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Apple! Black Friday! Deals! Are you excited yet? Apple today started teasing its annual Black Friday sale by sending a note to customers bearing the tagline “Wrap it up this Friday.”

Apple isn’t giving away the details–odds are it will actually wait until Friday for that–but it has hinted that “You’ll find dozens of great iPad, iPod and Mac gifts for everyone on your list.”

As always, deals will be found both at Apple Stores and online at Apple.com. The sale starts this Friday November 26th, at 8:00 AM.

These suckers have no clue that they are being silently judged from a mile away.

London. One of the world’s most fabled urban metropolises is ready for its close-up. Really close-up. CRAZY close-up. Eighty friggin’ gigapixel closeup!

Photographer Jeffrey Martin took this 80 billion pixel, 360-degree panoramic image over the course of three days from the top of the Center Point building by digitally combining 7,886 individual photos. If the image was printed at normal resolution, it would measure 115 feet long and 56 feet high.

The image allows you to zoom in on pedestrians or people going about their business inside buildings far off in the distance. You are even able to zoom into the Westminster clock face to read the time from a mile and a half away.

Faces were blurred to protect their privacy and, according to the Daily Mail, the photographic team also had to censor one image described as “naughty,” though they declined to tell where it is or what uniquely British form of waggery transpired.

Another step in the quest for the perfect beer-serving robot. Willow Garage’s PR2 can now distinguish whether bottles are full or empty.

This article was written on April 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

Rumors are flying once again that Dell is planning to launch a Tablet PC towards the end of October. This is far from the first time that I have heard about a Dell Tablet PC that is supposedly in-the-works, but it seems to be a lot more credible this time around.

The source of the rumor claims that they have received nearly identical information from two different sources, and the news goes something like this:

• Will be released in the September/October 2007 time-frame
• Based on the Latitude D420 notebook computer by Dell
• Optional wireless broadband Internet
• Widescreen display

Engadget commenters also seem to be confirming that they have heard similar things from their own Dell representatives. One even went as far as to give some of the details they heard about it:

My rep has confirmed this with me as well. I’ll try to snag his powerpoints. Shows a play on the D420 form factor, 1GB ram minimum 4GB max, 10 hour extended battery [not a typo, but probably not reality], 802.11n, 12″ display with an upgraded 12″ ‘high visibility’ option for outdoor use.

The thing that disappoints me is that they are going to have the Tablet PC functionality on one of their highest priced notebooks. The D420 starts between $1,800 and $2,000 depending on on whether you want a one-core processor or two-core processor. A Tablet PC definitely won’t help reduce the price on it.

I actually owned an Averatec Tablet PC (the C3500) that was horrible. It was plagued with battery and heat dissipation problems, both of which Averatec knew was an issue. They eventually discontinued selling the laptop because there was so many complaints, and at that time I opted for a new computer. The reason that I got the Averatec was because it was the only Tablet PC at the time that was available for under $1000, but the quality was obviously compromised for the price.

Since then I haven’t had another Tablet PC because they are still pretty expensive, but they were extremely nice for taking notes that are normally hard to type. Since I can type pretty fast I found that I didn’t really use the tablet functionality all that much because it actually slowed me down more than anything.

A few companies have taken strides to provide an affordable Tablet PC, such as Gateway’s which you can get for around $900 with pretty good specs. Dell is smart for getting into the Tablet PC market, but I think they need to offer a solution that typical consumers can afford as well.

Source: jkOnTheRun [via Engadget]

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With less than a year left in its run, now seems like a pretty good time to check out a live taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show–after all, chances seem pretty good that you’ll walk away with, say, a brand new car. Audience members present for an episode taped yesterday were all given their very own 2012 Volkswagen Beetle.

The car hasn’t actually come out yet, heck, VW has yet to actually unveil the thing (the above shot is an older model), but Winfrey promised that, as soon as the vehicle hits the market, everyone who showed up will be driving away in their own brand new car.

VW’s U.S. chief exec Jonathan Browning, oddly, took the opportunity to compare Oprah to a car, “Oprah Winfrey and the Volkswagen Beetle are two American icons, so when the Oprah show approached us with this incredible opportunity to share her Beetle experience with deserving viewers, we instantly wanted to be a part of it.”

Winfrey drives her own VW Bug–she highlighted the vehicle during her on-going “Favorite Things” series. This is the second time Winfrey has given away a car. As Bloomberg points out, when she gave out Pontiac G6s, audience members had trouble paying income taxes. This time out, the show will be helping out with that as well.