Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers, MySpace

When the Pope arrived on our shores last month, much of the nation was subject to the pomp and fanfare that surrounded his every move. Now the Pope is making a trip Down Under for Sydney’s World Youth Day next month, and those who can’t watch him live (or online) will be able to follow the Pontiff via SMS.

The Pope (or one of his lackeys) will be sending “daily messages of inspiration” to the phones of thousands of Catholics during the event, which despite being called “World Youth Day,” actually covers an entire week.

The Catholic church will also be setting up a social networking site similar to MySpace or Facebook, enabling believers to hook up — and pray, of course. [Source: I4U/Reuters, via Textually.org]

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The Canon Selphy CP770 looks more like a toy for kids than a serious printer, and perhaps it was designed to target such a market. It comes with an integrated storage case and carry handle that makes it a snap to tote around, basically turning the Selphy CP770 into a printer-in-a-bucket. You get the following features with each purchase ;-

• Easy to use design - simple user interface and button layout
• Integrated storage solution with carry handle (CP770 only)
• 2.5” angled color TFT LCD
• Direct printing from most popular memory card formats
• Long lasting 100 year prints
• Auto Image Correction with Face Brightness optimization
• Auto Red-Eye Correction
• My Colors functionality
• Wireless printing via IrDA and optional Bluetooth adaptor

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In early May of 1998, Apple launched a computer that was said to “deliver the things consumers care about most - the excitement of the Internet and the simplicity of the Mac.” That computer was, of course, the iMac, a fruity-colored all-in-one machine that was advertised as being ridiculously easy to set up, use, and take online with (still a somewhat tricky process back in the late 90s). Now, 10 years on, Ars Technica takes a look back at the evolution of the iMac, and makes a few predictions about the machine’s future.

Since then, the machine has shrunk considerably, ditching the giant old CRT monitor in favor of slim and bright LCD displays. Despite its size-shrink, it has also grown in performance in huge leaps and bounds. The first machine had a 233 megahertz CPU and just 32-megabytes of memory, while the latest model can be equipped with a 3.06 gigahertz CPU and two-gigabytes of memory. There’s still no floppy disc on offer, though.

The iMac has continued to be quite popular, but Ars predicts its days are numbered. With two-thirds of all Macs being sold today going in laptop form, and that number doing nothing but increasing as people embrace mobile computing, the belief is that the iMac will go the way of the Macintosh Classic II, lost to the annals of history. [Source: Ars Technica]

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I love the advent of computing technology in the world of movies - we get to finally see our favorite fantasies fleshed out in a lifelike and believable manner, as with the Speed Racer movie which ought to be quite the hit this summer. Check out the Speed Racer Slots which boast 6.3 meters of race track, letting you pit the Mac 5 and Racer X Street Car against each other, complete with LED front lights for that added touch of reality. Loop-the-loops, flyovers and fast straights action can be a reality in your living room for a mere £32.99, never mind the fact that Christmas is still a long way off.

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Now this is interesting - the Hitachi Travelstar 7K320 might be a 2.5″ 320GB 7200rpm hard drive, but it consumes much less power compared to other hard drives in the same class. The 7K320 will support a similar SATA 3Gbps interface, sipping a mere 1.8 watts read/write of power while drawing a mere 0.8 watt when idle, placing it on par with other 5400rpm Hitachi models. Sounds perfect for notebook users as a lower power consumption in its components would mean prolonged battery life and increased productivity. The Hitachi Travelstar 7K320 should see action in a few weeks’ time for $219.

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What we’re watching tonight:

• ABC (720p) has ‘Dancing With The Stars‘ at 8 & 9 p.m., followed by ‘Women’s Murder Club‘
• Fox (720p) brings ‘American Idol‘ at 8 p.m.
• NBC (1080i) has a new ‘Law & Order: SVU‘ at 10 p.m.
• CBS (1080i) has ‘NCIS ‘at 8 p.m. and ‘Shark‘ at 9 p.m.
• ESPN2 HD (720p) presents ‘Bud Greenspan: at The Heart of the Games’ at 9 p.m.
• TNT (1080i) brings Game 1 of Celtics/Cavs at 8 p.m.
• CW (1080i) has ‘Reaper‘ at 9 p.m.
• Sci Fi (1080i) has ‘ECW ‘at 10 p.m.
• Discovery (1080i) lines up ‘Deadliest Catch‘ at 9 p.m. followed by ‘The Alaska Experiment‘

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Concepts are great to play around with since you are only limited by your imagination and not technology like the real world. The Shine concept watch is a marriage of both luxury and advanced technology, featuring a unique laser projection system that sees time displayed simply by touching its logo. Constructed from hi-tech white ceramic and filled to the brim with more than 200 square cut white topaz gemstones, this is one blinged out watch which will definitely adorn the wrist of attention seekers around the world if it were real.

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All the news that’s fit to print may someday be free, according to a new poll from Zogby International.

The polling firm asked newspaper editors around the world what they thought would be the future of newspapers, and most agreed that there was a future in print but that pressures from online media would force them to adjust how they do business.

Some key points:

• 86 percent of respondents believed newsrooms should become more integrated with digital services.
• Two in three believe the most common form of news consumption will be via electronic media such as online or mobiles within a decade
• 56 percent of respondents believed that the majority of news, be it via print or online, would be free in the future (up from 48 percent a year ago)
• 48 percent who answered yes a year ago
• Only 45 percent of editors thought the quality of journalism would improve over the next 10 years (more than 25 percent think it will get worse)
• Nearly two-thirds believe that some traditional editorial functions will be outsourced in the future

An interesting split between so-called emerging markets and more mature markets was revealed by the poll. Editors in South America, Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East and Asia were more likely to think newspapers would become free, while those in Western Europe and North America were likely to think the paid model still has a future. [Source: Reuters]

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The Stylus Hanging Bluetooth Headset is one geeky device - imagine using your Bluetooth headset as an imprompty stylus! I suppose guys might find this more useful than chicks, since they don’t really have long fingernails to navigate through touch screen displays. It comes with a transmitter distance of 10 meters and features the following :-

• Talk time: 3 hours
• Charging time: 2 to 5 hours
• Standby time: 90 hours
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

You can pick this up from Brando for $30.

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For young kids, whimsical bed-stand lamps are vital survival tools, necessary for keeping the monsters that dwell in dark corners at bay. That seems to be the purpose of this lamp we found over at Apartment Therapy Unplugged. It’s made up of an old ‘Duck Hunt‘ cartridge combined with a genuine Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Zapper. The lamp is topped with a suitably pixelated shade featuring your faithful dog from the game.

We hope that those old enough to remember ‘Duck Hunt’ are also old enough to not be afraid of the dark anymore, but regardless, it’s enough to make any retro-loving gamer swoon — assuming they haven’t grown up to join PETA, of course. [Source: Unplggd]

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