Now, here are some cool gadgets you must have with you when you travel. Amazing!

Being an avid Twitter enthusiast means tweeting about every breath and every bowel movement like they’re matters of global importance. Now the time has come to have your sneakers tweet about every step, which these “rambler” concept shoes can actually do. The product page states:

Rambler are a pair of sneakers that use the Twitter platform to literally microblog every step you take. A sensor embedded under the sole detects when the wearer is walking. This information is sent via Bluetooth to a mobile phone that makes the postings on Twitter. When the sensor detects a certain amount of pressure, the word “step” is posted. For the other moments the “.” symbol is posted. Following these postings one can know if the wearer is walking or not and also predict his speed.

Although these sneakers were actually created to mock Twitter insanity, they also have the potential to give many a powerful tool to annoy the hell out of people or further their sense of self-importance… Scary?

Apple will likely release a new iPhone in the next five or six months. Is this it?

This is, according to AppleInsider, a prototype of the 2010 iPhone, on top of an iPad, as published by Engadget.

What sort of sexy features might it have? That tiny round reflection to the left of the earpiece could be evidence of a front-facing camera, which could be nice for making video calls to an iPad.

Otherwise, we assume the new iPhone will be faster than last year's, will include more memory, and could include Apple-made chips, versus the third-party chips inside current iPhones. We also predict that Apple will begin selling the iPhone at Verizon Wireless this year.

The newest iPhone is supposed to be an "A+" upgrade, according to MacRumors.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Google knock-off has surfaced in China to compete with the world’s largest search engine, while at the same time pleading with it to stay in the country despite censorship and hacking allegations.

Adding to China’s reputation for copies of items such as designer clothes, coffee chains and DVDs, “Goojje” began vying with Google on January 14, the Henan Business Daily reported.

Google had said two days earlier that it may close its Chinese Google.cn portal and pull out of China.

The name chosen by the newcomer is a play on words. The final syllable “jje” sounds like the Chinese word “older sister,” while the “gle” syllable of “Google” is pronounced like the Chinese word for “older brother.”

Goojje (www.goojje.com) has a search engine and provides social networking services. Its home page bears a Google-styled logo that combines hallmarks from the “older brother” and China’s top home-grown search engine, Baidu Inc.

“Sister was very happy when brother gave up the thought of leaving and stayed for sister,” the website says, in an apparent call for Google to stay in China.

Google was not immediately available for comment about the Goojje site.

Earlier this month, Google complained of censorship and a sophisticated hacking attack from within the country.

Keyword search results in Goojje give slightly different results than Google or Baidu but appear to be similarly filtered to avoid content China deems sensitive.

The Henan Business Daily said Goojje was founded by a female college student in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. Contacted by Reuters, Goojje’s web host declined to give details on the site’s owner.

(Reporting by Yu Le and Ralph Jennings; Editing by Alex Richardson)

Photo: The Google logo is seen on the top of its China headquarters building behind a road surveillance camera in Beijing January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Lee

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CONFIRMED: New York Times to Start Charging for Website in 2011

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The news that The New York Times will start charging for access to its website broke over the weekend, but now it’s officially confirmed. As anticipated, one of the world’s most recognizable newspapers will be introducing a metered model, meaning they will “offer users free access to a set number of articles per month and then charge users once they exceed that number.”

The idea is to balance between free and paid, between being open and closed, and earn revenue from both advertising and charging for content. Chairman of The New York Times Company, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., said: “Our new business model is designed to provide additional support for The New York Times’ extraordinary, professional journalism. Our audiences are very loyal and we believe that our readers will pay for our award-winning digital content and services.”

The company says that more details about the metered model will be revealed over the next few months. But let’s quickly look at what it almost certainly won’t do: attract links. Anyone who links to a New York Times article will get complaints by many readers that the link doesn’t work. It’ll be much easier and future-proof to find another source and link to them.

It’s also very doubtful that it will attract new readers: Yes, some people will subscribe. But most people will simply click on NYTimes stories while they’re free, and stop clicking when they hit a paywall. The metered model (from what we know now) is not a horrible solution, but it’s not a revolutionary one, either. It’s just enough to keep NYTimes afloat.

Luckily for The New York Times, an important piece of the puzzle for the “salvation” of the newspaper industry doesn’t lie with them, but with Apple’s soon to be announced tablet. Apple figured out how to change the notion that everything on the Internet is free: Pick a piece of the online market, like music or mobile apps, create a device that makes the digital content associated with it very easy to purchase and consume, and then sell the content.

The actual price of the content is just one piece of the equation; availability is equally as important. Ask yourself two questions: Will you purchase a subscription to The New York Times on the Internet? Will you purchase a subscription to The New York Times on a tablet-device that makes subscribing a one-click affair?

That’s why for now, NYTimes’ announcement of the metered model, which should go live in 2011, doesn’t really mean much. A lot will happen between now and then, and this compromise solution sounds like it’s primarily meant to placate everyone instead of actually making money.

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