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Rob Schmitz, the public radio journalist who exposed Apple commentator Mike Daisey’s fabrications regarding working conditions at a Chinese electronics factory, recently got a first-hand look at how the iPad is made.

Schmitz, the bureau chief of Marketplace Shanghai, is only the second Western journalist to have access to the factory floor since Daisey’s falsified report about hazardous working conditions suffered by employees at a Foxconn factory in China.

Schmitz has been filing reports for public radio as well as writing a blog on his experience at Foxconn.

During one visit, Schmitz took a film crew on a tour of Foxconn’s Longhua facility in the city of Shenzhen, where Apple’s iPad is produced.

Schmitz’s video tour (see below) takes us from construction of the device’s motherboard to installation of its touch screen, as well as testing of each unit’s gyroscope.

His video also shows people lined up outside the factory, hoping for a chance to get a job, which pays $14 a day to start.

It would be great if one day Goldie Horns (GH Cyprus) could collaborate to bring a limited edition 24k gold plated ipad, iphone and every other apple product.

But if you can’t wait for the that to happen, you will just have to send yours to us to be electroplated in any finish you desire from Gold, Silver, Rose Gold, Platinum, Bronze, for a full list of finishes Click Here or you could just buy one already done direct from us, contact us for prices.

Sony today launched its SmartWatch, a timepiece for the wrist that allows owners to read text messages, social updates and e-mail, manage calls, and control music.

The SmartWatch connects to an Android phone via Bluetooth in order to deliver its functionality and capture what Sony calls “Android power.”

The SmartWatch might be useful for those who don’t want to continuously pull their smartphone out of their pocket, but it certainly won’t win a fashion contest.

The device’s strap is rubber and comes in several colors, including white, pink, mint, and blue. However, the black strap comes standard, while the additional colors must be purchased separately.

Sitting atop the strap is the watch’s touchscreen OLED display measuring 1.3-inches.

To alert users to an event or an incoming call, the timepiece vibrates.

Sony announced the SmartWatch at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

The company said at the time that the watch would work with Android phones from Sony, HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and others.

Sony says the handset can run four days on a single charge and is both dust and splash proof.

Sony’s SmartWatch is available now for $149.99 on the company’s online marketplace and in its stores.

Sony says that it will “soon” announce availability at other retailers.

Sony Smart Watch

So I’m sitting in a beautiful beer garden in the heart of Paphos near to the harbor when I see the chef bring out a sizzling burger to one of the near by tables. I soon notice that this is no ordinary beer garden!

Amazing as the place looks, decor wise I could never of been repaired for the quality of food they provide!

I had to order… Chilly Burger with chips! Along side my astounding alcoholic milkshake they brought me a bowl of triple cooked chefs chips! Stunning. The scene was set for me. Sun beaming, great staff. Excellent atmosphere. How could such a wonderful place be free of a Goldie Horns touch?

I started to look around to see where our products could enhance this place! With beautiful wood and stone bars I realised the over head optics! Stainless steel! An abomination! They need them gold plating to finish this exquisite master piece of an establishment.

Next step…. Gary and Jo (the owners)

I’ll be targeting them with a pitch later on. For now… Bring on the beers!

Get down there! It’s the only place to be! And look out for our Midas touch

Limited Edition Gold Headphones  has been launched in 2012.

Dr Dre Headphones have become one of the most popular headphones in the music industry.

They look good, they sound good, and they symbolizes a sense of style.

The New Beats By Dre, Colorware Chrome Beats by Dre with shimmering chrome finishes.

With patented X2 coating, a process invented by the Minnesota-base ColorWare, the metallic-like chrome finish isn’t just the usual electroplating of chromium.

What’s In The Box Beats By Dr Dre Studio Electroplating Gold Headphones Limited Edition
Powered Isolation technology actively reduces external noise for crystal-clear sound; advanced speaker design     Extra-large 40mm drivers deliver rich transient response     Powered digital amplification provides wide, natural sound with deep bass     Headband with hinged ear cups and ultrasoft, breathable plush ear pads is comfortable to wear     Monster Quadripole headphone cable for reduced interference and expressive sound     Includes Monster iSoniTalk headphone cable with integrated microphone and answer button for use with iPhone, Blackberry and other music-enabled cell phones     Push to Listen mute button lets you talk on your cell phone without removing the headphones     Folding design for go-anywhere portability     Includes 2 AAA batteries, antimicrobial cleaning cloth, iSoniTalk cell phone cable, 1/8″-to-1/4″ headphone adapter and protective case

The Korea Times had an interview with an anonymous Samsung official saying that Apple was indeed “planning to release a smaller iPad, probably with a 7.85-inch screen”.

This confirms earlier reports that the Cupertino-based company is brewing a smaller iPad to compete with the Kindle Fire which dominates the smaller screen tablet market.

The report also mentions that Samsung is the initial supplier of the screens of the new iPad after Sharp and LG encountered some difficulties meeting the requirements of Apple.

This proves the mutual business relationship between the two companies despite the lawsuits and counter lawsuits filed against each other.

