IOGear has recently announced the Vista Smartlink USB adapter for those who are planning to do a whole lot of data transfer from computers running different operating systems, namely Windows XP and the recently launched Windows Vista. Especially designed to work with Windows Easy Transfer, the Vista Smartlink USB Adapter boasts a USB 2.0 host-to-host link adapter that lets you transfer files and settings from an existing computer running on Windows XP/Vista to a new Vista-powered computer without going through the hassle of installing additional software and bogging down your system with yet more drivers. Some of the transferable items include user accounts, files, and program settings without the need to have a middleman data storage solution.

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You can never achieve the perfect golf swing despite facts pointing otherwise in theory. Just ask Tiger Woods – even when he’s playing in a totally different person compared to his peers, he still has not achieved the perfect swing under all conditions. If you’re an avid fan of golf and want to make a quick impact in your game by learning through your mistakes in earnest, the iTrainer Golf system could be just the ticket. In a nutshell, the iTrainer is a sophisticated system that uses 3D sensors to measure all the key aspects within your swing thanks to a Bluetooth module attached to the club, comparing those results to an optimum swing profile while providing instantaneous feedback through a wireless headset.

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Here’s some good stuff for the iPod fans: a nifty little device that can simplify their lives even more.

Forget about the ripping, copying times on the computer, forget all the clicks and presses needed just for getting a music CD in your iPod.

Here’s the device that gently cuddles your laziness and saves you some time too: the iLoad.

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Staying organized, its a difficult task that all of us are involved in, one way or another, EVERY SINGLE DAY.

There are a ton of options: Moleskine, Palm Pilot, Blackberry, Online with Google Cal, Yahoo Calendar, Scrybe, Plaxo, the old standby Outlook, Highrise, and many more.

As I began writing this article I found this note (and this one), indicating Mr. Hawkins and the team at Palm are releasing a new product tomorrow morning (11:30 Pacific Time)

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The fun thing about conceptual design is thinking outside the box and making it look darn near real. Who needs actual engineering to get in the way of the creative process? But in the digital age, even the what if can go from concept to production is less than the time it takes to hype an iPhone.

Well, over at Yanko Design, they have another great what if which could create panoramic pictures the easy way. Imagine not having to frame and reframe picture after picture in order to overlap them for a panorama you’ll have to stitch together later in Photoshop. That’s the basic idea behind designer Ye Chen’s Nikon camera concept which captures an unbroken view of a landscape by using an ergonomic cylindrical form lens to image an all-round 360 continuous degree photograph.

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There has never been more visible and more worrying hidden cameras around, almost everywhere that you go you are likely to be caught on camera, but there is nothing that we can really do about it, because it is the way that we live now. But there is also a growing amount of hidden cameras used for surveillance at work and sometimes even at home, whatever the reason there is now a small device that you can use to see if there are any hidden cameras watching you.
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Massage chairs are a luxury item to have in any household, as they offer you the chance to experience kneads that soothe away the entire day’s stress, giving aching muscles a well deserved rest after a hard day at work or at the gym. Many a company has released these massage chairs over the past few years, and generally, most of these chairs work the same across the board, where the more expensive ones come with a wider range of massage functions. The Inada W.1 Massage Chair aims to be different from the rest of the crowd by offering music and sound synchronization that combines with your favorite tunes that are being generation from a home entertainment system.

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Getting entertained by music is something most people enjoy, which explains the immense popularity of portable music devices such as Walkmans from the 80s to Discmans in the 90s and portable media players that we see being carried around by everyday Joes today. Car audio is finally catching up with this new format of digital music, with Clarion offering an in-car CD receiver that boasts signal restoration which helps you get the best sound quality possible from compressed MP3, AAC, and WMA files. Not only that, this new in-car CD receiver also features a USB cable that enables you to listen to tunes directly from USB storage devices like flash drives and USB-based memory card readers.

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