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Digital Art Frame Fancies Up Your Photos

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Digital picture frames are old news but Casio has put a new spin on it with the Digital Art Frame recently unveiled at CES. The10.2-inch, WSVGA color LCD frame has a series of special effects that can transform snapshots into pieces that look like paintings.Users can create up to eight different styles of art from a photo: Water Color Painting, Color Pencil Sketch, Pastel Painting, Pointillism, Air Brush, Oil Painting, Gothic Oil Painting, and Fauvist Oil Painting. The device has 2GB of internal memory, two SD cards slots, a USB output, and wireless LAN connectivity. It will be available this spring but the price hasn't been announced yet. Check out a full gallery of the effects over on Engadget.

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Tasers Get Fashionable

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Last week's Consumer Electronics Show saw plenty of wacky gadgets but perhaps none more intriguing than the latest offering from Taser International. The Taser, a device which delivers a 50,000-volt electric charge capable of stunning people and in certain cases, even causing death, now comes in fashion colors. At CES, Taesr International showed off new versions of the stun gun in pink, red and leopard print. The device also know comes with a 1GB mp3 player that is integrated into the gun's holster. The Taser uses two lithium camera batteries which can stun 100,000 people. Tasers are legal in 43 states. The Taser in pink costs $349.99 and the hard case holster which contains the player which can hold 500 songs, sells for $72.99

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Baldwin Exotic Pianos

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Baldwin Custom House has created a new line of hand-built, limited edition designs some of which will be displayed at the Gibson Guitar booth at CES. Each piano has a distinctive custom paint job that ranges from the elegantly beautiful to Liberace-style glitz to well, whatever the "Feelin' Groovy" model is above. The gallery below shows the wide variety of pianos available (some of the are actually quite attractive) and of course, if one of these doesn't suit your fancy, further customization is always available.

Gallery: Baldwin's Wacky Pianos

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How Did You Sleep? Ask the Bed

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Why is a bed being shown at the 2008 CES? Because the Starry Night Bed from Leggett & Platt contains a lot of technology. The bed has a vibration sensor and load cell technologies that measure how much you toss and turn, and how often you get out of bed at night. it also detects snoring and then slightly raises the snorer to help eliminate the problem. When the snoring stops, the bed goes back down. The bed can also be set to preheat or precool either both or one side of the bed. The bed's comprehensive calculations can be read on a bedside monitor that shows last night's sleep data and can compare it to previous nights.

The bed has a surround sound system with four eight-inch subwoofers and a headboard project that casts a 10-foot screen on the wall. it also has wireless internet connectivity and a wireless keyboard. The internet display can be projected via the screen. It has 1.5 terabytes of disc storage for almost 400,000 songs or up to 2,000 hours of video. The bed will be available in the first half of 2009 and is expected to sell for $20,000 to $50,000 depending on the features ordered.

Think this is the only pricey bed around? Check out our gallery of some of the most expensive beds below!

Gallery: Blockbuster Beds

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Loiminchay Audio Speakers

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Loiminchay, a company best known for their fine pens, has now expanded into the world of speakers with Loiminchay Audio. The speakers are made from shaped solid layers of Birch MultiPly bored out and finished inside and out with sixteen coats of lacquer. The Loiminchay speakers are designed in New York by Loiminchay's owner Patrick Chu, and crafted in China. They will show three models named after artists at the upcoming CES 2008. The Degas is a stand-mounted monitor, shown at right, that promises excellent bass down to 35Hz in moderate- to large-sized listening rooms of about 50 to 500 square feet. It has a 6.5-inch ceramic midrange driver and a sparkling 1" diamond tweeter. The Degas with Diamond Tweeter is $30,000 in clear, and $32,500 in piano lacquer finish.

The Chagall has a bass cabinet built up of MultiPly Laminate, with an 8-inch woofer in a 1-inch thick concrete board wrapped with leather for a non-resonant driver platform. They weight around 150 lbs and the Chagall equipped with the Diamond Tweeter is $48,500 in clear, and $53,500 in piano lacquer finish.

The most lavish and compellingly designed speakers are the Kandinsky, which handle frequencies above 750Hz up to 27kHz with a curved 19-inch wooden horn driven by a custom 2-inch beryllium high-compression driver. The Kandinsky starts at $45,000 a pair and the Chagall custom-finished in solid cherry runs $75,000.

Gallery: Loiminchay speakers

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iPhone Announced

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The Apple iPhone was officially announced today at Macworld. The mobile phone weighs 4.6-ounces, is just 11.6 millimeters thick and has a 3.5-inch (480x320) touchscreen display. It includes a 2 megapixel camera, 4-8 GB of storage (yes, gigabytes!), Bluetooth. It also runs the OS X operating system and will support a variety of programs and browsers, in addition to iTunes, and a partnership with Yahoo! will "allow all iPhone customers to hook up with free push IMAP email." The phone will be available as a Cingular exclusive starting this June, with the 4GB model at $499 and the 8GB model at $599.

For more views of the first one, check out the whole gallery at Engadget.

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Philips Diamond Ambilight

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Philips becomes the latest company to make a diamond bedazzled television but this sparkly beauty is just for show. To celebrate their one millionth Ambilight FlatTV they have created a 42-inch Ambilight LCD HDTV with 225 carats of diamonds. There are close to 2,250 diamonds along the sides and edges of the set's Ambilight frame. The diamonds and the floral design were provided by A. Link jewelers. The one-of-a-kind television is not for sale but will be shown at various events this year, starting with CES>

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Asus 6F Pink Laptop

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When we see a pink laptop we know it's aimed at women. Chip Chick has pictures of the Asus S6F that is being showcased at CES. That's pink crocodile leather you see here covering the top of the laptop and the wrist area inside. The S6F has a 11.1 inch ultra-bright widescreen display and is a slim three or four pounds. The model is a prototype but they say it will be on sale during the early part of this year and will be sold through a partnership with Prada.

[via Born Rich]

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Engadget at CES

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Our sibling site Engadget is in Las Vegas at CES checking out all the gadgety goodness. We'll be checking in with them and posting some of the most luxurious items over here. One of the most astounding things we've seen posted thus far is this monster Samsung LCD TV. At 82 inches, you are definitely going to need a larger media room.

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