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The ES55 is the camera that anyone can use, featuring a 3x optical zoom lens for sharp, clear close-ups, a handy built in Photo Help Guide and Digital Image Stabilization technology that instantly eliminates any camera motion.

The ES55 comes with a generous 2.5″ LCD screen, and a rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, so you can easily view your pictures and videos for hours at a time.

Source: Test Freaks

The Infinitely Adjustable Reading Valet is a hands-free bookstand that helps you to sleep?

Unlike typical hands-free bookstands that offer only one position, this superior model telescopes, tilts, yaws, and swivels 360º to allow countless hands-free reading positions. The bookstand can hold a book inverted over your head while you are lying down or sitting supine in a lounge chair.

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The Four Works designed by Patricia Terrazas and Michael Swan (of Swanique Design), features a fold-out laptop stand, cabinet space for peripherals, a spot for the requisite mug of cofee and a nook for your keys and phone.

The Four Works Workstation by Four Design.

Your workplace and the atmosphere surrounding you determine the way you work and explore your imagination. The more inspirational your workplace is, the easier it is to break the creativity block and discover new ideas. And apparently there is a number of things you can do to improve your personal workflow.

Physical space matters. It’s easier to be productive, creative and happy at work in a colourful, organic, playful environment than in a grey, linear, boring one. Ever since the birth of the cubicle, it has been argued, office workstations have gone downhill. Fortunately, at least some companies have come to understand the importance of physicial surroundings to an employee’s creativity, productivity and general disposition.

Here are examples of 10 different innovative, well-designed workplaces.

Pixar’s workplace: designers are allowed to design their workplace as they wish.

The Milk desk: a design to match Apple gear; with white surface and rounded edges. As Alexander Kjerulf states, “it lowers and raises electrically, it has ways to hide the cable clutter, and it also has four compartments at one end that can be configured for storage, trash or, em, as an aquarium.”

Google offers its engineers and developers full freedom. Not only bicycles can be found in the offices; also cats and dogs are quite usual.

Want evidence for the old saying that there’s always something next to wait around for with technology? LG unveils the latest in multi-touch in-cell laptop displays. The in-cell multi-touch technology places the touchy-feely parts inside — rather than as a film on top of — the LCD panel, which eliminates the loss of picture quality and brightness that regular multi-touch results in. It only works with two fingers so far, but LG is still pretty pleased with itself for being the first to gain the Windows 7 Touch Logo sticker with this technology, which was previously limited to cellphone-sized displays. Mass production is set for the second half of this year, and we’ll go ahead and assume that local nemesis Samsung will be using every moment until then to offer its own competing models.

Read more about this and checkout the video on engadget

In an attempt to shake up the already turbulent mobile phone market, Microsoft unveils the moderately anticipated Windows Phone 7 . The big question is….Does it really stand a firm ground against the likes of the iphone (or otherwise, ipad mini) and the Google Nexus?

Microsoft decided to adopt a slightly varied approach to its design and user interface compared to the Apple iphone and its league of second graders. Microsoft deliberately wanted to get away from icons and this notion that all behaviors get the same size button on the home screen, and you definitely get more of a sense of priorities here: Entertainment, social networking, photo sharing—those matter, and oh yeah, here’s a phone if you need a call, and here’s a browser if you need that too.

It’s hard to tell from looking at this stuff, but much of it is customizable, including almost everything on that home screen.

[ Article Source: Gizmodo ]