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Head on over to Woot, where $5 will get you a decent Philips universal remote called the Icon 5.

Just saying!

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Way to go and steal other peoples ideas and enlarging them a few hundred times, Philips. Do you really want to be the Carlos Mencia of gadgets? The huge touch-sensitive LED Wall is being shown as an attraction at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers, Arkansas.

The LED Wall is a 14 foot long creation which holds more than 1,400 LED bulbs which respond to touch. So, it’s pretty much a incredibly large Lite Brite set. And we thought we had rid ourselves of those damn light pegs. — Andrew Dobrow

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Back in the day when the Nintendo Wii was first released, there were a whole bunch of broken TVs thanks to Wiimotes thrown in fits of anger at the ‘cheating’ computer character in the game. Philips has a recently revealed patent that shows a gaming system which not only encourages, but demands that you toss around your peripherals. (more…)

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Anyone with a blooming child knows that little doodles are bound to pop up on your wall at some point. Philips has developed a digital drawing gadget that not only allows children to color on walls, but encourages is it with his non-mess gizmo. The multicolor paintbrush, or “magic wand”, can be dipped into a digital paint can, which allows the selection of a spectrum of colors. The wand then projects a digital image, following every stroke of the child, on the wall, which can then be erased with the special eraser tool (or by unplugging the machine). Best thing about the Digital Drawer? No messes to scrub off the walls. — Andrew Dobrow

Digital drawing tools for your kids [GizmoWatch]

 

Philips is relatively unsuccessful in the cellphone market, seriously they are even less popular than the good o’BenQ-Siemens. Today they announced an addition to their Xenium series, with a funky number 9@9f. If you rememberthe 9@9 that was out a long while ago, this would be the follow-up, with markedly improved design and thickness (100.7×44x15.7mm, 77g). The 9@9f is a no-frills phone by today’s standard, with the complete lack of camera and music support. The battery however can last 720 hours on standby and 510 minutes on the line. The secret lies in the 1.4″ 65K color OLED screen and a 950mAh battery. (Ah, that’s what the guys have been doing in the lab, instead of even attempting to compete with Nokia) This phone will be priced at 130USD and should be available in Taiwan this month. — Sam Chan

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Are you one of the many people overly excited about the new media center capabilites that are built into Windows Vista? Philips has begun to make its SRM7500 remote that is Vista compatable with a built in display. The display makes use of the SlideShow features to display information pertaining to what you are doing on the computer. While the remote looks a bit tall/long, it’s fairly skinny both in width and thickness. This remote is has bi-directional radio frequency instead of infared technology to transmit the data to and from the computer. SlideShow is looking like it could be a very interesting feature of Vista; one that will be an area where Vista is one step above OSX. While this remote won’t do you too much good right now, it’s only about 11 days left until Vista is released. It will be released sometime this quarter and no pricing information is currently available. — Nik Gomez

Philips SRM7500 Vista-ready [UberGizmo]

Not only does this beautiful piece of technology (the Philips AmbiSound HTS8100) look as if God himself made it, it also has such an inmense amount of technology inside of it that it won the Innovations Award at CES 2007. What is so special about a simple stereo? The fact that the subwoofer is the only unit apart from the actual bar is pretty revolutionary. The SoundBar itself has what is called precise driver positioning (a new technology) that gives it the ability to put out 5.1 surround sound without the 5 different speakers. The Ambisound SoundBar also comes with a DVD player built in so that no matter what you might be watching or playing on your TV or AmbiSound, it will sound as if you are back in the local theatre. The video quality offered by this product is just another part that jusitifies its pretty hefty price tag of $999. It is able to put out 1080p, something that is moving to the forefront of video tech. Another nice video feature is that it is capable of upscaling your video content to 1080i if it hasn’t hit that bar yet. The HTS8100 will be available in second quarter 2007. — Nik Gomez

Philips Ambisound HTS8100 [via Newlaunches]