Proporta, thanks to their access to the Built for Blackberry programme, have shown off their latest creations. They include for the Bold 9900, Torch and some Curves.

I do have to say, they look pretty good.

Lynnette Prigmore, the head of product at Proporta, saved me writing a whole paragraph of filler by saying:

“With a solid customer base among business users, Proporta has recently seen a dramatic growth in products aimed at the fashion and youth markets, which creates an obvious synergy with BlackBerry. We are delighted to be accepted into the program and look forward to working much more closely with the prestigious Blackberry brand in the future. On a personal note it is also really exciting to be able to transfer our more unique designs to a wider range of devices. Something we think our customers will be really pleased about.”

Thanks Lynnette, for making my job easier…

You can find the handset covers available to buy over at Proporta’s website, and some images after the jump.

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If you happen to be anywhere near Times Square (that place in New York) look up and you may see a 40 metre high Christmas Tree. Oh, and it’s 120 metres in the air.

Thanks to the combined efforts of TDK and Toshiba, the “Crossroads of the World” will have three displays “Christmasified” in 15 minute intervals and runs from now until the end of December, when it will be used for the New Year’s celebrations.

Not quite the level of the Coca-Cola trucks ad, but at least it’s an effort.

If you are a man and you need to get your high maintenance girlfriend/wife/mistress something for Christmas yet don’t know what to get the fashionista that adores her iPhone, why not look at Capulet’s line of iPhone Wristlets.

Educational Bit – A Wristlet is basically a small handbag with a strap attached to it designed to go around a wrist. Yes, I had to look that up.

Made from French and Italian leather, these mini-handbags are designed to fit around her iPhone 4s and can carry other random mysterious things that a lady carries around everyday.

And they cost as low as “only” £229.

I’ll stick to using my pockets, thanks…

Full press release and more photos follow.

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Today sees the unveiling of the new Kinect-focused Xbox 360 Dashboard, allowing you to go all Minority Report on your TV. Without the gloves. And that’s cool and all, but that’s not the best part: The UK gets streaming movies.

LOVEFiLM (Think Netflix but run by Amazon and European) have announced that their instant service will allow for streaming to the 360, not just the PS3 and PCs as before. Then there’s the rest of the list, including the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, YouTube and Vodafone Portugal (?!) among others that will join the existing Sky offering.

I’m sure many people will be over the moon over the voice controls, the cloud storage for savegames and other extra stuff, but I’m just happy that I can now watch films on the TV without even having to leave the sofa for the DVD anymore…

The full list and associated press releases is available after the jump.

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Have you not been to YouTube in the last week? I’m sure like most of the internet, you must have your daily fix of cat videos, so you must have. If you haven’t, you may be confused by the new look to the front page. It’s probably hated by everyone online as “Change is Bad”, but hey, you haven’t seen it to be upset by all of it yet. Give the whole “Channels” and “Trends” thing a try, or if you’re too busy to go to Youtube to look, here’s an explanatory video:

Bottom Line: Expect easier access to those feline films…

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BERG today has announced a cute Little Printer that will print you a mini news paper with your selection of news, peoples birthdays, meeting schedules, the most popular Facebook story or photo from your friends, even a daily Sudoku puzzle for you to do on the subway to work where there is no data coverage on your smartphone. To be launched in 2012, BERG has partnered with Arup, foursqaure, Google, the Guardian and Nike for content.

Video demo of the BERG Little Printer:

The blog post from Matt Webb making the announcement follows:

Hi. I’m Matt Webb from BERG, a design studio in London, UK. We specialise in product invention. Quick intro! With Bonnier, we were behind Mag+ (the first magazine platform for the iPad). And recently, with Warren Ellis and Matt Brooker, we published SVK, a comic printed in invisible ink.

For the past year we’ve been working on our new product — and we’re delighted and excited to be able to take the wraps off at last!

Today we’re announcing Little Printer.

Little Printer lives in your front room and scours the Web on your behalf, assembling the content you care about into designed deliveries a couple of times a day.

You configure Little Printer from your phone, and there’s some great content to choose from — it’s what Little Printer delivers that makes it really special. We have an incredible group of launch partners, and in the run-up to shipping we’re working with them all on custom publications.

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Ok, as you may know, in the United States it’s BLACK FRIDAY. Where there are insane deals from toilet paper to android tablets. Here are the best videos from Black Friday 2011 of what you missed or maybe you are even in the video?

Video Game Mania at Walmart:

More Video Game Mania at Walmart:

Walmart Madness:

More after the jump
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