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By Evan Ackerman

A week or so ago, we wrote about some little miniature camera toys that you could get as prizes in Japan. They were cute, but they didn’t do anything. This tiny model of a Canon 5D DSLR actually does do something, with a 4 gig USB flash drive hidden inside the lens, which is a decent enough 24-105mm f/4 IS. ‘Course, if you want to store your files in high quality, you’d have to find yourself a Nikon D3X flash drive, instead.

These Canon 5D flash drives pop up on eBay for a totally ridiculous $100 and up, but if you can afford a 5D, you probably won’t care.

[ eBay ] VIA [ Ubergizmo ]

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By Evan Ackerman

We’re running out of places to hide from the internet, and cars are the latest casualty. Starting next month, Cadillac will offer an option for a dealer installed 3G wireless router in their CTS Sport sedans. You can expect typical 3G download speeds (supposedly 400-800 kbps but your mileage may vary), and if no 3G is available, you’ll be lucky to see 200 kbps. The router itself cost about $500, $450 of which probably gets sunk into that Cadillac logo.

The service is actually being offered through a company called Autonet Mobile. It costs about $30 for 1 gig a month, or about $60 for 5 gigs a month… There doesn’t seem to be any unlimited plan. A gig a month is just about enough for you to check email, download attachments, maybe listen to the occasional song. But personally, I hate having to worry about caps. And with so many mobile devices with unlimited data plans out there, what’s the appeal of having a piece of hardware that’s restricted in bandwidth AND restricted in location? I guess maybe the idea is, if you’re buying a new Cadillac, things like “cost effectiveness” just aren’t that high up on your list of priorities.

[ Autonet Mobile ] VIA [ CNET ]

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By Evan Ackerman

The MSI Wind U100 is a pretty decent netbook the best netbook EVAR. In fact, I’m typing this entry on one right now, can you tell? MSI has been pretty good about providing substantive software upgrades, and now it looks like there are some hardware enhancements on the way in the next generation of the U100 series, although they’ll be just about identical from the outside.

The U100 Plus will have an extra gig of RAM for 2 gigs total, although it’s unclear whether they’re just going to be filling the empty RAM slot found on the original U100. Also, the processor gets a small bump to the 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N280, with an Intel Intel 945GSE graphics chipset.

Specs on the U110 ECO, after the jump.

The U110 ECO uses the Atom Z530, which is very slightly slower (1.6 GHz) but uses less than half the average power of the Atom N280. It’s also paired with the superior GMA500 graphics chipset. These hardware tweaks are supposed to enable the ECO to eke out 8-10 hours from a 6 cell battery, but since my U100 only gets about 4.5 hours out of my 6 cell, I’ll believe when I see it.

There’s no price or availability information yet, but my guess is that the U100 Plus will cost about the same as the U100, while the U110 ECO might be a small premium, especially if it includes a 6 cell battery.

[ MSI Computer ] VIA [ Liliputing ]

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By Evan Ackerman

It’s a cruel joke, but Hershey has partnered with Jazwares to develop a frustratingly inedible line of consumer electronics, starting with this chocolatey looking but not chocolatey tasting USB drive. Also on the menu are other things that you tend to find in Halloween grab bags but nowhere else, like Krackle and Mr. Goodbar. These drives are available in capacities from 1 gig to 4 gig, for $15 – $30.

What makes even less sense are plush (yes, plush) Jolly Rancher speakers, or a digital camera shaped like a Hershey Kiss. I can’t even imagine how that might work, but thankfully I don’t have to, since we’ve got a rendering of it right here:

Awesome, that’s just awesome. It’ll be $25. As for availability on all of this stuff, I have no idea, but I’m hoping for as long from now as possible.

