Monday, March 29, 2010
 The U.S. Mint has unveiled design of new quarters featuring four national parks and a national forest.
The designs, announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and mint director Ed Moy on Wednesday, feature the four oldest national parks: Hot Springs, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Grand Canyon, as well as Mount Hood National Forest.
Coins commemorating the five public lands will be issued starting in April as part of the "America the Beautiful" quarters program.
Mint officials say the program will feature 56 national parks and sites, issued in the order the areas first came under federal protection.
The Hot Springs quarter, which depicts the park headquarters behind a fountain, will be the first issued, on April 19.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
 Samsung is getting ready to launch two new cameras, the ST5000 and ST5500. Both cameras are 14.2 megapixel, feature a 7.2x optical zoom, and come in a choice of black or orange. The ST5000 has a 3.5 inch LCD touch screen while the ST5500 has a 3.7 inch AMOLED touch screen. Both cameras can record footage at 30 frames per second in 720p in the H.264 format. To show off your captured video, just connect either camera to your HDTV through the included HDMI port. The big selling point of the ST5500 is the ability to upload or email pictures with its built in wireless module. Now if you cannot get to your computer, just use the camera to share the pictures with anyone you like.The cameras are set to launch in South Korea soon with Great Britain following next month. The prices in Great Britain are £279.99 for the ST5000 and £349.99 for the ST5500. No word on a launch in the U.S. has been announced at this time.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
 The U.S. Mint has set a maximum mintage of 15,000 for the Abigail Fillmore First Spouse coin.That's a drastic reduction from the 40,000 maximum mintages set for each of the first 13 First Spouse coins.That probably doesn't matter much because no issue in 2009 sold over 10,000 pieces and the last issue of that year has just crossed the 5,000 mark.Prices fluctuate week to week with the price of gold bullion, but the proof was expected to be around $729 and the uncirculated version $716 as this issue went to press. The Fillmore coin went on sale March 18.The breakdown between proof and uncirculated mintage totals depends on how many of each option are ordered. The combined numbers cannot exceed 15,000.The fourth issue of the year honoring Mary Todd Lincoln will have a maximum mintage of 20,000.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
 K'nex Brands has been signed to market construction toys based on the animated preschool series Roary the Racing Car.Under the terms of its deal with series producers Chapman and HIT Entertainment, K'nex will offer Roary building sets, including buildable figures and buildable vehicles utilizing K'nex's distinctive interlocking parts.The line will be available at mass retailers in the US and Canada starting this fall."Roary's popularity and appeal made it easy for K'nex to race toward this partnership," said Michael Araten, the toymaker's president and CEO. "We delighted to add Roary the Racing Car to the K'nex line so that children can imagine, build and play with one of their favorite characters."
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
 The Japan Mint has announced it will issue a memorial silver coin embossed with an image of legendary 19th-century samurai Ryoma Sakamoto.The administrative agency has been issuing coins representing prefectures since 2008, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law.The new 1,000-yen coin is themed on Kochi Prefecture, the birthplace of Sakamoto, a samurai who led the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate and made a great contribution to the modernization of Japan. He has been featured in many films and TV dramas, including NHK's ongoing period drama "Ryomaden".A total of 100,000 of the coins will be sold through mail order, at the price of 6,000 yen each. They will go on sale from late May.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
 Alex is a new e-reading device powered by Google's Android operating system that is now scheduled to launch just a matter of weeks after Apple's new tablet device.The Alex, created by a company called Spring Design, is a 4.7"-by-8.9" e-reader, just half an inch thick, and has compatibility with EPUB, PDF, HTML, and TXT formats. It runs a mobile version of Google Books.The device itself contains two screens: one that actually displays the pages of the book and one that runs a simplified version of Android. That allows the use of certain applications, like Web browsing through its built-in Wi-Fi, e-mail, and music playback.Spring also claims that the e-ink used in its device has a faster refresh rate than any other e-reader. It comes with 2GB of packed-in memory and there is a microSD card slot.The Alex will come priced at $399, putting it at an interesting middle ground between devices like the Nook and Kindle, and Apple's iPad.
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 Shelter pets and rescue animals are getting a big boost of recognition from the United States Postal Service (USPS). On April 30, 2010, the USPS will be issuing this year's social awareness stamp series: "Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet"."These stamps continue a 50-year Postal Service tradition of bringing attention to serious social issues of the day - one letter at a time", said Postmaster General John E. Potter in a statement. "Our goal is to increase public awareness of the number of sheltered pets in this country, to encourage pet adoption and to promote humane and responsible pet care".
Holistic pet care company, Halo Purely for Pets, will be working with the USPS in promoting the new stamps. Ellen DeGeneres is a co-owner of Halo.
"Pet adoption is something I'm extremely passionate about",said DeGeneres in a press release. "I believe that by working together, we can find good homes for the millions of homeless and abandoned pets out there. And until they get adopted, I'm happy to say that Halo and I are giving one million meals to shelter pets that are waiting for you".
Halo will be working with Freekibble.com to feed 1 million homeless dogs and cats via a social media campaign. For example, the company will donate one meal for every person that signs up to follow Halo or Freekibble on Facebook and Twitter. (Go to www.halopets.com/help to learn more.)To pre-order a set of stamps and take a look at the adorable dogs and cats that adorn the new stamps, visit Stampstotherescue.com. They cost the same as regular first-class stamps: $8.80 for a set of 20 stamps.
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