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Awesome Heart-Shaped USB Webcam


This heart-shaped USB 2.0 compliant web camera will give you a 640×480 resolution at 30 frames per second. Simply clip the cam on your monitor or let it stand on your desk.

The left side of the web cam is rotatable to be a heart shape. It is designed with a microphone and a touch sensitive LED lights. Let you chat freely in the dark environment. Get one today and start chatting away with your family and friends.

Features:

* Frame Rate: VGA, 30 frame/second
* White Balance: Automatic
* Exposal Control: Automatic
* Flash Control: Automatic
* Resoultion: 640 x 480
* Capture high-quality VGA (640 x 480) video
* Send video e-mails anywhere
* Excellent still image capture
* Video recording
* Video conference
* Record the moving image
* Security function
* With the tilt swiveling base
* USB 2.0 interface
* Driver free for Windows XP/Vista
* Dimension: 50 x 75 x 68mm
* Weight: 120g

Cute little cow USB Hub design

Here’s a fun new USB 2.0 compliant 4-port hub for those of you who enjoyed the colorful USB cow speaker that we wrote about here at GeekAlerts late last year.
Product Specifications:
* USB 2.0 backward compatible with USB 1.1
* Cute little cow design
* It will sound 3 cow calls when you plug it into the USB port
* Size: 90*50*48mm
* Weight: 50g
The CowCow USB 4-Port Hub is available in white, blue, gold or yellow and the product can be purchased through the Gadget4all.com website for $12 a pop.

Cool Puppy Speaker


They are the WONSPUSB from Japan trust technology. With Dalmatian on the right and Charles Spaniel on the left, these USB-powered computer speakers deliver an output of 2W x 2ch. It also comes with a wired remote control that comes in the shape of a guitar. The WONSPUSB puppy speaker is available in Japan for 3980 Yen ($40). More pictures after the break.


Beautiful USB Bamboo Fountain


If you want to try to add a little zen to your workplace, this USB bamboo fountain with flowing water might give you a nice relaxing and soothing effect - or, maybe it won’t.

Features

* USB operated
* Flowing waters create a calm, soothing effect
* Create a relaxing peaceful environment
* Material: durable Polyresin
* Dimension: 16 x 12.5 x 12.5cm (H x W x D)
* Weight: 363g

Here’s a video of the USB bamboo fountain in action:

The USB Bamboo Fountain is available over at the USB Geek website for $25. They also have a USB Illuminated Bamboo Fountain with multicolored LEDs for the same price.

Drillers strike scientific gold after breaking into magma chamber by accident

A crew drilling on the Big Island of Hawaii has struck scientific gold after accidentally breaking into a molten lava chamber underground for the first time.

Magma - the molten rock that is the central ingredient in the evolution of planets, has never been found in its natural habitat before now.

The chance discovery far beneath the Earth's surface gives scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study the important substance.

As scientists, we've hypothesized about the nature and behavior of magma in literally countless studies, but before now the real thing has never been found or been physically investigated,' Professor Bruce Marsh from The Johns Hopkins University said.

Magma reaches temperatures of more than 1,000C underground before it is ejected from the earth in volcanoes in lava spouts.

'Once magma erupts, it begins cooling unusually quickly and it loses any gases that it may contain, so it really is a different animal,' Professor Marsh said.

'We've never seen, until now, the real animal in its natural habitat. And it's not going anywhere: it's caged, so to speak.'

The chamber also contains a highly unusual type called 'dacite', which is not common in the geology of Hawaii. It is believed to be made by, in effect, distilling basalt, the material which makes up the floor of the ocean.
Professor Marsh, nicknamed the 'Magma PI,' has spent his career investigating the processes by which magma is forced from the bowels of the planet to the surface and creates the geologic features - continents, mountains, valleys - among which we live.

He is collaborating on the find with William Teplow, a consultant to Nevada-based Ormat Technologies. They announced the discovery yesterday at the 2008 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

The company discovered the magma during drilling operations at its Puna Geothermal Venture power plant in October 2005.

They hit a chamber of the magma about a mile and a half down while drilling an injection well. The substance quickly rose about 20 feet up into the drill hole before becoming glasslike as it cooled. Ormat workers redrilled the area several times, with the same result.

The company has installed a permanent seismic and ground monitoring network to provide early warning of any impending volcanic activity for the power plant and