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Waistband Stretcher Offers Alternative to Dieting, Excercise 01 December 2008 at 7:55 am by admin

Stretcher

Over at the estimable BoingBoing Gadgets, fellow expatriate Brit Rob Beschizza has found a solution to the ever growing waistline that is the inevitable result of the typical English diet of Fish’n'Chips, Full English Breakfasts and deep-fried Mars Bars.

The Waistband Stretcher, unsurprisingly found at the SkyMall, clamps onto your slacks and slowly strains the waistband to fit your blossoming belly. SkyMall says that you can expect an increase of up to five inches, depending on the fabric being stretched.

Alas, this is to late for Beschizza, who long ago switched to an elastic-waisted, thrift-store trouser for his day to day clothing needs. It really is rather sad to see the sartorial slide of a fellow countryman. I have heard rumors that he is planning to buy a fanny pack, but hopefully that’s just cruel internet speculation. $30.

Product page [SkyMall via BBG]

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+ MSI’s Second Wind: Hybrid Drive, Low-Powered CPU By admin 01 December 2008 at 7:38 am and have No Comments

Wind115

MSI’s Wind has proven, deservedly or not, to be one of the more popular netbooks. This might be down to a good combination of price, size, performance and looks. It might be because it is one of the easiest netbooks on which to install Mac OS X. Or it might be because, unlike Asus’ fractally burgeoning lineup of Eee PCs, MSI has so far offered only one model (in a variety of colors, of course).

This is about to change. The Wind’s first successor, the U120, was announced a short while ago. While that was essentially a Wind with a sharper looking case design and a 3.5G radio inside, two newly announced Winds will mix up the internals, too.

The new models are named the U110 and U115. The first surprise is the processor. Instead of the netbook favorite, the 1.6 GHz Atom N270, these new ‘books can be had with the Atom Z530. It has the same 1.6GHz clock speed, but supposedly sips less power.

Also new, and only in the U115, is a hybrid storage system. Winds come with HDDs, not solid state drives, but the U115 will offer a combination of both (paired thusly, in Gigabytes: 8/80, 16/120 and 32/160). This is, we imagine, another attempt at prolonging battery life by shifting virtual memory and other oft-used data onto the less power hungry SSD.

The result of this tweaking is, claims MSI, a ten-hour battery life. Hopefully this will be achieved with a more modestly sized six-cell battery rather than the cancerous growth that is the nine-cell, but we could even live with that if it meant true, all day independence from wall-warts.

MSI Announces Netbook: U110, U115 in addition to U120 [Netbook 3G via Laptop Mag]

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+ Sony Ericsson W705 Walkman: Socket to me By admin 06 November 2008 at 5:34 pm and have No Comments

The W705 offers aluminum siding.

(Credit: Sony Ericsson)

Sony Ericsson has just announced its final phone of the year–the W705 Walkman. It’s an aluminum-crafted slider with HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, and a 3.2-megapixel camera and LED flash.

In terms of form factor, it’s got the typical Sony Ericsson …