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Toddlers send tweets with Twoddler

Leslie Katz | Dec 07, 2009

If orangutans can post photos to Facebook, then toddlers can certainly Twitter.

And now they have a prototype gadget for doing that--the Twoddler, a tricked-out Fisher Price Activity Center with pictures of family members and friends attached and an Arduino board inside.

When a child presses a certain picture for a select amount of time, software captures sensor data from the activity center and selects and sends a predefined text related to that data.
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Hands-on with the Vestax Spin

Donald Bell | Dec 07, 2009

The Vestax Spin gets spun. (Credit: Vestax)

There's never been a better time to get into DJing. Gone are the days when DJs had to break their backs hauling turntables, record crates, and heavy analog mixes. Today, just combine a laptop, a USB DJ control surface, and a hard drive full of MP3s, and get ready to set the roof ablaze.

That said, professional DJ control surfaces aren't exactly cheap. Two of my personal favorites, the Vestax VCI-300 and the Numark NS7, hover around the US$1,000 mark.
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Will Creative's Zii conquer the world?

John Chan | Dec 04, 2009

Can Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo's vision cover the world?
(Credit: John Chan/CNET Asia)

Those following our coverage of the Zii Summit will notice that it was held in Shenzhen, China. It would probably have gotten more press coverage had it been conducted in locations like Shanghai and Beijing, but as we found out, that's not the point. Businessmen who own factories making high-tech consumer products are found in Shenzhen and they are the ones Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo wants to engage.

Almost every tech product you own is made in China. Factories there manufacture some of the best devices, but the credit goes back to the foreign companies. Rightly so-- Nokia designs products in Finland, Apple in California, Olympus in Japan, the list goes on. Mainland manufacturers are merely production lines for these companies which are not able to make devices cheaply in their own countries due to high labor costs.

Sim's Chinese tagline for the Zii Summit contains a part which roughly translates to "changing Earth, covering the world". This is meant to give the idea that the Zii platform can enable these Chinese businesses to change their status as factories for big Western corporations, to tech companies known for their own products.
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Who-Rae debuts GPS anti-theft device

Sharon Vaknin | Dec 04, 2009

(Credit: Who-Rae)

GPS sales have risen more than 700 percent in recent years, according to Who-Rae, an Australian company that develops and manufactures a range of consumer products. With increased popularity and usage comes crime, however--GPS are now the most commonly stolen item from vehicles, the company says. Maplock drives off GPS thieves

Who-Rae is reacting with Maplock, a security device that latches onto a GPS unit and cables it to the steering wheel.

The Melbourne-based company suggests that suction cup marks or empty mounts left on the windshield are signs that criminals look for, so even if a GPS is removed from the car, thieves will cause expensive damage looking for it.
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Bandai's infinite jelly-squeezing toy

Juniper Foo | Dec 02, 2009

(Credit: Bandai Asovision)

(Credit: Bandai Asovision)

I'm not a fan of tokoroten, a Japanese snack that's really reconstituted sea algae that can be eaten cold or with a vinegar-based dressing. But as with all things Japanese, Bandai has subverted this dish of thin translucent jelly strips into yet another mugen (infinite) toy, joining the wacky list of PuchiPuchi bubblewrap and Mugen Edamame bean popping.
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