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Solar hats are making headway, unfortunately

Mike Yamamoto | Feb 04, 2008

Finally, the solar-powered fan hat has a mate. Let's have a round of applause for the Solar-Powered Visor Radio.

Like its counterpart, this is a functional piece of headgear that makes use of the sun's rays to impress your friends, but for entertainment purposes as well as protection from melanoma and heat stroke. The visor has a speaker on each side, Gearfuse says, piping in tunes from a built-in AM/FM tuner.

It just goes to show that being green is no guarantee of immunity from the dreaded Date Repellant Syndrome.

Via Crave CNET

Filed under: Gadgets, Green Tech
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Survey: Net first choice for Asians in deciding electronics purchase

Juniper Foo | Feb 01, 2008

Here's one more reason to justify all those hours slogging over consumer tech reviews, so CNET Asia readers can make more informed buying decisions. This survey popped into our inbox recently, by market intelligence company Synovate, confirming what we already know. That Asians are turning to the Internet first to make purchase decisions for electronic products.

Here're some key findings on the "Why" and "How" of it, published from the Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions Consumer Electronics Survey.

The Internet is the most used source for researching consumer electronics information, with 86 percent of respondents saying they use it to look for consumer electronics information, far ahead of newspapers (37 percent) and by word of mouth (37 percent).
Over half (57 percent) of respondents said the Internet is their most important source of information, again much higher than word of mouth (10 percent) and brochures/catalog (7 percent).
Reasons for using the Internet include convenience, ease of comparison and depth of information available, besides helping to avoid sales pressure in stores and crowd.
On average, consumers plan to spend US$1,800 on consumer electronics in the next 12 months.