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  You’re watching a million dollar opening ceremony of an Olympic event and pops out the notorious blue screen of death in the middle of the celebrations. What an embarrassment when you’re burning enough money to awe the whole world and in other second all gets f*cked up. [Via Gizmodo]

  If you’re gripped with the Olympic fever then Bird’s Nest audio player is a must buy for you. Every other Olympic themed gadget shouts itself a must buy but this one definitely takes the cake because it apes the 500 million USD stadium. On the front sports a lovely LCD to show the current [...]

  Olympic Games kicks off this Friday. Though our spirits are high as the athletes, the only thing that can dampen this world event are the rains. But the Chinese department of Weather Modification seems to have the solution to keep the stadium dry. There will be defense rings setup along a certain distance to [...]

  Olympic branded gadgets doensn’t seems to die. Latest one comes from Olympic’s official wireless partner, Samsung who are showing Soul Olympic Special Edition phones to…commemorate Olympics. This time it’s no special content but an Olympic logo will shine on the metal back and 20080 lucky ones will be able to snag this.   [Via [...]

  With an avalanche of Olympic themed products in the market, we wondered if iPhone would ever make the cut. Well, we were proved wrong until De Vere’s from the Queen’s country announced their way of commemorating Olympics… with iPhone. No don’t expect some gaudy wallpapers or any other customized content of Olympics in here [...]

  Samsung Electronics who is the official wireless communication partner for this year’s Beijing Olympics has gifted 1000 G618 Olympic to Chinese Olympians. The phones carry Olympic themed ringtones and wallpapers and will be the official phone for China. Considering from the marketing perspective, these phones wouldn’t have cost them much as the ROI will [...]

  Another Olympic branded gadget. This time it’s a camcorder from Panasonic with a special Olympic logo. The HDC-SD8K features a 2.7-inch LCD display, 3CCD sensors with Leica lens and 10x optical zoom and full HD recording on SDHC card. The stock is pretty limited at just 150 units and is priced at around $1200. [...]

  As Olympics draws nearer, you’ll find more products trying to cash in on the event. The latest addition to this is Kodak’s Olympic themed M2008 10 megapixel shooter. This one’s specially made for China with Beijing 2008 written on the device. Don’t expect more from it as it does all the functions just like [...]