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Grado GR8 Headphones

Grado GR8 Headphones
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Best known for their over-the-ear cans, Grado’s GR8 is their first foray into the in-ear headphone market; each features a balance moving armature driver and is made in Japan.

Rockport Aquila Speakers

Rockport Aquila Speakers

Despite their cost, Rockport’s Aquila Speakers are only middleweights in their lineup; each features triple laminated enclosures, 5″ baffles and a 13″ bass driver. Warning: full-screen.

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High-Speed Robot Hand

High-Speed Robot Hand

Like a scary-fast robotic Allen Iverson, the University of Tokyo’s High-Speed Robot Hand makes dribbling, throwing, catching, and other human activities look like child’s play.

Cassette MP3 Player

Cassette MP3 Player
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Brando’s Cassette MP3 player isn’t just a novelty mp3 player shaped like a cassette–it can be inserted into your car stereo to play music stored on an SD or MMC memory card.

Robot: Le Petit Prince

Robot: Le Petit Prince

It came from Earth: Le Petit Prince is a slightly creepy, four-legged robotic greenhouse designed to seek out nutrients on Mars; it’ll talk to other robots wirelessly for optimal locations.

Altec Lansing MIX Boombox

Altec Lansing MIX Boombox
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The boombox goes modern with Altec Lansing’s MIX: powered by eight D batteries or AC adapter, it features an iPod/iPhone dock, 7-band equalizer, two 5.25″ subs and two 3.5 mm jacks.

Nokia N900

Nokia N900

Nokia’s N900 is a hardware/software two-fer: a 3.5″ touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY, 5 MP camera, 600 MHz ARM Cortex-A8, 1 GB app memory and the multitasking friendly Maemo 5 OS.

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ElectraPour

ElectraPour
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The inebriated are easily amused, but this ElectraPour should impress even the most sober of bar-hoppers: a red LED light illuminates the entire stream of liquor as you pour.

LEGO Sudoku Robot

LEGO Sudoku Robot

Solving Sudoku is trivial for this LEGO robot by Hans Andersson; the hardest part is image recognition, accomplished with a light sensor and several algorithms. Thanks, Nurgak!

SendStation PocketDock

SendStation PocketDock
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SendStation’s PocketDock is a godsend for those who carry proprietary adapters for their iPod; it provides a Mini USB that’ll work with standard chargers plus an extra 3.5 mm jack.

Newspaper Laptop Case

Newspaper Laptop Case
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Mitemite’s laptop case disguises your MacBook Pro as one of five Euro newspapers, making it less of a target for would-be thieves; it also features a zip and metal chain as a handle.

Sirius XM Skydock

Sirius XM Skydock
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Sirius XM’s SkyDock is the first satellite radio dock for the iPhone/iPod Touch; it also charges via cigarette adapter and includes a free Sirius/XM app with iTunes download tagging.

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Giveaway: Invisible Skinz

Giveaway: Invisible Skinz

Invisible Skinz is giving away 8 Invisible Shields. UPDATE: this giveaway has now concluded. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Sennheiser MM 400/450

Sennheiser MM 400/450

Designed for travelers, Sennheiser’s MM 400/450 bluetooth headphones feature noise cancellation tech, fold flat, include an airline adapter and can even receive phone calls.

Sony S Series Walkman

Sony S Series Walkman
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Sony brings its long battery life and sound quality credentials to the S Series Walkman; it sports a 2.4″ LCD, FM tuning/recording, 42 hours of audio, 6.5 hours of video and stereo speakers.

iSkin Cerulean RX

iSkin Cerulean RX
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iSkin’s Cerulean RX untethers your iPhone from its dock, letting you stream tunes from as far as 30 feet away via a Stereo Bluetooth connection with no batteries or drivers required.

IKON Digital Radio

IKON Digital Radio
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Revo’s IKON is the world’s first color touchscreen digital radio with DAB, DAB+, FM and internet radio; it features a 3.5″ display, iPod/iPhone docking, and a 30 watt class D amplifier.

Video: Phasma Robot

Video: Phasma Robot

Designed to emulate a real bug (well, one loaded with caffeine), the Phasma is a six-legged robot with stainless steel springs and rubber joints to reproduce the movement of animals.

Nokia Booklet 3G

Nokia Booklet 3G

Nokia makes the leap to laptops with the Booklet 3G, a 10.1″ netbook; it’s powered by Atom with 3G/HSPA, A-GPS, Ovi Maps, swappable SIM card, HDMI out, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Concept: Window Phone

Concept: Window Phone

Seunghan Song’s Window Phone is more form than function, but the novelty factor is “cool” enough: it can change the appearance of its display to reflect weather conditions.

InSight USB Hard Drive

InSight USB Hard Drive
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If you’re both style conscious and OCD, Verbatim’s InSight is the hard drive for you: portable at 6 oz. and 6 inches, it also features an always-on LCD with space and drive name.

Ricoh CX2

Ricoh CX2
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Ricoh’s CX2 keeps the CX1’s 9.29 MP CMOS, but gets a host of modest tweaks with 10.7x optical zoom, 5 fps burst shooting, face detection and continuous autofocus.

Bose QuietComfort 15

Bose QuietComfort 15
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The successor to the QC2, Bose’s QuietComfort 15 headphone uses new mics and materials to both actively and passively cancel noise; the QC15 launches 8/20.

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