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Check out Mecha Fish and Little Dog, robots like your pets!

Samsung has a new HMX-S16 Camcorder.

Here’s a motion-activated clock spy camcorder.

Pentax Japan is delaying the release of the 645D Camera.

Check out this DVD that can hold a 1000 DVDs.

Hulu can run on Android 2.2, with a little tweak.

Check out Samsung’s 19-inch AMOLED screen.

This is the Pandigital Novel, a color e-book reader linked to Barnes and Noble.

Some more BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider photos are appearing.

If you get certain models of the Asus on Amazon, you can get free Kindle software.

This is the Sound ID 510 Bluetooth Headset.

Sony is partnering with Billabong for a VAIO W laptop.

The Nokia N8 goes up against the N97. Apparently, it is no contest.

Steve Jobs will delivering the keynote at Apple WWDC.

This is the iDeck Integrated Cassette Adapter for the iPod.

Here’s an iPhone that can control a vending machine.

Here’s a phone called the EC509 Green Core that charges by spinning it.

New innovations continue to emerge in the ever-growing trend of virtual reality technology. Recently, researchers Robert Wang and Jovan Popovic from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory made a new breakthrough in this field. They developed multicolored gloves that can track hand gestures and control capacity in virtual reality.

The multicolored gloves are called Lycra gloves, which enable a computer to identify the different parts of the human hand and distinguish its movements, postures and actions in a simulated environment in real time. In this process, a regular webcam is also used for tracking the hand’s gestures and movements from place to place. Meanwhile, both of the Lycra gloves are made up of twenty patches that have ten different colors and they allow tracking of the hand to nearly match the speed of its movements.

Currently, there is no information about future availability of this technology for consumers. Furthermore, the Lycra gloves are being used in virtual reality application to move objects, assemble parts of a mechanism and disassemble it in a simulated environment thus far. Perhaps this technology will help start a new generation of three-dimensional effects in video games, television and film.

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In the ever-changing automotive industry, researchers continue to explore the possibilities of designing vehicles that don’t need gasoline as fuel. Of course, the electric car is a well-known concept that has been attempted in the development of new automobile technology. Unfortunately, this concept hasn’t succeeded in replacing conventional vehicles since an electric car’s battery only has a limited charge capacity. However, a civic group from Tokyo called the Japan Electric Vehicle Club recently made an accomplishment in their research.

Their electric car used a Sanyo lithium-ion battery as a fuel source instead of gasoline. Furthermore, the Sanyo lithium-ion battery was constructed by using 8,320 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries. Thus, the vehicle itself was able to run for twenty-seven and a half hours at least 40 kilometers per hour. In a previous trial run, they drove an electric car for 555.6 kilometers from Tokyo to Osaka on a single charge last month. But today, the research team announced that they modified a Mira EV and managed to travel for a distance of 1,003.184 kilometers without a recharge.

The new distance record was made at a driving course in Shimotsuma, Japan. The Japan Electric Vehicle Club had seventeen people on their team, who all shared the task of driving the car. They also plan to contact the Guinness World Records to get their accomplishment officially recognized. So, the electric car is now that much closer to becoming mainstream in the consumer market.

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So, here we are again. You know that part of the story where someone shows up and explains it. Hopefully you’ve figured out a lot on your own.

If you missed a chapter or two or three, then you should head to the ever-updating index here.

Anyway, the chapter is after the jump.

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