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Does Iomega’s eGo Drive Hold Vodka or Data?

The odd design of Iomega's new leather-bound eGo portable hard drive definitely calls to mind a hip flask, making it the coolest hard drive in the 10th grade.

BlackBerry Bold

The Blackberry Bold has integrated WiFi, a large color display, plenty of storage and more.

Sony Bundles up Metal-Blue PSP for Madden

Madden 09 will get its own PSP bundle, including a metallic blue PSP, when it's released late this summer.

Americans Against In-Flight Cell Talking

A recent survey shows that 74 percent of Americans would like to ban using cellphones for conversations in flight, and would rather see only silent features allowed.

AT&T Finishes Greasing Up Its 3G Network

Making its already snappy 3G data access even quicker, AT&T will soon finish deploying HSUPA technology, which allows upload speeds of up to 800 Kbps, in all of its more than 275 U.S. 3G markets.

Logitech Speakers Blast Music, Conversation

Logitech's new Pure-Fi portable wireless speaker system lets owners crank up their music and personal phone conversations anywhere, to questionable effect.

LG Shows Off Flexible OLED Prototype

LG Display and its U.S. partner Universal Display Corporation have cooked up improved flexible OLED screens for this year's SID exhibition, demonstrating rapid advances in the technology.

Napster Offers 6 Million DRM-Free MP3s

The music service's massive new DRM-free catalog puts it leagues ahead of both AmazonMP3 and iTunes, the former leaders in DRM-free music.

Munk Bogballe Workstation Notebook

This customized Apple MacBook looks unlike any other MacBook laptop out there.

Iogear ShareStation Networks USB Devices

Iogear's latest network gadget allows any USB device to be tapped by users on a network as if it were directly connected.

JVC Offers Full-Featured YouTube Camcorder

The GZ-MS100 strips the hard drive out of JVC's higher end G-Series camcorders, and adds features that cater you YouTubers.

Navteq Updates Its Traffic Database

The data provider that powers Yahoo Maps, MapQuest and countless GPS devices has further sharpened its traffic database to provide better drive-time estimates.

Conceiving Fun: Where Game Ideas Come From

Players Only looks at the conception of video games to find out where the crazy ideas that make the best games actually come from.

Asus Eee 901 Gets Bluetooth, Atom Processor

The next generation of the Eee will get a range of updates to set it apart from competitors, but unfortunately, price will follow suit.

EU Chafes at Google Street View

The European Union's Data Protection Supervisor sees potential legal concerns with bringing Street View there, and has warned Google to act accordingly.

Sony Reveals This Year’s PlayStation Lineup

Sony gave PlayStation 3 and PSP owners a view all the way into early 2009, with a list of more than 15 titles on the brink of release.

Aliph Refines its Signature Jawbone Headset

The "new Jawbone" sports a more compact form factor and noise reduction algorithms that Aliph claims boost voice quality 10 times over competing headsets.

Adobe Unveils Flash Player 10 Beta

Flash 10 brings native 3D effects, video streaming, and text layout options to the table, along with other developer-centric additions.

Ikea Furniture for Your Sims to Cost $19.99

Perfecting the art of product placement as Hollywood can only dream of, EA will release an entire Sims 2 expansion pack devoted to Ikea furniture.

Pioneer Elite SC-Series A/V Receivers

Pioneer?s flagship SC-09TX bring high-def sound and next-gen features to your home theater room.

The Sims Get Medieval with MySims Kingdom

Players will be able to do everything from tending pigs to populating the town zoo in the latest MySims title.

MySpace Awarded $230 Million from Spammers

A Los Angeles court has awarded MySpace one of the largest-ever spam judgments, but the company will probably have trouble trying to collect from the missing spammers.

Sony Commits to Real-Life Currency in Games

No longer sheepish about allowing players to buy their way to success in online games, Sony has announced that two of its new titles will support real-money transactions.

Canon Brings its Bucket Printer Stateside

The rather odd CP770 and its smaller twin, the CP760, are headed to the United States from Europe.

HBO Brings a la Carte Programming to iTunes

The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Wire and more are now available on an episode-by-episode basis through iTunes.

Creative Flips Out Vado Compact Camcorder

With a larger screen, internal rechargeable battery, and lower price, the Creative Vado may just outflip the Flip.

Nintendo Launches WiiWare with Six Games

Nintendo's new channel for online game distribution should allow smaller developers to get their titles into players hands without big-time distributors.

Google Friend Connect Harnesses OpenSocial

Google's attempt at social networking will allow all sites to add social networking easily, and tie together disparate social networks like MySpace and Facebook with OpenSocial and other standards.

DrEats.com Serves Library of Digital Menus

Removing the city-centric approach to other menu-listing sites, Dr. Eats offers 20,000 menus from across the United States.

Pioneer ‘s 2008 Kuro Plasma Television Line

Pioneer's latest Kuro line promises 5X deeper blacks than before for an amazing picture.

Law Would Enforce ESRB Game Ratings

The newly introduced Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act would create $5,000 fines for retailers who failed to check ID with M- and AO-rated video game sales.

WWTelescope Headed for Late May Launch

Microsoft's Google Sky competitor, dubbed WorldWide Telescope, is almost ready for release, according to Bill Gates.

MWg Raises Its Profile with Zinc II, Atom V

The start-up from Singapore may not be a household name just yet, but its generously equipped new smart phones may help change that if the price doesn't hold them down.

Media Alchemists Perfect Convergence Games

In this week's Players Only, Scott Steinberg explains why video games based on movies, music, comic books and other media are finally getting better, and earning respect.