Xero’s eBoard Neo skateboard is battery-powered, gun-controlled

It may not be the first electric skateboard, or the fastest, or the least skateboardlike, but Xero’s new eBoard Neo is controlled by a gun, and that’s got to count for something. In addition to attracting attention from the law, this board will propel you along with ease at 14 miles per hour, hit 0 to 20 (kilometers, presumably) in just four seconds, and last for around 13.5 miles on a single charge — a complete recharge will take three to four hours. At £220 (or just over $360), however, this one doesn’t exactly come cheap, although you can also snag the slightly less speedy (and gun-less) eBoard Junior or eBoard Flow for £120 and £150, respectively, or step up to the heavy duty eBoard Pro for £250.

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Livescribe pen gets an app store

The first add-on programs are now ready for the digital pen as its store enters beta. The current offering is a mixed bag ranging from video poker to a to a Bar Mitzvah translator. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10401264-56.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Beyond Binary/a/p

Juicy Couture makes decent looking photo frame, Dean Koontz writes pretty good novel

We have to hand it to Juicy Couture — a company which we would have thought could never, ever crank out anything that made us think, “hey, that’s pretty nice!” Regardless, here it is in the flesh: Juicy Couture’s own take on the digital photo frame, and not a glitter or spangle in sight. In fact, we’re really digging the gaudy, old-timey gold resin frame, which measures 6.5 by 8-inches, and boasts a 2GB SD card (though the hideous logo remains… hideous). It’s up for pre-order for now, and should ship by the end of November — if you don’t mind paying $140 for it.

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T-Mobile Complete: a $300 contract-free BlackBerry Curve 8520 with one month service

Good old T-Mobile‘s on a roll these days with new phone plans, and this one seems perfectly catered to stocking stuffers. The quartet of phones start at $59.99, but so far we know of two: BlackBerry Curve 8520 for $299.99 and the Pearl for $149.99, according to the Best Buy stores we contacted. There’s no contract commitment, and according to the press release, the first month is included in the bill from the point the phone’s out of the box and activated. We don’t know the details of that first month of service (data? texting?), but it’s still a pretty penny for an unsubsidized handset. After that second month, of course, T-Mo’s probably hoping you’ll be enticed to keep with the network. If not already, you should start seeing the phones pop up at local Best Buy and select Walmart locales shortly. Press release after the break.

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Lightroom 2.6 beta supports new compact cameras

Along with Canon’s 7D and Nikon’s D3s, and a number of high-end compact cameras move into the Adobe fold with betas of Lightroom 2.6 and related software. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10401224-264.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Deep Tech/a/p

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X100e gets detailed: AMD Neo-based, not a netbook

We’ve already gotten a few brief, mysterious glimpses of Lenovo’s thin-and-light ThinkPad X100e (sometimes known as the X200e), but it looks like things are now starting to get a bit more real. Contrary to previous speculation, this one’s not, it seems, a ThinkPad netbook, but an “entry ultraportable,” which apparently means that it is small, thin and light just like a netbook, and has a “netbook-like price point” — it’s just… not a netbook. Less nebulous are the device’s specs, which include an 11.6-inch, 1366 x 768 display, an AMD Athlon Neo processor, support for up to 4GB of RAM, up to a 320GB hard drive, optional 3G and GPS and, of particular note to some particular folks, a distinctly ThinkPad keyboard, trackpad and trackpoint. Still no indication of a release date just yet, but it looks like you will at least be able to get this one in your choice of black, red or white, despite its distinctly business-minded nature.

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Samsung Bada phone to be announced first half of next year

We’re still not entirely sure why Samsung feels the need to launch its own mobile operating system while still cranking out Android and Windows Mobile devices, but it seems like things are going full steam ahead: a spokesperson told CNET Asia today that a Bada phone would arrive in the first half of 2010. Sure, that sounds like a long time off, but really it’s just six months after the big Bada SDK reveal in December, so we’ll have to see if that’s enough time for developers to sort things out and release any apps.

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Latest SixthSense demo features paper ‘laptop,’ camera gestures

We’ve already seen MIT researcher Pranav Mistry’s SixthSense projector-based augmented-reality system in some cool demos, but he just gave a TED talk and his latest ideas are the wildest yet. Forget simple projections, he’s moved on to taking photos by just making a box with your fingers, identifying books and products on store shelves and projecting reviews and other information on them, projecting flight schedules on boarding passes, and even a new paper “laptop” concept that works by using a microphone on the paper to sense when you’re touching it. It’s pretty amazing stuff — check out his whole talk at the read link.

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iPhone app scans bar codes for health, enviro ratings

GoodGuide releases a free app that lets you scan an item’s bar code and instantly retrieve info on that product’s health, environmental, and social responsibility ratings. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-10401115-247.html” class=”origPostedBlog”News – Health Tech/a/p

Asus packs an Eee PC Netbook with Nvidia Ion and a dual-core Intel Atom

Hot on the heels of the well-regarded HP Mini 311, Asus has moved the Netbook bar forward by taking a 12-inch Netbooks chassis and including both Nvidia’s Ion graphics and a dual-core version of Intel’s Atom processor.