is a flip phone in a Gameboy sp like design covered in solar panels on the outside. This could solve all those problems of having your battery die at its most crucial moment, or better yet, traveling with all those ...

So many books, so little time. With the bad organization of your book shelf bursting at the seams, what more could you want from a bookend then a Han Solo and Greedo cantina designed theme from Star Wars?! Each piece is 6 inches high and 5 inches wide (10 inches when pushed together) and looks like the coolest damn bookend ...

Optical mouses have dealt out the sentence of mouse pads. The consequence of being a technologically disabled product? Death. With the multitudes of mouse pads that are being disposed of as we speak, there are more then enough to create your own furniture. We can’t tell you if this piece of furniture is very comfortable or not, but for the ...