Creative vient de sortir une version “améliorée” de son Stone. En fait, c’est un Stone (et Stone plus) avec un haut-parleur. Parce que surtout, ce qui est amélioré, c’est le pouvoir de nuisance de cet engin diabolique. Je les vois déjà, les rames de métro vibrant au rythme de douces mélopées hip hop-R’n’B, diffusées par […]

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La Samsung ML-2010R est une imprimante laser monochrome d’une utilisation très simple, compatible avec les derniers Windows, plusieurs Linux et Mac OS X.
Dépourvue d’options farfelues - pas d’impression photo, par exemple, elle est idéale pour les gens qui ont besoin d’une impression de précision à moindre coût (elle est livrée avec un toner de mille […]

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L’Asus Eee PC est un tout petit portable (écran de 7 pouces) qui tourne sous un Linux adapté par Asus, n’a pas de disque dur mais une carte-flash et qui a des performances très sympathiques pour le nomade qui n’a pas envie de s’encombrer avec un PC portable, tout en coûtant plusieurs fois moins cher […]

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Being the big brother of the Zen Stone and I think, the true son of the excellent Zen Nano, the Zen Stone Plus appeared this summer and provide a simple screen and twice the capacity of the peeblish Stone in the same package.

The Zen Stone Plus offers a FM radio (32 stations presets), a […]

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The Zen Stone is the new entry level of Creative MP3 players, and will replace the aging Zen Nano. This is a very simple 1 Go player, as its main competitor, the Apple Shuffle. The Shuffle benefits from its design and its clip to be classier, smaller and maybe more practical, but the design of […]

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This dual keypad calculator will be available this fall, with a retail price to be announced.
The TI-Nspire handheld comes with a snap-in TI-84 Plus Keypad that provides the same keystrokes as TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus and TI-84 Plus Silver Edition graphing calculators.
Whether handhelds are provided by your school or your students bring in personally-owned units, […]

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Looking like a piggybank, this cutty USB card-reader is one of the funniest and brightiest idea in this domain, where all other readers are awfully boring. You got four slots to use various card formats (SD, CF, XD, MS, Mini SD, T-flash/Micro SD) through the USB 2.0 connexion.

I think that since it works only with […]

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An incredible story for an US soldier based in Iraq, saved by his iPod weared on the left side of his jacket:
Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side.
The two of them were […]

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The french internet provider Cegetel is trying to take the succession of the first french telematic revolution (the Minitel) with the offer of a simple computer, running a proprietary-linux, and apparently very easy to use :
“We wanted to create something as simple and cheap as the Minitel to reach technophobes and people without much money,” […]

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Also in english !
Conçue par René Adda (ou Marco Pulga & Lucas Artioli, selon la source), cette petite radio AM/FM au boîtier en aluminium et plastique bleu (ou bois) fonctionne sur deux piles LR06/AA (ou LR03/AAA, selon la source). Son prix est de $ 48. Dimensions : environ 9.5 x 13.5 x 4.5 cm.

This […]

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