DXG Holds Week Long Contest to Design New Camcorder

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How would you like to see your idea become a reality?  DXG makes history today by calling upon the creative community to help design a new look for its 2011 top-selling Luxe Collection of HD pocket camcorders.  The Luxe Collection of premium camcorders combines high–fashion with high-tech video features.  This one-week contest will be hosted on 99designs.com with a cash prize of $300 to the selected designer.  As of the time of this writing, 6 days and 12 hours remain to the contest.  Currently there are 4 rejected entries as the contestants did not design a camcorder, but tried redesigning the DXG logo.  Remember, this is to design a camcorder – which can easily go from a concept in your head to reality as a premiere product in a prestigious line of digital camcorders.  So get those creative juices going and let’s see what can be made!*

*This contest is not hosted by JAMM but by DXG

USB Fever Weekly News August 9-15: Sync And Charge Controller Adapter for iPhone & Co. And More

For all you Apple gear owner, this week new arrivals at USBFever feature a sync and charge controller adapter for iPhone, iPad and iPod, to allow you the choice between two main operating modes, i.e. either block iTunes to charge, or connect to iTunes to sync and charge.

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Here is what you get for $9.99:

Introductions
If you are at home, you naturally will sync (and also charge your iPod / iPhone / iPad with your PC, however, if were out or at your office, you may just want to charge your iPhone / iPod / iPad , if you plug your iPhone / iPod / iPad with other computer, of course, it has no problems, just that it may have some little disturbances to you to ask if you would like to sync your device with your computer.

Here we have this adapter for you to manage your iPhone / iPod / iPad.  This adapter is designed to have 1 button on the Dock connector, one side is as any other ordinary Dock cable for iPhone / iPod / iPad.  To hotsync with and charge your iPhone / iPod / iPad; if you just want to charge your iPad / iPhone / iPod, you may push the button to another side, then no matter which PC / laptop that you connected with, it will just drag power from the computer to charge your iPhone / iPod, will not hotsync with.

This is specially useful for travelers.

Features

  • Every iPod / iPhone / iPad user needs one to ease their worries and problems with charging and / or syncing with their iTunes library
  • Portable and easy to take along
  • Safely charge your iPod / iPhone / iPad from any computer without the hassles
  • Protects your music from being overwritten and erased
  • Plug and Play with no more warning messages
  • Works with iPod / iPhone / iPad power adapters, so this cable is the solution
  • 2 Modes: either Block iTunes to charge, or Connect to iTunes to sync & charge
  • Light Weight, compact, stylish, convenience
  • No need to bring AC Adapter and cradle during travel
  • 1 Sync-Charger for 2 separate functions, save space for your home and office
  • Dock female to dock male adapter
  • Compact and lightweight

Compatibility

  • Apple iPad
  • iPhone 4 (or 4G)
  • iPhone 3Gs
  • iPhone 3G
  • iPhone 1st Gen
  • iPod Touch 3rd Gen
  • iPod Touch 2nd Gen
  • iPod Touch 1st Gen
  • iPod Classic 120G
  • iPod 5th Gen (Video)
  • iPod Nano 5th
  • iPod Nano 4th
  • iPod Nano 3rd

Dimensions

23mm (width) x 29mm (height)

Color

Black

Package Contents

Sync and Charging Controller Adapter for iPhone / iPad / iPod x 1

In case this is not what you are looking for, here are some other new USBFever products:

Via: USBFever

Deal of the Day – Woot! Kodak CD82 EasyShare 12MP Digital Camera $45

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Wow!  What a deal, a refurbished camera that has a 3” LCD, 3x Optical Zoom and does 12MP.  The Kodak CD82 sure will give you bang for buck for a mere $45.  Find out more information about this great camera or go to Woot! and get one while you can.

Question of the Day: What Music Service Do You Use?

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Do you use a music service?  And if so which?  Right now I still have a couple of months of a prepaid subscription for Rhapsody which gives me music on demand.  I also have a subscription with Pandora for the discovery of new music – it sometimes seems worth it to pay as you get better bitrates for the streams.

SPB TV WAP Version Is Released: Now All 3G Phones Are Supported

The ever creative folks at SPB have a new version of SPB TV available, and now everyone should be happy.

SPB Software now extends the mobile TV solution to feature phone users, offering 3G customers a free mobile IP TV solution with the state-of-the-art TV-like user experience. Mobile phone owners, no matter where they are, can now get easy and instant access to over a 150 subscription-free TV channels from more than 20 countries, using SPB TV on their phones.

· Live TV and video-on-demand channels

· Channels from more than 17 countries

· Integrated TV guide

· Picture-in-picture mode

Watch SPB WAP TV for free!