Love USB? Love wood? Love high fashion? It’s okay if you lied about one of those, we swear. Regardless of the level of your honesty with us (which we now believe to be lower than expected), you’ll want to get your grubby mitts all over these fancy pieces of technology / jewelry. ’s cross- and apple-shaped flash drives supposedly transmute the story of Adam & Eve into African mahogany, 18-karat gold, Swarovski crystals, and white diamonds. Inside the dolled-up necklaces, you’ll find a 1GB USB drive, which will be perfect for holding all the pictures of yourself that you carry around, or video clips of you and your friends on the catwalk. The drives will be available sometime this month, and prices range from a bourgeois $100, all the way up to an aristocratic $1000.

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New Zunes support DVD quality video over TV-Out

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Zune Insider has a little update about specifics of the up on their site, with the rather minor — but interesting — tidbit that the new Zunes natively support video of up to 720×480 at 30fps, or 720×576 at 25fps. These formats will only play at full quality via TV-Out — the Zune display is expected to be — but it’s nice to know that you’ll be able to lug around full DVD resolution movies on the next Zune, right?

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iPhone delayed in France due to unlocking laws?

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We’re not exactly up on our French, let alone our French telecommunications law, but we’re hearing that ’s supposed launch of the in that country is being held up by two different regulations that prevent the iPhone from being the locked-down revenue-generating machine Apple wants it to be. The first, a law passed in 1998, requires that carriers unlock any phone upon customer request — for a fee during the first six months of a contract and for free after that. Notably, all three major French carriers — including Orange, which was to get the iPhone — have lost lawsuits challenging this law. The second, which we’re slightly less clear on, apparently requires carriers to sell both locked and unlocked phones. Tensions over the regulations have apparently strained the relationship between the companies to the point where Orange spokespeople are saying things like “the risk we’re evaluating this week is that Apple crosses France off,” but really, who expected Apples and Oranges to mix without someone getting a little bruised?

— French unlocking law with unlocking provision at end of Article II
— Les Echoes report on Apple / Orange tension

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Disclaimer: Although this post was written by an attorney, the attorney in question only met his university’s foreign language graduation requirement by reciting an Eddie Izzard routine verbatim, so this post should not be considered legal advice or analysis of any kind.

Norco DS-520 home NAS is probably more server than you need

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We’re not certain what kind of home user needs a solution this hardcore, but that’s what Norco’s targeting with the DS-520, a hot-swappable five-bay SATA II NAS that’s actually a Celeron-M computer running your choice of , XP, Linux, or “any other x86-based OS.” The unit hits your network through the two Gigabit Ethernet ports, and you can configure the drives as RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 or JBOD arrays, and once you’ve maxed that out, the three eSATA ports and four USB 2.0 ports let you expand the system even farther. Those of you ready to max out your home networks are looking at dropping around $620 when this bad boy ships later this year.

WildCharger wireless charger get the hands-on treatment

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Eight-year-old tests chips for Actel, owns an oscilloscope

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Sure, you had a paper route when you were a kid; heck, we bet you were even good at it. Well listen up buddy, your fond memories of childhood success are about to be completely disintegrated by Carson Page, an eight-year-old from Austin, Texas who really works for a living… evaluating chips for Actel. The boy, who’s been working with the company since he was seven, apparently has a knack for the technical side of things, so much so that the chipmaker has been using him on a regular basis to suss out bugs, test software, and generally act like a super-genius at the drop of a hat. Apparently, the interest in technology comes from his father, a tinkerer who owns an electronic design company. Mark Nagel, a field applications engineer for Actel says about the kid’s work, “We would ask what he liked and didn’t like about it and he could explain it on a very high-end level,” adding, “It’s amazing; when you talk to him it’s like you’re talking to a regular guy doing design.” A regular guy, indeed. [Warning: read link requires subscription]

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LG unveils HT972TR HTIB, favors Chocolate

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If you thought LG had the Chocolate for it was , you’ve got another thing comin’. That thing would be the HT972TR HTIB, which includes five satellite speakers, a 225-watt subwoofer, 1,000 total watts of amplification and a DVD player that handles 1080p upscaling as well as DivX. Moreover, the system boasts HDMI, DTS support, an AM / FM tuner and a USB port for loading up portable media. Not a lot of details beyond that just yet, but do yourself a favor and check out two more delicious shots waiting after the jump.

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FastMac reveals slimline 2x Blu-ray burner for Mac laptops

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For those who look at their PowerBook, iBook or MacBook Pro and long for a Blu-ray optical drive, FastMac’s got you covered. Of course, some Macs were already on its list of , but the firm is now announcing that the trio of aforementioned systems have joined the fray alongside the iMac and Mac mini. The slimline drive writes to BD-RE at 2x, DVD±RW at 8x and CD-R/W at 8x, and provides up to 50GB of storage on a single disc. The unit is slated to ship within 30 days and is available for pre-order as we speak for a stiff $999.99.

XtremeNotebooks launches all-in-one XN1 PC

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Keepin’ with the fresh , XtremeNotebooks is unleashing an all-in-one PC of its own, and while it may have some form of identity crisis coming from a laptop manufacturer, there’s really no portable nature to this one. Nevertheless, the XN1 consists of a 22-inch WSXGA+ (1,680 x 1,050) LCD HDTV display which is jam packed with an Intel Core 2 Extreme processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, up to 2TB of built-in HDD space, an optional 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphics card and HD DVD drive, gigabit Ethernet and WiFi. As for ports, you’ll find eSATA, four USB 2.0 sockets, ExpressCard, 4-pin FireWire, a coaxial jack for the TV tuner, and the usual assortment of AV inputs / outputs. The XN1 is available now starting at $1,599, or you can scale back with a 19-inch version that gets going at $1,489.

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