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Facebook has begun automatically suggesting links to Facebook pages, groups, interests and even other users this morning, offering a drop-down list of suggestions as you type. The feature is reminiscent of Google Suggest , which tries to predict what you’re searching for by comparing what you type with popular searches, but the Facebook feature looks more directed at allowing you to include links to Facebook pages you’re already connected to.

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Facebook Status Gets Auto-Suggest

Interactivity isn’t just for hands anymore. Now your shoes can get in on the fun! Portuguese multi-media interface firm Displax has created a system that allows users to interact with an image projected from above, which they call Moovit .

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Moovit: In the Future, Floors Will be Computers

We’ve been waiting on pins and needles for Google to announce some official Android tablet plans for so long we’d almost forgotten about Mountain View’s other operating system — but from what we’re hearing, Chrome OS is about to jump to center stage with a tablet debut on Verizon just before the holidays. Our friends at Download Squad are told by a reliable tipster that HTC is building a Tegra 2-based Chrome OS tablet for Google with a 1280 x 720 multitouch display, 2GB of RAM, at least 32GB of storage with the possibility of expansion, GPS, a webcam, and the usual wireless connectivity, including a 3G radio

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Chrome OS tablet coming from Google and Verizon on Black Friday? (update: probably not)

Could this new peripheral provide the jolt the Wii needs to compete with Microsoft and Sony’s new additions to their gaming platforms? In Nintendo tradition, it’s certainly different and definitely innovative–and it’s far more compelling than I had expected it to be.

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THQ’s uDraw GameTablet for Wii at Nintendo World, NYC: Videos and Photos

Engineers at the University of Washington are developing the first mobile technology able to transmit American Sign Language (ASL) over cellular networks.

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Better Than FaceTime? Researchers Test New Mobile Technology for Deaf

AdvaMed 2010 – The MedTech Conference is scheduled for October 18-20 in Washington, D.C. and early registration deadline is this Friday, August 20. You can save $600 to attend what is probably the most important annual medical device event for executives, policy makers, investors, and other industry players

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Time to Register for AdvaMed 2010

Fancy they aren’t, but Olympus ‘ newest digicam trio will definitely get the job done in a pinch. Kicking things off is the mju-7050, a rather conventional looking shooter with a 14 megapixel CCD sensor, 7x optical zoom lens, an HD movie mode, SD card slot, 2GB of internal memory and a 3-inch rear LCD monitor.

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Olympus introduces mju-7050, FE-5050 and FE-4050 point-and-shoot cameras

NASA is offering up a $1.5 million prize to whoever can design a solar powered exploration vehicle that can still operate at night. The current vehicles that NASA uses, which are deployed on Mars, are designed to shut down once the sun sets in order to conserve power.

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NASA Searching For Solar Powered Rover That Runs At Night

It’s hardly as small as Thomson’s A1 , but it just might be the most diminutive media player in existence to actually handle 1080p without breaking too serious a sweat. Measuring just 175- x 128- x 15mm and weighing 250 grams, this pocket sized player can accept a multitude of film formats from a connected USB storage device or an SD card; once the media’s flowing, it can output content as high as 1080p over HDMI, and there’s also a composite video / audio output and mini-USB port ’round back. The MP-501 is equipped with an ARM Cortex-A8 processor and the ability to play nice with nearly every file under the sun that’s stripped of DRM, and best of all, it’s purportedly priced at just $49

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Amex Digital claims ‘world’s smallest 1080p media player’ with MP-501

Now there’s a new way to enjoy your Wii gaming console: by drawing on-screen. Game developer THQ has just announced the uDraw GameTablet , a Wii accessory that will be available this holiday season. The tablet will come bundled with a drawing, coloring, and art-based video game called uDraw Studio, for $69.99

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THQ Announces uDraw GameTablet for Wii

The social shopping network Swipely , in private beta for three months, is opening up to the public today. Users upload credit and debit card information so the site seamlessly records where they’re “swiping,” then choose which purchases to broadcast to friends, with the option to add an image or comment

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Swipely Opens to Public, But Are People Ready to Broadcast What They Buy?

We’ve search high and low to find iPad cases and stands that aren’t cookie-cutter silicone sleeves. Express your wicked sense of humor or practical sophistication with one of these innovative iPad accessories. Cinema Seat iPad: Whether they’re your children or in-laws, keep your passengers entertained on long road trips or on the way to the super market with the Cinema Seat iPad .

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Roundup: The Nine Most Ingenious iPad Accessories

It’s not official until Microsoft says it is, but the image above of the rumored Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse was just snagged off a German online store. Amazingly, the mouse arches its back for comfortable mousing before packing flat for easy transport. The mouse features touch-scrolling, a battery indicator, the ability to track on most any surface , and a 2.4GHz nano transceiver that no doubt plugs into your laptop’s USB port.

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Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse revealed?

It’s called the G2, it’ll run Android, and it’s T-Mobile’s first phone to ride those wannabe-4G HSPA+ airwaves. Those are the facts we have. As to the speculation, a previous roadmap leak and T-Mobile’s own reps indicate it’ll be a HTC-built handset set for a September release, while a careful eyeballing of that silhouette leads us to thinking it’s the same device as the purported myTouch HD we’ve been seeing around here lately.

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T-Mobile G2 gets a teaser site, will be network’s first HSPA+ phone

We’ll be honest: we thought SSDs would suck down most of platter-based storage’s milkshake by now — that magnetic disks would follow tapes into obscurity. Alas, SSDs are still niche items, and Toshiba is doing all it can to keep them that way, demonstrating a successful prototype of a new storage technique called bit-pattern recording that currently generates a storage density of 2.5Tb per square inch.

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Toshiba demonstrates successful BPR HDD, is 2.5Tb per inch a platter’s last stand?

We’ve dedicated this special Tech Weekly podcast to the unique and vast BBC Archive – home to a treasure trove of audio, video, programme material, props, scores, letters … the life of the BBC, on file. As the audio and video archive at Windmill Road is being packed up and rehomed in a purpose-built centre Perivale, West London, Jemima Kiss meets BBC research and development engineer Richard Wright . He’s tasked with digitising more than one million hours of programmes, explaining how the task has been broken down to speed up the job and how open standards are being used in the process.

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Tech Weekly podcast: In the BBC archive

The Microsoft online store in Germany has leaked photos of the Arc Touch mouse, which “features touch-scrolling, a battery indicator, the ability to track on most any surface, and a 2.4GHz nano transceiver.” Expect to shell out $69.99 for the device, when it’s released. Click here for more pictures. [via Engadget ]

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Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Leaked

It wasn’t too long ago that we were pondering the relative scarcity of backlit desktop keyboards , so let’s all warmly welcome a new entrant into this niche category. The K800 from Logitech picks up where the wired Illuminated Keyboard left off: it has the requisite inflated price, adjustable and intelligent illumination to please functionalists, and a dagger-like profile for aesthetes.

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Logitech’s Wireless Illuminated K800 keyboard boasts ambient light and proximity sensors, costs $100

Photo Credit : Ofer Wolberger You’ve seen burglars shoot padlocks off with ease in Hollywood movies, but what happens when you recreate the scene in real-life? Well, Popular Mechanics shows you. They took four different padlocks and then “shot the cylinders with a rifle from 80 feet away.” Video after the break.

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Padlock Gun Shot Test Video

Since recently, jQuery plugins have become extremely popular on the web, but it turns out much harder now to trace all the new releases and updates of the former versions. What’s obvious here is that the internet has made apparent that jQuery is a very convenient and truly efficient money-saving technology.

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20 Excellent jQuery Plugins for WordPress