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Sony VAIO VN-CX1 is a strange convergence gadget - it's a mouse that doubles as a
Skype phone. You simply press a button on the side and the mouse flips open to become a clamshell-style phone.
I guess the idea is to combine two peripherals into one, but really this device seems pointless. For one, I read that when it is operating as a
Skype phone, the mouse functions are disabled. It's a fine novelty device, but I wouldn't use it regularl and at £59.99 it's quite pricey when you can get a good quality USB headset/handset for less and there are plenty of USB ports available for connectivity.
Features
- Can be used as conventional handset or hands-free (speakerphone) operation
- LED on top of the mouse lights up when there's an incoming call
- USB powered
- 800 dpi resolution
- Lightweight: 67 g
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This week, Google launched its first movie industry cross-promotion ever, according to Adotas, around the release of The Da Vinci Code: The Movie.
Working with Sony Pictures, they have launched the Da Vinci Code Quest, an online puzzle game that challenges players with a dizzying 12,358 puzzles and no simple solutions. The Da Vinci Code: The Movie is distributed by Sony Pictures and is based, of course, on the mega-selling novel by Dan Brown.
According to a post on the Official Google Blog by Google software engineer/for-time world puzzle champion Wei-Hwa Huang, the puzzle game’s many twists and turns are “designed to honor both a fanatical puzzler’s sheer love of a mental challenge and the labyrinthine spirit of The Da Vinci Code itself.”
Huang developed the puzzles while Google and Sony developed the overall user experience. Those who successfully navigate the Da Vinci Quest will win one of several prizes, including the grand prize of a tour of Paris, London, Rome and New York, and a hefty grab bag of Sony electronics that includes a Bravia HDTV and a Vaio laptop. For 24 days, the Da Vinci Code Quest will feature one new puzzle or riddle per day spanning several levels of difficulty. The puzzles are organized into six categories, including Symbol, which is a version of the popular Su Doku number game.
Around the time of The Da Vinci Code’s original publishing, Random House released two "WebQuests" similar in concept to the current Quest, but they are less-elaborate online puzzle games than the ones Sony and Google are rolling out now. After the questions end on May 11, the first 10,000 players to correctly solve their daily puzzles will receive a replica of the "cryptex" –- a cylindrical decoder device that played a key role in Dan Brown’s story — they will move on to the final round. The finalists will then face off against five more puzzlers, with the last question being asked on May 19, which is, appropriately enough, the release date of the movie.
If you win, don't forget who turned you on the contest ...
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Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on April 20th, 2006 with no comments.
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Who said misery loves company?
(Well, they would be right in this situation.)
Sony is now recalling its own notebook computer batteries (didn't want to leave Dell and the other notebook manufacturers feeling lonely, I guess) to the count of 90,00 Vaio batteries.
The problem? It's overheating and fire potential, just like other 8 million Sony batteries that have been recalled so far.
Do you think more Vaio batteries will be added to that total?
Would not surprise me! 
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Even though I read the reviews, was surprised to see so few gadgets in the latest James Bond opus Casino Royale.
Guess I've gotten spoiled by all of the crazy gadgets that Q dreamed up over the years -- who can forget that Aston Martin in Goldfinger?
Anyway, not too surprised to see Sony Ericsson mobile phones play such a big roll in the movie -- the film is from Columbia Pictures (the same as Sony Pictures).
Come to think of it, wasn't that Sony's Vaio notebook computer in a couple of scenes, too?
Now do you see how the pieces of the puzzle fit together?
Elementary, by dear Watson ...
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