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Watchgate: what happened to President Bush's watch?
The White House says President Bush simply dropped his watch during a scrum of adoration from wildly affectionate Albanians. “The president put it in his pocket and it returned safely home,” said spokesman Tony Snow. An Albanian bodyguard alleges someone picked it up and returned it, but in the video after the jump, it sure looks like you can see somebody lifting it. Tech continues to fluster the spin doctors, ho ho ho. [GT]
Where’s the president’s watch?
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Father's Day Gadget Gifts: Novelty gadgets
It’s getting closer and closer to Father’s Day, so if you haven’t as yet bought something for the man who was too silly to pop protection on, then why not consider these slightly silly novelty gadgets?
1.) USB Pole Dancer. Whether your ‘pa works in the daily 9-5 grind in an office cubicle, or drives a cab for a living (no doubt your place of conceivement), there’s sure to be a place where he can plonk this USB pole dancer. It’s only £29.95, but before you buy, feast your eyes on the vid we made of it a few months back and consequently almost got us banned from YouTube…
Sony rumoured to be revamping the PSP – at last!
Kotaku has a bunch of information about Sony’s plans for a PSP redesign, which if true sounds like it could kickstart the device’s fightback against Nintendo’s DS.
iPhone to come with a Pay-As-You-Go option?
You’ll have to sign up to a two-year contract to get hold of an iPhone, right? Well, perhaps not. The rumours that you’ll also be able to bag Apple’s music mobile on a pay-as-you-go contract have been reignited, after the omission of text stating ‘use requires minimum new 2 year activation plan’ from the first batch of iPhone ads.
Miuro robot iPod speaker goes on sale worldwide
If you’ve got a keen memory, you might remember our story about the Miuro robot which promised to turn your iPod into a “dancing boombox on wheels”.
Fathers Day Gadget Gifts: Music
It’s Fathers Day on 17th June, and for once, you owe it to your old man to be a bit more imaginative than just buying the same aftershave you got him last year. How? Well, by slavishly following suggestions from an internet technology blog, of course.
Neonumeric NPMP F1: a personal media player with a camera
More news from the convergence zeitgeist. French firm Neonumeric has unveiled its NPMP F1, a personal media player with a built-in two-megapixel camera.
Microsoft Zune may still come to Europe this year
Well, maybe. Perhaps. Depending on the right conditions. Hmm, following reports last week that Microsoft’s Zune won’t be out in Europe until 2008, the company has moved swiftly to rebut the claims, without giving any clear indications of when we’ll see the digital music player on this side of the Atlantic.
Does the iPhone have GPS built in?
For heaven’s sake. Now that the iPhone’s release date has been confirmed as 29th June, you’d think the online gossiphounds would have taken a week off.
