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You scoff, but it’s true. Do you honestly think Tiger Woods has the luxury of looking down as his golf glove while on the Masters’ greens and seeing if his grip is too tight? Indeed he doesn’t, nor will he ever if we understand anything about PGA regulations. Germany’s own Sensosolutions has just revealed what it’s calling the planet’s first “digital golf glove,” with the $89 SensoGlove boasting a handful of sensors that “continuously read the user’s grip pressure.” In real-time, users are shown that data on the sweat-proof 1.2-inch LED monitor, and it’s even capable of outputting information via aural commands. Put simply, it can give you a warning if you’re exceeding your target grip pressure level, and it can even show you exactly which fingers are squeezing too tightly. What it can’t show you, however, is just how closely your wife is monitoring your extracurricular phone activities — but hey, there’s always version 2.0, right?

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The iPod nano iWatch? That’s so last week. Apple’s sixth-gen PMP has found a far better home in one fellow’s old Dreamcast VMU (Visual Memory Unit). It takes a bit of work to get the 1.5-inch screen and headphone outlet aligned just right, but when it’s all said and done, you get one of the best and quickest homages to old school gaming around. And hey, it also acts as a big plastic fortress to protect your touchy music player. Video after the break.

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Are you intrigued by touchscreen, tablet-style media players, but don’t want to give up anything — and I mean anything — from your desktop PC? The refreshed high-end Sony Vaio L is pricey and heavy, but it’s packed to the gills.

Yesterday, Sony announced its holiday-season refresh of the Vaio line of notebook computers (barring the 8″ notebook-not-a-netbook Vaio P, which was updated in May).

The 24″ let’s-call-it-an-all-in-one-notebook-’cause-even-my-lap-isn’t-that-big Vaio L is packing a quad-core Intel processor, a 2TB hard drive, a capacitative touchscreen with true HD resolution, a webcam (well, yeah), an NVidia graphics card with 1GB video-dedicated RAM (on top of the 8GB of regular memory), and (most significantly) a Blu-ray read/write drive.

It’s got Sony’s own touch-friendly media management and editing suite, and also comes with Windows 7 Home Premium, a wireless keyboard and mouse, and a remote control. The whole thing costs $2200 (already on backorder), and the part with the screen weighs 27.6 lbs — about the same as an old 24″ iMac.

So it’s a portable computer, in the sense that you can pick it up and move it from one part of the house to another, but you can’t exactly hold it in your hands. But if your complaint about Apple, Android, or Windows 7 touchscreen tablets has been that “they don’t even have ____,” this Sony is your answer.

If you don’t want all that, you can also get an entry-level Vaio L with “only” a half-TB of storage and no Blu-Ray on clearance for less than $1300. But that might feel a little like driving a Lexus without power windows.

See Also:

• Sony Vaio P Gets Accelerometer, Touchpads, 3G
• Sony Vaio TZ150
• Sony Vaio SZ Premium Model
• Sony Launches 'World's Lightest' 8-Inch Notebook (Not a Netbook …
• Touchscreen PCs Prompt Interface Innovations
• Report: Google Working With Intel, Sony on TV Project

Sharp has a pair of new e-readers coming to stores this December. At the same time, the company will be launching its own book-store, called Galapagos. But all is not quite what it seems.

The e-readers come in two sizes, a 5.5-inch 1024×600 resolution model and a 10.8-inch 1366×800. They both have Wi-Fi, but lack 3G, and they will connect to the new Galapagos store for books and periodicals (magazines and newspapers will be delivered automatically). But here’s the twist: both these machines run Android as an OS, making them essentially tablet-computers. The version of Android that they use is “heavily modified”, and it won’t connect to the Android Market (mostly because the screen is to high-res), but it is still an Android tablet, and you should therefore be able to install any version of Google’s open-source OS on there.

Sharp has yet to let on how much it will charge for the machines, but if it has any hope of selling in the e-reader market, it’s going to have to be cheap. Sell the ten-incher for anything over $350 and you’re going to lose sales to the iPad. The other competitor is the Kindle, and that’s almost cheap enough to give away in cereal-boxes.

We’ll keep an eye on this. Who know that Sharp, of all companies, would be sneaking an Android tablet into stores?

Galapagos product page [Sharp]

Sharp Introduces Galapagos E-Book Readers and Platform [Akihabara News]

Galapagos press release [Sharp / Scribd]

See Also:

• Velocity Cruz Android Tablet: 7-Inch Display, $300
• Chinese Counterfeiters Release First Android Tablet
• $250 Korean Android Tablet Looks Strangely Familiar
• India's New Android Tablet Looks Pretty Great
• Your Froyo Tablet Probably Won't Support Android Market

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If you don’t actually want to be able to feel that you’ve got a Bluetooth earbud hanging off the side of your head, you might want to take a look at the Motorola Oasis, a new boom-style headset announced today. Though it lacks the HX1’s so-called “stealth mode” that uses bone conduction to practically eliminate every sound other than your voice, the Oasis is still rated for 12mph of wind resistance and uses dual mics to cancel spurious noise. It’ll be available starting October 3 (as an AT&T store exclusive initially) for $79.99, positioning it toward the upper end of the Bluetooth midrange.

We’ve had a chance to play with the Oasis over the last few days, so follow the break for our impressions!

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