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There’s nothing like having fans so passionate about your brand that they start to create devices on their own. That’s what “Lecoupdulapin“, a french CG designer from Nice (France) has done. This is portable media player. We love the artwork - do you?

About a year ago, a tsunami of pocket projectors prototypes started to pop up. Now it’s time for commercial products. the Pocket Cinema makers claim to be able to project a 50″ picture from this little box. I’ve seen similar products and while some can really reach this size, they usually have serious limitations when it comes to brightness. If someone tries it, please drop a comment. (about $500 at firebox)

The Imerge MS1 looks good and it can hold up to 6TB (8 hard drives in RAID) of media files to serve your favorite audio and video over the home network. And that’s assuming that you are using 1TB drives. I suspect that it also works with 1.5TB hard disks. You can also use it as a “client” (a media center) in your living room if you want. It has A/V ports (HDMI, Components, RCA…), including a high-end audio digital to analog (DAC) converter for audiophiles. Price: $24500

Samsung demonstrated its 14.3″ color e-paper display at the International Meeting on Information Display (iMiD) in Korea. Like other e-papers, this display is capable of displaying an image without being refreshed (and therefore consuming power). It also doesn’t need to be back lit, which makes it perfectly readable in direct sunlight.

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Samsung demonstrate carbon nanotube-based color e-paper

Boxee TV, the open source social media center for Linux and Mac OS, lets users manage their media content from a PC connected TV, its social component allows to share with friends and make recommendations. Today, Boxee is adding Hulu and CBS.com to its portfolio of media sources. We published about Boxee recently and I now I took the time to test it quickly on my Mac (no connected TV): I like the sleek user friendly interface, it is better than the regular Windows Media center, but it is a bit slow. The site is in alpha so there is still room for improvements.

Panasonic has reduced their fuel-cell’s size by 50%, making it comparable to a normal laptop battery (finally!). We’re looking at it here in blue, in what seems to be a “Toughbook” laptop.

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Panasonic shows the smallest fuel-cell notebook: 20 hours of battery life

Key Launch is an application launcher for Windows that can launch applications but also commands with just a few keystrokes. Application launchers speed up working with the operating system but require a period of vocational adjustment before the user can utilize their full potential.

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Key Launch Application Launcher

The video portal Dailymotion added high definition video support back in February. High definition content is not for everybody especially not for those users who use a low bandwidth connection or hardware that is incapable of handling the load caused by the contents.

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Dailymotion High Quality Videos