[ Jazwares ] VIA [ Gearlog ]

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By Evan Ackerman

Getting tired of standing at your peephole, staring out at your lawn muttering about those damn kids? The peephole motion sensing DVR has the potential to make your life much more efficient by recording condensed footage of the damn kids and letting you mutter at them whenever and wherever you like. Mount the camera and motion sensor outside your door and the LCD on the inside (I think you have to remove your peephole), and everything that moves outside the door will get recorded to an SD card. A 4 gig card will record over 11 hours of footage, and since it only records stuff that actually happens, it’ll be a much better use of your time.

The peephole motion sensing DVR costs $200, from ThinkGeek.

[ ThinkGeek ]

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If the “reliable source” that spoke to Digitimes is, well, reliable, it looks like Foxconn has landed the Dell Adamo gig. According to the article, the sleek and stylish device is in sample production as we speak, but won’t enter volume production until the second half of 2009 — to the tune of about 400,000 units. Of course, this flies in the face of Dell’s statement at the CES unveil, where a company spokesperson said that the thing would be out in the first half of this year — and that’s not the only contradiction here, as Foxconn’s Edmund Ding has stated that “he has no idea what the hell anybody is talking about.” (OK, so we paraphrased that last bit).

[Via Electronista]

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By Evan Ackerman

MP3 players don’t get much more barebones than this: the Kana Micro MP3 player has no integrated storage and only 3 buttons. You have to stick a micro SD card in to put anything on it (a 2 gig card is included), and it both syncs and charges its 2 hour battery via a USB port. Not bad for only $16 I guess, but I might be willing to splurge a little bit for something like, you know, a display. Or a bigger battery. Or more storage. Or better colors. I could go on… But I won’t, since the Kana Micro is currently only available in Japan.

[ Kana Micro ] VIA [ Akihabara News ]

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By Evan Ackerman

iRiver’s Wave Home is, I guess, primarily a VoIP console. But it’s got a touchscreen, it’s got internet, it’s got an OS that supports a variety of widgets… Really, it’s more of a specialized laptop than a VoIP phone. The touchscreen is 7″ and 800 x 480, and there’s a 1.3 mpx tiltable camera for video conferencing, stereo speakers, 1 gig of SD expandable flash memory, and a wireless remote/handset that lives in a slot in the back.

I played with the Wave Home for a while, and the user interface is pretty slick. In addition to VoIP and videoconferencing, you’ve got SMS/MMS, contacts, a diary, access to widgets, a web browser, location aware information like traffic and weather, internet radio, and of course all of your multimedia.

There isn’t any specific pricing or release dates, but it’ll probably be available in late summer at a target price of less than $400, possibly as a subsidized accessory when you subscribe to a plan from a VoIP provider.

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Ever felt like using your Nokia Internet Tablet’s 4-inch display as an extra screen for your PC? If your answer to that question is yes, you’re in luck, for a user at the Internet Tablet Talk forums has just put together a short list of instructions.

You’re going to need a few pieces of software, a PC, and of course, an Internet Tablet. This method works with Windows 2000/XP and possibly Vista. Needless to say, this is a “try at your own risk” kind of gig where your only chance to get help if anything goes wrong is to contact the one who devised this method or get in touch with others who have tried it.

Ready? First, download the necessary software for both your PC and Internet Tablet. These are:

For the PC: RealVNC and the Windows virtual display driver from the ZoneScreen app
For the Internet Tablet: VNC Viewer (go to Extras, and install this through App Manager)

Afterwards, the actual installation and setting up will have to occur. I’ll let the pros handle it from here, so go to the link below for further instructions.

Via Internet Tablet Talk

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JVC’s busting out a veritable plethora of camcorders today, with three in particular catching our eyes. The 60GB GZ-HD300, 120GB GZ-HD320 and the dual SD slot-packin’ GZ-HM200 all record in Full HD and feature a 3.05 megapixel CMOS image sensor. If you’re into the SD gig, it has five other models within the Everio G series and Everio S series, and the whole family will include a One Touch Export function that enables videos to be imported into iTunes and loaded directly onto an iPod / iPhone. Expect ‘em all to be available by March at the latest for between $299.95 and $799.95.