I have an aversion against wires, to be honest. And wires deter me from a lot of things like transferring photos from phones and digicams to computers unless I got no choice. The Parrot PHOTO VIEWER makes it a lot easier and convenient for everyone to transfer pictures from devices to the frame.

Unlike some where you’d need to connect your gadgets together for some image transfer whether via wires or via memory card, the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER allows you to just send your images to its storage via Bluetooth. No sweat, right? The device has a 4×6 inches 720 x 480 pixels resolution screen and has Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR connectivity. It uses a Samsung 2412 Microprocessor and has a flash-based memory of 64MB.

Check out the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER 7″ at Mr. Gadget Australia

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The tx2z is no slouch either despite its seemingly small stature (starting under 5lbs with a footprint of 12×9″). You can get up to a 2.4GHz AMD dual-core Turion, 8GB memory, a 64MB ATI 3200 graphics card and up to a 400GB SATA hard drive. Not too shabby.

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More info from the manufacturer

Price: starts at $1150.
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

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As you’re probably already aware, the Samsung i910 Omnia is the Verizon-branded i900 Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional-powered touchscreen handset wrapped in Samsung’s widget-friendly TouchWIZ UI. Like the touchscreen offerings from Apple and RIM, the Samsung Omnia features a slate form-factor that boasts a full-face 3.2-inch haptic feedback (entire device vibrates with every touch-input) touchscreen with minimal use of buttons. And, with a 5 megapixel camera (LED flash, face detection, and panorama mode), WiFi, GPS (VZ Navigator), Bluetooth A2DP, 3G (EVDO Rev. A), optical mouse, accelerometer, and a full-HTML web browser, the Samsung Omnia is about as close to an iPhone 3G fighter as Samsung has ever released.

In line with our predictions, the Samsung Omnia will be available through online sales and business channels starting November 26. Verizon Wireless will offer the Samsung Omnia for $249.99 (after $70 mail-in rebate) with new two-year contract. Verizon Wireless stores should have stock and be ready to sell you a Samsung Omnia in-person on December 8.

Full spec-sheet after the jump.

Customizable Touch Screen Menu
with Drag and Drop Widgets

• CDMA/PCS 1x, EVDO Rev A
• Windows Mobile 6.1® Professional
  with Office Mobile Suite
• Full HTML Web Browser with flash
  support
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• 5.0 Megapixel Camera with Auto-Focus
• Visual Voicemail
• FM Radio
• 8GB of Internal Memory
• Motion Sensor
• Optical Mouse
• Bluetooth® Profiles - headset (mono/stereo), hands-free, serial port, object push (vCard only), basic printing, phonebook access, file transfer and human interface device
• Dimensions: 4.41” x 2.24” x .52”
• Weight: 4.34 ounces (standard battery)
• Display: 240 x 400 Pixel, 65K TFT
  • 3.2” active screen are
• Memory:
  • PDA - 128MB RAM/256MB ROM
  • Phone - 32MB RAM/64MB ROM
  • 8GB Internal User Memory
• microSD™ card (supports up to 16GB)
• Usage Times*: Up to 330 minutes with standard battery
• Standby Times*: Up to 300 hours with standard battery

Samsung Omnia

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By Luke Anderson

Most laptops today come with over 100GB of hard drive space, which is plenty for most people. Honestly, even with my entire music collection littering my MacBook Pro, I still have more room than I think I’ll really ever use. However, if you deal with large file sizes and don’t feel like lugging around a portable hard drive, then you may want to check out the latest flash drives from Kingston.

My very first flash drive had a whopping 64MB of storage, which seemed pretty cool back when they were first coming out. When compared to this new 64GB DataTraveler drive, it seems downright puny. The drive comes in both 32GB and 64GB varieties and will set you back $69 and $129 respectively.

