Best Buy now hawking Viliv’s wares

Viliv makes some hot, little portables. That’s a fact. The X70 and S5 touchscreen along with the S7 convertible netboo k are among the best in their respective niche markets.

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Aquapod Bottle Launcher: You know, for kids

I was just outside trying to shoot a water rocket I bought at a science museum, recalling the heady days I once spent shooting a similar rocket into the air when I was a young lad. Sadly, the poorly built rocket failed and the pump started just sucking in water, leading me to the Internet for solace.

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Line 6 peripheral brings MIDI and iPhone closer than you ever expected

It’s no amplifier substitute , but Line 6 has come up with something potentially even better for the budding songwriter buried deep within your rhythmic veins. The MIDI Mobilizer for iPhone and iPod touch is an app-based peripheral that lets you record, playback, store, and transfer MIDI sequences and parameters using the MIDI Memo Recorder software. While it does sound convenient in theory, we’ll have to wait until we can try the dongle out for ourselves

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Neofonie announces WePad 11.6-inch Android slate

Another day, another Android tablet render. This one, the imaginatively titled WePad, is as ambitious as its name might suggest. (You know, because “we” is plural of “I”?

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Made.com Secures $3.75m To Assault Designer Furniture Industry

Made.com , a web-based furniture company, has raised £2.5million from investors to launch its service which connects buyers directly with manufacturers thus cutting out middle men.

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Why is this gorgeous backpack Japan-only?

Hello, my name is Devin, and I’m a bagaholic.

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Mozilla Engineer Writes Steve Ballmer; Promptly Takes Foot Out Of Mouth

Mozilla platform engineer Rob Sayre has probably had better ideas. Hoping Microsoft might allow Firefox on their new Windows Phone 7 Series, Sayre wrote an open letter this morning to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “ Hola, amigo.

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Pierre Omidyar on eBay and Pez Dispensers, Leaving the Valley and the Most Important Thing He’s Ever Done

It’s almost a cliché that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don’t go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money, they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people’s companies. But what did eBay founder Pierre Omidyar do

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Hunch’s Twitter Predictor Game Is Awesomely Accurate

When I first read about Hunch’s Twitter Predictor game , I was pretty skeptical. The game asks you to put in your Twitter user name and based on who you follow and who you are followed by, it predicts how you will answer questions on Hunch. Then I used it

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Engadget Podcast 188 – 03.20.2010

Three mobile phone platforms struggle for dominance in the real world (the Real World) and in the Engadget Podcast (the Fake World).

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