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For those of you whose wit is as dull as a putty knife, you can level the playing field with two random line generators.

The first is the Pick Up Line Generator, with such classics as “Is it hot in here, or is it just you?ac=658233465&” If that doesn’t do it, you might want to try the other 39 sayings available at the Push of the button.

Perhaps it is not love that you are offering, but a genuine dose of hatred. There is the Insult Generator for that. At a touch of a button, you fire away your taunting arrows like “you are pure inspiration for birth control” and many others.
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If you’ve ever been to Disney World and have kids, you no doubt know about Pal Mickey. A cuddly, interactive plushie of the Mouse, which has an RSS chip in its nose, Pal Mickey lets its owner in on insider park tips, gives parade and showtime reminders, tell when favorite characters are nearby, and about short waits at favorite attractions. And Pal Mickey works at every park at the Walt Disney World resort. It’s like having Mickey Mouse as your personal tour guide and an ingenious souvenir that’s well worth the sixty dollar price tag. Building on that comes a new, more higher tech, application which Disney is testing at Walt Disney World, and it’s based on the Nintendo DS Platform.

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The picture to the left is simply a scan of a postcard that I received in the mail, and there are several things that make this picture special.

The first thing is that it depicts a handsome blogger who visited CES 2008 in Las Vegas, and is holding up a genuine Las Vegas napkin as “proof that I was here”.

The second thing is that the postcard is made from a picture from a cell phone. However, there was no work downloading the picture to a PC, or taking the time to print it out with a caption. All that it took was sending the picture from a cell phone to WYWH.mobi, and then the postcard was printed elsewhere and sent to its destination.

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After CES, I saw a lot of coverage on iRiver’s new line of products, but I was surprised that there was little on the new SPINN MP4 Player. Perhaps this was due to the SPINN being under a glass cage at the booth. Unfortunately, I do not know if they ever took the player out of its display case at any time during the Expo.

Therefore, I wasn’t able to see the biggest selling point on what iRiver calls its flagship model. I would have liked to see the easy-to-use SPINN System Toggle Wheel, which I was told uses 3-D technology for a truly unique interface.

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All right, I believe this will be my last CES 2008 related story. I mean, it really is getting kind of old.

Basically, one of my last experiences plays out like this: I was walking along, minding a lot of other booth’s business, when some representative from ZAGG Inc. shows me the Invisible Shield.

The Invisible Shield is essentially glorified cellophane tape, but it is designed to protect cell phones and other mobile devices, such as this iPod in the photo, from nicks and scratches.

How well does it work? Well, I admire the salesperson’s demonstration. He had a Tupperware container filled with screws, and he put his own phone in there. Then he shook it up for a while, and there was not a scratch on it.

I thought that was pretty impressive, so I asked them it can protect touch screens, such as the iPhone. They said it was perfect for it, and it was even good for removing smudges. All someone had to do was wipe the device coated with Invisible Shield on their sleeve, and it removes prints and smudges perfectly.

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Generally, Ultra Mobile PCs are usually these thin things that you’re almost afraid to put data on because they look so fragile. This is not the case with the Switchback Ultra Mobile PC, one of the toughest UMPCs I’ve ever seen.

It was so tough that the man on the CES booth just carelessly tossed it aside on the floor, and it still worked. This is clearly designed for working under combat conditions, and is can take up to 1 meter of immersion in water for 30 minutes.

It also uses “BackPack” technology so the Switchback can have everyday tools such as a Digital Camera, Mag-Stripe Reader, Barcode scanner, RFID scanner, Biometric reader, Compact Flash, or High-Def Audio. In addition to this primary feature, the Switchback has many slots including the PCMCIA slot, USB port, Serial Port, VGA output, plus Audio Line in and line out.

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It seems like every phone that I see at CES 2008 I want to make my next mobile phone, and the Samsung SCH-i760 is by no means no exception.

There is certainly a lot to like about this phone that Samsung was displaying quite proudly at CES 2008 this year.

Number one, it slides up to a QWERTY keyboard, which is always a seller as we enter into the era of the smartphone. This QWERTY keyboard is completely separate from the numeric keypad, which means no switching off from letters to numbers.

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To all those who work for Neonode, let it me known that the employee known as Claudia deserves a raise. The reason being is because there were many booths at CES 2008 that ignored me completely, even though I could bring them some easy press.

However, Claudia came right up to me and showed me the Neonode N2, and she had me at hello. She was legitimately excited about this product, and it was easy to see why.

The Neonode N2 was quite a tiny device that I hesitate to describe as a one-handed iPhone, but it certainly is the simplest description. Basically, you hold it in one hand, and you use your thumb to do all the scrolling movements.

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