One MP3 player, one dream

Geeph.com is diving into Olympics mania with a 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadium "Bird's Nest" MP3 player shaped like the now famous stadium.

Priced at US$19.30, I'm going to take a wild guess and say this isn't an officially licensed 2008 Beijing Olympic souvenir, despite the logo.

The MP3 player supports MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, and WAV files, to name a few. It has an optional FM tuner, USB plug, seven equalizer settings, and a built-in mic for digital voice recording. Can it hold as many songs as the real Bird's Nest holds people?

Geeph takes the "One World, One Dream" message to heart, offering products for sale in British pounds, euros, and US, Canadian, Australian, or Hong Kong dollars.

Now if only they sold one in the shape of the Water Cube for that hard-to-buy-for record-breaking gold medalist in your life.

Of course, then it would have to be waterproof.

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FCC gives OK to 120GB Zune

The FCC's Web site let us all in on a little Microsoft secret Monday: The company is working on a 120GB Zune.

A report detailing a test performed by the government agency in mid-June shows a picture of the portable media player, which looks identical to the 80GB version of the device. It doesn't appear that there are any other spec changes besides the larger hard drive capacity.

At 120GB, that puts Microsoft neatly between Apple's largest-capacity iPod offerings. Apple has an 80GB and a 160GB iPod Classic, and doesn't participate in the 120GB category.
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Logitech snaps up Ultimate Ears for US$34 million

Logitech late last week announced that it will be acquiring headphone-manufacturer Ultimate Ears for US$34 million. The all-cash deal is expected to close later this month, but signs of the impending integration are already apparent on the Web sites of both companies (Logitech.com and Ultimateears.com).

Ultimate Ears specializes in in-ear "canal phones" for portable audio devices such as the iPod. While the company's flagship UE-10 Pro model--a set of headphones that are custom-molded to the listener's ears--cost upwards of US$900, the product line includes plenty of other headphone products in the more mainstream US$40-US$250 range.

Prior to the Ultimate Ears acquisition, Logitech's only headphone products were PC and Bluetooth headsets. Going forward, the Ultimate Ears products--which have generally scored high marks from professional reviewers, CNET included--will gain access to Logitech's massive marketing and retail distribution resources. It's a formula that's worked for Logitech in the past: Through acquisitions such as Intrigue Technologies and Slim Devices, Logitech has supersized products such as the once-obscure Harmony universal remotes and Squeezebox network audio streamers into mainstream consumer electronics success stories.

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Bono blamed for unreleased U2 songs on Internet

The next time U2 manager Paul McGuiness wants to rant about music piracy on the Internet, he may have to add his own boss to his list of targets.

Four songs from the Irish rock band's forthcoming album found themselves on the Internet after U2 front man Bono was caught playing the songs a bit too loudly on his stereo at his villa in the south of France, according to a report in The Sun. An alert passerby on the beach is credited with recognizing the iconic singer's voice and recording what he was hearing. He then supposedly posted the recordings to YouTube, but the tracks don't appear to have stuck around long on the video-sharing site.

The songs--thought to come from a forthcoming album called No Line On The Horizon--include the title track, Sexy Boots. Moment Of Surrender, and For Your Love.

McGuiness, who wants to fight file sharing by forcing Internet service providers to ban people who pirate music, suggested earlier this year that Apple and other makers of digital music players were wrongly profiting from their "burglary kits". At the time, he placed much of the blame on tech companies, but also pointed a finger at record labels that "through lack of foresight and planning allowed a range of industries to arise that let people steal music".
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Project Beauty: Makeup tips from your Nintendo DS

File this one under things a self-conscious teenage girl should probably never get her hands on. Utilizing the Nintendo DS camera, an upcoming game called Project Beauty aims at prettying up its player.

After scanning your face, the software uses a preset list of parameters to judge if your look is "cool", "active", "cute", or "feminine".

Luckily, unattractive didn't make the cut. But no matter which category your face ends up falling into, the game will tell you how to improve your visage with makeup--or as the picture on the right seems to suggest, by addressing hair follicle issues.

It's no surprise makeup application is the focus of the game, since it's the result of a partnership between Sega and Japanese makeup giant Shiseido, according to Agence France-Presse.

Sega said the game is targeted at 20- to 30-year-old women gamers, so men need not apply--especially when the end result could end up looking something like this. The software package, including a face scanner, will be available in Japan on November 27 for US$55.

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