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Obama, McCain – do you think you know who they really are? Fit 2 Vote, a brand new iPhone and iPod Touch game, lets you prove it.

Fit 2 Vote presents quotes said by each of the 2008 Presidential candidates and asks you to choose who said each one. If it’s an Obama quote, lean your phone to the left, if it’s a McCain quote, lean your phone to the right. Get 50 correct answers to declare yourself “Fit 2 Vote”.

Inspired’s “Fit 2 Vote” is a game to test your political savvy… and see if you are ready to make that all-important vote in 2008.

I will be doing a review on the SanDisk 4GB Sansa Fuze pretty soon (not 8GB tho) . Once I get my new camera that is. My Old Casio S600 had a major lens problem and I’m still wondering if I should get a Canon or Nikon Coolpix camera……

I had an iPod Touch 2 months back and I wanted it to stand out from the ones my friends had. Sure it had a black casing but I wanted some cool. Then I saw this on Proporta’s site. The Proporta Echo Mirrored Screen Protector is great for people who are vain and to tell if you boss is hanging behind you during work. Its sturdy and easy to install. It goes for 12.95

The Echo Mirrored Screen Protector protects your Apple iPod touch a treat and offers more than meets the eye. When your iPod touch display is switched on, the Echo acts as a simple (yet brilliant) screen protector, but as soon as your display backlight is switched off, the screen protector acts as a mirror meaning you can look almost as good as your iPod will.

iBUYPOWER, know for it’s innovative and powerful gaming PCs, is excited to launch its new line of Video PC’s. The Video PCs’ are built with the amateur videographer on mind – individuals who prefer to shoot video rather than stills, and post their experiences on sites like You Tube. The iBUYPOWER Video PC line includes the Video Bot, Video Pro, and Video Extreme, which are priced at $1,299, $1,799, and $4,299 MSRP respectively.

The Video Bot, housed in an NZXT Appollo case, features the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 CPU, nVidia 9800GT GPU, and 4 GB of DDR-2 RAM. Customers looking for a little more power will find it in the Video Pro. iBuyPower packed an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor, ATI HD 4850 graphics card and 8 GB of DDR- 2 RAM into a Gigabyte Poseidon case.

The Video Extreme however, is built to be just that – extreme. Housed in a Thermaltake Armor case, the Video Extreme is stocked with the best components available – an Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9770 CPU, ATI HD 4870 graphics card, 8 GB of DDR-3 1333 RAM, Blu-ray burner and a 1200W power supply.

“Millions of people visit sites like YouTube to share their videos everyday, yet before now no computer manufacturer has built a pc dedicated to the needs of this community,” said Darren Su, Vice President of iBUYPOWER. “We decided it was time to provide these aspiring filmmakers with a professional video editing solution.”

All three of the iBUYPOWER Video PCs come with Adobe’s Premier Elements 4.0 editing software, built-in 8 channel surround sound, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition, a 12-in-1 card reader/writer and a 3 year limited warranty. (FULL SPECS BELOW)

As part of the launch iBUYPOWER is giving away a Video Pro System, a $1,799 value, and a $2,000 gift card to the winner of the Favorite Gaming Moments YouTube Contest. Contestants will upload videos they create of them reenacting their favorite gaming moments. The contest will run through August with a winner being selected from a group of ten finalists by the You Tube community in the second week of September. Visit here for contest details

Ah yes, just in time for my annual camera buying budget. I plan to get a new camera for my upcoming Europe trip in the autumn. I may rule out Canons as this bunch of Nikons looks cool.

Nikon Inc. has just announced six new COOLPIX cameras! These new cameras feature cutting edge technology designed to make the shooting, sending, and sharing of photos easy and fun for all levels of photographers. Here is the release

Here are some highlights of the cameras:

The COOLPIX P6000 Comes Equipped with a New Built-in GPS Unit

· The COOLPIX P6000 integrates a new, built-in global positioning system (GPS) unit, which provides users the opportunity to record “geotags” of the location where images are captured based on their latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates when a picture is taken.

The COOLPIX S610c Provides Wireless Sharing and Sending of Photos

· New to the COOLPIX S610c, the Wi-Fi service is provided by Wayport, which will allow consumers to share their images and videos from over 10,000 different locations nationwide directly from the camera.

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If you have a Nintendo Wii, then you know how irritating it can be when the battery runs out on the Wiiremote. Instead of just using the default AA batteries on the remotes, try to cool Nyko Charge Station for Nintendo Wii. You can charge 2 remotes on the dock and it takes about 45 mins to get a full charge. Once its charged up, it gives about 6 hours of play during my tests since Nov 2007.

