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Apple announces their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

Introducing the Snaptu App Store, now available for Beta on AT&T.

Here’s the Lenovo Z460, leaked to the public.

Here’s another tablet with the GBook from Great Wall.

Android can gets two Android developments. Find out what they are here.

In a weird iPhone 4G-ish turn, a Nokia N8 prototype has gone missing.

This is the Zeemote Bluetooth Controller, ready for Android.

Three new apps are available for Zune downloading.

Rumor has it that the Microsoft Kin could be coming to other carriers.

Those iPads 3G are “prepped for shipping”.

Check out this French guy in Hong Kong who climbs a skyscraper.

Here’s an interesting thing, a Post-It Assault Rifle.

Polaroid is apparently making gaming accessories. What is up with that?

Creative Labs Vado HD 4GB is on sale at Amazon.

Lexar has a new 600X 32GB Compact Flash Card.

Check out the Eminent EM7080 hdMEDIA media player.

The world’s largest curved screen has come to a Japanese airport.

It would appear Samsung is working on a Google TV unit.

The use of a power strip is quite common at home and in the office when multiple sockets are needed to keep a group of electrical appliances plugged in for regular use. Of course, such appliances include a desktop computer, printer, fax machine, scanner, television set, microwave or a fan. However, there is a significant drawback to using a regular power strip. The strip itself could suddenly overload and stop working permanently if it gets overwhelmed by a greater use of wattage than it can handle. Furthermore, a person usually can’t determine the current wattage that’s running on a power strip just by looking at the number of appliances plugged in or looking at the strip itself. Nonetheless, a Japanese company called Sanwa has found a solution to this problem.

Sanwa actually created a power strip that comes equipped with a wattage reader. This update to the average power strip comes in the form of a LCD screen on the strip that allows you to keep track of your wattage use. This unique power strip was also designed with a feature that enables you to turn off individual plugs for machines plugged that aren’t immediately needed. At all times, the strip shows how much power is being used and it will warn you when the wattage is approaching 1,500W, though it isn’t clear whether or not this is a danger level or just the load limit of the strip.

Currently, there is no information about the price or availability of this new product for the consumer. Nevertheless, the wattage reader is a nice update to make using power strips safer. Let’s hope all power strips will get this update in the near future.

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In the development of new technology, researchers will eventually conduct a test run of their latest creation to evaluate its overall effectiveness and determine if it is ready for use in the real world. Of course, there are successes and failures in designing experimental technology and researchers don’t always get the results they’re looking for. Things certainly didn’t go as planned for the Air Force when their new aircraft was suddenly missing in action nine minutes after it took flight. Thus, its current location is still unknown.

This new aircraft is called the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2. Its intended purpose is to attack global targets at a speed of Mach 20 and launch conventional weapons against a target anywhere on the planet in one hour. This capability was meant to make it a perfect substitute for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. The Falcon was created by Lockheed Martin as part of a DARPA program and it was launched last week on a Minotaur IV rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base. The plan was to have it splash down in the Pacific Ocean after it finished a flight test of 4,100 miles in just half an hour. But it disappeared after its launch, the Air Force lost all contact with the aerial vessel and it hasn’t been seen since.

According to the preliminary report by DARPA’s Johanna Spangenberg Jones, the Falcon achieved controlled flight within the atmosphere at over Mach 20 before contact with it was lost. Then the telemetry data signal vanished and the vessel went off the grid as “MIA” (Missing In Action). This launch was the Falcon’s first actual flight after previous test runs were performed in wind tunnels and simulations. Despite the new aircraft’s disappearance, another test flight is still scheduled for early 2011. Well, maybe this aerial prototype will eventually turn up or the tech guys in the design department will have to start again at square one.

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