We can hardly believe it but the day has finally arrived: Toshiba just launched the first Dynario fuel-cell for portable consumer electronics. That’s right, the long promised and highly anticipated direct methane fuel-cell (DMFC) with dedicated fuel cartridge for on-the-go refueling will go on sale October 29th in Japan for ¥29,800 (about $328) plus another ¥3,150 (about $34) for a set of five, 50ml fuel cartridges.

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Were you expecting unicorn tears or something? iFixit keeps working to finish its list of teardown to-dos, this time with Apple’s new Magic Mouse. It probably comes as no surprise, but just under the top surfaces lies a considerable number of capacitive sensors, and other than that, there really isn’t a lot to gaze upon. Then again, if you tend to fancy the ins and outs if gears and gizmos, this should be right up your alley.

Hannspree offers the VX-S Photo Alarm Clock (model SG4311SB) that comes with a multi-faceted crystal acrylic bezel and in an all black mirror finish. The XV-S has a 4.3-inch LED-backlit LCD display with 480×272 resolution, 200cd/m2 brightness and 600:1 contrast ratio.

Hannspree XV-S provides alarm clock function with snooze option and sleep function that plays your favorite music and photos for 10, 30 , 60 or 90 minutes. It has built-in FM tuner. As a photo frame, the device supports JPEG, BMP image as well as MP3 and WAV aduio file. The XV-S comes without internal memory and card slot but just a USB 2.0 HOST port for connecting USB storage devices.[hannspree][redferret]

Philips is launching the V808 Android-running mobile phone in the China market. The V808 will be a dual-band 900/1800Mhz GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone instead a 3G handset. It has a 3.2-inch 480×320 touchscreen display, a 3.2 Megapixel camera and a microSD card slot. It will be priced at about 3299 Chinese Yuan (US$484).

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Google and [insert any wireless carrier here] are the last two entities in the world that we’d expect to issue a joint statement on net neutrality, seeing how Google firmly believes the FCC should enforce it regardless of medium while carriers generally want to be exempted — but Verizon and The Goog have put their differences aside for just one day to put together a thoughtful, lengthy piece on the subject. There aren’t any surprises in the piece other than the fact that CEOs Lowell McAdam and Eric Schmidt are personally attributed to the statement,

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Apparently not pushed back until January, GeeksPhone’s Android-imbued smartphone, the One, is launching in Spain this December, recently-added physical keyboard and all. So far, the limited edition run will not be crossing Spanish borders on its own, but we doubt that’ll stop any interested parties on foreign land. Final price will be 285 euro (US $427), 22 of which is all you need to put down to reserve yours today.

[Via Engadget Spanish]

Designed by Cheng-Tsung Feng, Yao-Chieh Lin and Bo-Jin Wang, the Solar Traffic Light concept comes with the Discolor LED (Light Emitting Diode) technology that can display all three colors of the traffic lights within a single unit. There is also the Solar Panel on top of the unit, which is designed as a hood. [Yanko]

White Space is a term used in telecommunications used to describe frequencies that should be used for broadcasting although but not used anymore. So guess what happened after everyone was forced to switch to digital TV? A bunch of frequencies out there were turned into white space so we should see plenty of networks use the freed up bands in the near future.

The first white space network is currently running in an experimental stage in Claudville, Virginia. The town’s school and computer center were equipped by Dell, Microsoft and the TDF Foundation but we have no white space network performance reports yet. Hopefully everything goes well so other similar rural areas can upgrade their current Internet connections.

via busineswire

Acer’s done plenty of boasting about its very first 3D laptop, the Aspire 5738DG, but it’s just now gotten completely official, and let a few lucky folks get their hands on it. As you might expect, PC Magazine found the 3D part of the laptop to be something of a gimmick, although not entirely unimpressive. More specifically, while attempts at gaming or viewing standard video converted to 3D were apparently quite a letdown, the included TriDef software did reportedly do a pretty impressive job with photos,

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Ah, Windows 7 Starter — you’re adding to the retail cost of netbooks, and for what? Lack of support for multiple monitors, DVD playback, or remote media streaming? Lack of Windows Media Center? Granted, these things aren’t at the top of your list if you’re rocking a netbook (and DVD playback won’t be on your list at all) but we have principles, y’know?

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