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Blog roundup: flat panel TVs, beer machine, mix tape memory stick

What people are getting excited about elsewhere in the blogosphere...

Engadget is this week at the Flat Panel Display International show in Japan, reporting on a range of new inventions and odd products (an automatic chair shaped like an orca anyone?). What really caught my eye was this 1 cm thin, 40 inch LCD TV panel from Samsung. Now that is flat!

The all-in-one beer machine (pictured) has piqued the interest of Sarah Meyers at Gizmodo. All you need to do is add the ingredients, tweak a few knobs and dials and presto, in two weeks, beer!

All this technology making you nostalgic for the good old days? TechDigest shows us how to hark back to those heady pre-CD/iPod days with a USB mix tape memory stick.

Blog roundup: what other blogs are talking about this week

Shiny Shiny guides us to the top five products for international Talk Like a Pirate Day and all the details about the UK launch of the iPhone in November.

Like every self-respecting tech blogger, CNET's Rich Trenholm has been very excited about the UK iPhone launch. He's also been writing about the pitiful state of digital camera internal memory and Canon's decision not to bother with it for the Ixus 75.

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