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AuthenTec is proud to work with Fujitsu to include its vaunted fingerprint sensor technology inside the FOMA F906i ultra-thin world phone. It will feature Power of Touch features such as security, convenience, personalization and navigation. This isn’t the first cell phone from Fujitsu to feature AuthenTec’s award-winning TruePrint technology but the 16th, but it is the first Fujitsu phone to offer TrueNav that offers users the ability to rock on to a full 360 degrees of browser, menu and document navigation simply through AuthenTec’s integrated AES1710 fingerprint sensor. The cell phone itself was recently offered to subscribers of NTT DoCoMo, boasting the tiny form factor AES1710 low power fingerprint sensor.

The F906i features 3G/GSM international roaming, GPS map navigation, HSDPA, “One-Segment” mobile TV, DCMX mobile credit card and iD mobile credit payments, full wide VGA LCD screen. The F906i also features two cameras (3.2 megapixel and 320 kilopixel) and enables access to diverse video content and services, including DOCOMO’s Music & Video Channel which provides more than 100 channels of downloadable broadcasts spanning 14 genres. AuthenTec’s AES1710 fingerprint sensor is based on the Company’s patented TruePrint technology, which reads below the surface of the skin to the live layer where a person’s true fingerprint resides. This unique subsurface approach enables AuthenTec sensors to read virtually every fingerprint, every time — a critical requirement in any fingerprint-enabled device. Other device features include TrueNav menu navigation, TrueFinger anti-spoofing security, and TrueMatch pattern matching to ensure the industry’s highest level of security, usability and convenience.

Sounds pretty much comprehensive to me. No idea on how much the phone will cost though, but it would be nice to see something like this be available outside of Japan. It seems as though the Japanese and Koreans always have the coolest phones to play around with. Bummer.

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After spending all day in the pool with all that chlorine, a quick rinse before laying out in the sun would be nice. Especially if it meant you didn’t have to walk through the house and get everything between you and the shower soaked. The best thing about this solar powered shower is that it is heated. So you won’t have to freeze, as if you aren’t cold enough by getting out of the water. Sadly boys, I’m afraid that although as usual it features a cute girl posing underneath the downpour of water, she is not included in the price tag.

However, if you pick one up at least your house won’t smell like chlorine. Not only that but if you’ve been out in the yard barefoot, instead of rinsing off with the hose itself, you can rinse your feet with warm water. Since it is solar powered it would be easy to just pick it up and toss it in the shed for those cooler months. The shower can be placed anywhere that your hose can possibly reach. Each one is being sold for $199 and pours out water at up to 86 degrees (Farenheit).

Source: gadgetgrid

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If you want to get better at golf, why not obtain some help from the Spider precision putter from TaylorMade? The company is proud to claim that the clubface itself is extremely well-balanced, that shots hit off the toe or heel end up closer to the cup compared to any of its competitors. It is interesting to note that tests have shown even misfired putts on purpose do defy logic and head nearer the cup instead. Move over, Tiger Woods, with the Spider precision putter, I’m going to see you off at St. Andrews next year.

Source: Wired

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Sporting an eye-catching color and capable of capturing equally eye-catching images, Casio EX-Z100PK digital camera is now available at all major electronic shops. This Camera features a 10.1 mega pixel lens. The easy to use camera incorporates automatic scene differentiation. Enjoy watching high-resolution images on this Casio EX-Z100PK Digital Camera.

Features

• 2.7-inch wide TFT color LCD.
• Built-in Flash.
• Self-Timer.
• 12.1 MB built-in flash memory.
• 4X Optical and Digital Zoom.

Casio EX-Z100PK Digital Camera supports file formats like JPEG, DPOF, MOV and WAV. It is compatible with SD Memory Card, MultiMediaCard, SDHC Memory Card and MultiMediaCard plus. Other innovative features of Casio’s latest Digital Camera include Voice Recording, Auto Shutter, Face Recognition, YouTube Capture Mode, Best Shot and Auto Best Shot.

