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by Joshua Topolsky, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 10:28AM
We don’t normally get too excited about printers, but when a company claims to have introduced the “smallest ever” of anything, our ears prick up. Apparently, the Korean electronics-maker has distilled color laser printers into their purest, tiniest form with the CLP-315K and CLX-3175FNK, clocking in at 20- and 40-percent smaller than previous iterations, respectively. The printers still sport fancy-pants features, like printing at up to 2,400 x 600 dpi, 32MB of onboard memory, and — at least on the CLX-3175FNK — the ability to print from a USB key. No word on price or availability, or if these will see the light of day in the States.

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by Darren Murph, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 12:19AM
Four months is just too long to go without an all new ReadyNAS, so we suppose that’s why Netgear is kicking out an all new 6-bay unit (6TB RNDP6610; 3TB RNDP6310; 1.5TB RNDP6350) for those obsessed with storage. The box can handle up to 6TB of HDD space and features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM (up to 4GB supported), 128MB of embedded flash for the OS, a pair of gigabit Ethernet ports, three USB 2.0 sockets and support for RAID 0/1/5/6 and Auto-Expandable X-RAID2. As expected, Windows / Mac / Linux clients can all tap in, and the unit streams all sorts of media on the side. Of course, acquiring the industry’s first 6-bay small-form-factor NAS drive won’t come cheap, with the ReadyNAS Pro starting at around two large.

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I know that Japan has been using cell phones as a mode of payment for quite a fair number of years already, but that country is pretty much isolated when it comes to advanced stuff like that. How would you feel about using your cell phone to make that odd payment for your shopping or meal? While it might be much safer compared to carrying a wad of cash, what happens when you lose your cell phone (either by accident or through a theft)? Not only will you despair knowing that your contact list has been lost (serves you right for not having a backup), in addition to precious photos of your family taken by the handset’s digital camera and most importantly - your wallet. To suffer from so many blows at once isn’t exactly kind on a person, which is why I prefer to let the cell phone continue doing what it does best - communication. Let the good old fashioned wallet do the rest of the purchasing work. How do you see this?

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Traveler-ER, Inc. has rolled out an easy-to-use, progressive solution where storing your personal, medical and emergency contact information is made easy, thanks to the Traveler-ER USB flash drive. It isn’t meant for casual users though, designed with input from emergency medical and travel professionals in order to come up with an easy method to store and ferry vital records with you just about everywhere you go. All the personal information within is stored only on the password protected USB drive and not on any central database, which means you can be sure Traveler-ER Inc. won’t have any sensitive information on you.

Well I guess this is definitely a much more advanced method of carrying around vital information, especially during medical emergencies where the emergency personnel don’t have to go through your wallet and plethora of cards just to know what blood type are you.

The Traveler-ER device helps answer one of the “What ifs” that affect your peace of mind while traveling: What if I have a medical emergency away from home? What if my travel companion doesn’t know anything about my medical history or can’t remember specific information at a critical moment? What if I am traveling alone on a business trip and have a medical emergency? Traveler-ER gives travelers the peace of mind that their medical and emergency contact information is with them, wherever they are.

Some of the information which the $29.95 Traveler-ER USB flash drive allows you to store:

• Personal Information (Name, address, identifying characteristics and a digital photo)
• Medical History (current conditions, medications, allergies, immunizations, surgeries)
• Physician contact information for your primary care physician and/or specialist(s)
• Emergency Contact Information
• Health Insurance Information
• Family Medical History
• Travel History Information (This may help diagnose an exotic illness contracted while traveling to remote locations)

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by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Apr 28th 2008 at 8:39PMIf you’re waiting for broadband over power lines (BPL) as an alternative to cable or DSL in your area, it may be time to finally give in to one of the big companies. The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) — a group of amateur radio enthusiasts — has sued the FCC over its plan to speed up BPL’s expansion, citing concerns that the service’s radio emissions provide too many interference risks to the hobby / ham spectrum. While the FCC conducted a favorable study on BPL’s potential problems, their published report had so many redacted sections that the ARRL wants to know what they missed. A D.C. district court agrees with the League, and plans for further rollout have been tabled until the FCC can come up with more facts.

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