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Freeverse and Strange Flavour today announced the release of the ToySight Gold retail box. The award-winning camera-controlled entertainment software for the Mac adds new games at a new value price - the perfect companion for the new iMac with integrated iSight camera!

Toysight Gold features fifteen interactive games and toys for one or two players. Instead of using a gamepad, mouse, or keyboard, players maneuver themselves in front of an iSight or other firewire camera to control the action. The players are superimposed transparently onto the game screen, and must use arm and hand motions to interact with the games.
Among the toys and games in the collection are FlySight, Mars Lander, The Owl and the Pussycat, AirHeads, Submarines, and Laser Harp.

The original ToySight release was greeted with a MacWorld \”Best of Show\” award as well as an Apple Design Award for innovation.

Priced at only $24.95, ToySight Gold will be available at the Apple Stores and better Mac retailers. It is also available today for pre-order at Freeverse.com and will ship before the end of this month.

Further details and screenshots can be found at:
www.freeverse.com/tsg/

Freeverse and Plasq today announced the release of Comic Life Deluxe Edition, an enhanced version of the widely acclaimed software that lets you make comics, greeting cards, and much more from your own iPhotos.

Comic Life Deluxe Edition gives you dozens more fonts, over a hundred new styles, and over two hundred new templates to help create fun and easy comics with your digital photos.

A winner at this year\’s Apple Design Awards, Comic Life reflects all the best qualities of the Mac; its simple, its powerful, and its incredibly fun to use.

Comic Life Deluxe Edition is priced at just $29.95 and will be available from the Apple Stores and better Mac retailers worldwide within weeks.
More information, screenshots and sample comics may be found at:
http://www.freeverse.com/comiclife

Griffin Technology Inc., announces that the SmartDeck Intelligent Cassette Adapter with dock connector. SmartDeck allows users to control their iPod using the built in controls of their cassette player. Using patent pending sensing technology, the SmartDeck determines which commands the cassette player sends to the iPod.

SmartDeck is more than just a cassette adapter for iPod; it achieves truly seamless integration between iPod and cassette deck. Users can utilize the cassette deck\’s forward and rewind buttons to advance to the next or prior songs in the iPod playlist. In addition, pause and stop buttons do what pause and stop buttons are expected to do. When the user hits the cassette deck\’s Eject button or switches from Cassette to Radio, Griffin\’s SmartPlay technology automatically pauses the iPod.

Pricing and Availability
Griffin\’s SmartDeck will begin shipping in late October for $29.99 USD. Preorders are being accepted at www.griffintechnology.com.