The Sharp JD-4C1CL is not your ordinary cordless phone because it comes equipped with a digital photo frame, a clock, and a calendar. The gadget has a 4.3-inch LCD touchscreen display. The Sharp JD-4C1CL will be released in April 2010 for 10,000 Yen or approx. $110. [Sharp]

If you’re looking for a puzzle game that makes Rubik’s cube seem easy, this is for you brainiac. The Superplexus is a 36 inch diameter sphere that holds a 300 foot long maze track around which you have to guide a wooden marble.

Sure that sounds like fun, but you can imagine the frustration. The first frustration will be the price. $30,000. The true puzzle here is how you will come up with the money and why you would want to spend thirty grand on this thing.

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Face it, kids -- it's tough to make a landline telephone hip in the age of cellular telephony, but somehow or another Sharp has managed to do just that. For the second time in a year, no less. The new JD-4C1CL/CW is a rather typical cordless phone, but the super-dee-duper docking station has a 4.3-inch digital photo frame and 64MB of internal storage space. Beyond that, most everything else is under wraps, but we're told that it'll ship in brown, red and white this April for an undisclosed amount.

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Remember that PA school district that was caught spying on kids at home? Well, according to the Washington Post, the school district has admitted to remotely activating those laptop webcams forty-two times over 2 years. (You have to wonder how many times they didn’t admit to.)

So now the FBI is involved and would like to determine if the school district violated any wiretapping or computer-privacy laws. Should be an easy call. Remember the school district claims that the remote activation of webcams was simply to recover stolen

Here’s a creepy tale involving a Pennsylvania school, and an abuse of technology and power. A Pennsylvania school district has been accused of spying on its students through webcams. Webcams in laptops which the school provided. Spying on them at home.

The district gave laptops to all of their students and were apparently able to activate the webcams remotely. Beware school officials bearing gifts…

It was discovered when a student was disciplined for “improper behavior in his home,”. The Vice Principal even

With Google introducing the Buzz, it is not just the social networking giants that are feeling the heat, even direct competitors like Microsoft are worried. In an attempt to stay avant-garde, Microsoft has announced the Outlook Social Connector which will sync Outlook with LinkedIn initially while Facebook and MySpace will be hooked in later. The Outlook Social Connector will bring social networking into the inbox. The service will be directly comparable with the Google Buzz as Microsoft is not looking to do anything different by the apparent

If you are looking for a new digital photo frame for your living room? Then check out the latest digital photo frame from Green-House. Known as the GH-EP7UD, the gadget features a 7-inch wide TFT (800 x 480) LCD with “e-POP” digital signage, which is a form of electronic display that shows information, advertising and other messages. The GH-EP7UD also provides a mini-USB port and speakers. Available in black or white, the Green-House GH-EP7UD measures 208mm x 28.5mm x 137mm and weighs approx. 415grams.

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Earlier this week, Samsung announced their newest projector phone, the Beam i8520. Recently, a reporter from Laptop got a hands-on-look at the i8520. This device features a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, GPS, Wi-Fi, a 3G network, and a 5-megapixel camera. The main feature however is the built in pico projector from Texas Instruments. The company has not yet released a lot of information about the projector’s capabilities, but we do know that it uses DLP display technology, LED lamp system, WVGA (840 x 480) resolution, and can

LG XNote T280

LG announced in Korea two new XNote laptops, the T280 CULV ultra portable and the XNote Mini X200 netbook. The T280 is the company’s first CULV notebook while the latter packs Intel’s new Pine Trail processor.

LG XNote Mini X200

The 11.6-inch XNote T280 gets either Pentium dual core 1.3GHz or Core 2 Duo CULV processor, 2GB of memory, integrated GMA 4500 graphics and a 320GB/500GB hard drive. LG’s XNote Mini X200, on the other hand, sports

Our early info on this diminutive shooter only indicated it'd be waterproof, so it's a pleasant surprise to see some further optimizations thrown in for use in less hospitable environments. You'll be able to go down to 10 feet under water with the TX5, drop it from a 5-foot height, or explore the tundra at temperatures as low as 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 Celsius) without the camera throwing in the towel. So Sony claims anyhow. Other features include a now confirmed 10fps burst mode, a 10.2 megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor, 4x optical zoom plus optical