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NASA Posts Satellite Photos of Devastating Gulf Coast Oil Spill and Oil Slick

Thanks to NASA’s Terra satellite, we are able to see these photos of the terrible Gulf Coast oil spill and oil slick from way above. The top image shows a wide-area view, while the bottom image is a close-up of the oil slick which is situated off the Mississippi Delta, and headed towards the coast of Louisiana. We can only hope that the wind shifts away from the coast, as the efforts to contain the BP spill do not seem to be working.

Looks like "Drill, baby, drill" is now, "Hush, baby, hush."

Pandigital Photo Mail Digital Photo Frame Now Available

The Pandigital Photo Mail Digital Photo Frame is a wirelessly-connected digital photo frame that comes with its own email address that you can give to friends and family, allowing them to send photos directly to the digiframe from their own email account. The Pandigital Photo Mail Digital Photo Frame is priced at $179.99, which includes the ability to receive 300 photos emailed to the frame with no service fee, while additional photo allotments, 100 for $9.99, 400 for $29.99 and 700 for $49.99, can be purchased directly from Pandigital.

That might sound good to some people, but I have seen wi-fi digital photo frames, like this one, that also offer a photo email service at no charge at all. This new Pandigital frame connects to email wirelessly through AT&T’s nationwide wireless network, and the frame can also be connected to a Wifi network via an separately sold, add-on wireless adapter.

Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 3G Released - AT&T iPad 3G Wireless Data Plan Details

The Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 3G has been released with pre-orders arriving to customers today, and it goes on sale at Apple Stores, online, and Best Buy in the US. starting at 5:00 p.m.  The new iPad is said to provide up to nine hours of surfing the web using a 3G data network, just an hour less than the iPad with Wi-fi only. The Wi-Fi + 3G iPad costs $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for a 64GB iPad. 

HTC DROID Incredible Smartphone Goes On Sale

The DROID Incredible smartphone by HTC was released at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online today for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. The new Droid Incredible already sold out in many stores, so you might have to hunt around a bit. Verizon announced a deal for customers who buy a DROID Incredible before May 31, 2010, they will get a free 2 GB memory card with the smartphone. 

HTC DROID Incredible features a touch screen, 8.0 megapixel camera, interactive widgets, a 1ghz snapdragon processor, HTC Sense custom UI and Friend Stream for streamlined updates from popular social networking sites. Customers will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan (beginning at $39.99 monthly access) and an Email and Web for Smartphone plan (beginning at $29.99 for unlimited monthly access). 

Check-out HTC Droid Incredible phone demo video and reviews

Polaroid 300 Instant Camera, Don't Call It a Comeback

Some of us remember growing up using Polaroid Instant cameras, they were pretty fun, and the new Polaroid 300 Instant Camera aims to bring instant photography back.  Priced at $89.99, the camera features classic Polaroid instant film, automatic flash and four scene settings. Ten-packs of Polaroid 300 instant film cost $9.99.

You may have heard that Lady Gaga is now the Creative Director for the Polaroid brand, and the company is planning on shipping more Polaroid branded products soon, so expect Lady Gaga to get all of her "little monsters" to buy some of the devices when they are released.

Sony Dash Released, on Sale Now

Taking ideas from the Chumby Internet Device, the Sony Dash Wi-Fi touch screen device displays real-time content from the Web and it provides a selection of over 1,000 free apps, including news, calendars, stocks, weather, sports, and social networking. The Dash has a 7-inch color touch screen, which can also also be used to catch TV episodes, films, music, video and other content from CBS, Netflix, YouTube, Pandora, Slacker and more via BRAVIA Internet Video. How about getting some recipes and cooking tips in the kitchen? Or health tips straight to the device? It does that too. Oh, and it's also an alarm clock, perfect for the beside table. The Sony Dash is available now for about $199.

BenQ E1260 HDR Digital Camera Shoots 720p HD Movies

BenQ announced its new E1260 HDR (High Dynamic Range) digital camera featuring 12 Megapixels, a 28mm 4x optical wide angle zoom lens, a 2.7" LCD screen, advanced smart scene mode, and G-Sensor application. Add to that, the BenQ E1260 HDR camera shoots 720p HD movies, which is always nice to see on a compact point and shoot digital camera.

BenQ is touting HDR image enhancement technology on the camera, which is claimed to bring out the finest details in the darkest and brightest parts of an image. The E1260's advanced smart scene modes automatically detect up to 12 different scenes, including Landscape, Portrait, Backlight, Backlight Portrait, Night Scene, Night Portrait, Macro, Sunset, Text, Foliage, Snow and Still Mode. The camera has an easy-to-use interface with access to all features and settings displayed on the 2.7" LCD screen.

The E1260 will come in "Metallic Gun-Metal Gray" and "Metallic Blue" colors when it ships worldwide in May 2010.

Victoria Beckham and Eva Longoria Parker to Promote LG Lotus Elite and LG Rumor Touch Phones

LG Electronics is aiming to get the attention of the fashion set by teaming up with stars Victoria Beckham and Eva Longoria Parker to promote the company’s stylish LG Lotus Elite and LG Rumor Touch phones. These hotties will help spread the news in an ad campaign called LG Fashion Touch, as we see in these photos. Look out for print and online campaigns, as well as a series of MTV vignettes promoting LG Fashion Touch in May.

Victoria Beckham was chosen to promo the LG Lotus Elite phone because she is said to have a bold and edgy style, while which the LG Rumor Touch phone's sleek and more classically designed look reflects Eva Longoria Parker's style.

The LG Lotus Elite and LG Rumor Touch messaging cellphones are available through Sprint retail online at sprint.com. The LG Lotus Elite comes in red and black for $99.99 with a new two-year service agreement and $50 mail-in rebate and LG Rumor Touch comes in black, Red and Purple colors for $79.99 with a new two-year service agreement and $50 mail-in-rebate.

HP to buy Palm for $1.2 billion Dollars

After months of troubling times for Palm, HP comes to the rescue and agrees to purchase Palm at the price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock, or about $1.2 billion. This will get HP back in the smartphone game, but we'll have to wait and see if the company will focus on smartphones powered by the Palm webOS mobile operating system, or the much more popular Android OS. HP says the deal should close around July 31, 2010.

Garmin-Asus A10 Android GPS Smartphone

Garmin and ASUSTeK's new co-branded Garmin-Asus A10 touchscreen Android-powered smartphone will hit Europe and Asia-Pacific markets sometime in mid-2010. The device is optimized for pedestrian navigation, and being an Android device, the A10  integrates Google Mobile Services with one-click access to Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, calendar, contacts and over 30,000 apps from the Android Market, including apps with location-centric content that utilize the A10’s GPS capability. Detailed maps are preloaded on the A10, and it comes with a powered audio mount that magnifies the volume of the device’s voice commands when you use it in a car. There's also support for optional cityXplorer maps with routes for bus, tramway, metro and suburban rail systems.

The Garmin-Asus A10 smartphone is equipped with a WebKit browser with multi-touch, a 5 mega-pixel camera with auto-focus and geotagging functions, a 3.2-inch HVGA touch screen, electronic compass, a long-lasting 1500mAh battery, and a built-in accelerometer.