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PURE releases the Twilight digital/FM radio alarm clock. The unit combines an energy efficient lamp featuring flexible lighting options with a digital and FM radio alarm clock to deliver the ultimate bedside experience.

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H2O Audio introduces its new Flex All Sport 100% waterprooof, sweatproof in-ear earphones. The Flex is avialable in Onyx Black, Super Hero Blue, Envy Green and Power Pink colors. It features 9mm drivers for clear and rich sound and comes with three different sizes of Elastomer ear plugs for personalized comfort and fit.

The H2O Audio Flex is ideal for active use and is waterproof up to 1 meter. It is priced at $29.99.

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BlueAnt launches its new Q2 Platinum (USEN-BAW-Q2-PL) Bluetooth headset, which offers exactly the same features as the original Q2 but with a platinum finish. The voice-controlled Q2 headset features dual microphone, voic isolation technology and Wind Armour technology, ensuring that you are always heard, even in the noisiest of environments.

The BlueAnt Q2 Platinum includes SMS readout function for Android 2.0+ smartphones. It supports Bluetooth A2DP audio streaming and multipoint technology for connecting two phones at the same time. As for battery life, the Q2 has 5 hours of talk time and 100 hours of standby.

The BlueAnt Q2 Platinum is priced at $129.99.

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A-DATA launches the new Superior series S101 USB flash drive. The compact drive boasts a high-quality black leather exterior, which gives it a unique, ultra-smooth texture. It uses the advanced Chip-on-Board (COB) manufacturing technology for water-resistance protection. The elegant S101 is avialable in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities and uses USB 2.0 interface.

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Audio-Technica ATH-ANC25

Audio-Technica launches two new affordable headphones, the ATH-ANC27 and the ATH-ANC25, for the holidays. These QuietPoint active noise-cancelling headphones both cost under $100. The over-ear ATH-ANC27 offers up to 85% active noise-cancellation while the on-ear ATH-ANC25 model has up to 80% active noise-cancellation. They both feature QuietPoint ANC technology that detects environmental noise and applies a corresponding sound-cancelling signal.

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Visioneer’s Strobe 500 is a desktop/mobile duplex color scanner that comes with a docking station. It is desktop ADF scanner when attached to the docking station. Then with a push of button, the Strobe 500 ejects from its docking station to become a full function mobile scanner with USB-powered operation. The docking station offers an 20-page Automatic Document Feeder.

The Strobe 500 features 600dpi optical resolution and offers up to 15ppm speed at 200dpi. It offers 24-bit Color, 8-bit Grayscale, 1-bit Bitonal output bit depth. The scanner can produce searchable PDF files and integrates Kofax VRS image enhancement technology into the OneTouch scanning process.

The Visioneer Strobe 500 comes with Nuance PaperPort scan document management software and OmniPage Pro. It is priced at $399.99 or cheaper at Amazon.

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SanDisk, Nikon and Sony have joint developed a set of specifications that addresses the future requirements of professional photography and video markets, which is proposed to the nt of a set of specifications that addresses the future requirements of professional photography and video markets. The three companies proposed the specifications to the CompactFlash Association (CFA), the international standards organization, with the intent to standardize the format.

The proposed next-gen memory card format can provide a data transfer rate of up to 500MB/s using the highly versatile PCI Express interface. The new specifications’ faster speeds enable continuous burst shooting of massive RAW images, and high-speed data transfer.

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Fon, the WiFi sharing service, releases the new Fonera SIMPL WiFi router. The new SIMPL supports WiFi 802.11n and WEP 64/128 bit, WPA, WPA2, WPA mixed security modes. It comes with an external, detachable antenna and offers one WAN port and one LAN port.

The compact Fonera SIMIPL is priced at $49.

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Playboy has released the Playboy Archive portable hard drive with 250GB capacity. Just like National Geographic’s drive, the Playboy Archive is loaded with every issue of of the magazine, from first issue featuring Marilyn Monroe in December 1953 to December 2009 issue. It includes Bondi magazine browsing software for easy viewing and searching.

The 250GB Playboy Archive runs at 5400RPM and uses USB 2.0 interface. It is engraved with the Playboy logo. The price is $299.95.

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Point Grey announced its new Grasshopper2 GS2-GE series GigE Vision network digital cameras with Gigabit Ethernet digital interface. Both models are based on Sony’s iumage sensor and support GigE 1000 Mbit/s complying with GigE Vision v1.2 specification.

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