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Nov 28

Sharp’s New Blu-ray Player Costs £200

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Last Christmas, Blu-ray players costs an obscene amount of money and, while they aren’t exactly cheap now, they are heading in the right direction and becoming affordable for most consumers.

Sharp’s BD-HP21H has just hit the UK and despite the sticker price of £250, you can find this player online for a shade under £200. This is a Profile 1.1 player with 1080p support and 24 frames per second (fps) playback, meaning the movies run at the same speed they were filmed at and make motion-scenes much smoother and clearer.

The machine also promises to upscale your DVDs to near-HD quality and the HDMI 1.3 jack offers support for Deep Color as well as advanced sound formats like Dolby True HD and DTS-HD Advanced.

Nov 28

WaterMill Sucks Water From The Air

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Tired of tasting chemicals in your water? Is your expensive mineral water habit under threat by the recession? Then watch out, the Canadians are coming.

A bunch of eco-inventors at Element Four have created WaterMill, a product designed to make getting clean water from the air outside possible for everyone. Well, everyone with money, that is.

Looking like a big smoke alarm, it sits outside and, powered by about the same amount of electricity as 3 light bulbs, it can make up to 12 litres of fresh, clean water a day.

It works by sucking air through filters which remove dust and any other particles before cooling it to the below the point that dew forms. The condensed water is then cleaned up in a self-sterilisation chamber, complete with UV light, to kill-off any little nasties. It’s then filtered again and passed inside the house via a pipe to your fridge or tap.

Nov 28

Amazon’s Canon SD770IS deal is much better than it looks

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Nabbing Canon’s little PowerShot SD770IS 10 megapixel shooter with optical image stabilization for $160 from Amazon is a decent deal, though not great. Like many of this year’s so called Black Friday deals, a little mouse-work will likely uncover the same prices elsewhere. But read Amazon’s fine print and you’ll see that you can add a free, 4GB class 4 SDHC card (something you’ll likely want to purchase anyway) to save another $11 or so on your purchase. What Amazon doesn’t tell you is that you can add any Kingston SDHC card for free. Right, including the $30 16GB SDHC card (ships after Christmas) or $15 8GB class 6 card (ships before Christmas). Free shipping too and tax free — $159.94 is your final price. Just hit up the links below, add the products to your cart, and watch the savings roll in.

P.S. You won’t see the price drop by just adding the items to the cart. The price for the SD card is subtracted just before checking out.

[Via SlickDeals]

Read — 16GB card
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Read — Canon PowerShot SD770IS

Amazon’s Canon SD770IS deal is much better than it looks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 28

Apple’s US Black Friday sale now live

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What started down under has followed the sun home, Apple’s Black Friday sale is now live at the US Apple store. At first glance the sale is consistent with years past and what we’ve already seen In Australia and elsewhere — so much for all the analyst expectations of a big blow out.

Apple’s US Black Friday sale now live originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 28

Nokia Home Control Center Puts House Control In Your Phone

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smart home.jpg Not content with ruling the mobile phone market, Nokia is now eyeing up our homes by announcing a platform that will let us control ‘smart homes’ from our mobile phones.

There are already lots of smart-home products out there from fridges with TVs and Net access to smart heating systems, intelligent biometric security systems and energy-saving washer/dryers but they all boast proprietary technology, command languages and remote controls.

The Nokia Home Control Center will be Linux-based and allow makers of smart home techs to quickly create a method of controlling their products via the phone and the Web. It will enable grouping of different items and the interface will be ‘simple’ for people to use.

Nokia explains:

Nov 28

Archos 7 acquired in the wild, critiqued in French

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Mmm, the Archos 7. Seven full inches of touchscreen loveliness, just waiting to be caressed as you slide over your favorite artists one by one. Poor attempts at seduction aside, this magnificent piece of PMP has been spotted in the wild over at ArchosLounge, and the lucky soul who managed to acquire it even took the time to spill his impressions… in French. From what we could gather via the wonders of Google Translator, the Archos 7 wasn’t actually a surefire upgrade for those with the 5, particularly not at the listed price. Still, the unit brought a lot of smiles to the face of the owner, and we’re pretty sure it’ll do the same for you. Click the read link for a few more looks.

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Archos 7 acquired in the wild, critiqued in French originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 28

Samsung’s YP-P3 becomes a reality — thanks, FCC

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Well, what do you know? That Samsung YP-P3, which was rumored back in May, is more than just a figment of someone’s vivid imagination. Thanks to the wonderful FCC, we now know that Sammy is pressing for approval to release its next-generation PMP here in the States, though that’s absolutely all that we know right now. There’s no attached user manual, no splendid internal / external photos and no other juicy details to pore over. But let’s focus on the positive, shall we? The P3 is for real, and it’s coming soon.

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Samsung’s YP-P3 becomes a reality — thanks, FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 28

Rogers selling the BlackBerry Curve 8900? UPDATE: Yes indeed

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Word on the street is that people have suddenly (and rather unexpectedly) started to be able to buy the Curve 8900 on Rogers for $179.99 on a three-year contract with support for the carrier’s Talkspot UMA service. Why this wasn’t heavily advertised leading up to the release, we don’t know — folks seem to be red-hot for this release — but at any rate, you should be able to stroll into your local shop in the next few days and pick this sucker up. That eternal question comes up yet again: Curve, Bold, or Storm?

Update: Game on — according to Boy Genius, the Curve is now listed in Rogers’ internal database and retail stores are starting to get stocks. So what’s it gonna be?

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Rogers selling the BlackBerry Curve 8900? UPDATE: Yes indeed originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 28

Nokia Quake III gains on-phone server, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support

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Remember when playing Quake III at a decent resolution required a $5,000 Alienware? Man, those were the days. Now, we can’t help but be thankful for a few special Nokia handsets (the N95 8GB, E90 and N82 in particular) that can all handle the game by their lonesome. In fact, the latest version of the software adds a few remarkably awesome extras. For starters, users can now take advantage of on-phone server support, meaning that your handset can actually host a Quake III multiplayer battle (and may we recommend the server name “trashaccident?”). Also of note, the devs have tossed in support for Bluetooth mice and keyboards. We know, right? Tap the read link for all the juicy installation instructions.

[Via Decoder, thanks Olli]

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Nokia Quake III gains on-phone server, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 27

Apple Black Friday Deals Include Some Decent Third-Party Discounts [Black Friday]

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The Apple Store US has published the same worldwide discounts on the 20-inch iMac, the 13-inch Macbook, the 8GB iPod nano, the iPod classic, the iPod touch, Time Capsule, Apple TV, and other Apple gear. The best deals, however, are some steeply discounted third-party products, like Microsoft Office 2008 Special Media Edition with $250.00 off its price tag. Update: Find the best handpicked deals after the jump.

Here are some of their best discounts:

• Sanyo Xacti VPC-E2 waterproof camcorder: $198 ($201.95 off)

• Microsoft Office 2008 Special Media Edition: $249.95 ($250 off)

• Canon Rebel XS Kit: $498 ($101.95 off)

• Altec Lansing T612 Digital Speaker System for iPhone: $148 ($51.95 off)

• Monster Beats by Dr. Dre Headphones: $298 ($51.95 off)

• M-Audio KeyStudio 49 keyboard: $68 ($31.95 off)

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