Did GM debut the right Camaro Concept?
 General Motors' CEO Rick Wagoner nixed in the eleventh-hour, pushing designers to create the concept that eventually premiered at the NAIAS earlier this month. The shots come courtesy of Detroit's own WDIV Channel 4's coverage of the show. The studio shot glimpses revealed a couple of different design ideas that were done away with, including a significantly shorter rear deck with a fastback roofline as on the clay model. So, did GM make the right call?
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World Tracker turns anyone into a cellphone spy
 A UK service called World Tracker apparently uses cell tower data (or GPS, when available) to track the location of just about any GSM cellphone. Just enter the number you want to track into the service's handy Google Maps-based interface, and you'll be able to zoom in on the device's location, with accuracy somewhere between 50 and 500 meters. The first time you try to track a phone, a text message is sent to the owner, who must reply in order to enable tracking. The service is currently compatible with O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile in the UK, and has plans to expand to other markets including Germany, Spain, Norway and the US. Read more..!
Open Labs' MiKo PC synth workstation
 Open Labs debuted their MiKo at NAMM this week, the box's premise being that you should build a synthesizer around your PC. The MiKo aims to completely flesh out the whole digital media workstation offering thing with a 37-key keyboard, a ton of 24/96 ins and outs, 15-inch touchscreen XGA LCD, 7.1 surround out, Ethernet, 802.11g (via USB), and Firewire and USB 2.0, and should sell for around two large. Read more..!
MyStickies: Sticky notes for every web site
 It's a combination Firefox extension (or bookmarklet if you use another browser) and web service that works very seamlessly to help you annotate the web. To create a new sticky note, you just hold down Alt and drag with the mouse anywhere on the page. If you highlight some text first, the text will be automatically copied to the sticky note. Once created, notes can be resized or moved by dragging, and you can also add tags to your sticky notes. Once you've made some notes you can log in to MyStickies.com and see all the notes you've made and view them by tag or by site. There's also a "Sticky Page" feature that creates a blank page on MyStickies.com just for your notes. Read more..!
Turn any PC into a Virtual Machine
 Lindsay Donaghe got a new laptop but didn't want to lose all of the stuff her old laptop when she got a new one, so she came up with a novel solution: She turned the old one into a virtual machine. On her blog she's written a short how-to that explains how to make your old computer live inside your new one using VMWare (and, when the trial runs out, the free VMWare Player). The process is pretty straightforward but does take some effort. Make sure to check out the comments on her post for some additional tips. Read more..!
Tiffany Heart Tag Jewelry
 Tiffany has a new take on heart jewelry. The Return to Tiffany sterling silver heart tag is available as a ring, stud earrings or as a necklace that can be engraved with three initials. The heart ring sells for $125 and has Return to Tiffany, New York and 925 across the front. Read more..!
Force the PSP's screen brightness to level four
 With just a few flicks of your wrist, you can keep the screen brightness at level 4 even if you’re not plugged in. Basically all it entails is unplugging the handheld while the load screen and the brightness are up, and the level should lock until you disengage it via the screen button. Expect a little bit less portable gaming and video viewing time while exploiting this flaw. Read more..!
Notebook with AES 256-bit encryption
 Steganos LockNote is Notepad for the especially security-conscious. It's a basic text editor--in fact, it looks almost exactly like Notepad--backed by AES 256-bit encryption. It's an open source project, free to download, and runs on Windows. Read more..!
Play Commodore 64 games in your browser
 c64s.com is a web site where you can play dozens of classic Commodore 64 games in your browser. The games run as Java applets and a few of them are a bit funky or slow, but there's a huge selection to choose from. Read more..!
Quintura - visual search client
 Quintura is another attempt at a visual search engine. It is quite polished and well designed, and affords basic searchers the ability to refine their search results in a visual way. Quintura surrounds the words from the original query with words that have been determined to be likely to be associated, hovering over a related word shows the search query narrowed down with this extra search term. The interactivity is fun to play with and the presentation is beautiful. Read more..!
 If you've ever wanted to put together a series of shots into a panorama, you might want to try the free Autostitch program. It's the result of research from the Artificial Intelligence lab at the University of British Columbia. Yes, there are a number of photo stitching programs to create panoramas out there, but Autostitch is unique in that you simply feed in the photos to use, and it does the rest - no human intervention required! They have a free demo version online that you can download and play with to your heart's content. Read more..!
New Advanced Warfighter screens
 Pro-G has posted a pile of new screenshots of Ubisoft's highly-anticipated tactical shooter, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. The images show off several locales including an urban environment, desert terrain, a beach scene, and what looks to be a loading dock. In addition, the scenes unfold during various times of day. Although Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter was originally planned as 360 launch title, but the developers have taken the time to separate this next-gen from other current-gen fps'. Read more..!
Gmail gets a real Delete button
 Since its debut, people have been scratching their heads over Gmail's mysterious lack of a one-click Delete button, and went to great lengths to make it easier to send messages to the trash. Finally Google gave in and Gmail got a tiny update, and now there's finally a real Delete button right next to "Report Spam." Read more..!
 Their latest foray is the Cellphone Bed, a $15 plush affair with screen-wipe slippers. Read more..!
Virtua Fighter 5 for PS3 confirmed
 This month's issue of EGM apparently confirms that Virtua Fighter 5 is coming to the PS3. From the article: "[The] February issue of EGM reveals that Virtua Fighter 5 is coming to the PS3, with the followup line 'and it might be exclusive.'"Read more..!
Charriol St. Valentine's Day Watch Set
 Charriol has created a new Valentine's 2006 gift set that includes a special version of their popular St. Tropez watch and a key-ring. The Charriol St. Tropez watch comes with a bracelet attached. For Valentine's day this model has a bracelet that is decorated with small hearts. The watch also has a pink, blue or white mother-of-pearl dial. The ketchaiin features a big heart with 'I love you' engraved on it. The set comes in a leather-lined heart-shaped box. Read more..!
Motorola/Burton Audex jackets are here
 Motorola and Burton are shipping their Bluetooth-enabled Audex jackets, sporting a set of sleeve-mounted controls that can be used to control an audio player and respond to calls. There are also hood-mounted speakers and a mic, for full immersion. Pricing starts at $599, and colors include black, blue, red, and, for the ladies only, mocha plaid. Read more..!
I/OMagic bumps Gigabank up to 8GB
 I/OMagic's pocket-sized Gigbank is now available in capacities of up to 8GB, for a price of $199. That's about the same price as the original 2GB version from less than two years ago, and the 6GB version announced less than a year ago. Read more..!
Yamaha Bluetooth speaker cube for Toshiba's W41T
 Yamaha announced a new speaker cube called the "NX-A01" which was developed with the W41T in mind -- not only does it support Bluetooth with its matching receiver, it handles the MPEG-4 AAC HE codec used in au's new "au LISTEN MOBILE SERVICE (LISMO)." Long story short, you can wirelessly download CD-quality tracks using the new service (onto your phone's 4GB hard drive), and you can play them on your speaker cube without messing around with cables. The speaker itself costs 13,000 yen, and the Bluetooth module 14,000 yen, bringing your total to about $234 USD. Read more..!
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