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PMP Today: Who says PMPs have to be bulky and expensive? These mini video players from ThinkGeek may be credit-card sized, but they only cost €68 and are very simple to use. The Neon M3 (left) has a 2.4-inch LCD screen and heat-sensitive glowing buttons to make navigation easy in the dark. The Ice (silver model to the right) has a bigger display at 2.8 inches and normal, non-heat sensitive buttons.

In addition to letting you carry your favorite movies and videos in your pocket (in AVI and MPEG format), the Mini Media Players also have an FM transmitter, voice recording features, and allows you to transfer files to your PC via USB. Battery lasts 3-4 hours with video playback.

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NaviGadget: RouteConverter is a software for converting various GPS log files or way points into other formats that may be useful to you. To see full list of supported formats just go to the features page.It has a long list of features some which are

• no installation necessary
• automatically detects the format of a file
• supports drag and drop
• offers a map view onto the positions of routes, tracks and waypoints
• supports multiple routes within Google Earth, GPX and Garmin MapSource files
• and a lot more…

RouteConverter is licensed under the GNU General Public License meaning you don’t need to pay a dime for it. Just download it and enjoy it.

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Electronista: The number of global cellular subscriptions is now equivalent to half the planet’s total population, says the research company Informa. A new analysis claims that subcriptions have surpassed the 3.3 billion mark, a staggering achievement for any electronics product.

Growth is so fast, cellphones are already ingrained with otherwise impoverished countries such as China and India, with some tentative steps being made into Africa. National economies have in some cases benefitted greatly: much of Finland’s financial health is dependent on Nokia, and among South Korea’s corporate giants are Samsung and LG.

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Absolute Gadget: The company has got together with UK company CrystalRoc to stick a truck-load of ice onto its range of headphones, microphones and earphones.

CrystalRoc uses Swarovski crystals to create musical instruments that are truly ghetto-fabuloous. Among its most recent creations was Rhianna’s 24 carat gold and Swarovski Crystal Sennheiser microphone which she debuted at The American Music Awards.

Unique in design, all of the CrystalRoc collection is produced in CrystalRoc’s London studio and offers a high-end collection of microphones, decks, drum kits, guitars and accessories, all of them painstakingly hand customised with the very best –  Swarovski Crystals.

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Guardian: Funai Electric, hit by a shortage of liquid crystal display panel supplies this year, said it may procure LCD panels from Sharp Corp, in a step to secure a stable supply source for its flat TVs.

It would be a welcome move for Sharp as it plans to start up the world’s largest LCD panel plant in western Japan by March 2010.
Funai Executive Vice President Yoshio Nakajima told Reuters in an interview that the company also plans to withdraw from cathode-ray tube TV operations by the year ending March 2010, responding to a shift in demand to flat screen models.

Osaka-based Funai in October cut its operating profit forecast for the year to March by 79 percent due to a rapid shrinkage of the U.S. tube TV market and failure to secure enough LCD panels for its flat TVs.

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