Vodafone’s fancy e-tickets let you dodge postage pain with a digital pass.

First feel: The Big N gave us access to their latest mobile inventions this morning. Check out our first thoughts after giving them a right good going over, here.

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Hey, didn’t we just see this little guy yesterday all blurry and rumory like? Sure enough, the new Walkman A810 series was just loosed in the US and doing pretty much everything the NW-A800 was doing for Europe and beyond. It’s available in white, pink, or silver getups while maxing out storage with a black-only 8GB model (NWZ-A818BLK) just like we heard. 8GB will cost you a full $230 while the 4GB and 2GB models drop off to $140 and $180, respectively. That NWZ-S615F (with FM tuner) remains aloof but we’re bound to hear something shortly.

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Filed under: Displays, HDTV

We’re certainly not complaining about yet another professional sports team opting for a svelte HD Jumbotron, but the Diamondbacks’ claim to soon have the “largest scoreboard in pro sports” is dodgy at best. Reportedly, the board will cost between $10 and $12 million to erect and will measure in at “144 feet wide and 55 feet high,” which the team claims is 900-square feet larger “than the biggest existing board, at Atlanta’s Turner Field.” Nevertheless, the D-Backs have certainly been trumped already in terms of HD scoreboard planning, as the Dallas Cowboys are slated to treat their fans to a pair of 180 feet wide by 50 feet high displays as part of a four-screen setup in 2009. So if all goes as planned, Arizona’s MLB club will indeed be sporting the largest high-definition screen in pro sports for a tick, but those mighty claims will soon be squashed by the sensational installation headed to Texas.

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Filed under: Transportation

Volvo‘s name has long since been connected with safety, and the firm has recently announced a few new features for the S80, XC70, and V70 that aim to keep the link alive. Among the new systems that should be available “at the end of 2007” is the (tweaked) Collision Warning with Auto Brake — which automatically activates the brakes if the driver doesn’t react to the warnings — and the Driver Alert Control for monitoring the behavior of the vehicle and suggesting that the motorist take a coffee break if there’s just too much swayin’ going on. Additionally, Volvo will be adding the slightly more common adaptive cruise control and distance alert features to the aforementioned cars, but there’s no word on whether NAV-equipped rides will route themselves to the nearest java shop if the pictured message is forced to appear.

[Via CNET]
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