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Warner Bros. has released its international trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

With a questionable cast, and a decidedly trite storyline, I haven’t been expecting much from this title, but the new trailer certainly sparkles.

Technically, the film is a sequel to the 2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brendan Fraser, but has very little continuity with that film, other than the idea of seeking out a strange and dangerous part of the planet to find a lost loved one. T

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Next month we see the first release of the Raspberry Pi $25 PC in kit form. The final units will follow in 2012. They aren’t the only ones developing a tiny PC though, and competition is starting to appear that could equal it on size and outperform it in the performance stakes.

One such competitor is called Cotton Candy and is set to be offered by Norwegian company FXI Technologies. Inside a USB stick that measures 8 x 2.5cm and weighs just 21 grams, FXI have managed to cram a 1.2GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor, 1GB RAM, an ARM Mali-400MP GPU, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI, USB 2.0, and a Micro SD card reader supporting up to 64GB cards. T

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Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! We’re well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties surrounding the seasonal shopping experience, so we’re here to help you sort out this year’s tech treasures. Below is today’s bevy of curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.

Yeah, yeah… we know — paper is so 20th century. But truth be told, there are still a lot of us that have use for the old-fashioned printed page. Read more…

Google has made no secret about its plans for Android. Smartphones and tablets are just the beginning the company wants Android everywhere. And thanks to FXI Technologies Cotton Candy USB device, we may not have to wait long to see Android on more than just our mobile devices.

FXI essentially built an ultra-lean computer inside a small USB stick. Stick it into any device that supports USB storage, and Cotton Candy will register as a USB drive. From there, you can run the Android OS in a secure environment inside your desktop, courtesy of a Windows/OSX/Linux-compatible virtualization client embedded in the device.

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