Archos 704 vs. 604: Watch the Video

The successor to the 604 Wi-Fi, the Archos 704 Wi-Fi has been caught on film. Sure, we saw some pictures about a week ago, but let's admit it, we only cared because we had nothing better. It was like an appetizer—the delicate balance of mozzarella to its deep fried bread crumb counterpart was rocking our world—until the surf & turf arrived and we realized the congealing, neglected finger grease had found its way to not just our new shirt, but our new favorite shirt.
Hit the jump for the video. No, it's not amazing, but it offers a better sense of scale and we're considering it the main course...until dessert and coffee come around.




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Netcraft Launches Google Gadgets: Cool Tools?

It's not quite your typical Web hosting news fare, but it's interesting nonetheless - which may or may not make it perfect blog fodder (I suppose I'm still in the process of sorting that out). Necraft, one of the Web hosting world's oldest and best sources of research and analysis, reported today that it had introduced three new "gadgets" that enable Netcraft Web tools to be integrated into personalized Google homepages.
The "What's that site running?" tool offers quick access to the Netcraft site query tool, which delivers a detailed report on the technology and network behind a given URL.
The "Netcraft News" feed is pretty self explanatory, and might make a nice complement to the WHIR RSS feeds already running through the truly stylish Google homepages.
And the "Report a phishing site" tool is an extension of Netcraft's anti-phishing toolbar that lets you submit suspected phishing sites directly to Netcraft through the gadget.

I'm a big fan of Netcraft, its reports and its tools. But I'm not so sure how any of these tools (outside of the news feed) fits into my personal vision for a personalized homepage.
The phishing toolbar is a particularly excellent undertaking that is particularly well-suited to the conditions of existing as a downloadable browser toolbar.
But I'm not arguing against the new tools. Maybe my rudimentary fumbling with sports scores and weather widgets are by this point as antiquated as my 8 ball jacket.
I know for sure that Isabel, at least, sees no reason why there shouldn't be a widget for every application under the sun. And she's probably right. It couldn't hurt, right?

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Extend Your iPod, Cell and Portable Battery to 100 Hours

It's called a Geekpod 101 and it will change your life. It's a "Super Long Life Lithium iPod Battery" that will keep most cell phones, portable playing devices and iPods charged for up to 100 hours! That's right, not 6 hours, not 10 hours, 100 hours!

It costs $69.99, but it will charge almost every gadget in your collection. For a list of all the gadgets this charger works for, just
The Geek 101 will power most cell phones and PDAs so long as you get the optional mobile tips pack. It also powers the Sony PSP for 15+ hours with the optional PSP cable for GeekPod. This pictured iPod battery pack also powers the Nintendo DS Lite, Game Boy Micro, Game Boy Advance SP and Nintendo DS with the optional connector cables. Will recharge and power most cell phones on the market such as the Motorola RAZR, Motorola Q, Blackberry, Nokia 6061,6030, Samsung C417,D407 and many more phones with the optional 'Mobile Tips Pack' available with a compatibility list in the Battery Pack Accessories section. Not sure what generation iPod you have?

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BeoCom 2 Bang and Olufsen phone

The trendy BeoCom 2 Bang and Olufsen phone made its way into the scene where Andy meets her boyfriend and their two friends at a bar and shares some of her trendy Vogue give-aways with them. You can buy one online for $850, which in my world is a little much for a phone, but if you're totally Vogue, go for it!

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Plaster Georgia Tech / MIT's unmanned spacecraft with logos, text

If there's anything left to accomplish after creating autonomous UAVs and cramming optical circuitry on a silicon chip, it's allowing tax paying citizens to pen their thoughts on an unmanned spacecraft. In a joint initiative between Georgia Tech and MIT, the Your Name Into Space project aims to launch a small research satellite in 2010 into Earth's orbit, and the technology on board will purportedly "help pave the way for humankind to explore our solar system." Folks who throw their name, slogan, logo, or snarky catchphrases onto the craft can expect photographs of their adornment "with the Earth in the background" while it's orbiting space, and if your piece of textual glory lands on a segment that will be returning to Earth, it's all yours upon landing. So if you're looking to splurge a little this year on a bit of tax deductible fun, you can put nearly anything on this forthcoming machine for $35 to $250 per square centimeter, depending on location.

Via Engadget