Mazda3, CX-5 earn IIHS Top Safety Picks

Mazda technologies like SkyActiv-Body and SkyActiv-Chassis, plus ultra-high-tensile steel, six airbags, "crusable" brake and accelerator pedal assembly and collapsible steering column have helped the 2013 Mazda3 and 2014 Mazda CX-5 win Top Safety Pick laurels from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). It's the second year in a row for the Mazda3. The accolade is earned by receiving "Good" marks for frontal moderate overlap crashes, side and rear impact crashes, and tests of roof strength.

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Grid-It Gadget Organizer

If you are like any other person on-the-go who has to bring everything with them, you will especially love this. Imagine bringing all your personal gadgets, from digital cameras to laptops and tablets, in just one bag without the need of carrying another one just for your electronics and not having to worry about them being messy inside your bag. Grid-It by Cocoon Innovations is a uniquely versatile organizer that lets you store all your gadgets, their charging cables, and other small items like your pens and toothbrushes. It is a mat covered in elastics that are woven together.

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Deal of the Day – 23″ Dell S2340L 1080p IPS panel LED-backlit LCD monitor

Friday's LogicBUY Deal is the 23″ Dell S2340L 1080p LED-backlit LCD monitor with IPS panel for $169.99.  Features:. Ultra-wide viewing angle1920 X 1080 resolutionVGA and HDMI inputs7ms gray-to-gray response time, 1000:1 contrast ratio, and 250nit brightnessEPEAT Silver rated.
$219.99 – $50 instant savings = $169.99 with free shipping.

This deal expires January 21, 2013 or sooner.

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L.K.Bennett’s Alexia clutch is Golden at the Globes

British accessible luxury brand L.K.Bennett have swept up gold at this year’s Golden Globes parties with the prominent positioning of their distinctive new Alexia Clutch Bag on the red carpet .Dazzling, sleek and effortlessly modern, the Alexia is a must-have clutch bag.

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Nike Launches Its Nike+ API Developer Site

Fitness buffs and health-conscious individuals will be happy to hear that Nike has just opened its Nike+ API developer site. Not only that developers can pry into the data generated by Nike's FuelBands, but users are also given the resources that they need to combine their metrics and activity data. “Nike+ data helps athletes know more and do more. The Nike+ platform gives select partners access to the real activity data captured by the Nike+ FuelBand and Nike+ Running devices, used by millions of Nike+ users,” Nike said. Given the case, developers can also work on future apps and games for Nike+ users.

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch 14-Inch Touchscreen Ultrabook

Lenovo is gearing up to release their latest touchscreen ultrabook, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch. This ultraportable system will feature a 14-inch 1600 x 900 LED-backlight multi-touch display, a 1.8GHz Intel Core i5-3427U processor, an Intel QS77 Express Chipset, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 180GB SSD, a webcam, an SD card reader, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and run on Windows 8 Pro (64-bit) OS. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch will start shipping from January 18th for 179,550 Yen (about $2,023).

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Grace Robot Fish Does Silent Work Underwater

Well, I guess you could not get any more obvious in the title – after all, what point is there for a robot fish to do its work on land. Yup, the robot fish that you see above is nowhere near your favorite sushi factory in terms of "design", and it has been dubbed "Grace" for convenience's sake. Basically, Grace the robot fish will not get into a flap whenever it heads out for a swim, but rather, it will just glide along to do its best in conserving energy, all the while working silently by gathering water-quality data that is then transmitted back to headquarters.

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Xbox Live Account Region Migration Now Possible

If you're an Xbox 360 owner who moved to another country before today, you probably went through an awful time trying to have your account migrated to your new country of origins, which probably ended in you just giving up and creating a new account altogether. From now on, migrating your Xbox Live account to another region will be as easy as blowing your nose. Well, maybe not that easy, but it'll finally be possible now that Microsoft has rolled out support for region migration.

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Surface Pro Arriving In The Coming Weeks

It looks like rumored January 29th release date of Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is true, if a new tweet from Panos Panay is to be believed. Panos Panay, currently the general manager of Microsoft's Surface products, tweeted, “On my way to the factory to check out #Surface Pro coming off the line…arriving in the coming weeks.” That could the sign that we've all been waiting for. In November last year, Panos Panay confirmed the pricing of the Intel Core-powered tablet. The Surface Pro will be priced at $899 for the 64GB model and $999 for the 128GB variant.

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Nintendo Reportedly Looking To Merge Wii U And 3DS Divisions

As far as gaming devices go, Nintendo has both the Wii U and the 3DS, and unsurprisingly both belong to different divisions within the company. However according to a recent Nikkei report, they are saying that Nintendo is looking to unify the divisions into a single operating unit and that they will also be injecting about 30 billion yen (~$340 million) into a new Kyoto development facility which should be opened by the end of the year. This does not mean that either the Wii U or the 3DS is doing badly, but rather the merging of divisions is meant to help speed up development of their technology by sharing their knowledge with each other.

