The Logitech Solar K750 wireless keyboard is now available in a Mac-compatible version. Available in five colors, this keyboard integrates on-board solar cells that power the keyboard using ambient light. This input device does not require well-lit areas to work effectively, powering itself with ambient light in a room. When fully charged, the Logitech Solar K750 works for at least three months – even in total darkness. The Logitech Solar K750 wireless keyboard for Mac is currently available in the US and Europe for $59.99.

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Here’s a nice little addition to Google Maps — current weather conditions. The feature is live now on the site, accessible by clicking the weather layer on the upper right hand corner of a map. Selecting the feature will overlay conditions culled from Weather.com, anywhere in the world. The results include the temperature and icons for the sun, rain, clouds and the moon, when that part of the world goes dark. Also new is cloud coverage from the US Naval Research Lab.

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The hunt for the next Nexus phone (also known as the Nexus Prime) is on, and it looks like we could see it donning Ice Cream Sandwich in time for Halloween. According to a report in Korea’s Electronic Times, those oh so familiar “insiders” are fingering an October launch for the Samsung handset. It will apparently rock a 4.5-inch HD AMOLED display and a 1.5GHz dual core processor, which squares mighty nicely with previous reports. Of course, we’ll believe it when we see it — or at least an official announcement — but for now, we’re keeping the Ice Cream Sandwich dream alive. Apple’s next iPhone is said to be so magic, and Foxconn has got a new iPhone killer, the Xiaomi Phone, so we’re obviously so anxious to see Google’s contender for this winter.

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The Garmin Edge 200 is ideal for daily training, and touring rides or any adventure you want to relive later at Garmin Connect, the company’s free website for data analysis, mapping and sharing. This GPS-enabled cycling computer tracks time, distance, speed, location and calories burned. The Garmin Edge 200 features a high-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFix satellite prediction to calculate your position faster. The device alerts you if you’re moving but the timer is not running. The Edge 200 has an Auto Pause feature so it will stop the timer when you’re not moving, then restart automatically when you’re rolling again. You can also set alerts for distance, time or calories to make it easier and more fun to achieve your goals. The Garmin Edge 200 Cycling GPS is priced at $149.99 a pop.

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Here’s a new gaming mouse from Logitech, promised to keep your wallet healthy. Looks familiar? Well, it’s clear that Logitech is going to follow their old design trend. The Logitech Gaming Mouse G300 features a sculpted, ambidextrous shape, so it is great for people with smaller hands, lefties, and those who prefer to play with a fingertip grip style. Measuring at just 112mm x 73mm x 35mm and weighing at 111 grams (with cable), the gaming mouse has a 2500dpi sensor that accurately tracks slow or fast movements on a wide variety of surfaces, and nine programmable buttons that are carefully placed to be easily reachable. You can program up to three profiles for individual players or games (keyboard macros and dpi settings), so you can play your way on other PCs. Assign one of seven colors to each profile, so you can easily see which profile you are using. The Logitech Gaming Mouse G300 retails for only $39.99 each.

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One billion. To put such a lofty figure in perspective, let’s look at it this way: 1,000,000,000. One with nine zeros. It’s gonna take a lot of fingers and toes for us to count that high. Oh wait, I got 10 fingers!

But… But… Why do we care? Well (with a Taiwanese accent), according the number crunchers over at Wards Auto, 2010 marked the first year that the worldwide vehicle populated crested the magic billion-unit mark. That’s a 3.6-percent rise over the figure recorded in 2009, and it’s also the largest single-year percentage increase since 2000.

As you’d expect, much of that growth can be attributed to the rapidly expanding Chinese economy. The total number of vehicles registered in China in 2010 came in at a bit over 78 million, a 27.5-percent surge, which puts the country over the figure recorded in Japan but still far behind the nearly 240 million registered vehicles in the United States.

Here’s where things get really interesting: Here in the States, there is one vehicle for every 1.3 people living. In other words, just about everyone of legal driving age has a car, or two, or three. In China, that ratio is one car for every 17 people. In India, there are a whopping 56.3 people per registered vehicle.

In other words, you can expect our worldwide vehicular population to continue growing in leaps and bounds for many, many more years.

Mobile operating systems, it seems, make strange bedfellows, so perhaps it’s not a major surprise that Yahoo, a top traffic presence in Japan, is getting its own Android handset in that country. The search engine is lending its name to a version of Sharp’s AQUOS 009SH. The Gingerbread handset is preloaded with Yahoo Home, Auctions, and various other Y-branded goodies. The phone’s SoftBank contract also comes with a free two-year premium membership to Yahoo Japan and some bonus points for Yahoo Shopping purchases. The Yahoo Phone will be hitting Japan next month.

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