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It turns out that crappy old PCs are kind of a hot commodity nowadays; numerous software projects have succeeded in dressing up retired computers for purposes that often didn't even exist when they were first wheeled out of Circuit City. Here are a few suggestion for your dumpy old rigs:

Make a browsing machine for your grandmother and/or kitchenThe most straightforward, obvious use for an old PC is to wipe it clean and install a lightweight, browsing-oriented OS. With a modest PC, you can run the web-app-inclined gOS, which is essentially a modern, stripped down Linux distribution with a modern web browser and lots of links to cutting edge online services.

For older hardware, there's always Damn Small Linux. This superlight distribution will boot straight from a CD in about a minute on just about any box you can find — and it's fast. It'll make your Pentium feel like a Centrino 2. Until you try to play YouTube.

What it can salvage
gOS has room to breathe on just about anything from about 700mhz and 256mb of RAM. It's based on Ubuntu, so it's not the lightest distro, but it get good mileage out of your hard. DSL will run on anything, seriously.

How you do it
Download, burn to a CD and pop in in your computer. Both will ask you if you'd like to install or just run from a CD. Give them a try first, but you'll get your best results running from a hard drive.

gOS download page
Lifehacker's gOS Post
DSL download page

Make a professional grade home router
For people who want to rule their home networks with an iron fist, Monowall a FreeBSD-based operating system that flips any PC with two network cards into a superrouter. If that sounds boring to you, I completely understand — but if full bandwidth monitoring and control, easy setup VPNs and a complementary web server with a remote interface perk your ears up, then you should give Monowall a shot. And step outside for a few minutes a day.

What it can salvage
Got a 486? It'll work, with 64MB of RAM. If your hardware is less than five years old, though, you should probably aim a little bit higher than making a Linksys out of it.

How you do it
Again, this is a wipe>install situation. m0n0wall is based on FreeBSD, which is based on Unix. None of that matters much, though — the m0n0wall team has designed a pretty straightforward installation routine.

m0n0wall download
m0n0wall HowTo page

Create a media center PC

There's no reason to spend money on a Windows Media Center PC if you've got an Athlon XP or Pentium 4 machine with an s-video port at hand, because you can do better with the free XBMC Live. Without modern hardware you won't have much luck playing back HD video, but virtually everything else — music, standard def video, streaming content — will play beautifully. The interface is very intuitive and gives a solid set-top box feel.

What it can salvage
Recently obsolete PCs. Don't expect to get a good experience on a 1GHz Athlon or Duron system, but anything newer can handle the load.

How you do it
Like most of the other hacks here, this one is a start-from-scratch project. If you want to run it within Windows or Linux there is also an option for that. The full, OS-replacement XBMC Live is ideal, however.

XBMC Live download
XBMC HowTo
Note: Boxee is a much more polished and feature-rich fork of XBMC that runs on Linux and OS X currently, but it's in a semi-public alpha. Use this link for Gizmodo readers to skip the line a bit and get invited into the alpha.

Run a server
An obvious use for old PCs for years, running a web server has now gotten easy enough for anyone. Apache is the de facto free web server, but it's a pain to set up. Enter XAMPP, a super-simplified click-and-run version of Apache. Forward a few ports on your router and get yourself a static DNS and you've got your very own website, with as much space as you've got on your hard drive and as much transfer as your ISP will let you get away with. If you have no need for a website, you can host your music, video and files for easy access from anywhere.

What it can salvage
Anything that can run Windows or Linux, gOS and Damn Small Linux included. You can reach waaaayy back into your closet with this one.

How you do it
It's a matter of running the installation routine on your chosen operating system — there's no drive wiping or OS installing involved.

XAMPP Download
Port Forwarding Guides
Free Static DNS

Dealzmodo Hacks are intended to help you sustain your crippling gadget addiction through tighter times. If you come across any on your own that are particularly useful, send it to our tips line (Subject: Dealzmodo Hack). Check back every Thursday for free DIY tricks to breathe new life into hardware that you already own.

