Next time you hit the road, stay connected, be mobile and look drop-dead cool with 25 of the world’s BEST tech gadgets!!

Slingbox Pro-HD

By PETER HA

It’s one thing to DVR your favorite show or the big game when you’re stuck late at work, but what if you won’t be going home later that night, or even that week? When travel takes you far, whether for work or pleasure, you still need to see your local teams or that award-winning home video sitting in your DVD player.

The Slingbox Pro-HD allows you to control and watch video from a gaggle of high-definition* and standard-definition sources, including your cable box, DVR or DVD (Blu-ray too!) player, all through the magic of the Internet. You can tune in from your laptop or mobile device and even access couch-potato features like the SlingRemote, which looks and works exactly like the remote control you have at home, and the Live Video Buffer*, which allows up to 60 minutes of DVR-like program-editing.

Using a Slingbox, you can watch TV through your Windows Mobile device, BlackBerry, Palm, Symbian or iPhone using the SlingPlayer Mobile application (sold separately). Fret not, Android users: Sling is hard at work on an application for you too.

*Some features, including HD viewing and the Live Video Buffer, are supported only on Windows machines, though Mac support is reportedly on the way.

Slingbox Pro-HD/App: $299.99 / $29.99

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Apple is innovating like its old self once again. But can the company avoid repeating the mistakes that forced it to play catch-up in the ’90s?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/222141/page/1

From the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 to monitor-friendly optical lenses, here are 20 new techie gadgets not to be missed

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Fun Gadgets

1. Stainless-Steel Apple Shuffle
2. Etre Gloves
3. Quiksilver Cypher PS+ Heat Vest System
4. Nook
5. Chrome Soyuz bag
6. PlayStation3
7. Darth Vader Robotic Arm
8. Nerf N-Strike Raider Rapid Fire CS-35
9. Spawn HD-720
10. VholdR ContourHD
11. BlackBerry Bold 9700
12. Zune HD
13. NPR Radio by Livio
14. Gunnar Optiks Digital Performance Eyewear
15. Samsung Series 8 LED 240-HZ HDTV
16. Powermat
17. Sonos S5
18. WD TV Live HD Media Player
19. Leatherman Freestyle CX
20. FLO TV Personal Television

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Lots of hubbabaloo is going on right now at Apple’s iPhone 3.0 event in CA.  Here’s what stands out, to me, at least:

1. Support for Cut, Copy, and Paste!
2. Multi-application search via Spotlight.
3. Landscape keyboard in more apps.
4. Peer-to-peer capabilities between iPhones.
5. Tethering baked in, but capabilities to be determined by carrier.
6. MMS
7. Voice Memos
8. Free for all iPhone users, $9.95 for iPod Touch users
9. Coming Summer of 2009

Checkout Engadget for up-to-the-minute info: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/live-from-apples-iphone-os-3-0-preview-event/