Back in February, I told you all about a polymer and aluminum RFID shielding wallet called the Flipside. The makers of this product listened to your comments to that original post and comments from their customers, and have come up with the Flipside 2. This new version is thinner, smaller and easier to use than [...]
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Wallet
Electronic Books (eBooks) are huge news these days. From the Kindle to Barnes & Noble’s latest offering, portable readers are the news of the day. While some think this is the wave of the future, I have come full circle from my non-comvergence stance: At some point in the future, there will be a single [...]
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eBook reader,
iPhone,
Literature,
Software
The Blackberry Visor Mount Speakerphone (VM-605) is a pretty, slick new device from RIM that combines a hands-free speakerphone with an FM transmitter to let you hear your Blackberry over the car’s speakers. In appearance and function, it is a piece of art. Besides a hands-free speakerphone, it is also billed as your gateway to [...]
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Blackberry,
Bluetooth Gear,
Hands Free,
speakerphone
The LogicBUY deal of the day is $130 off a Sharp Aquos BD-HP21U Blu-Ray Disc Player on sale at Dell Home for $249.99 – $130 instant discount = $119.99 plus FREE shipping. Features Full HD 1080p/24 fps video output; HDMI; 7.1 audio; Quick-start mode. Deal ends 7/20. Pin it
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Oh wow, I really want one of these handhelds. It looks like a retro gamer’s dream. It has emulation software for MAME (retro arcade games), Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore VIC20/64/128, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, NeoGeo and support for Flash based games. The GPX2 Wiz features a QVGA OLED Touch Screen, 1GB of [...]
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Emulator,
Gaming,
Spotlight Gadgets
The Das Keyboard is German engineered with gold-plated mechanical key switches that provide tactile and audio feedback. Blue LEDs provide a slick look and the built in USB hub allows you to charge and sync your iPod or iPhone. Fast typists and gamers will be glad to hear Das Keyboard has an n-key rollover function [...]
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Keyboard,
Spotlight Gadgets
Using your laptop outdoors on a sunny day can be difficult because the sunlight can cause the laptop’s display to look dark or washed out. Putting on your normal sunglasses usually makes matters worse. Glarewear sunglasses are sporty looking glasses that have special polarized lenses that allow you to see the display even on a [...]
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Laptop,
Outdoor,
Spotlight Gadgets
The SimpleNET from SimpleTech is a super simple (sorry, couldn’t resist) way to turn a USB hard drive into a NAS device (network attached storage). Just plug this small module into your wireless router and then plug one or two USB hard drives into the USB ports in the module and you’re done. It’s compatible [...]
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NAS,
Networking,
Storage,
USB
I haven’t worn a watch for several years now. I always have my phone with me or am sitting behind a computer, so wearing a time piece hasn’t been a necessity. For those of you that do still wear a watch, Tokyoflash of Japan always has some really cool designs worth checking out. They are [...]
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Watches and Clocks
The LogicBUY deal of the day is a $500 coupon on a 22-inch HP TouchSmart IQ500t or IQ800t customizable All-in-one PC. Includes FREE Hard Drive upgrade, FREE HP DeskJer Printer after paperless rebate, FREE Windows 7 Upgrade and FREE shipping. Pin it
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I recently moved to a new home that is in a communications dead zone. There’s no cell access, OTA TV and most troublesome, I cannot receive antenna born FM radio. Thankfully, VTECH, the cordless phone people have introduced the IS9181 Wi-Fi Internet Radio which gives me a choice of over 11,000 Internet radio stations, plus [...]
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Entertainment,
Internet Radio,
Streaming
Hogwild Beetle Spoons and Sporks have a wacky design that allows the folded wings to rotate 180 degrees from the closed position to the extended and ready-to-use position. They are dishwasher safe and come with an individual travel case that slides neatly into backpacks, lunch boxes or picnic baskets. They just might help you bribe [...]
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Cooking,
Kids
I’ll admit it, I’m a liar… But, I’m also a woman and we always reserve the right to change our minds, right? If you recall, back in June I told everyone that I was not going to buy the iPhone 3GS because I don’t have 3G coverage here in the bustling metropolis of Columbus, Indiana. [...]
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iPhone 3GS
The LogicBUY deal of the day is a $100 instant discount on a 32-inch Vizio VA320M Full HD 1080p LCD TV. It’s on sale for $529 – $100 instant discount = $429 plus FREE shipping. Features 50,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio, Full HD 1080p and 4ms response time. Deal ends 7/14. Pin it
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There are two beverages that I would be hard pressed to live without. Tea and Diet Coke. I love tea, but I’m addicted to Diet Coke. I drink the 20 ounce plastic bottles from vending machines at work and cans at home. Even though I recycle, I often feel guilty at the number of bottles [...]
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Beverage,
Kitchen
If you ever have that same feeling, you can use the SpyFinder to locate wired or wireless cameras that might be recording your every movement. The SpyFinder is a small handheld device that runs on 2 AAA batteries. One end has a viewfinder that you look through that has an array of flashing LEDs on [...]
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Spotlight Gadgets,
Spy,
Surveillance
Scorpions give me the creeps. Luckily, I don’t live in an area where we have those evil looking critters. If I did, I’d want a Photon Scorpion Finder Freedom Micro keychain light. How can an LED flashlight find a scorpion? A unique feature of nearly all scorpions is that their bodies will fluoresce brightly under [...]
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Camping,
Outdoor,
Spotlight Gadgets
The PowrAmid is a new take on a product that’s been around for years and years – the lowly power strip. It works just like an ordinary surge protected power strip, but the dome-like shape of the PowrAmid makes it easier to accommodate larger AC adapters that sometimes overlap more than one outlet. It has [...]
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Power,
Spotlight Gadgets
Not a fan of leather wallets? The Dosh wallet from Australia looks like an interesting alternative. It’s made of a flexible water resistant, tear resistant material called Desmopan (which sounds like a drug name) and is available in 3 styles (3 card, 6 card and a larger Euro sized version). There are several colors to [...]
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Spotlight Gadgets,
Wallet
Back in college (late 80′s) there was a silly 100 question test/questionnaire that numerically scaled your sexual exploits. It typically involved alcohol and members of the opposite sex. Who knows, it still might exist today in some form or another…. I was dancing the Net this morning and came across a similar quiz at Wired.com. [...]