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…boring. Okay, so that is just my opinion but I sure hope that there are a far more interesting videos out there than some of those who won. Sure, the ‘laughing baby’ is really cute but really, what’s so funny about the Potter Puppet Pals? I won’t criticize each and every winner and the nominees. After all, it’s the millions of YouTubers who have voted for these videos. Votes were cast during a week-long time frame and the winners were announced Friday. Twelve YouTube videos luckily won. I say luckily because not all are undeserving. But hey, they are the winners. They deserve at least to be recognized.

Here are the top winners:

• Adorable: Laughing Baby from gsager1234
• Commentary: LonelyGirl15 is Dead! from WHATTHEBUCKSHOW
• Eyewitness: Battle at Kruger from Jason275
• Instructional: How to solve a Rubik’s Cube from pogobat
• Politics: Stop the Clash of Civilizations from AvaazOrg
• Short Film: My Name is Lisa from sheltonfilms
• Comedy: Potter Pupper Pals in “The Mysterious” from NeilCicierega
• Creative: The Original Human TETRIS Performance from notsonoisy
• Inspirational: Blind Painter from texascountryreporter
• Music: “Chocolate Rain” Original Song by Tay from TayZonday
• Series: The Guild - Episode 1: Wake-Up Call from watchtheguild
• Sports: Balloon Bowl from davetheknave

Winners receive a trophy and an invitation to a special YouTube event later this year. And of course, how could I forget bragging rights. Let’s hope that next year’s winners won’t disappoint.

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Overview

Fujifilm, world’s leader in manufacturing digital cameras have come with the new Fujifilm FinePix S5 PRO Digital Camera. Sporting a 12.3-mega-pixel lens, this camera offers great dynamic range settings from 100% to 400%. You can easily transfer your images from Fujifilm FinePix S5 PRO Digital Camera via 2.0 USB. Its Super CCD SR Pro double pixel technology lets you enjoy 6.17 million S-pixels for a high-image quality.

Features

• New Real Photo Processor Pro for Super CCD SR Pro Technology.
• 3 new Film Simulation Modes.
• High precision I-TTL flash control.
• Compact Flash CF Card and Microdrive compatible.
• New RAW + JPEG simultaneous shooting option.
• New dual cycle noise reduction algorithms for high quality pictures at 3200 ISO.

Fujifilm FinePix S5 PRO digital camera incorporates advanced features like the New Facial Detection Technology that allows the photographer to quickly zoom in the facial detail of the person at focus. Moreover, it comes with a new commercial grade durable metal alloy frame with secure password protected feature lockouts. Fujifilm FinePix S5 PRO Digital Camera is also compatible with Nikon F-mount and Nikkor AF-D/G and all the latest AF-S optics.

Box content

The box comprises of Fujifilm FinePix S5 PRO Digital Camera, BC-150 Battery Charger, Shoulder Strap, Body Cap, LCD Cover, USB Cable, Video Cable, Software CD ROMS, Fuji USA Warranty, Fujifilm NP-150 Lithium Ion Rechargeable Battery and user’s manual.

Price

Fujifilm FinePix S5 PRO Digital Camera is available at a price of $1,421.99.

Source: Fujifilm

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TV addicts will definitely find the Topfield Freeview Playback Recorder a must-have in their homes, since it helps you keep track of all your favorite TV shows even when you’re not lounging around at home.

Using a Topfield you can pause/rewind live TV and record two channels at the same time whilst watching two others simultaneously (picture within a picture-style). Perfect if you need to pop out for a cuppa or watch that wonder goal again and again. And you won’t have to agonize over which clashing shows to record; simply record them both at the same time. Amazing!

There are a couple of models available from Firebox at this point in time - the 250GB TF5800 that comes in aluminum or Black Panther colors, retailing for £219.95 a pop while the black 500GB TF5810 is decidedly more expensive at £349.95.

Posted Mar 22nd 2008 5:52AM by Ryan Block
Filed under: Storage
What’s supposedly the largest deep-sea remote-controlled robot ever built was rolled out this week: the SMD Ultra Trencher 1 (UT1), a 50 ton, £10m ($19.8m) ROV the size of a small domicile (25.5 x 25.5 x 18.3 feet). Capable of sucking up two megawatts of power while using its “jet swords” trench deep sea pipelines up to a meter wide and 2.5 meters deep into the sea floor (while operating at a depth of up to 1500m), the UT1 is clearly just in time. We hear the CIA errant anchors are due to snip another three or four deep-sea internet backbone cables, so the UT1’s got its work cut out for it.

