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Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio

Ok, so why should Engadget Mobile get to have all the giveaways, eh? We’ve got some top o’ the line Shure headphones to give away up in here: in order left to right above, the triple driver mack daddy SE530 ($450 MSRP), double driver SE420 ($400 MSRP), and single driver SE310 ($250 MSRP). You probably know how good high end Shures get, so here’s your chance to take a pair home. We’ve got one of each, which you can enter to win by leaving a comment below — just tell us what you plan to listen to on these bad boys, and you’ll be entered. Do mind the rules though, ok?

A few rules (yeah, there are always rules):

• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) In other words, be careful when commenting and don’t submit more than once, ok?
• The prize is open to US entrants only. Sorry world, we didn’t make that rule!
• Contest is open until 11:59pm EDT on Sunday, May 27st.

P.S. -Those Engadget mobile giveaways again: Helio Ocean, T-Mobile Wing, Samsung UpStage

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Filed under: Laptops

Watch out Sony, it looks like your Vaio X505′s title for thinnest / lightest laptop ever is about to be challenged by some new Intel-sponsored Zima designs intended to push the envelope of portability. The 0.7-inch thick 2.2-pound Metro features an external e-ink display, and might actually stand a chance at redefining slim computing — if it’s ever built, anyway. Enjoy the eye candy, it’s going to be a while before you get any closer to a laptop of this caliber than some pictures on the internets.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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Filed under: GPS

Details are still pretty scarce on this one, but the folks at GPS Review have managed to dig up a few tidbits on a forthcoming addition to Magellan’s line of CrossoverGPS devices, which are aimed at those who take the occasional trek off-road. From the looks of it, the big addition to this model, dubbed the 3150, is built-in Bluetooth, which was lacking from previous CrossoverGPS devices. GPS Review also speculates that a traffic receiver could come with the device as standard instead of an optional accessory. As for any other details, like pricing or availability, it looks like we’ll have to wait for a more official announcement.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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Filed under: Digital Cameras

A team of researchers led by Jun Tanida at the University of Osaka look to be making some steady progress in an area where many others have tread before, developing a camera that can capture a scene and produce a 3D image of it. Dubbed TOMBO (Thin Observation Module by Bound Optics), the camera consists of nine tiny lenses that each capture a scene from slightly different angles. Some software, apparently designed to mimic the the process that insects use, then picks out the position, shape, and color of objects to reconstruct the images into a single 3D scene. The big advantage to this particular system is its size, which the researchers say could eventually be used in cellphones or placed on the wings of airplanes for surveillance without causing any drag. There are a few downsides, however, namely its 1.1 megapixel resolution, although the researchers seem confident they’ll be able to improve that in short order.

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