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Acer’s Aspire One has been somewhat overlooked in the face of a relentless barrage of Eee Personal computers and other netbooks, but slow and steady tends to win the race — Acer says it’s on track to ship six million machines this year, which is ahead of ASUS’s target of five million Eees. Acer’s mostly pulled into the lead due to its size and ability to push the Aspire One globally, while ASUS (which less than half the revenue) has been building the Eee market by market. Of course, that doesn’t mean ASUS is going down without a fight — we’ve already seen some aggressive ads, and Acer doesn’t have anything to match machines like the S101. Looks like the netbook market is starting to get heated — it’ll be interesting to see how this all shakes out over the next few months.

Aspire One shipments on pace to beat Eee Personal computer originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, the Optimus Keyboard may offer programmable mini OLED keys, but taking it one step further are these Wi-Fi enabled gadgets. Continue reading to see more. Click here for first picture in gallery.

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The handmade Jupiter wooden mouse “moves in the direction and velocity according to the tilt of the spherical device, which rests comfortably in the palm of your hand.” Video after the break.

The Jupiter mouse not only brings a refreshing natural element to your desk bit also offers an exciting new approach to navigating your computer screen.

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At $168, the DIY MSR-H101 Hexapod robot sports “a built-in HexEngine with plenty of pre-loaded settings, and built-in PS2 controller suppport, which’ll let you parade your creation about without having to mess around with it too much beforehand.” Video after the break.

Of course, there’s also plenty of room for more experienced robot builders to get their hands dirty, and Micromagic is more than happy to sell you a whole slew of optional add-ons for the kit.

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Quantum of Solace’s “movement, the interface, the text; it’s all straight out of COD4, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing,” as you’ll see in this new combat trailer. Continue reading to watch. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Graphically, Bond looks solid, with good lighting and effects that populate the action. Player models are detailed, with Daniel Craig’s version of James Bond featuring the highest level of detail.

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In this episode of “Will it Blend?”, we “take a peek at how we blended time in honor of the new show Tom recently appeared on called ‘Time Warp’.” Continue reading to watch.

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The Apple Core Duo case mod — started as a Apple G5 — isn’t powered by Mac, but is rather a PC in disguise. This masterpiece was “the culmination of over a year of dedicated modding, epoxying, sanding, more sanding, a bit more sanding.” Click here for the first picture in gallery.

Obviously, this wasn’t your usual Personal computer case - so every thing had to be worked out and made from scratch. That includes things we usually take for allowed, like brackets, mounting for the hard disks, etc.

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The Hobart iCool chair basically lets users “shed pounds while just sitting there in a fashionable ‘micro environment.’” No word yet on pricing or availability. Click here for first picture in gallery.

It wants you to lose weight but knows that you shouldn’t have to leave your chair to do so — using a “proprietary” system for “temperature regulation”.

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That’s right, a seller is offering ever SEGA Master System game released in the US along with the console it self on eBay. Auction page. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

this auction is for a complete collection of us release sega master system games (115 games, some sealed, all are complete), an additional lot of foreign games that are ntsc and work on the us master system (38 games, some sealed, all complete, no pal games, all ntsc).

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Amazon has the Garmin Nuvi 650 portable GPS navigator on sale for just $199.83 shipped, originally priced at $749.99. The map database “features almost six million points of interest (POIs), including hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and attractions, and the data is provided by NAVTEQ.” Product page.

This preloaded navigator brings all this fantastic map data to your fingertips with a super-bright, 4.3-inch widescreen display for improved map viewing, day or night. Use the touch screen interface to select destinations, look up POIs, and play your favorite MP3s and audio books.

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