A video uploaded in YouTube displays the perfect gadgets for everyone who cares for their pets, but are too lazy to play with them.

As you can see on the video below, a sausage dog Dachshund named Jerry seems to be happy on its own playing fetch. Just imagine being relieved of the obligation to play fetch with your dog on a lazy Sunday morning. On a serious note, this seems to be the perfect mechanism for people with disabilities who keep animals in their houses for company.

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Nowadays people try to use alternative energy sources wherever it’s possible. There are a lot of reasons for this, among which the lack of natural resources and will to protect the environment are the most important. One of the methods to produce power real-time consists in the idea of using human efforts and energy that seems to be promising enough. gadgets like crowd farm produce electricity when people walk on them, another good idea was to combine a revolving door with an electricity generator.

The Revolution Door from Fluxlab has a generator built in and whenever a person goes through the door he/she produces energy. Apparently the idea for creation of such a device can not be considered as an innovative one, yet before this time there were some problems with its implementation. However this gadget is much more detailed and was probably designed as a conceptual piece to get people thinking about the usefulness of such a structure.

To my mind in the near future people will start to use such devices because of their efficiency and ecological compatibility. Moreover I hope that more efforts will be made in this domain, i.e. to make the power be generated by our own efforts without making any additional efforts.

Posted Mar 22nd 2008 3:20AM by Ryan Block
Filed under: HandheldsScreen grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com.

Even the appearance of Justin Long as the scrappy sidekick failed to keep Live Free or Die Hard from so-bad-it’s-bad territory — but the various appearances of a Nokia N770 bestowed with superpowers (sure, all handhelds can sign into satellite phone networks and interface with power station control systems) were pretty entertaining in their own right. We’re a little confused, though — didn’t the producers at least realize that our man Bruce would be using an N810 to chat up his fans online, though? One more shot after the break.

[Thanks, Vamsi]

Chicago-based electronic medical records provider Allscripts is merging with British company Misys PLC to create a firm that will manage data for a combined 150,000 practicing doctors in the U.S., around a third of the nation’s total. Last year, Allscripts and Dell Computers partnered to bring electronic prescribing to doctors for free. Now the new entity (which will keep the name Allscripts) plans to collaborate with Google, who are introducing their own service called Google Health, and with Microsoft.

Supporters of electronic medical record keeping, such as Allscripts’ customers, claim that it saves time and reduces mistakes. Now this is important because preventing mistakes can save lives. But detractors say that electronic medical record keeping is expensive and are worried about security. I agree that security is a concern, passwords can be cracked, and laptops and thumb drives can and do get lost or stolen. It wouldn’t be as easy for thieves to steal a whole file cabinet or bookshelf. So both sides have a point, and we’ll just have to wait and see if the Department of Health and Human Services can reach its goal of 50% of U.S. medical practices having electronic medical records by 2014 (right now it’s at 14%).

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Posted Mar 21st 2008 9:05PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Gaming
While folks at the Xbox 360 repair lab know good and well how to strip a console back to its birthday suit, Microsoft is going the opposite direction with its limited run of Grand Theft Auto IV Elites. The console itself is purportedly blasted with automotive quality paint and each one is individually numbered. Apparently, the 500 units — which look to come with a case full of peripherals — are only being dished out to press outlets and the like, so it seems your only shot at actually acquiring one is by scouring the second hand market. Or you could just steal one and toss a Molotov cocktail behind as you’re getting away — that’d be fitting, we guess.

[Via Xbox360Fanboy]

OpenMoko has released some details for the follow up to the sweet looking, and well spec’d Neo1973. We first heard some rumblings of a follow up device back in mid-February and it seems that OpenMoko has begun showing it off. Being called the Freerunner, its slightly disappointing to look at, sporting a very similar style as the current Neo1973 (as shown above), but the specs should not be as disappointing.

The Freerunner will feature a 400 MHz Samsung CPU, 264MB ROM, 128MB RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi (802.11n), a microSD card has also been equipped with a three-axis accelerometer. According to OpenMoko’s Mickey Lauer, “the platform OpenMoko is a playground for developers.” Although it has not yet been confirmed, it is rumored to be hitting the market soon, perhaps as early as April, which would come during CTIA.

Keep reading for a few more images of the OpenMoko Freerunner…

Via [IntoMobile] Via [Zumo]

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