Top Christmas Gadgets Revealed for 2008

It may only be August, but a host of top brands have been revealing the products they believe will be at the top of Christmas present lists this winter.

Big names such as Microsoft used an industry preview event in London to announce new products set to hit the market. Dozens of firms were set to exhibit, including Apple, Carphone Warehouse, Toshiba and sat nav makers Garmin. Among the products and gadgets on display were the latest compact camera range from Nikon, including the Coolpix P6000 which has in-built GPS navigation.

Edifer exhibited some pre-production speaker systems which should reach shops in time for Christmas, such as the Rainbow, a infrared wireless audio system. Apple iPhone is already in the market, and Nokia has declared the launch of much awaited Nokia N96 in the last week of october and a lots of Christmas mobile phones, just 2 months before the coming christmas.
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Google Translate now fits in your pocket

Google has updated yet another one of its products to work better on Apple's iPhone. On Thursday the company launched a new version of its Translate service that lets anyone convert their native tongue into one of the other 23 available languages.

The service has been reworked mainly to appeal to travelers who don't want to carry around phrase books and have their mobile phones with them anyway. In a post about the update, Google software engineer Allen Hutchison notes that the tool uses as minimal an amount of data as possible, so it won't break the bank while you're abroad and incur massive data roaming charges from your carrier. Hutchison says the general number of translations is anywhere between 200-400 per 1MB of data, which is quite a few considering data can cost you at least $0.005 per KB while abroad.
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