We already know that the Galaxy Tab will have Bluetooth Stylus support. But we never knew it to be such ‘luxurious’ stylus, as pre-order price goes to £49.99 ($79) by UK online specialist Play. This capacitive stylus will facilitate handwriting recognition for those of us not served well enough by the Tab’s generally excellent soft keyboard. It’s also capable of hooking up to two Bluetooth devices at a time and has the extra intelligence thrown in to receive and reject phone calls — whether on the Tab or on your phone. Nice accessory, but don’t you think it’s a tad too expensive to let you write using your hand?

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The credit-card-sized, EUR60 Secu4 Blue Watchdog is an ingenious anti-theft device which sets a user-defined protection radius of between one and 30 metres around the mobile phone in your pocket using Bluetooth functionality, making it ideal for protecting your valuables, luggage, and perhaps even your children when you’re on the go. The premise is pretty straightforward: paired with your handset, the device emits a shrill alarm on the event that the two are separated. Of course, this depends on you keeping the thing on your person, and not in the backpack or laptop bag in which your phone resides — something that’s presumably more likely to occur with the credit card-sized Blue Watchdog by Secu4 than it is with other solutions we’ve seen. Selling for €70 (about $95), is small enough to fit inside your wallet, and features a stand-by time of 120 hours, thanks to a 3.7 volt LiPo battery. It can be charged via recharger or USB, sports a 100 decibel alarm, and can be configured to go off if separated from your handset anywhere from one to thirty meters. It’s now on sale now from the company’s website, which also have a list of compatible phones. Watch the video below to see how it works.

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Apple has just released Remote app version 2.0 for iPhone and iPad, which adds in support for the new iOS-based Apple TV in addition to iTunes on OS X. The interface mostly stays the same – a trackpad-like screen for ATV remote control and an iPod-like interface for more direct media playback — but it’s now augmented for the Retina display on the iPhone 4 and the larger screen size of the iPad. No more pixelated screen. Since the new Apple TV is streaming-only, Remote also now has better support for controlling shared music libraries, making remote control of iTunes on your HTPC slightly easier as well. It’s available now and it’s gratis.

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Toshiba has just made their Canvio hard drive more awesome. It now comes with USB 3.0 support. It also comes with the latest rendition of its stylish pocket drive. As with practically every other HDD on the market, this new Canvio 3.0 is also making the SuperSpeed leap in order to provide transfer rates around ten times higher than those of prior generation units. Naturally, it’s backward compatible, and thus will play nice with your USB 2.0 machine, and will ship in capacities of 500GB, 750GB and 1TB. For the Windows users in attendance, Tosh is tossing in NTI BackupNow EZ software for free, and if you’re tired of the standard black motif, you’ll be thrilled to know that it’ll ship in high gloss black with red, green, blue, white, or silver graphical accents. Check ‘em right about now in North America for $119.99, $129.99 and $179.99 in order of mention.

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Sony has refreshed their ‘overpriced’ VAIO Z lineup with some really awesome goodings. The machine that debuted back in February is now up for your itchy hands at a starting price of some awesome $2,249.99. What are you getting from that bizarre price? The 13.3-inch machine can now be ordered with a presumably lap-melting Core i5-460M (2.53GHz), Core i5-580M (2.66GHz) or Core i7-640M (2.8GHz), an optional carbon fiber colour casing, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 256GB or 512GB SSD, optional Blu-ray Disc burner, an SDXC card reader and NVIDIA’s GeForce GT330M graphics card. Of kush, with that price, there’s also HD, as the screen can go to 1920 x 1080 with no sweat.

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Hackers have done it again, doing things that are amazing. Who would have thought that Apple’s product will happily play along with Google’s product? This time, it’s even deep down under. Hexxeh, who provides Chromium builds to those interested, has dropped Google’s OS Chromium into Apple’s famous little tablet, the iPad. He’s evidenced this feat by tweeting from the liberated slate, though one of his outgoing missives includes the dire warning that he’ll “dash your hopes later, there are a few catches.” Yeah, everything has a catch.

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Instead of the typical USB or eSATA port for external drives, OCZ refuse to follow tradition, and opted for HSDL speed instead. That’s the answer from OCZ to bypass the bandwidth limitations of standard SATA/SAS interconnects. Using a high-quality SAS cable to hook up its new Ibis drive to a PCI Express host card, OCZ has managed to deliver a cool 2GBps of total bandwidth — that’s one gigabyte up and one gigabyte down… every second. Read more…

10 years ago, I might be buying lots of rechargeable batteries to power up my Walkman CD Player from Sony or iRiver. But who’s using batteries these days? Every phones and MP3 players are getting their own batteries. The only stuff that needs battery is my remote for the door, and the player, and the aircond, and the… Oh, so I still need em. Dang! Read more…

Transformer flying Humvee project. How does this project’s name sound to you? Collaboration between the Autobots, the Prime clan, and the US government for war gadgets’ research and development? The AAI Corp has landed a contract for feasibility studies of the Transformer flying Humvee project, which takes a lightly armoured four-man vehicle and puts it in the air, hoping it to fly. Sounds as if it’s literally begging to be hit by a rocket-propelled grenade or flag trooper. Read more…

The Koreans are amazing. Why? Because Starcraft is their national sports! Yes, what the F right? They even won against the Greece in World Cup. And don’t get me started on the underage Hyun-A. Now, come to the topic here. Cars. Hyundai and Kia has been growing rapidly in a pace so fast, that their cars which used to be rubbish and unreliable, as reached design cues that surpass the famous Toyota and Honda. Their engines are also improved with advance technology that is comparable to their Japan counterparts. Now, they’re diving into the EV market as well. Read more…