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Vizio , the popular television manufacturer, has always been set on making high-quality TVs at relatively low prices. Now they aim to do what they did for TVs to personal computers. At the current Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Vizio announced a new line of personal computers, all running Windows, something that nobody would really expect from a television manufacturer. However, Vizio had been testing the waters of the more personal device market last year, when they announced their tablet device. They did not give much details as to the specs of the new devices, but CES attendees did get to play around with the new devices. Vizio announced it's all-in-one PC . The computer is slick and has a minimalism design, and comes with a wireless keyboard and trackpad, stereo speakers, one for each side of the small base, and a remote. The new Vizio all-in-one PC The keyboard has a nice design, with large island style keys and a cool, modern-looking typeset. The large trackpad shares the s

Samsung's SMS-free text messaging app, called ChatON , has finally hit the Apple AppStore, making it available on Android, Bada, and iOS. Blackberry, Windows Phone, and web support is still to come. Check out the app on the AppStore here, visit the website here , and read about what it does below. Samsung is owning into the marketplace that Apple, the maker from the iPhone, RIM, the maker on the BlackBerry, and Facebook are already in. Samsung, the maker of numerous well-liked mobile phones, "smart" and otherwise, introduced it's ChatON instant messaging service. The ChatON service will permit users to send short messages to each other for free, including texts, photos, contacts, and calendar. The service will likely be accessible at first on Samsung devices running their "semi-smart" cellular operating system, named Bada. A Samsung device running Bada. The service will later come as an app on Android and iOS devices. While the users on th

Since the computer mouse became mainstream, not much about it has. Multi-touch has probably been the latest change to the computer mouse. Until now. Computer mice were never more than computer mice. Until now. The Logitech Cube Logitech, the maker of many computer accessories, including keyboards and mice, wants to reinvent the computer mouse, or at least make a really cool one. They recently announced the Logitech Cube , a mouse/presenter hybrid with a really slick design. Unlike any other mainstream mouse, the Cube is, as the name hints, a cube. It has a small and sleek rectangular design. Available in both black and white models, the Cube has a nice striped design. It uses an optical sensor at the bottom, and connects to your computer via a wireless USB dongle. The front of the device sports a on/off switch so that the device doesn't use power while not in use, as well as a USB port for easily charging the device. To enable presentation mode, just lift the device off