Samsung is said to receive $9.7 billion to $11 billion from Apple.

These will come from displays, processors, NAND flash chips and mobile DRAMS that are used in almost all of Apple devices.

Only at an actual announcement at an Apple event can we know if the iPad Mini is real but according to these reports, there is a good chance that it is genuine.

Ultimately, if you’ll be getting Coverbee’s diamond-coated laptop sleeve, all that $11M will be just a piece of protective sleeve for a single laptop.

Rest assured that you’ll not be loosing any of those precious gems and scratching your laptop from this sleeve as Coverbee have taken some times perfecting the art of keeping those diamonds intact and have made the inner layer with a rare black sable fur from Siberia to keep your laptop from getting scratch by the gems.

Each one of its 8,800 diamonds is graded VS clarity and F in colour and has its own certificate of authenticity.

If you have a room full of molded cash to spent with this insane laptop sleeve, the company says it’ll be shipped to you “by a prominent Secure Logistics company, that is normally used to carry gold bars and bank notes of the Federal Bank.”

Think twice if you live outside the U.S. and plan to sell your used gaming console.

The Department of Homeland Security has launched a research project to find ways tostored on the devices.

One of the first contracts for the project was awarded last week to Obscure Technologies, based in California, to devise a forensic tool that will siphon data from the Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3 and other consoles.

The $177,000 contract requires the company to create new hardware and software tools that can extract data from gaming consoles, and to purchase used gaming consoles outside the U.S. to determine what data was left on them by previous owners that can be extracted, including information about communications with other gamers, according to Foreign Policy magazine.

Gaming consoles can store sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers and addresses.

Newer systems also allow users to communicate with one another via messaging and chat systems, and the government is interested in knowing what data is stored in the systems and can be siphoned out of them.

But the systems often employ anti-tampering technologies that can make extracting data from them difficult.

Obscure Technologies was chosen for the contract in part due to its extensive reverse-engineering experience in general and its specific experience in exploiting digital rights management technologies, according to a government document justifying the award of the contract to Obscure Technologies.

The company’s lead scientist previously reverse-engineered the Microsoft Xbox, according to the document.

The government says it plans to use the forensic tool only on systems owned by foreigners outside the U.S. and that the research is aimed at investigations of pedophiles who target victims through gaming systems, and terrorists, who DHS says may be using gaming consoles to communicate and plan their activities.

“This project requires the purchasing of used video game systems outside of the U.S. in a manner that is likely to result in their containing significant and sensitive information from previous users,” Simson Garfinkel, a computer science professor associated with the project, told Foreign Policy.

“We do not wish to work with data regarding U.S. persons due to Privacy Act considerations. If we find data on U.S. citizens in consoles purchased overseas, we remove the data from our corpus.”

The government has long fretted about terrorists plotting and training in online games, but, as with any networked communication service, law enforcement agencies can subpoena a company running a service, such as Xbox Live, to get information on users.

The research project appears to be another method to obtain data; in this case data stored on devices seized in law enforcement and military raids.

Obscure Technologies president Gregory May told Foreign Policy that extracting data from gaming consoles is still in the “exploratory research and development” stage, and that it’s unclear what his company will uncover.

“It will be interesting to see, because it’s new to us as well,” he said. “A lot of this stuff hasn’t been done. We’re not sure how complicated it is.”

The government first began looking at game system monitoring in 2008 when law enforcement became concerned that pedophiles were using game consoles to communicate with children. DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate was approached to develop a way to obtain game console data, according to Foreign Policy, which then approached Simson Garfinkel, a computer science professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, to put together a contract for a private company to research the issue and develop a product.

An attempt to create a new country that would house a data center immune to government takedowns and data seizures.]

The Navy posted the contract notice last February, which included a statement of work calling for a contractor to produce the following:

• Provide monitoring for 6 new video game systems, a maximum of 2 of any type from any given vendor.
• Generate clean data (data that does not contain any identifiable information from real people) from new video game systems.
• Design a prototype rig for capturing data from new video game systems.
• Implement the prototype rig on the new video game systems.
• Provide data captured by the prototype rig, including packets delivered in PCAP format and disk images delivered in E01/EWF format.
• Provide used video games systems purchased on the open market. Used systems provided shall be likely to contain data from previous users.
• Survey console chat room technology and identify potential chokepoints where data may be committed to storage.
• Identify data storage points on used video game systems and attempt to demonstrate proof of concept.
• Extract real data from used video game systems.
• Provide video game system extraction software and/or hardware.

Parker Higgins, a spokesman for the Electronic Freedom Foundation, expressed concern that users might not know what data is created and stored on their gaming devices.

“These consoles are being used as general-purpose computers,” he told the Foreign Policy.

“And they’re used for all kinds of communications. The Xbox has a very active online community where people communicate. It stands to reason that you could get sensitive and private information stored on the console.”

Although reformatting a device before selling it should erase such data, researchers at Drexel University have recently claimed they could extract credit card information and a billing address from the hard drive of an XBox 360 even after it was reformatted.