Are you boggled with a way to access movies, your music library, family photos and HDTV programming from your Media Center PC and stream it all to your living room TV or home theater?

The Linksys DMA2200 Media Center Extenders give you access to the entertainment content on your PC to enjoy in the comfort of your living room. Pause or rewind live TV, record sporting events or episodes of your favorite TV shows and save them for later viewing. Quickly navigate through elegant menus and programming guides. Access online movie, music and other Internet services to expand your entertainment options.

Features of the Linksys DMA2200 Media Center Extender:

• Access video, music, and photos from your Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center PC and stream it to your home entertainment system.
• Stream live TV content, movies, photos and music from your Media Center PC on your living room HDTV and surround sound system. Includes learning remote control.
• High speed, dual-band Wireless-N enables you to stream content from virtually anywhere in your home.
• Built-in, Upscaling DVD-Video player (720p, 1080i and 1080p) for watching DVDs in high-definition on your HDTV. Playback your CD-Audio collection.

Linksys – DMA2200 MEDIA CENTRE EXTENDER Order Page

Happy New Year from Australia!

The good folk at Trend Updates have spent some considerable time and effort putting together a list of the World’s Top 50 Gadget Blogs for 2008. I was pleasantly surprised that Mr.Gadget was featured at #25! Woot!

Thanks to all our gadget-lovin’ readers and tippers for this gadget achievement.

Let’s see if we can bump that up in 2009!

Via Trends Updates

Even though Legend of Zelda fans will appreciate this more than most, the fact that this kid does it all by himself is amazing!

Enjoy.

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So you’re kinda bored with the default games that come on your Google Android phone. Time to step it up with some pool – Vegas Pool Sharks for Android.

Take the pool table on the road and pit your skill against some of Vegas’ cunning players with the realistic 3D views rendered by the Vegas Pool Sharks game.

Features of Vegas Pool Sharks for Android:

• Four opponents with increasing skill levels.
• Three game types.
• Realistic physics.
• Full 3d viewing with tilt and zoom.
• Aim assist.
• Save / Resume game.
• ‘English’ spin.
• Tally sheet showing wins and losses.

Try it for FREE : Vegas Pool Sharks for Android

This might be something our American readers have been waiting for – a way to play videos from computers, TVs, or video players on their BlackBerry smartphones in a quality they will enjoy. The SlingPlayer Mobile, previously available to other devices such as the iPhone already, is being ported to the BlackBerry platform.

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Lenovo plans to drive notebook thieves crazy by introducing an all-new security feature expected to fly by the first quarter of 2009. Called the Lenovo Remote Disable Feature, it will enable laptop owners to remotely render their devices useless with just a single text.

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Sorry everyone. I had all the intention of coming here with a good news. “HTC MAX 4G Landing in Oz Soon!” was what I wanted to announce. Unfortunately, reality struck and we had no choice but to burst our own bubble because the fabulous HTC MAX 4G isn’t arriving in Oz after all.

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After the Motozine ZN5, Motorola now presents its second 5 Megapixel camera phone called the MOTO VE66. The phone is a slider as opposed to the ZN5′s candybar form, although there are similarities both in form and in functionalities.

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I’ve been playing around with the new Plantronics Explorer 370 Sports bluetooth headset for around 2 weeks now and I have to say that it is the most rugged bluetooth headset that I have seen to date.

Noise Reduction Good
As soon as I got it, I wanted to test the noise-reduction physical design of the headset and sure enough, people who I spoke to via the headset commented on the clarity of the call despite being in windy and traffic-noisy conditions. Wasn’t too impressed with the ear-tip though; found it hard to maneuver it into my ear.

Tough Design
I see this headset more for people who spend a lot of time outdoors – environments where the bluetooth headset is going to get knocked around a bit. It features extra rubber padding to cushion it from accidental drops and is large enough so that it’s not easy to lose. It’s 20 grams so chunky if you’re into that. Plantronics claims that it’s water resistent and dust-proof too; I was too scared of fully submerge the review unit into a glass of water, so perhaps you want to try that with your own

Ease of Use
The Plantronics Explorer 370 has easy-to-find and use controls to adjust the volume and answer/reject calls.  Both of the aforementioned control attributes are important especially when trying to manipulate a gadget on your ear.

Specifications
It’s powered by a lithium-ion battery which gives it up to 7 hours talk time and 8 days standby time.

Close at Hand
I like the lanyard that holds your headset for convenient access.

Superb headset for the outdoors! 8/10

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A leaked internal roadmap from Nokia showed the list of devices the brand will be releasing in the future which is hopefully not too far off. The list is quite extensive and is made up of a whole range of devices of various specifications.

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