TECH BUZZ: Because no one makes mix tapes anymore and giving someone a mix CD just doesn’t do the job, you might as well go all “2.0” with the USB stick that comes inside a cassette. If only Lloyd Dobler knew what iTunes was!

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The Best Links:

1. Home Taping Never Killed Music!
2. When CD’s Don’t Cut It…
3. The Perfect Housewarming Gift
4. That Scene from “Say Anything”

TECH BUZZ: The Fitbit promises to not only track how many steps you take and how many calories you burn, but how long it takes you to fall asleep and how many times you wake up during the night. Apparently your wrist “experiences tiny tremors” while you’re slipping into REM sleep. So if you wake up feeling un-rested, you can check Fitbit’s online database to find out exactly how long you were asleep, and thus justify your caffeine consumption with fancy statistics.

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The Best Links:

1. Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep
2. FitBit Trainer: Track Your Exercise, Health, and Even Sleep - Gearlog
3. Wearable Fitbit automatically tracks your exercise routines - Engadget
4. TC50: FitBit, a Fitness Gadget that Makes Us Want to Exercise
5. Health Sensor: FitBit is Clip-On Wireless Excercise-Tracker, Monitors Your Sleep Too

TECH BUZZ: New cameras from Casio come will a “make up feature” which uses in-camera technology to “beautify” the image. A natural next step after the Slimming Camera trend these cameras are able to recognize facial features and make skin look smoother, cover wrinkles and hide shadows, but you will still have to apply your lipstick and mascara yourself. Or you could just start taking pictures of better looking people.

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1. Automatic Make-Up Cameras - Casio Exilim Zoom Z300 & Z250
2. Casio’s New Exilim Camera Has Built-In Photoshop
3. Casio intros the blemish-zapping EX-Z300 digicam with a slew of likeminded friends
4. Casio Release 3 new cameras with Makeup functions
5. This Camera Will Do Your Makeup

TECH BUZZ: There are a slew of products designed to help you get a handle on that tangle of cords created by all your gadgets. You know you put off Spring cleaning and were planning to reorganize your life for optimum productivity by the time the J.C. Penny’s Back to School ads came around. Here is your chance.

The Best Links:

1. Top 10 Stylish Solutions To Unsightly Cable Clutter
2. Woofy Cable Container -3 Left! by Gabriel Negro For Normann
3. MultiPot
4. Cache fil design powerblock
5. Smart Charging Station
6. Stelton - 565 Super Charger
7. Plastic Card Cable Organizer

TECH BUZZ: With built-in speakers, these pillows make for the ultimate lullaby to lull you to sleep. So tell your significant other to stop memorizing the words to that Cat Stevens song - you’ve found your solution.

The Best Links:

1. “While the Sound Won’t Impress Audiophiles, the Pillow Does the Job for Most Music As Well As for White Noise Sleeping Aids.”
2. Buy Sound Pillows Here
3. Sound Pillows, Perfect For Projecting Dreams!

TECH BUZZ: A compact digital recorder, easy to use, with good sound quality. This new version of the Microtrack lets you record in WAV or MP3 formats, with 2-channel sound and has great battery life — ideal for recording at your next Radiohead concert.

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1. M-Audio MicroTrack II
2. M-Audio Microtrack II “changed my life”
3. Good For Recording Concerts, Too
4. M-Audio, MicroTrack II Features

TECH BUZZ: This sleek-looking bluetooth headset is 50% smaller than the original and has superior noise canceling technology. It’s a non-douchey looking bluetooth headset that also works better than most of the others.

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1. The New (little) Jawbone - It’s Now Half the Size!
2. YouTube - Aliph Jawbone 2 Unboxing
3. Jawbone 2 Review - Comfort: 8.5 / Design: 8.5 / Quality: 9
4. They Should Put Less Dorky Looking Guys in Their Ads
5. Get the Specs, Close-Up Photos
6. The Best Part about the Jawbone is the NoiseAssassin Technology
7. “Better looks, better tech, and a smaller size, at the same price”

TECH BUZZ: Houson, Texas is being invaded by so called “crazy rasberry ants”, that came over on a cargo boat. Apparently, they infest electronic devices and can ruin computers and even gas meters. They’re like the bedbugs of the tech world! Reading about these ants is giving me that creepy-crawly tingly scalp feeling, not unlike the feeling I get from looking at manbabies.

The Best Links:

1. YouTube - Crazy Rasberry Ant from Texas
2. FAQ: How to Identify, Prevent, and Kill Crazy Rasberry Ants
3. Yse, I Have Encountered Them, and Yes, They Are Crazy
4. Ants Swarm Over Houston Area, Messing Up Computers
5. Horror Story Is “Insanely Creepy”

TECH BUZZ: Photos of the first RIM clamshell flip phone have been unveiled. It will be out by the end of 2008. A novel flip phone seems kind of oxymoronic, but that’s what this phone is being touted as.

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1. The Clamshell Flip Phone Unveiled for the First Time
2. The Photo Gallery
3. New Shots with T-mobile Branding
4. Get the Specs Here
5. Comes with Accessories like “Anodized Urban Nomad Tool”