Here on Thanksgiving Eve, we’ve got two juicy Storm tidbits sure to make your Turkey Day that much more interesting. For starters, one fellow over on HoFo has purportedly unlocked his touchscreen BlackBerry for use on T-Mobile’s GSM network

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Two BlackBerry Storm updates imminent, handset unlocked for use on T-Mobile

Remember when we heard that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was just one of many boxes that would support HD Netflix streaming over the next few months? Yeah, well we get the impression that the first week in December will be the go-live date for a smattering of new units

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LG’s BD300 next in line for HD Netflix streaming

The Sonic Unleashed game “introduces two new features: the ‘Speed Drift’ and the ‘Quick Step’. Speed Drifting is similar to drifting in racing games, allowing players to slide around corners at high speeds, while Quick Stepping is a sidestepping maneuver allowing Sonic to avoid enemies with quick steps to either side.” Product page .

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Sonic Unleashed Review

For $499.99 on eBay , you could pick up a copy of Street Fighter 2 for the NES . The seller reports that “versions of the game were released under the name,”Master Fighter,” but Yoko had released the game as ‘Street Fighter II.’”

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eBay Watch: Street Fighter 2 for the NES

No longer an April Fool’s joke, the Personal Soundtrack Shirt from ThinkGeek has “a speaker embedded in the front, and would play music and sound effects as you went about your daily business, making your boring life that much more exciting.” Video after the break. Don’t like the built-in sounds? No problem

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Personal Soundtrack Shirt is Real

That’s right, the British Advertising Standards Authority has banned an Apple iPhone 3G ad for being misleading, “as any iPhone user knows, any similarities between reality and those iPhone ads is a coincidence.” Video after the break.

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Apple iPhone 3G Ad Banned in UK

Well, this is certainly interesting. While Imagination Technologies itself isn’t going any further than to say that it has signed a licensing deal with a “major international consumer electronics company,” EETimes.com is reporting that the company in question is, in fact, Sony, and that the deal concerns Imagination’s PowerVR architecture being used in the successor to the PSP. More specifically, according to EETimes’ unnamed sources, the PSP 2 will be using Imagination’s SGX55x core, which itself, of course, still hasn’t been officially announced either

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Imagination Technologies said to have signed on with Sony for PSP successor

Called “Bajca”, this USB-powered device “connects to the computer, adding 16 emotional keys that represents a different ’smile’ each one: finally each emoticon is found in one key, apart from before where a combination of keys had to be used in order to create the same emotion.” Click here for first picture in gallery. The keys can be replaced with others having different graphics and meaning. The keys can also be used to make emotional “jewels” to be worn, given away and exchanged

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Emoticon Keypad Makes Instant Messaging a Breeze

The scene may remind some of 2001 and 2002, when the Internet bubble exploded and dumped hundreds of thousands of engineers in the area onto the unemployment rolls.

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Silicon Valley Starts To Feel The Sting Of Layoffs

The FreeLoader Portable Solar Charger from ThinkGeek “is an advanced portable charging system that can power any hand held device anywhere, anytime.” Click here for one more picture. Once charged, the internal Li-Ion battery can power an iPod for 18hours, a mobile phone for 44 hours, PSP for 2.5 hours a PDA for 22 hours and much more

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FreeLoader Portable Solar Charger is iPod Compatible