Most conference phones that we have covered to date are meant for a small office or desk area, but the Konftel 300 has set its sights on medium to very large meeting halls, since it is able to be supplemented with external speakers, microphones and headsets along with the ability to be connected to a meeting room’s existing sound system. The Konftel 300 has an original reception area of 30 square meters, and this figure can be double thanks to the use of expansion microphones. It also holds the honor of being the first conference phone to come with a wireless headset connection, allowing people to hear voices clearly without being shackled to a handset of sorts. Other features include an SD memory card reader, a recording function, and the ability to switch between and combine 3 connection methods - analog line, cell phone or computer for VoIP.

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Dan Middle, owner of Sony’s UX UMPC, found that platform to be less than attractive when it came to portable gaming, decided to literally take things into his own hands by hacking a cheap USB gamepad, resulting in a set of controls that make available all eight buttons on a single hand, while the other hand will be free to aim with the UX’s mouse controls. The gamepad, originally a “Genius MaxFire Pandora Pro Foldable Mini USB Gamepad for PC” has been attached to a CF dummy card, slotting beautifully into the UX’s CF port. After some testing, it seems that usability is pretty decent, with Vista even recognizing it as a gaming peripheral. Does that mean the PSP and DS Lite are doomed?

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The Wapix YJMM Chrono-Pictographic Frame from Jean Louis Frechin was recently showcased at the International Milan furniture show, wowing just about anybody who laid their eyes and played with it. You will be able to get a continual flow of pictures from one frame to another, and when the frames are moved apart in space, the speed of image flow will be regulated as well - for example, the farther apart, the faster the flow of one picture to the next. The screen showing these pictures are transclucent, resulting in images that possess the quality of a digital ektachrome. The Wapix YJMM Chrono-Pictographic Frame is sensitive to surrounding light, but this adds to its appeal as it gives a specific visual quality to pictures.

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Folks who love taking chances might want to check out the Poker Mate USB Stick. It measures roughly as large as a real-life poker chip, holding 1GB or 2GB of storage space within. I know one thing for sure - when the chips are down, I definitely won’t want to gamble having my most treasured data stored in this $29 2GB poker chip.

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Most office-based jobs these days don’t do our health any favors, but the TrekDesk certainly hopes to change that notion. Not only does it function as a decent work station, it comes with an exercise ball chair that was specially designed to fit an existing treadmill. In addition, most of the accessories are ergonomically designed including the mentioned exercise ball chair, manuscript/book stands, stacking trays/phone stand, cup/accessory holder, and a vertical file attachment. It is supposed to work with the calorie burning advantage that occurs with working core muscles while sitting. Lose weight without hitting the gym? I like that idea, but I don’t think my doctor would approve as he is more of a “sweat it out” guy.

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You know you’re in for a treat any time your favorite gargantuan Texas-based computer company claims to have captured the “downtown art scene” and “youth culture” on a laptop lid, but we’ve gotta give Dell credit for these new designs courtesy of Mike Ming. Unfortunately, the new “Bunch O Surfers” and “Sea Sky” (pictured) looks have been tacked onto Dell’s boring-as-could-be Inspiron 1525 budget laptop. But hey, not bad at all for $699, especially considering the 3 gigabytes of RAM that comes standard. Another shot after the break. [Source: Dell]

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Longshow has made available its Data-backup Phone Charger which not only juices up your handset whenever it is in dire need of power, it is also very capable of backing up your contacts simultaneously. Its bag of tricks doesn’t end there though, as it comes with an SD/MMC memory card reader and doubles up as a portable power supply whenever you head out to a place where power outlets are scarce and few. Major phone brands including Nokia, Motorola, Blackberry, Samsung and Sony-Ericsson are supported, and when functioning as a portable charger, it works great for portable media players, digital cameras and other compatible devices.

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It’s time for a high tech time warp.

Set your clocks for the last years of the 18th-century, because that’s when the newly identified earliest example of a photograph was taken.

The picture is of a leaf and the photographer was likely one Thomas Wedgwood of Bristol, England, who lived from 1771 to 1805. Until now, the leaf photograph was thought to have been the work of Henry Fox Talbot, who is credited with taking the world’s first photographs in the 1830s.

Early photos were produced on paper treated with silver nitrate to make it light-sensitive. The image was created by laying a leaf on the light-sensitive paper and exposing it to the sun. The exposed areas of the paper darkened, leaving a silhouette.

Wedgwood and other early photographers were not able to solve the problem of over exposure, so most of their early shots were destroyed.

Most of today’s digital still cameras use charge coupled devices - or CCDs - to capture images. These chips sense the light and color that comes in through a camera’s lens groups and converts it into data, ultimately producing digital images. Automatic settings help us prevent our shots from being over exposed.

An art historian who was asked to assess the photograph before the auction raised the possibility of the picture being even older than originally thought.

Sotheby’s was set to auction the photo, which was expected to pull in between £50-£70,000 (about $100-135,000). It’s holding off on the auction until the age of the paper can be precisely determined. The auction price then is expected to skyrocket. [Source: Daily Mail]

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TomTom has just released its GO x30 series in the UK, bringing the following specifications to the table.

• 4.3″ widescreen 16:9 format LCD (WQVGA, 480 x 272 pixels) display


• 400MHz processor


• TomTom GO 930 Traffic: 4GB internal flash memory


• TomTom GO 530/730 and GO 530/730 Traffic: 1-2GB internal flash memory


• SD card slot


• High sensitivity GPS receiver


• Bluetooth connectivity


• Battery lithium-polymer (up to 5 hours operation)


• Dimensions: 118mm x 83mm x 24mm


• Weight: 220 grams

The TomTom GO 930 Traffic, TomTom GO 730, TomTom GO 730 Traffic, TomTom GO 530, and TomTom GO 530 Traffic will retail for £399.99, £299.99, £329.99, £249.99, and £279.99, respectively.

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Well, what do you know? Sometimes even the the most repetitive of rumors finally comes true. Barely 12 hours after the Wall Street Journal reported that a deal between Sprint, Clearwire and just about everyone else was dangerously close to going down, it seems as if the bottom lines have indeed been signed. Details are pretty light at the moment, but we definitively know that Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. will be merging their “next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company.”

Quite simply, the new outfit will be called Clearwire, even though Sprint will hold around 51-percent of the firm, while existing Clearwire shareholders will own 27-percent and the new investors will hold 22-percent. New investors? Ah yes, Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks will collectively invest $3.2 billion in the new company, but that figure is “based on a target price of $20 a share of Clearwire’s common stock, and is subject to a post-closing adjustment.” [Source: BusinessWire Via CNN]

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