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Nintendo Wii Fit Balance Board

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From the cheesy ads and the mocking YouTube parodies, you could be forgiven for thinking that Nintendo’s Wii Fit and Balance Board would be overly-worthy, not very entertaining, or just plain silly.
But, of course, it’s made by Nintendo, a company which is fast becoming a master of turning mundane of tasks into fun activities (accompanied [...]

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Cern Dog predicting end of the world?

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We’ve all been following the Cern experiment today with baited breath and, although I keep checking that my legs are still there and time is running forwards and not sideways or purple, the world is still here.
However, as we all know, switching the machine on is a bit different from actually testing stuff, so [...]

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The secret of the £299 laptop – how do they do it?

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Laptops are now a commodity item. A fully featured notebook for £299? Windows Vista Home Premium may not be common, but most £299 machines are extremely capable, with 1GB of memory and reasonable hard-drive sizes in many cases.
So how do they do it? And can prices get any lower? Shahid Azeem, Managing Director of ArcomIT, [...]

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Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0

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On paper, Adobe Premiere Elements is a no-brainer. It’s a sensible, serious, affordable editing program with an interface and workflow that comes from its big sibling, Premiere Pro. It has more features than most camcorder enthusiasts need, while ambitious editors will find it easy to use Adobe’s prosumer offerings when they upgrade. The market is [...]

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