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Thanko has dropped another oddity on us. A completely different way to be cool via butts. The e-cigarette. Basically its a goofy quit smoking device. The USB charger charges a battery power aerosol container of nicotine spray. When it senses you taking a tug on one of the included filter butts it releases a small does of nicotine. The spray is a sweeter smelling version of normal cigarette smoke which is less noxious for those around you. The spray also contains no tar which is much better for those who like you.

This opens the door for caffeinated cigarettes and multiple flavors. The one image that continually flashes through my head while reading about this is the thought of teachers having to take them away from children. At $33 a pack it might seem cheaper to just quit smoking cold turkey but where’s the fun in that. At the risk of sounding cliché, Please keep out of reach of children.
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While there are a few pulse-meter watches out there most of the require an annoying chest strap to actually function. A lot of people buy them to help them with workouts, to achieve maximum cardio-efficiency, we however just want the cool display. Enter Rakuten’s ECG LED Watch. The over sized watch features an LED blip display reminiscent of a hospital’s ECG monitor. The peaks and valley actually graphically display the current time. The peaks map the hours and and the valleys mark the minutes.

Making for a dramatic and alarming first impression as it pulses the time it looks as if you have to have your health constantly monitored. This may not be something that you want to come across to whomever you are meeting. Barring immediate distress about your current physical condition the watch is quite the eye catching timepiece available in two colors, black and silver. The black model features red LEDs and the silver model sports green ones. To top it all off it seems that you can recharge the display battery via a USB connector just to make sure your lights keep on shining. Lest it fade during a meeting and the wrong person see it and start in with unwanted mouth-to-mouth. This mixed signal timepiece can be bought from Rakuten for approximately $257 dollars, no details on whether they will ship abroad are available.
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Thanko has dropped another oddity on us. A completely different way to be cool via butts. The e-cigarette. Basically its a goofy quit smoking device. The USB charger charges a battery power aerosol container of nicotine spray. When it senses you taking a tug on one of the included filter butts it releases a small does of nicotine. The spray is a sweeter smelling version of normal cigarette smoke which is less noxious for those around you. The spray also contains no tar which is much better for those who like you.

This opens the door for caffeinated cigarettes and multiple flavors. The one image that continually flashes through my head while reading about this is the thought of teachers having to take them away from children. At $33 a pack it might seem cheaper to just quit smoking cold turkey but where’s the fun in that. At the risk of sounding cliché, Please keep out of reach of children.
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While there are a few pulse-meter watches out there most of the require an annoying chest strap to actually function. A lot of people buy them to help them with workouts, to achieve maximum cardio-efficiency, we however just want the cool display. Enter Rakuten’s ECG LED Watch. The over sized watch features an LED blip display reminiscent of a hospital’s ECG monitor. The peaks and valley actually graphically display the current time. The peaks map the hours and and the valleys mark the minutes.

Making for a dramatic and alarming first impression as it pulses the time it looks as if you have to have your health constantly monitored. This may not be something that you want to come across to whomever you are meeting. Barring immediate distress about your current physical condition the watch is quite the eye catching timepiece available in two colors, black and silver. The black model features red LEDs and the silver model sports green ones. To top it all off it seems that you can recharge the display battery via a USB connector just to make sure your lights keep on shining. Lest it fade during a meeting and the wrong person see it and start in with unwanted mouth-to-mouth. This mixed signal timepiece can be bought from Rakuten for approximately $257 dollars, no details on whether they will ship abroad are available.
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Swekey, the Safe Web Enabler KEY is a new security USB device that wants to help you move quicker and more securely on the web. The Swekey uses U3 type autolaunch execution to bypass all that annoying user interaction that can slow things down. Once things are setup behind the scenes you are required to create an OpenID account. The Swekey saves your OpenID information and automatically logs you into the OpenID system as soon as the Swekey is plugged in. Swekey also has a plan for Corporate branded moiety. The Corporate OpenID/Swekey servers can be bought or commissioned, probably very cheaply considering that all the software is free/open source.

OpenID already has a fair amount of constituent members that should continue to grow. Implementation is fairly simple for system administrators and canned code for integrated logins is popping up more and more often. Joomla, WordPress, Putty and Drupal are just a few of the major Open-Source players that are already compatible. You can purchase yours for $15 from their online store and get a jump on what will likely continue to grow and the needs of online authentication continue to grow.
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Panasonic has released the second in its line of hybrid cameras this week. The DMC-GH1 is the second camera that Panasonic has released that is Still camera capable of HD video recording. Sporting the standard Lumix high quality still features like Live View viewfinder and facial recognition and memorization. Panasonic’s image stabilization technology is still touted as one of the best in the industry. Bearing a 12MP CMOS sensor the DMC-GH1 can deliver up to 4000 x 3000 resolution images, and stores them on SD media. This is the second camera from Panasonic sporting its new micro four-thirds lens mount. The kit comes with a 45-200mm zoom lens and should retail around $1500.

The 1080p full HD movies are captured at only 24 frames per second. This is a bit slower than standard television signals which around 30 frames per second. You may be able to tell the difference in fast action captures but for most any other subject matter you probably won’t care. The video is encoded in the AVCHD standard which is still rising in popularity. This should be available in Japan on April 24th no word on how long it will take to reach the rest of the world.
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