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Not only has Facebook released an updated app for Windows Phone devices but they've also just released a new photography app for iPhones and the iPod touch.

It's called... wait for it... Camera.

The idea here is to have the new app help you

It's time to update your Facebook app if you're a Windows Phone fan.

The new version (2.5), according to The Windows Phone blog, contains a bunch of new features as well as improvements to the popular favorite:

Tivoli Audio has announced a handful of new products. Those in the know perk-up their ears (I mean that in every way possible) when Tivoli has something new to offer.

That's because they only introduce new stuff when it's good enough to live up to their good name. With lineage from legendary audio companies such as KLH, Advent, Kloss Video and Cambridge SoundWorks, Tivoli stuff sounds great, looks great and is timeless.

We knew that Nvidia was working on lower cost, quad-core processors for portable computing products. And now the other shoe has dropped.

The company has devised a platform around those budget chips – and that translates to budget tablets and cell phones in the future.

It had to happen. Some company had to develop a new computer for less than $50.

In this case it's Taiwan's VIA Technologies who beat everyone to the punch. They call it the APC which stands for Android PC. It's actually model number APC 8750.

You might have already guessesdthat it runs on the Android operating system. In this case, a modified Android 2.3. It's modified so you can use a mouse.

With all the innovation crammed into a smartphone you would have thought that someone would have come up with a way to modernize making phone calls. You know, speaking to someone else on your cell phone. That task hasn't changed much since the earliest days of mobile telephony.

What do you get when you cross a bicycle with an elliptical trainer? The invention is called the ElliptiGO cross-trainer.

Just about everyone knows exercise is good for you. And both running and bicycling are among some of the best things you can do for yourself.

There are so many new devices making their way into our consciousness – and all the  local retailers who can;t wait to get their hands on them – that we've come to expect bigger (smaller?) and better gadgets all the time.

But what we never think about are all the people putting in a lot of effort over long periods of time to create these products.