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This mini new greeny and earth friendly PC by DELL looks pretty sleek. It would be good if it was green but black is an alright color since the keyboard looks pretty sleek too. Its supposed to be 70% less energy-consuming and 81% smaller than a mini tower sized PC.

“I think it’s the right thing to do,” said Michael Dell. “These are important issues. When you think about our industry, we produce 260 million computers a year. There’s a responsibility that comes with that.”

Its noted that Dell said the company will invest more in technology to reduce its energy consumption and participate in programs such as efforts to plant more trees. In fact, Dell is expanding its “Plant a Tree for Me” program for private consumers to “Plant a Forest for Me,” for companies buying in bulk.

Dell's Eco PC

It comes in recycled and recyclable packaging, (duh) and lets hope it’s friendly to consumer pockets too.

The Onion, truly America’s finest news source seems to have scooped every one with their list of the iPhone’s most highly anticipated features. If you can’t muster the mouse click to head over to their site to read the Infographic I’ve conveniently included the feature list below.

• Nanotechnology enables it to reassemble itself when thrown against wall
• Exclusive link to Google Street View so you can watch yourself using your iPhone at all times
• Takes Polaroids
• When moved from hand to ear, makes Lightsaber sound effects
• Prominent Apple logo
• Reproduces through asexual budding
• Has way, way more PRAM than the last thingy
• Comes with an iPhone hat, so people know you own an iPhone during the brief periods you’re not using it

iPhone looks great. But later when some of it’s drawbacks were revealed, atleast i wasn’t much keen on buying it therafter. Now the backup time has been increased. Looks like Apple is clearly following people’s comments and working over their product for that invaluable customer satisfaction. Let’s see what the final product looks like.

I’d always thought that flying cars and flying men on jetpack were not going to be realities for probably another decade. But hey….It looks like that I’m dead wrong: The personal jet pack that you can buy is set to be released December 11 of this year.

It may or may not surprise you to hear that jet packs (of a sort) are old news. Bell Aerosystems had a personal rocket belt back in the 1960s, and a few different companies are currently offering the same hydrogen peroxide powered sort of thing, including Tecaeromex, from whom you can buy a working version for $250,000. The downside of rocket belts is that they only get a maximum of 30 seconds flight time, and the fuel is expensive and dangerous. Bell Aerospace started working on an actual jet pack in the late 60s, which had a hypothetical flying time of 25 minutes and a top speed of about 80 mph, but dropped the project due to it’s complexity.

Luckily for us, Jetpack International (who has lots of experience with conventional hydrogen peroxide powered rocket packs) is working on a turbine powered jet pack with an estimated flight time of 19 minutes, with a range of 27 miles at a max altitude of 250 ft. Best news is that it runs on easily available and cheap jet fuel. The $200,000 price tag includes a training course, although it’s unclear what certification (if any) is required to operate a jet pack.

SONY has discontinued the 20-gigabyte PlayStation 3 game console so it can focus on a more popular – and expensive – model that has a bigger hard drive.

Since Playstation 3 was launched in November, consumers have flocked to the 60 gigabyte model, leaving the cheaper unit on the stands, Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Dave Karraker told Yahoo news.

Both models have the same hardware, but the 60 gigabyte console has built in wireless support and space for memory sticks.

Mr Karraker said the company would focus their resources on the console the people wanted, but the 20-gigabyte version would continue to have a retail price of $500 until supplies ran out.

There are still several thousand 20-gigabyte models on store shelves, Karraker said.

Production problems shortly after PlayStation 3 debuted meant that thousands of consumers had to wait in long lines and still couldn’t buy a console. While those purchasing the PS3 online were willing to pay several times the suggested retail price so they could have the consoles for the holidays.

Zenum is a company that does a lot of designing but no shipping yet, and here’s an example: the Zenum Organum, a music player that the company says will roll out by the end of this year. It’ll supposedly have a built-in mic, and will play back all the usual suspect audio files. Its 1.8-inch color display will show you JPEGs and BMP files, and it’ll be able to store 2 gigs of your favorite audio in its flash memory.

But will it really exist? Zenum is a Swiss company headed up by designer Jaren Goh, whose work includes his similar-looking Sony Ericsson Black Diamond concept phone and his whimsical RollerToaster design. Even if none of these products ever hits the market, maybe copycats will pick up some of his sharp design sense and run with it. We can only hope.

 

Creative has added a couple more iPod accessories to their repertoire of MP3 player speaker systems. It is interesting to see Creative, the pioneers of everything anti-iPod, to finally give in and release some iPod speaker systems like every other damn company out there. The PlayDock i500 (pictured) has a subwoofer, remote and can charge the iPod. The TravelSound is a smaller version of the i500 and can be battery powered. Is this a sign of Creative waving the white flag? Slow down, Apple haters, I was exaggerating and speculating. The Zen music players aren’t too shabby.