Price and Availability

Casio EX-Z100PK Digital Camera is available at a price of $ 279.00

Source: Casio

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by Joshua Topolsky, posted Jul 14th 2008 at 8:30AM
If you’ve been hemming and hawing about whether or not you should buy a Palm Treo 800w, perhaps a ton of photos of the device would help with your decision. Well today is your lucky day, as we’ve got the thing in our hands and wanted to share our good fortune with the world. Shoot on over to Engadget Mobile for a slew of pictures, and stay tuned for a review from us coming soon.

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by Paul Miller, posted Jul 14th 2008 at 8:53AM
Well, don’t you feel silly now, Hassleblad. That 50 megapixel monstrosity of yours got barely a week of being the new hotness before Phase One made you look silly with its new P65+ 60 megapixel digital back. The full frame, 645 medium format back can shoot at a blistering 1 FPS, uses a proprietary sensor built by Phase One and Dalsa, offers up variable resolution, and carries a $39,990 pricetag. Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to go throw a few 8 megapixel junkers of ours into a wall.

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Trusted Reviews has a review of the Sony Ericsson W890i and writes, “The main camera shoots stills at resolutions up to 3.2-megapixels. It lacks flash, autofocus and self-portrait mirror. There are a few pre-sets for different lighting conditions: fluorescent, incandescent, daylight and cloudy, but as usual I left the phone on its auto settings to fend for itself…This is probably the best handset I’ve seen in Sony Ericsson’s Walkman range. I’d like a bigger screen now that 3.5G web browsing is a reality, but I don’t want the buttons compromised to get it. And on the camera front - well, maybe it is time for Sony Ericsson to bring its CyberShot and Walkman ranges together?”

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by Chris Ziegler, posted Jul 14th 2008 at 3:40AM
Craziest thing, Apple apparently launched some sort of device being loosely coined as a “cellular telephone” last Friday. The darned thing makes calls, keeps track of contacts, and even receives messages — all right from your pocket! Wild, sci-fi caliber stuff, that. We’re catching up on the latest iPhone 3G buzz, and here’s what we’ve got going on at the moment:

• Jonny Gladwell, better known as the first iphone 3G owner in the world thanks to his perfect storm of location (New Zealand) and line position (first), has been outed as a plant for New Zealand’s Yellow Pages. Turns out the guy was hired by the directory service to see if he could “survive” the brutal multi-day sitting experience using nothing but — you guessed it — the Yellow Pages to get by. Ironic that you don’t need a friggin’ Yellow Pages when you have an iPhone, isn’t it? Hmm, Jonny?
• Portelligent has sacrificed an iPhone 3G to conduct perhaps the most thorough teardown thus far, finding some incremental improvements, largely to accomodate 3G and bring the design in line with the ipod touch, while carrying over a good deal of componentry that had no reason to be upgraded. Infineon and Toshiba had big wins here in the radio and flash memory departments, respectively.
• AIM acts as a conduit for sending text messages by allowing users to add phone numbers as “buddies.” The iPhone has an AIM client. See where we’re going with this? Yep, it’s a cheesy way to avoid shelling out for a text messaging plan, if you want to go to the trouble of using AIM in place of the native SMS app.
• The plot thickens in the yellow screen issue. As we’d mentioned yesterday, Apple claims the warmer color temperature seen in the iPhone 3G was a purposeful attempt to make things prettier and sharper — but now, Ars Technica reports that forcing an update in iTunes from the 3G’s shipping firmware of 5A345 to the ever-so-slightly newer 5A347 pushes things a little bit back toward the blue end of the spectrum. So what’s it gonna be, Apple?

[Thanks to everyone who sent these in!]

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by Thomas Ricker, posted Jul 14th 2008 at 3:47AMAs expected, NVIDIA just slashed the price of its top-end GTX 280 and GTX 260 graphics processors in recognition of AMD’s new RV770 GPU. The GeForce GTX 280 is now $499 ($649 at launch) and the GTX 260 is priced at $299 (down from $399). Once again demonstrating that it’s not from the benevolence of the hooker, the thug or the police, that we expect more realistic havoc in Liberty City, but from GPU manufacturers’ regard to their own self interest.

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