Google promo vid shows Nexus One car kit

We knew that a Nexus One car dock was coming. Google has already released a slick-looking desktop dock. And when you consider that the Nexus One is preloaded with a very robust turn-by-turn navigation app with a dedicated in-car interface, a car dock seems like the next logical step. However, Google's been fairly tight-lipped with the details surrounding it.
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Google developing on-the-fly translation application

Google is developing mobile phone software that's capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly, according to a new report.
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BenQ unveils "world's slimmest" 21.5-inch monitor

BenQ announced the V2220, what it claims is the world's slimmest 21.5-inch LCD monitor.
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Soon, send a Texas Robot in your place to that meeting

If you're tired of commuting to the office and telecommuting won't cut it, the Texas Robot lets you scoot around work embodied in a robot platform while chatting with your co-workers.

Willow Garage, a robot start-up in California's Menlo Park specializing in non-military applications, is developing the wheeled bots as tools to research telepresence technologies.

The video below shows how a Willow Garage employee living in Indiana moves around his office in Silicon Valley in a robot body of sorts.

Hacked together from spare parts for Willow's PR2 platform, Texas Robots basically consist of a screen, computer, cameras, and speakers mounted on a remote-controlled, wheeled platform. They can run a whole day on a single battery charge, and then autonomously park themselves at a docking station for recharging.
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S1Digital's mega Blu-ray jukebox

Wouldn't it be nice if you could browse and playback your entire Blu-ray movie collection with the click of a button? For US$1,499, the S1Digital 100-disc Blu-ray changer delivers this level of convenience and the flexibility to download metadata and cover art automatically over the Web. All you need is to hook up the jukebox to a Windows Media Center (WMC)-compatible PC and install its bundled My Movies software to access up to 1,000 Blu-ray, DVD and CD titles through the intuitive WMC graphics user interface.

By connecting this S1Digital box to a Windows Home server, users can also archive their media (without copy protection) onto a hard drive to free up disc slots with all the value-added features mentioned above. The S1Digital 100-disc Blu-ray changer can be purchased directly from the company's Web store.

Via Ubergizmo

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