So you’ve heard about a brand new kind of chocolate in town that won’t help lower your blood pressure due to the presence of anti-oxidants, especially when this is the type of chocolate which requires you to fork out a monthly subscription fee. We’re talking about the LG Chocolate Touch here that is available from Verizon Wireless, boasting qualities that will make audiophiles happy thanks to its patented Dolby Mobile feature that offers a dramatically richer listening experience with its potent bass and sparkling clarity. Among the other functions of the LG Chocolate Touch include :-

• FM radio with 12 presets
• Integrated Song ID
• Dedicated side key for easy access to favorite songs
• Bluetooth-capabilities
• “Join the Band” feature
• The “Join the Band” piano function allows customers to play along on a full scrolling 88-key keyboard
• Dolby Mobile equalizer
• Touchscreen display
• Access to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites
• 3.2 megapixel camera

Expect to exchange $79.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate for the LG Chocolate Touch in a new two-year customer agreement that is on a Nationwide Calling Plan.

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Verizon Wireless will be offering the Samsung Convoy handset for those living Stateside, where this rugged Push to Talk device with military specifications was specially constructed in a manner to withstand the harshest of elements while working just fine. You will find that the Convoy comes with a high-quality stereo speaker, extended battery life and multiple messaging options that enable it to remain connected despite operating under the toughest conditions. Among the other specifications of the Samsung Convoy include :-

• Meets military specifications 810F standards for shock and dust resistance, vibration, salt fog, humidity, solar radiation, altitude and low and high temperature storage
• Push to Talk capabilities
• 1300 mAh for long battery life
• VZ Navigator support
• 2.0 megapixel camera with Night Shot, panorama, color effects and more
• Bluetooth version 2.1 wireless technology
• Support for headset (mono and stereo), hands-free, dial-up networking, serial port, object push (vCard and vCalendar only), basic image, basic printing and phonebook access
• Personal organizer with calendar, tip calculator, currency converter, notepad, alarm clock, world clock and stop watch

Expect to fork out $49.99 for the Samsung Convoy after a $50 mail-in rebate alongside a standard 2-year customer agreement. The Samsung Convoy will be made available from November 15th onwards.

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More details have emerged about the operating systems and applications that power Microsoft's new Courier Tablet PC.

Details about Microsoft’s alleged bookish tablet PC are beginning to surface, and with every bit leaked, the anticipation rises. Courier, the dual screen tablet which we reported about here a few months back, looks more like a book reader should look, but also enables a “cliff notes” representation of the data files saved on it, but also contains a searchable “journal overview” which enables users to search by subject, keyword, or other criteria.

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This next device is odd, to say the least, but I can see how it would come in handy. There is a video of it after the jump if you want to see it in action, but it won’t make sense without a little bit of explanation.

Here’s how it works. You begin with a “light source” that is really a database of some information, like the New York Times, for example. This source is placed on a table that is probably best described as a Microsoft Surface (but isn’t).

This source shines a light with visible particles that essentially contains all the information of on that database. From there, the user can physically place a “prism” that filters out all the information except a certain subject. That subject can be pre-determined by the user by a jog wheel.

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See if you can figure out what differentiates the two dummies in the photo to the left. If you said that one of them has an inflatable seat belt, then you are correct! (Of course, that is not the only difference, but that is neither here nor there.)

These inflatable seatbelts are part of Ford’s push to make our automobiles a little more safer from accidents. They will be available starting next year, making their debut in the 2010 Ford Explorer. (I think that most car companies have already released their 2010 models by now, so this should be available now.)

Ford has said that they want the inflatable seat belts to be the standard for all of their cars, and hope that they will succeed in their design of reducing head, chest, and neck injuries. By the way, my source says that these new inflatable seatbelts are considered to be “more comfortable”, but it doesn’t say whether that is before or after they are inflated.

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Most clocks are just fine with merely playing the sounds of the ocean to lull you into a deep sleep.  Well this Seiko clock takes things even further than that.  Instead of just playing the sounds, it projects images of the ocean onto your bedroom wall.  Of course, it does that along with the time, it is still a clock after all.  It doesn’t just project a pretty picture on the wall either, the fish in the picture actually react to your touch.

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