Check out the Jook from America - this little device that could is capable of streaming songs among different portable media players, doing away with battle lines drawn up by the iPod, Zune and others. Once the Jook is connected to your PMP, it allows you to broadcast your music to other Jook-equipped devices that are within range. This social networking tool even allows users to create personal profiles which can be shared with other listeners. This is one idea that would take off, only if the adoption rate goes up - way up. I suspect one of the reasons why Zune’s music sharing capability did not capture the imagination of everyone - nobody knows anybody else with a Zune to begin with. .

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I must admit - this isn’t exactly the most endearing term I have come across to date for an iPod speaker, but what the heck. Bird Electron has taken the minimalist approach with this speaker that looks decidedly DIY. Also known as the EZ17-B, it fits nicely into the clear plastic box that some versions of the nano and Shuffle ship in, and does not need an additional power source. For those who hate keeping clutter around the home, fret not. This works just fine with an empty water bottle, although it will probably add a negative to your sex appeal. I think I’ll pass on the $40 price tag.

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Kareena is riding high nowadays, thanks to the success of “Jab We Met”. And now that the lady has carved a niche for herself in the industry, she is experimenting out new and bold stuff.
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Imagine how happy your life would be if you forgot the last 15 years. That would mean you no longer had any memory of a certain nude scene in About Schmidt. But it would also mean you no longer have any memory of the rest of About Schmidt. Anyway, the reason I mention that movie is because two of its stars, Hope Davis and Dermot Mulroney, will be reunited for a film about memory loss titled Driving Lessons. Not to be confused with the British coming-of-age movie starring Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint, this Driving Lessons is about “a troubled family who gets a second chance at happiness when the mother (Davis) suffers a memory loss and can’t recall the last 15 years of her life.”

That synopsis sounds a bit sad to me. It sounds like the family did something unforgivable to the mother but now they can celebrate thanks to her amnesia. Sure, Mom suffers, but at least they all have a second chance at good times. I guess memory loss is often the subject of laughs and duplicity. Think Overboard. Think 50 First Dates. Think Good Bye, Lenin! — sort of. Don’t it all just make you want to maybe knock your mother or girlfriend or a rich lady you want to pretend is your mom or girlfriend in the head in the hope she’ll receive a blank slate? OK, well don’t it at least make you want to watch another movie about something akin to that? Driving Lessons was scripted by Mark Lisson (Return to Horror High) and will be helmed by Finnish director Vivi Friedman. Shooting begins in March.

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Goodbye, Matt Dillon! Hellloooo Adrien Brody! I don’t know what happened since October, when Matt Dillon was in final negotiations to star, but Cadillac Records has found itself a new leading man. Variety reports that The Pianist, Adrien Brody, has signed on to star along with Jeffrey Wright, the insanely wonderful actor from Basquiat, in the upcoming film. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind Matt Dillon, but this project just went from good to great in my books. Brody would’ve been enough, but with Wright? No one could keep me away.

Adrien has taken on the role of Leonard Chess, and Wright will be Muddy Waters in the feature, which starts filming in March. They will be joined by Columbus Short (Stomp the Yard), Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage), Cedric the Entertainer (Code Name: The Cleaner), and Tammy Blanchard (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows). I’m neither here nor there on the supporting cast, but I’m sort of hoping Joe Morton pops up in a role. Should he, I think I will pass out from movie fan heaven. But anyway…

Coming from writer/director Darnell Martin, Cadillac Records dips into the Chicago music scene of the 1950s — “charting the colorful lives of American musical legends like Waters, Chess, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, and Elvis Presley.” There’s no word on who will play the rest of the greats yet, but we should find out soon, before production begins in New Jersey and Mississippi this spring.

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If you tuned into Live with Regis & Kelly this morning expecting to see Ringo Starr perform his new single, then you were probably disappointed. He walked off the set before the show started.

Starr thought he was going to be able to perform the entire “Liverpool 8″ song without editing (talk shows often need a shorter version of the song to fit their time schedule). He actually tried to cut the 4 minute, 15 second song down to the required 2 minute, 30 seconds, but found that he couldn’t do it and still have the song be worth hearing, so he decided not to appear on the show at all.

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No, I’m not going to reveal it on the front page here. In fact, I’m not even sure if what the New York Daily News says can even possibly be true.

Gossip columnist Ben Widdicombe says he knows who the identity of Gossip Girl is, and you’re never going to guess it, so don’t even try. But before we get to that bit of business (after the jump), can I ask a question about Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, and Leighton Meister? Are these the names of real people? Chace, Leighton, Penn, and Blake? These are first names? They sound like the names of characters on The Bold and the Beautiful. I mean, their real names sound more soap opera-ish than their character names on the show. I always thought Chase was a cool name, but I never thought of spelling it with a “c.”

OK, now on to the big news. Gossip Girl is…

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Given the Meizu M8’s not-so-faint resemblance to another semi-famous handheld, you’d think trying to get a patent on the design would be fairly fruitless — but it looks like the company’s giving it a shot anyway. This Chinese patent app was apparently filed last February, but China’s patent office just published it on the 16th, so we’re not even certain which bad render, doctored photo, or cardboard mockup of the M8 is referenced within. Still, Jack Wong had better get his lawyers in gear and get this patent on the books — Apple might be slow in getting to China, but it’s not going to be happy once it does.

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So some new start-up is getting ready to come out of stealth mode and wow the world with its innovative, paradigm-shifting gadget — but naturally, you’ve gotta build a little bit of buzz before you can cross that bridge. Modu’s website is devoid of information that might lead us to conclude what kind of device the firm is prepping, but the teaser video is a psychedelic trip through a day in some Modu user’s life during which we can make out a few ultra-brief moments of some pretty hot looking… something or other. About all we know is that there are cell radios involved; if we had to venture a guess, we’d say they’re doing up sort of wireless module that can be popped into a variety of devices, providing voice and 3G data, contacts, multimedia stuff, and other digital miscellany — sort of like Bluetooth, but the transport layer becomes a physical piece of equipment. Well, what do you think it is, eh?

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We’ve heard of firms tinkering with the idea of converting excess heat directly to energy, and apparently, a team of scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have done just that. Oddly enough, the researchers admit that they’re still unclear on how their findings actually work, but they’ve nevertheless discovered how to increase the conversion efficiency of converting waste heat to energy “by a factor of 100.” The authors of the report suggest that clothing constructed of material embedded with thermoelectric modules could one day “recharge mobile electronic devices off the heat of one’s body,” and while we’re certainly stoked about the idea, we’re already conjuring up awful images in our minds about what this garb will actually look like.

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