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For a while, every consumer electronics product began with an “i”. Then everything was made of white plastic. What next? Touch, of course. We foresee a day when even the toilet bowl is touch-sensitive, but for now, we will accept this picture frame.

The PanTouch from Pantech is actually a pretty neat, if limited, home media player. Alongside the photo frame function, it’ll play MP3s and video, and all of this is controlled by touch. There are navigation buttons on screen, and you can flip between pictures with a swipe motion, just like the iphone. It looks like the actual touch sensitivity is limited to a strip at the top of the picture, but at least it keeps your fingers off the screen itself.

Specs for the lower models are pretty pedestrian, but the top-of-the-line model has a 10.4″ Hi-Def LCD screen, (1024×768), WiFi and Bluetooth. The pathetic 512MB memory is the only letdown, especially with the low prices of NAND Flash RAM these days, but you do get a card reader slot, a couple of USB ports and clock/alarm. And at $250, it’s not a bad little toy.

Pandigital Announces Touch-Screen Digital Photo Frames [PCMag]

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I’m sure we were not prepared for the digital era of photos. Don’t get me wrong, I think it is great that all of us have cheap digital cameras that allow us to download our greatest pics into our computer, but most of us still have piles of old photos that really need to be made digital. That sounds like more than just a weekend project.

The solution is here with the USB Photo Scanner. This device uses a 5 Megapixel CMOS sensor to scan photos in just minutes. Sure, you could do that on a scanner, but that would take a lot more time as the USB Photo Scanner does it a lot faster.

In fact, it is designed for that purpose, as you put your photos in a tray and then slide it into the converter. Simply touch the button, and you’ll have your memory recorded with up to a 1,800 dpi resolution, 10 bits per color channel, automatic exposure control and color balance.

The USB Photo Scanner connects to your PC or laptop via PC, and you will soon have your memories exactly where they belong: on a digital storage area. Okay, I suppose that can be easily erased, but those glossy photos don’t last forever either.

You can get this product on the Hammacher Schlemmer website for approximately $149.95. And for those who have boxes of photos, I highly suggest that you do.

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SuckUK Coca Cola Bottle Opener

Stainless steel with Rubber magnetic backing.Magnetically sticks to the front of your fridge opens any bottle with ease.Available in red.

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Toshiba has updated four of their Satellite laptops and made the machines into something more affordable and yet rich in powerful features while redesigning the overall look into a more stylish looking machine.

Toshiba has redesigned its 13.3-inch Satellite U400, 14.1-inch Satellite M300, 15.4-inch Satellite A300 and the 17-inch Satellite P300 with Tru-Brite LCD displays. These laptop models are now sporting Toshiba’s Fusion Finish in a horizon pattern making each of the laptops in the series look unique and modern. Completing the new design is a clear and glossy laptop casing.

In addition to the new display and look, the Toshiba laptops also feature the “Feather-Touch” multimedia command keys that lie beneath the Fushion Finish. With a cool glow of white LED light, these touch sensitive buttons allow users to better enjoy and control DVD and CD playback, and make volume adjustments quick and easy.

Toshiba made it a point that the functionality of the laptops would not suffer. Hence, each of the laptops still have all the features previously enjoyed by users. In addition to these features, Toshiba has also sprinkled the redesigned laptop models with new features such as the Sleep-and-Charge USB ports that enable mobile devices to be charged whether the laptops are off or on. Toshiba has also introduced a new webcam with facial recognition in each of the laptops.

And finally, each of the laptops redesigned by Toshiba have been equipped with a high-definition display which gives enhanced viewing pleasure, whether through Blu-ray or HD TV streaming and video podcasting. Perhaps, the only question now that remains to be answered by consumers is, which Toshiba laptop model to buy?

Read [Toshiba Direct]

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Toshiba has announced that it has updated its highly successful A200 series laptops with even more options for users to have their preferred computing machines at an affordable price. The A200 series now begins at just $600, but keep in mind that price tag is just for base model, and you may want a more powerful laptop once you get the feel of the Toshiba A200 series.

For $600 you’ll get an A215 series model that has a 15.4-inch diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT LCD display with a 1280 x 800 resolution, a 1.9 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, DVD SuperMulti drive, ATI Radeon X1200 with 128MB for graphics and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g as well as the usual array of ports. Moving up but still an A215 model, you can get a 2.0 GHz processor along with 2GB of RAM and a 200GB hard drive for $749.

The other models include the A205 which begins at $649 and offers a 1.73 GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor, 2GB of RAM, 120GB hard drive, DVD SuperMulti drive, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, and the same 15.4-inch diagonal widescreen as the A215. Taking a step up in the A205 models you can get a 1.83 GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor with 3GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive and a built-in webcam for $849.

The choice is yours, and that’s the beauty of this new line of Toshiba A200 series laptops – it gives you the freedom to choose your preferred specs without sacrificing too much on high-quality brands of specifications.

Read [Toshiba Direct]

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