Eye-Fi keeps kicking arse with their wireless SD cards, adding feed publishing capabilities through Twitter and RSS in a free software update. It was only a few weeks ago that another downloadable upgrade boosted download speeds and threw in MobileMe support, adding to an already massive list of support photo sharing sites. Owners should get an Eye-Fi Manager Software update pushed through automatically, and new customers can now find the cards on the Eye-Fi website. Note to other hardware manufacturers: DO MORE STUFF LIKE THIS. [Eye-Fi via Crave]

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So you went out and bought Samsung's solid performing, stylish Series 6 LCD TV recently? Well, you can officially start kicking yourself... now. Sammy has officially launched its Series 7, Series 8 and Series 9 TVs in Australia (more on the Series 9 to come), and what makes the first two stand out from the crowd is that they feature an ethernet port for direct access to web content on your TV.

The Series 7 LCDs, which we first saw back at CES in January, is available in 40, 16 and 52-inch screen sizes, and incorporates a superior speaker with separate sub to the Series 6 range. The Series 8 range comes in 46 and 52 inch sizes only, and has pretty much all the same features as the Series 7, except runs at less than two inches thick.

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MSNBC's new flash-based "visual newsreader" (as opposed to?) presents headlines by either spinning them off of a colourful 3D spiral or spawning them from the dominant colours in front of your webcam. The service is called Spectra, is one of the most ridiculous ways to communicate information I've seen in a long time. So I gave it a go, and as you can see, its pretty out there. While the New York Times wants to turn your computer in to a newspaper, it looks like MSNBC wants to make it in to a hallucinogenic drug. [MSNBC Spectra] -by John Herrman

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Panasonic is apparently testing the "effectiveness" of RSS in the press room. Turns out, it's very effective, since they've scooped themselves on their PMA lineup! All of the links go to blank pages for now, but at least we know what's coming: New FS-series, FX-35 (their first w/ a 25mm wide-angle lens), budget LZ line and a set of "superzoom" TZ cameras. Sounds exciting—can't wait 'til we see what's actually behind the links. [Panasonic via Engadget]

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Reader.mac.com is live now. This is a capture of what you get when you try to access the reader.mac.com address directly from an iPhone. And yes it's an RSS application that handles your feeds' URLs in iPhone's Safari. Just enter the feed address and the app at reader.mac.com will handle the representation of the XML file.

I like coffee. I like RSS. So naturally, I dig Benjamin Brown's News Brews project, which crawls through RSS feeds and takes "the relative frequency at which different coffee-growing regions are mentioned" to determine their respective bean proportion in the blend.

In English, that means if Ethiopia is mentioned 30 times, Kenya 20 and Colombia 50, your brew would be 30 percent Ethiopian, and so on. (You could, of course, fill the respective canisters with all the same bean to make a standard cup, but where's the fun in that?)

On top of flaunting the ever-popular steampunk look, it grinds the coffee fresh before it brews, so you don't need a separate grinder. The only downside is that it's drip—he told me he thought about French press, but the mechanics didn't work out. It still made a pretty damn good cup at the show, though. – Matt Buchanan

News Brews [Project Page]
NYU ITP 2007 [Gizmodo]

If you insist on browsing the web on your Wii like some kind of stubborn myopic, now you can read your RSS feeds there as well. Google Reader just released a Wii-optimized version of their site, which you can view directly on your TV. And if you're new Google Reader, glance at the video above to see the awesome chin beard sporting Google Reader developer Chris tell you about the project. – Jason Chen

Google Reader Wii [Google]

Forget Google Reader or Feed Demon for your RSS needs, this modified telegraph sounder taps out RSS feeds using MagpieRSS PHP script to grab them and Morse2LED to make them tappable. It's a little useless if you don't know Morse Code, but it looks pretty sweet next to its steampunk keyboard counterpart. – Matt Buchanan

Telegraph Sounder clicks out RSS Feeds [Steampunk Workshop via Boing Boing]