Almost everyone owns a web cam nowadays. However, how far have the technology of web cam progressed? Creative Technology has the answer to you, introducing the revolutionary WebCam Live! Motion, which moves as you move!

Equipped with an automatic pan and tilt for an amazingly wide 200° horizontal and 105° vertical view. Together with its advanced CCD image sensor (instead of older CMOS versions) and USB 2.0 Hi-Speed certification, it captures super sharp and detailed images. So you get the perfect video every time.
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New in the Epson range of home cinema projectors is the EMP-TWD1. The USP here is the inclusion of a JVC DVD player, meaning all you need is a suitable wall or foldaway screen and you’ve got a home cinema that you can drag out of the cupboard for the occasional movie or big game, and put away again when you’re not using it.

Epson are a large manufacturer/supplier of the LCD panels used in other projectors and speaking as someone who’s spent far too much time in front of one of their older home cinema units I’m sure the picture on this one will be more than adequate. I’m not sure who it will appeal to though. I would have thought that most people who want a big screen would make other more permanent arrangements, and those who don’t - err - don’t!

The unit also includes speakers - we’ll skip over those on the grounds that watching a movie on an 80 inch screen without the accompanying surround sound is just wrong!

Having said that it will cut down on the trailing wires, it looks pretty adjustable in terms of positioning and at an online price of 830 quid (random google link) you can’t really complain about the price so perhaps it will find a few fans…

Full specifications here

To meet the demand of silent PC for users, Shuttle has launched a new product that can be redefined as a workstation, a home server or a home theater system. With the XPC SD11 G5, Shuttle has created a silent PC system that meets the price and technical simplicity of the mainstream market demand.

Offering several benefits over standard PC system, Shuttle designers have only one thing in mind, and that is KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). They aimed to customise a reasonable affordable PC for the silence world, yet equipped with optimum functionality. Utilizing a single fan design coupled with Shuttle’s ICE heat-pipe technology, the system offers efficient cooling of internal components with little cost in noise. The whole system is powered by Shuttle’s noiseless 220W external Silent X power supply, keeping noise level to a minimum.

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Do you desire to know your own future of the future of your family and friends? Then let the Fortune Teller Wizard answer all your questions.

All you will have to do is ask him a yes or no question and then pass your hand over his hand to awaken him. You will then hear sounds and his eyes will begin to glow, give him the time he needs to look into your future and then pass your hand over his another time and he will foretell your future and give you the answer. He has 30 possible answers, so you know he is not just guessing.
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As we were coming to the end of the Ideal home expo yesterday we stumbled upon these guys with a pretty unique offering. It’s hard to make out from the photo but that rail is a power distribution system. Each of those components (a standard UK socket, a light and two direct wire plug replacements at each end) can clip onto the center rail at any point and receive power.

The basic problem it solves is that of never having a power socket where you need it, which means traditionally you’d either take chunks out of the wall to run cables or you have 4 way extension sockets running around the room.
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Marc and I went to the Ideal Home Show at Earls Court yesterday to see what gadgets we could find to report on, the show wasn’t really aimed at gadget fanatics but there were a few things that caught my eye.

One of the first stands we saw was for the OSIM iSymphonic Chair and with demonstration models available we just had to have a go. The chair was comfy enough to sit on and on one arm had a strange looking control with more buttons than my Kameleon remote.

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Maxtor Corporation, one of the world’s leading hard disk drive manufacturer, will be introducing the 3Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) interface on its *Maxtor MaXLine III (enterprise ATA applications) and DiamondMax 10 (desktop) hard drives. These 7,200 rpm drives include a capacity up to 300GB, with up to 16MB buffer, and also a comprehensive set of SATA II features, such as native command queuing (NCQ), staggered spin up, hot-plug capability and asynchronous signal recovery.
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Be the hit of any outdoor party or jamboree when you bring the beer and the best inflatable beer bucket ever made. Any time you have an outdoor party and beer drinkers, you are either running in and the door to get them a beer, asking your girlfriend or spouse to retrieve the beer or letting them go to your frig and get their own beer. Well, now you can have the beer outside in the middle of the party with the Inflatable Beer Bucket. All you have to do is inflate it, add cold water and ice and drop the beer in. Now, everyone can enjoy a cold beer without running in and out of the house a million times.
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