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By Andrew Liszewski

I can think of only one time when I could have used an emergency backup light in my shower (during the great blackout of 2003) but an easy-to-read water temperature display? Now that’s a different story. The ECOlight from Sylvania can be easily installed an almost any existing showerhead, and features a bright LED light as well as an illuminated ring that will change color depending on the temperature of the water coming out. Blue indicates the water is less than 78 degrees Fahrenheit, while red indicates it’s hotter than 105.8. But the best part is that both lights are powered by the flow of the water via some sort of generator inside, so no batteries or external power sources are ever needed. Cool!

The ECOlight is available from the Sylvania online store for just $39.99.

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A handful of sites have managed to get their mitts on a miniature test PC equipped with NVIDIA’s Ion platform, and it looks like the line between netbook and laptop just got a whole lot blurrier. According to the testers, the setup delivers smooth HD video playback and could be a boon for the Home Theater PC market. It won’t play Crysis, but the DirectX 10-compatible chipset should do World of Warcraft and Left 4 Dead justice. Though the company claims it’ll only use 12% more power than comparative Intel 945GM/E-based solutions, PC Perspective found the test units to consume twice the wattage — of course, it might be a different story when Ion-equipped PCs hit retail channels. NVIDIA says the platform will tack on about $50 to $100 compared to similarly-spec’d 945GM/E models, and the first two computers to use it — one desktop and one netbook — should be out early summer.

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A handful of sites have managed to get their mitts on a miniature test PC equipped with NVIDIA’s Ion platform, and it looks like the line between netbook and laptop just got a whole lot blurrier. According to the testers, the setup delivers smooth HD video playback and could be a boon for the Home Theater PC market. It won’t play Crysis, but the DirectX 10-compatible chipset should do World of Warcraft and Left 4 Dead justice. Though the company claims it’ll only use 12% more power than comparative Intel 945GM/E-based solutions, PC Perspective found the test units to consume twice the wattage — of course, it might be a different story when Ion-equipped PCs hit retail channels. NVIDIA says the platform will tack on about $50 to $100 compared to similarly-spec’d 945GM/E models, and the first two computers to use it — one desktop and one netbook — should be out early summer.

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By Luke Anderson

When I was a kid, I learned a valuable lesson. When you’re putting, all of the aiming in the world doesn’t do you any good if you don’t have a straight swing. Once I taught myself how to swing properly, I mastered the fine art of putt-putt. If your short-game needs some work (that is if you actually play real golf, I prefer to stick to courses with windmills and the like), perhaps the Argon Laser Putter can help you out.

This putter is strictly a tool for learning, as no amount of lasers are going to help you on a real green. The first dip in the ground will screw you up, not to mentioned you’ll get laughed off the course if you try to pull this out of your bag.  However, if you’re merely wanting to putt in a straight line, this will be a wonderful aide. It even includes a “Putting Dome” that lights up when you hit the ball dead center. Now getting the timing down on that windmill on the 9th hole, well that’s a different story. If you’ve got $70 burning a hole in your pocket and a bad short-game, then this is just what you need.

[ ArgonPutter ] VIA [ UberGizmo ]

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Sony’s VAIO P may or may not be a netbook (or even fit in a pocket), but there’s no denying that it’s an incredibly sexy piece of hardware — it’s hard not to be immediately taken with it, at least until you see how slowly it runs Vista. (Windows 7 is a different story, obviously.) Of course, there’s a story behind the unique form factor and crazy 1600 x 768 screen resolution, and designer Takuma Tomoaki shared some choice tidbits recently in an interview with Chinese site cool3c. Of particular note, the P was inspired by the Mini Cooper, which Tomoaki called “small and sophisticated,” and the entire design was dictated by the size of the “smallest usable keyboard.” Tomoaki also said that the insane screen res was aimed at HD movies, since it can play back 720p content natviely, and that Sony’s looking towards integrating the P with both the Walkman and PSP families — something it’s already kinda-sorta doing with the XMB interface on the machine. Plenty more quotes after the break and tons of pics at the read link, like this early VAIO TT-esque mockup that likely launched a thousand Photoshops. Read on!

[Thanks to Andy Yang of Engadget Chinese for the translation!]
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