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I don’t know if I should be grateful or nervous.

Toshiba debuted its automotive monitoring system at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2009 in Japan last week, with the capability to read a driver’s face and alert him if his eyes become distracted from the road, thus prompting the driver to correct his view and assumingly, avoid a possible accident.  Kinda cool, right?

Actually, yeah, it is.  The camera reads the driver’s face and evaluates his eyes’ direction to one of eight areas (the left, center and right areas of the windshield, left mirror, right mirror, meters, car navigation system and audio system).  The driver can also use the system to activate devices in the car like the GPS system (Winking to activate it? Really?  That’s kinda weird.).  It also picks up on the frequency of the driver’s blinks and can alert him to drowsy driving — alarming (haha).

Ignoring the subtle echoes of an Orwellian pattern somewhere in here, this could make for safer roads, which is good for all of us.  And it’s not like the guys at Toshiba are aiming to take over the world with a robot army or anything… or are they?  Just kidding. No release date has been announced but we look forward to news on this development.

Sources: Tech-On, New Launches, Gizmodo
Photo source: Uburgizmo.com

A quick recap of gadget blogs and news around the Net:

• Griffin ClearBoost, boosts iPhone signal strength - iLounge and CrunchGear
• Your love is real, only if Facebook says so - CNN
• Verizon to spit out $9.36 billion for 4G network by 2010 - Gizmodo via Verizon Investor Relations
• Bling out your 360. Xbox 360 now comes in chrome - Technabob
• Start shooting in 3-D - Ubergizmo
• Pregnancy test gets digital - Cutie Gadget
• Recycle! Kids make viper out of old keys from keyboard - MAKE

And this week in the Smarter Gadgets Blog we talked about:

• Toshiba Deal: Take $150 0ff Any Customized Satellite Laptop
• Apple to Release a New iPhone, the iMartian
• Dell Savings: Save 25% on Dell Inspiron Laptops $999 and Up
• MIT Creates Nexi Bot. Doomsday Inches Closer

First you get to customize your own personal Toshiba satellite laptop and now you get to buy it at a discount.

Today is your last day to take advantage of this Toshiba deal, where you can take $150 off any customized Satellite notebook you buy online at Toshiba. Not a bad deal, especially when you’re tacking on all the extra software, you need to save a penny anywhere you can.

Check out this Toshiba Satellite A200 notebook, priced at $633.20. It comes already packed with:

• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor (1.73GHz)
• 1 GB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive
• 15.4″ display
• And much more!

Just enter in the Toshiba coupon code LINK150 during checkout and the discount will be applied automatically.

Remember, this deal EXPIRES TODAY!

To go to Toshiba, click here.

To see more Toshiba deals on Smarter.com, click here.

Another week and another deal to save you hundreds off a new laptop.

This week, CompUSA is offering a sale on notebooks that will allow you to save up to $400 off selected models. For example, take a look at this Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287. Equipped with Centrino technology and a Core 2 Duo processor, this notebook also comes with 17-inch display screen and 200GB of memory. Originally priced at $1,299.99, it’s now down to $899.99.

But this isn’t the only laptop on sale. Click here to check out the other notebooks that are marked down.

But hurry, this offer expires on October 6th.

To see the Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 on Smarter.com, click here.

Right now and up to July 31, take $50 dollars off a Toshiba Satellite notebook that was customized by them online.

It’s easy. Choose from one of these customized laptops and enter in this code during check out to take advantage of this deal.

Take a look at this offer they have on a Satellite A200. Originally set at $899.00, they added Windows Vista to it and then slashed the price down to $669.20 after a 20% discount, plus the $50 coupon.

Click here to see their other deals and here for the coupon.