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Interactive Group — the same folks who ruined our lives last year with Cyber Clean — are back. Seriously back. The company’s latest gimmick gizmo is the Active-i sunglasses, hailed as the planet’s smallest standalone video and audio recording / playback device. Put simply, you’ll get a set of somewhat unsightly sunglasses (with “polarized lenses for optimum UV-protection,” no less) with a built-in video camera right along the bridge of the nose. It’s placed there for maximum stealth, and it’s capable of capturing up to two hours of low-res video; after the deed is done, users can actually view it back on the monocular viewer, or if you need to break it down Jack Bauer-style, you can offload clips onto your PC or Mac via USB. There’s also a TV output, a microSD expansion slot and a bundled carrying case, but your guess is as good as ours when it comes to pricing. Something tells us your local spy store may be more “clued in.”

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For all those fans of mecha anime Gundam who can’t live without their favorite franchise even when they are driving, Seiwa has come up with a solution for you.

A new series of Gundam-themed car merchandise includes cup-holders, ashtrays and even phone charger units. The eight items all come in the shape of the head of one of three characters familiar from the anime: the MS-06S Zaku II, MS-07B GOUF, and iconic RX-78-2 Gundam itself.

The cup-holder no doubt is very useful for those PET bottles of water in the summer and clips neatly on to the air blower vents. The phone charger’s cord actually connects to the Zaku’s nose, while the ashtrays even light up so you won’t be dropping your butts. The accessories cost locally from 1,980 to 2,480 JPY (about $23.75 to $29.75) each.

This article was written on January 07, 2009 by CyberNet.

It’s definitely hard to believe, but after 6-months of being released the CyberSearch extension has been downloaded over 25,000 times from Mozilla’s add-ons site. The stats page for our add-on appears to be a bit screwed up since it’s only reporting that we have 3 active users, but the average number of you actively using CyberSearch is around 4,000… which is probably a bit more accurate.

One thing I’ve really tried to do with the extension is listen and respond to the feedback of the people who are using it. I try to respond to every email I receive regarding the extension, and I’ve also come to learn that there are quite a few of you who are using it in pre-release versions of Firefox. That’s one reason I have a strong focus on the compatibility with both stable and nightly releases.

So hopefully all of you using CyberSearch are still enjoying it! I’m rather amazed that it has a 5-star average out of the 66 reviews thus far, and hopefully it will continue on that streak. What I’d really love to see some day is CyberSearch get front and center on the Add-ons homepage, but I don’t expect that to happen anytime soon.

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The latest version of the free Google Translate app for Android includes improvements for easier operation, as well as the addition of a new, experimental feature.

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