No, the world hasn’t stopped turning, pigs still don’t fly, fat ladies don’t sing, and snowballs still melt. I had a whirlwind weekend moving to San Diego, but I’m back, here to give you a rundown of the latest developments in technology during our brief hiatus.

• Shure has consumer friendly $100 earbuds. Available on September 17th, the SE110 comes with a cleaning kit and all the foam and rubber tips. Will it be better than the similarly priced but now discontinued E2c’s? We’ll find out soon enough. [Product Page, Press Release]
• Casio is developing a 60 FPS CMOS-sensor digital camera with a 12x optical zoom (35-420 mm equivalent). The new EXILIM can capture movies at up to an amazing 300 fps. It’s awesome that someone is finally introducing high speed cameras to the general consumer. [DPReview]
• Magellan introduced seven new GPS units, all available before the holiday season. The flagship model, the $500 Maestro 4250, offers live traffic updates, a 4.3-inch widescreen display, Bluetooth capability. [GPSReview]
• Google Earth includes a secret flight simulator, allowing you to fly an F-16 jet or the much more tame Cirrus SR22. This is awesome! [GoogleEarth]
• Ultra-thin LCD TVs (just 1.26 inches thick) from Sharp will be available in 2010, with an expected diagonal screen size of 131 inches. So if you’re considering a projector but have lots of cash (and three years to wait), you might want to stick around for these upcoming LCDs. [Gizmodo]
• Build your own supercomputer for $2500! Joel Adams and Tim Brom of Calvin College built Microwulf, a compact 26.25 gigaflop computer powered by four AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors on four microATX motherboards. [Slashdot]
• NBC starts selling shows on Amazon Unbox. After tusseling with Apple over selling TV episodes over iTunes, NBC has decided to work with Amazon to deliver the latest TV shows (at $2.00) to all their raving fans. [Engadget]
• And finally, Apple. In “The Beat Goes On” event, Apple introduced a new trio of gadgets (pictured above): the iPod nano, the iPod Classic, and the iPod touch. But we all knew they were coming, didn’t we? Engadget has a good summary of the event here. Personally, I think that Apple is losing some of it’s creative edge; it almost feels like they’re just another iPod imitator themselves. But then again the iPhone and new iPod touch are very cool gadgets indeed.

And that’s all for now folks! We’ll be back to our regular programming soon enough.

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