Lexibook of France has released its Lexibook Laptop that has been described as “My first computer” - guess this means it is a kid-friendly laptop. This is confirmed by its sun orange color and slightly rugged case (you don't know just how rough kids can get), and it will feature the following :-

• Samsung 400MHz processor
• 64MB RAM
• 2GB SSD
• 8" display at 800 x 400 resolution
• Two USB 2.0 ports
• Ethernet connectivity
• SD memory card reader
• Windows CE 5.0 operating system

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It's unclear what makes the Leximark "educational,"  other than the fact it's bright orange. The specifications aren't all that impressive:

• Operating System: Windows CE 5.0
• Proccesor: 400MHz Samsung CPU
• Memory: 64MB of RAM
• Storage: 2GB solid state drive,
• Connections: Ethernet, two USB ports
• Multimedia: SD card reader
• Mic input and headphone output
• Battery: 1500mAh battery (up to 3 hours of use)

What makes this netbook more educational than, say, a $350, Atom-powered MSI Wind? Beats me. But hey -- it's bright orange! Kids love orange, yeah? Orange you itching to buy one? (OK, I know -- that was bad.)

Product Page [via Liliputing]

Photo: Leximark

Good luck and have an amazingly awesome weekend. Now onto the entries…

50′ Snowball Launcher

The 50′ Snowball Launcher won’t help you relive the good ol’ days of making snowballs until your hands froze, but this piece of modern winter warfare is kick-ass. Not only it can throw snowballs up to 50 feet, but it can also shape them for you. Let the hostilities begin!

The full post can be found on S2999.

Remote Control VS Tank

The remote control VS Tank has incredible maneuverability so you will always be in control, even if you live on a mountain. There are nine speeds at your disposal which is eight more than I’ve ever had before. The turret can be rotated 330°, necessary to battle it out with other VS Tanks using Airsoft BB pellets which are accurate up to a long-distance 25 metres. If details are important to you, this tank has been precisely constructed to be on scale at exactly 1/24 of the size of it’s real life big brother.

The full post can be found on Gaj-It.

USB Negative Scanner

Turn all your old 35mm photos into 5 megapixel digital ones in seconds with this USB negative scanner. It will take old negatives or slides, so all of those embarrassing pictures of your mates can work their way onto Facebook after all.

The full post can be found on Decide what to buy.

Mr. Personality Robot has MPD

This robot seems to have multiple personality disorder. His head has a color LCD that will display different modes, such as comedian and fortune teller Others are available by download. Wowee’s Mr. Personality can converse with you, has 64MB of memory and an SD card to download a few more. He also has an omni-directional base with seven motors which allows him to move in and around obstacles, 4 IR sensors, and comes with a remote. Mr. P needs 6 C batteries (not included) to be his charming self and is available at a $240.13 price.

The full post can be found on Robot Snob.

Star Wars Ultimate Lightsaber

OK, you’ve been able to buy lightsaber toys for a few years now, however what makes this one different is you get to build your own custom lightsaber, just like a jedi does! This lightsaber set comes with lots of different parts which means there’s over a 1000 different lightsaber combinations to come up with. Including making the lighsabers of the various different Jedi and Sith themselves!

The full post can be found on Zath.

GPS Underwear

This underwear set certainly boosts the confidence of the person wearing it, in addition to the fact that it has GPS support so that your position (as long as you’re wearing it) can be established at all times just in case you get abducted or worse. I think most (suspicious) husbands will probably get this for their wives with less than altruistic reasons behind the gift.

The full post can be found on Foolish Gadgets.

Not so Sexy Air Pump Bra

Air-pump bra pad safely and effectively improve your bust line. The nylon and polyurethane pad inflates with every squeeze of the air-pump area for custom adjustable sizing, while pushing a metal disc releases the air. Upgrade your cup and get a firmer look in seconds, without drugs or surgical procedures.

The full post can be found on RGS.

Personalized Whac-A-Mole Game

Priced at $35000, the shelf comes with a remote that closes and opens the gaming portal into a plain bookshelf

The full post can be found on Elite Choice.

Apollo 11 Spacesuit Gets a Toughened Multi-Purpose Replica

Made out of the heavy weight Nylon Cordura, the Apollo 11 spacesuit replica is designed to resist wear and tear.

The full post can be found on Trends Update.

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