Looks like Apple is preparing for some changes to its online store. Could it be new products? Or price drop perhaps? Or maybe an improved online shopping experience? We’ll find out very soon.

Apple Store.

Tags: Apple, Store, Web

Original post by Leon Huang

Dell has just started shipping their laptop and desktop machines loaded with Windows Vista. Their prices seem to remain similar to those before.

For those of you on the Windows side of the fence and is looking for an upgrade, might want to give this a shot.

Tags: Dell, Computer, Microsoft, Windows, Vista

Original post by Leon Huang

Think the Samsung D900 is plenty slim with its 12.9mm thickness? Samsung is shaving another 2mm off it and turns it to Samsung Ultra Edition 10.9.

The sexy slim slider will sport the following features:

• 3.2-megapixel camera
• MP3/video player
• 80MB of internal memory
• microSD card support
• TV-out port
• Digital power amplifier
• Stereo Bluetooth

Until Samsung officially announces it, the rest is unknown as of now. It is expected to unveil at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona in February.

Tags: Samsung, Cellphone, Mobile, Gadgets, Slim

Original post by Leon Huang

Creative and Playskool have collaborated on an $80 MP3 PLAYER FOR INFANTS that “docks” to their 2-in-1 Infant Gym crib accessory and should be available later in the year. Creative also sells a $35 Day To Dream Soother, which is a mobile music player.

(props to Crave)

Original post by Mike

We all love high resolution displays. Be it on our TV, our monitors, or even our cellphones. Hitachi knows it, and it knows that the cellphone department has been a little lacking of late.

So, in comes Hitachi W51H, a cellphone featuring Hitachi’s latest LCD technology. The display is 2.9-inch, has a high resolution of 800×480, a 170-degree viewing angle, and a 400:1 contrast ratio. This beats the crap out of iPhone’s 320×480 resolution.

But other than its wonderful display, the phone’s features are pretty typical:

• 2-megapixel camera
• Fingerprint recognition
• GPS-support
• 30MB of internal memory

In my opinion, the Hitachi W51H scores high even in the looks department. But alas, the phone will hit only Japan shelves, at an unknown time.

Tags: Hitachi, W51H, Cellphone, Mobile, Gadgets

Original post by Leon Huang

The Champagne Gold Sony PSP will launch in Japan only, unfortunately. So you bling-lovers should start watching eBay from February 22, 2007.

The new color will sell at 20,790 YEN (~US$172), which is similar to what the other colors go for.

Tags: Sony, PSP, Gold, Games, Gadgets

Original post by Leon Huang

Some thought it was a myth. Others, a hoax. Behold, the WHITE BLACKBERRY PEARL from T-Mobile!

(props to Engadget via The Pearl Blog)

Original post by Mike

Hate to be the one that has to tell you this, but swilling your drinks with those lame ass plastic straws is officially passe. From now on it’s celery straws or nothing for us, thanks to Florida’s Duda Farm Fresh Foods and their l33t bioengineering skilz. Those farming crazies have managed to design stalks of celery that grow in a tube form, allowing for edible straws in your Bloody Mary or a peanut butter surprise inside this tubular wonder. Is there no limit to human ingenuity?

[Via Boing Boing]

Filed under: Household

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Original post by Paul Miller