Removing and installing the new rechargeable batteries into your Wiimote is very easy. Just pop out the AA batteries, pop in the new rechargeable ones, close the lid and you are done. If you do not have a silicon jacket for your Wiimote, its OK. The grip cover give enough rubbery support even for slippery hands. The charge station goes for $39.99

More on Nyko Charge Station for Nintendo Wii here

Easily charge and store your Wii Remotes™ with Nyko’s Charge Station for Wii™. The Charge Station includes 2 NiMH batteries, exclusively designed for the Wii Remote, each providing up to 25 hours of play time. Each battery is easily recharged by placing the Wii Remote in the charging dock. The charging dock conveniently plugs into any standard wall outlet, allowing for rapid recharging of both batteries in 8 hours. The Charge Station includes 2 custom battery covers with contact pass-through points so you can charge the batteries while they are still in the remote. Each battery cover is also rubberized for superior grip during intense gaming sessions. The Charge Station matches the décor and styling of the Wii, and is small enough to fit in any home entertainment center.

The new Sanyo Eneloop charge station for Nintendo Wii is the first Nintendo-licensed recharger to come out for gamers and it can charge your Wiimotes in 220 mins. Its sort of a cool gadget since it uses a contact-free electromagnetic system whereby you can leave the battery in during charging. So there’s no need to pull the batteries out and you don’t have to align it correctly to work. Sounds like a good thing to buy since my Nyko Charge Station goes freaky once a while and it does not charge when I plug in the Wiimote at certain angles. Moving it around solves the problem but that makes me work too hard.

Eneloop charging station complete with a battery pack replacement pack for your Wii remote and a charging base that can support as many as four controllers at once. Remotes charge in a respectable 220 minutes and Eneloop will even charge sequentially so you don’t have to wait an extra couple hours for your next Smash Bros fix. Available for $73 as an import item, but we wouldn’t be surprised if this showed up on our shores for powerless gamers this fall.

UPDATE: Confused about why this is important? The new recharger uses a contact-free electromagnetic system so you don’t need to remove your battery pack. Oh – it’s also the first Nintendo-licensed recharger.

via engadget

Now that there are a million 3G iPhones sold, it will be good to show you guys on how you can keep them looking spanking new. Add a good casing and screen protector, I’d say. Here’s the Maya case from Proporta, my fav mobile stuff company that goes for $ 19.95. It looks kinda classic to me and it would have been better if they plastered Lindsay Lohan’s pic on it. Ha

Now the new 3G iPhone is finally available and out in the big wide world, it’s only right that it is kept fully protected from everyday hazards – but not just any old protection, protection with a touch of style of course. )

The Maya Case will be ready to ship at the end of the month, so get ordering and be one of the first to get your mitts on this lovingly handmade pouch style case.

Great job, Steve Jobs. Apple has sold one million new iPhones over weekend and it would seem that the server problem on Friday did not hamper the spirit of people who want a piece of this new gadget. Its crazy. People camping out in the cold just to be the first. I heard some people in Hong Kong camped for 3 days. Hahaha. Imagine the toilet problem. Well, I won’t be getting one soon until they fix the copy/paste problem. I love my Nokia N95.

The original iPhone, introduced in late June 2007 in the United States only, sold about 270,000 units in its first two days. Sales topped one million by early September. The new device is sold in 21 countries.

“IPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” Apple’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, said in a statement.

Steven Hodges, president for the Northeast region for AT&T, Apple’s only carrier in the United States, would not disclose how many iPhones it had sold, but he said the iPhone would be AT&T’s key device for the holiday shopping season this year.

Still, iPhone sales pale compared with those of established mobile phone makers, like Nokia, which sells almost 10 million phones a week, or the Samsung Electronics Company or LG Electronics, which each ship more than 100 million a year.

Photo by ADMorales: Three men wait early Friday-morning on beach chairs in front of the AT&T store on Rt. 37 East in Toms River, New Jersey. They said they would not sleep, especially with traffic almost 15 feet away from them.

I will be keeping an eye out on the upcoming Engadget & Joystiq live from Nintendo’s E3 2008 keynote. I wanna see what Nintendo is going to dish out this year for us Wii fans.

The always-popular Electronic Entertainment Expo has returned to its roots this year, with the annual game show moving back to the Los Angeles Convention Center after a solo season on the sunny beaches of Santa Monica. Kicking off on July 14 and running through July 17, E3 2008 showcases several of the year’s biggest software titles from the industry’s biggest publishers. In addition, special tie-in events like Gamecock’s BE-3 Initiative and Activision’s offsite press conference will spotlight new software as well.