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AT&T Offering $100 Credit In Exchange For An HSPA+ Nexus 7 With A 2-Year Contract

AT&T wants you to buy an HSPA+ Nexus 7. And to help you better decide, it has a compelling offer that is pretty hard to resist. The carrier is now giving away a $100 bill credit in exchange for a two-year contract if you'll purchase an HSPA+ version of Google's Nexus 7 on Google Play. Although it is not really the best deal out there, it should convince those who have been keeping their eyes fixed on the Nexus 7.
Plus, mobile users wanting to fly under AT&T's wings should be considering the offer as well. But do note that in order for you to get the credit, you'll have to fork out $299 from you wallet to buy the tablet first.

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2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra show all their sides in Detroit

There could hardly be more riding on the next-generation General Motors full-size pickup trucks, so the automaker has wisely made sure to have a selection of different models on hand at the Detroit Auto Show to show off.

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2014 Cadillac ELR wears a suave suit with Volt underpants

The Cadillac design and engineering teams were smiling like a bunch of proud papas here in Detroit this morning, as the Wreath and Crest crew pulled the curtain back on their 2014 ELR. The house was packed for the ELR's coming out party, and reaction was enthusiastic amongst the murmuring media, as far as we could gather, while the flashes were firing. In fact, we think that the sleek styling and aggressive proportions of the Voltec-powered ELR looked even better in the metal than they did in the first official images we saw earlier.

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2014 Audi RS7 is a 189-mph terror

If you have a burning desire to take yourself and four friends to 189 miles per hour, the 2014 Audi RS7 Sportback can help you out. The luxury hatchback bowed at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show today, complete with a 560-horsepower twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 engine thrashing under the hood. Getting to 62 mph takes a shave under 3.9 seconds thanks in part to the 553 pound-feet of torque on hand from just 1,750 rpm. While the base car comes with an electronically limited top speed of 155 mph, customers can request the governor be removed by purchasing the dynamic package plus, upping the V-max to 189 mph.

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Kyocera Torque Gets FCC Approval

There were whispers of a Kyocera Torque which was meant to hit Sprint sometime down the road, but here we are one step closer to such a reality with the Kyocera Torque having passed through the FCC, although it did so by virtue of being hailed as the Kyocera E6710. Just what kind of goodies concerning the Kyocera Torque/E6710 that we can garner from the Federal Communications Commission filing. For starters, how about the usual suspects such as LTE and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n connectivity, which will be accompanied by NFC support.

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Cellular iPad Mini And 4th Gen iPads Hitting China This Friday

If you happen to live in China and have long been hankering for the Apple Store in that part of the world (or via Apple's online store in the same region) to bring you the cellular capable models of the iPad mini as well as the fourth generation iPad, then you are in for a treat. From this Friday onwards, of course, as Apple has officially issued a press release touting that cellular-enabled models of the aforementioned devices will be arriving later this Friday.

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Samsung Fined In Taiwan

It seems that our friends over at Samsung have shared with the rest of the world that they have been fined a grand total of NT$300,000 (which translates to approximately $10,389) by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC). The reason behind this particular fine. Samsung had run an advertisement which featured "misleading" information concerning the Samsung Galaxy Y Duos GT-S6102. The FTC did mention that the South Korean conglomerate mentioned in both online and catalog advertisements that the phone came with automatic focus and flash functions, but in reality upon unboxing, it does not.

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Flipboard Daydream Arrives On Android 4.2

Flipboard users on Android have a reason to celebrate, now that the Daydream feature on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is capable of showing covers from the popular social magazine. The latest Flipboard update on Android brings Flipboard Daydream, a feature that gives users running Android 4.2 the power to turn Flipboard covers into a "screensaver" for their tablet or phone. The Daydream feature on Android 4.2 was first discovered in September last year. Basically, it functions as a screensaver for your Android device, with all those Jelly Beans floating across the screen. Today's Flipboard update is an attempt to harness that untapped feature.

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2014 Jeep Compass and Patriot get available PowerTech six-speed auto, modest changes

The 2014 Jeep Compass and Patriot are here, and as expected, the big news is the availability of a six-speed automatic transmission on certain models. The transmission, sourced from PowerTech (a subsidiary of Hyundai) will attempt to address the noise, vibration and harshness issues suffered by older CVT-equipped models by using noise-resistant gears. It has a long sixth gear to improve fuel economy, but Jeep hasn't revealed the mileage numbers for the auto-equipped models yet. The new automatic will be available as an option on the Sport trim of both spec, and as standard on Latitude and Limited models.


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