January 2007

Hardware

You're My Fave! Contest Update

9:50 am PST • January 31, 2007

If you’ve yet to participate in the You’re My Fave! contest, you have about two more hours to enter yourself into the running before the contest ends at 12 noon…

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Canon HV20: HD Camcorder

9:49 am PST • January 31, 2007

Canon just announced the HV20, a 1080i HD camera with building in hard drive. The camera uses Canon’s 1920 x 1080 CMOS and can take 24p cinema style video along…

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Zink Pocket Printer Holds Promise

9:43 am PST • January 31, 2007

Zink is using a new kind of printing technology utilizing crystalized-ink embedded in paper. The result is a heat-activated printing solution that will create quick, great looking photos. Zink’s first…

Perhaps physically getting out of your bed to find your alarm clock just isn’t your thing. That’s ok. If you’re more of a thinker, then there’s still a unique, annoying…

Hello. My name Viktor. I help post CrunchGear, yes? My homeland Russia have extremely nice phones. Best provider SkyLink has made deal with Almaz Holding to design amazing phone. The…

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Skype 2.5 For Mac Ready To Download

9:29 am PST • January 31, 2007

in the mail and today the Internet-communications company goes and drops a new version of the free app for Mac OS X users: Skype 2.5. The beta’s been around since…

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CNN Calls Gates Out On Vista's Design

8:55 am PST • January 31, 2007

Sometimes you gotta face the music, Billy boy. You know damn well you copied a lot of features from OS X when designing Vista and now CNN is calling you…

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Samsung FlapCam

6:15 am PST • January 31, 2007

Could this be Samsung’s newest digital camera to hit the market? No but it sure does have a unique design that makes you wonder. The FlapCam from Matthias Lange has…

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March Of The Penguins

6:00 am PST • January 31, 2007

These little happy feet have a seizure every time you pump up the jams, well at least their eyes do. You may have your very own fit while watching the…

Yahoo's Brand Universe Launches

4:37 am PST • January 31, 2007

Yahoo’s brand-centric sites, announced in November 2006 and dubbed “Brand Universe”, have started to go live. These sites each revolve around a single popular brand – like this one on…

Steve Rubel somehow came across a new Digg-like Technorati product called “WTF,” which stands for “Where’s the Fire?” It was briefly live at technorati.com/wtf, but is no longer available. From…

Hipster Double-Wide Winos Rejoice! Alcohol From Your Rice Cooker! Wake Up…WAAAKKKEEE UPPPP! Apple Poops Out Multicolored iPod Shuffles Clocky Is Now Shipping!

Protect Yourself From Price Drops

11:47 pm PST • January 30, 2007

PriceProtectr is a neat new tool that helps you take advantage of guarantees by many online retailers to refund the difference on purchased items if the price drops in the…

Farecast Takes $12 Million More

8:50 pm PST • January 30, 2007

For good or bad, venture funds are flowing like it’s 1999 all over again. Seattle-based Farecast , which predicts and guarantees airline prices, dipped its toes in the cash pool…

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More Color iPod Shuffle Info

5:21 pm PST • January 30, 2007

Vince wrote this morning that Apple had released an onslaught of colored 2G iPod Shuffles. Well we’ve got a bit more information for you. In addition to having a bunch…

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Okoro's $4,595 OMS-GX300 Media Center

5:16 pm PST • January 30, 2007

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/or don't play on their TVs because using a keyboard and mouse on your couch is inconvenient at best. However, with Vista now able to natively handle an Xbox…

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Hipster Double-Wide

4:00 pm PST • January 30, 2007

I was flipping through the Feb. issue of Wired earlier and I came across the Glassic Soho trailer. Now it’s no secret that I’m from the South. That said, I’ve…

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Clocky Is Now Shipping!

3:51 pm PST • January 30, 2007

In all likelihood, when you first came across Clocky, it was still just a project from the mind of MIT student Guari Nanda. Now Clocky has grown into a full-fledged…

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Hot Jugz Personal Shower

3:27 pm PST • January 30, 2007

Believe it or not, Hot Jugz is not the name of a porn star from 1983. It’s a personal outdoor shower. It’s comprised of a two-gallon container that can keep…

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BGR Plays With The Motorola MAXX Ve

3:07 pm PST • January 30, 2007

They’ve done it again! Our peeps over at Boy Genius Report got their paws on on a spankin’ new Verizon MAXX Ve from Motorola. Equipped with an auto-focusing 2MP camera…

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LG SV260 Nags And Then Nags Some More

3:04 pm PST • January 30, 2007

Seems as though LG’s new SV260 Premium Folder flip phone has some very enticing features only a business person would love. Its Motiquette (Mobile Etiquette) option for example switches to…

http://www.dovetail.tv/player.swf?contentId=1606&server=www.dovetail.tv&thumbnailPath=Zen%20Media%20Group%2Fguitar-hero%2Ejpg Meet Scott Ian. You either remember him from the band Anthrax like I do, or you’ve at least seen him doing bits on VH1. Either way, he’s a guitarist…

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Belkin Wi-Fi Phone For Skype

2:55 pm PST • January 30, 2007

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6338486291606550545&hl=en I’m a little late to the pleasures of Skype-ing, but Belkin was kind enough to loan CrunchGear one of its Wi-Fi phones to use with the service. Setup was…

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Apple TV Goodness

12:07 pm PST • January 30, 2007

As if you weren’t sick to your stomach with all the Vista hoopla going around today. Here’s a quick vid running you through the Apple TV interface. Woohoo…I think. Apple…

MiniMerger: Obopay Aquires Billmonk

12:04 pm PST • January 30, 2007

In a battle for relevance in the mobile payments space, mobile to mobile payment service Obopay has acquired social payment service Billmonk. Neither are disclosing the size of the acquisition,…

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You're My Fave! Contest Update

12:00 pm PST • January 30, 2007

Only 24-hours remain! We’ve crossed the 100 favoriters mark on Technorati and there is still plenty of time to participate. To enter, all you have to do is head over…

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Geek Proposes Via Dashboard Widget

11:52 am PST • January 30, 2007

Some would call this a story of love between two geeks. Apparently, some dork who goes by the username “Bjorn” on Flickr proposed to his girl by coding out a…

slightly embarrassing turn on the Daily Show, Bill and Steve finally pushed Windows Vista out onto the world. As I write these words her majesty, the Vista, is installing herself…

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Twinhead Durabook Rugged Notebooks

11:02 am PST • January 30, 2007

As a person who is admittedly more than a little clumsy, I’ve always been intrigued by these rugged notebooks. I’ve tripped over the power cord of my Powerbook, sending it…

My Currency Launches Crowd Based Home Valuations

10:38 am PST • January 30, 2007

My Currency is launching another take on the wisdom of the crowds, this time aimed at the real estate market. Unlike Zillow, My Currency derives its housing valuations from the…