January 2010

The Pet ‘n’ People water dispenser is a cost-effective way to have safe, clean drinking water without filling up the landfill with plastic bottles.  It dispenses cool, hot, or room temperature water, and it can use 3 or 5 gallon bottles – just what you’d expect from a water dispenser.  What you don’t expect is [...]

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Many people suffer with pain in their hands, wrist and arms due to such things as arthritis, or tendonitis such as tennis elbow, or repetitive motion injuries/ carpal tunnel syndrome. People in some professions,  such as mine, dentistry, experience these problems at a rate higher than most of the rest of society. While I have [...]

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The LogicBUY deal of the day is for a Nokia N900 Unlocked Smartphone. The price has been slashed from $599.99 – $130 off coupon code (expires 1/15 or after first 500 uses) = $469.99 plus FREE shipping. This Nokia flagship phone features 3.5-inch touch-screen, Web Browser by Mozilla (with Flash / AJAX support), 600MHz CPU, [...]

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Originally one of ThinkGeek‘s annual April Fool’s product pranks, this “sleeping gag” was turned into a real product and is fully LucasFilm-licensed.  You’ll sleep safe and snug like an injured and delirious Jedi Knight while stuffed into this simulated carcass.  Featuring a built-in embroidered tauntaun head pillow, protruding leg, arm and tail, plush lightsaber zipper [...]

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Emailing is a very important part of everyday life and Google’s Gmail is wildly popular in the emailing realm.  I use it heavily for work and personal emailing.  One interesting functionality of Gmail is the use of keyboard shortcuts to help save time in issuing common commands like new mail, delete, send, reply, etc.  The [...]

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Did Santa bring you a shiny new Kindle 2 or DX ebook reader for Christmas? Did he forget to include a case to protect it? Never fear, the kind folks at OCTOVO (formerly known as OCTO) have generously offered 4 Gadgeteer readers their choice of any Kindle 2 or DX product on their site. It’s [...]

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I am a master of multiple monitors. At my last job, I wrangled my way into having a total of four LCDs connected to my workstation, which was pretty fantastic for multitasking. The downside was that such a configuration requires more than one video card (usually). Your run-of-the-mill video card has either one or two [...]

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Most of the US is COLD now, even in the south.  It’s too cold to go outside without a coat, hat, and gloves.  But people with iPhones and other devices with capacitive screens have to decide between frostbite and using their devices.  Dot Gloves are designed to let you use your device and keep your [...]

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The Ritmo Advanced Pregnancy Sound System connects to most audio devices such as iPods, MP3 players, iPhones and Blackberries with a universal stereo plug. The expectant mother wears a fashionable (have you ever wondered who decides what is and is not fashionable?), lightweight belt around her pregnant belly. The belt has four speakers and a [...]

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The LogicBUY deal of the day is for a 15.6 inch Lenovo ThinkPad W510 LED-backlit Core i7 Mobile Workstation now available starting at $2,049 – $460 off = $1,599 plus FREE shipping. Features NVIDIA NVS 5100M 1GB DDR3 graphics, ergonomically designed keyboard & multitouch TouchPad, optional multi-finger touch screen, ExpressCard slot, 5-in-1 Card Reader, Bluetooth [...]

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Another CES unveiling:  Kodak will have a new entry to their consumer-grade digital camera line–Slice, available in April 2010.  The 14MP camera will feature a widescreen 3.5″ color touch screen and built-in facial recognition software in order to instantly tag and search for your friends from your customized database.  Up to 20 unique faces can [...]

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Featured in the ‘Top 10 for the year’s coolest gadgets’ from CNN, The Sonos S5 is an all-in-one music system that brings unlimited wifi-based streaming into the home that is controlled from an app on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Play music from your iTunes library, internet radio stations, music from Pandora, Last.FM and Napster. [...]

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One of the most useful things about my old Palm handhelds was the ability to take notes while on the move and bring them over to my Mac to finish them. I was disappointed in the iPhone for not having serious copy/paste/selection tools until the release of OS 3. It took a few weeks after [...]

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At least it’s a watch for the amateur astronomers!  ThinkGeek offers the Astrodea Celestial watch for about $600. It’s pricey, but the face revolves to show a real-time display of the position of stars and the sun.  The watch displays 1109 stars (brighter than +4.8 magnitude) and 169 galaxies.  Sorry, but it’s only accurate if you are near [...]

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The LogicBUY deal of the day is for the 14.1-inch Lenovo ThinkPad T410 Laptop starts at $1,345 – $346 off = $999 plus FREE shipping. Powered by newest Core i5 / i7 CPU, up to 8GB DDR3 memory, Windows 7 Professional, easy-to-use keyboard, up to 18 hours battery life with optional 9-cell slice battery, DisplayPort, [...]

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Have you ever fried a keyboard because you spilled a drink on it?  Do you have to share a keyboard at work and you wonder how clean those keys are – especially now when everyone is concerned with preventing H1N1?  Unotron makes a line of waterproof, washable keyboards, mice, and even card readers.  They offer corded [...]

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Here at The Gadgeteer, some of the cat fanciers on the team have reviewed four different automated cat litter gadgets. First there was the ScoopFree, then the CatGenie, then the CatGenie 120 and just recently, the Litter Robot. Each one of these systems have their good points, but they all require you to purchase consumables [...]

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Ever been in a hit and run accident?  Well I have.  I made a left turn and I noticed a white Honda Civic with a giant whale tail spoiler closing in fast from my right.  “That car isn’t gonna stop for the light” I thought to myself.  I slammed on the brakes but it was [...]

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The LogicBUY deal of the day is for a Configure-to-order the powerful Sony VAIO F series VPCF1190X 16.4-inch Core i7 Laptop starting at $999.99 plus FREE shipping. Sony’s newest flagship gaming/entertainment notebook featuring 16.4-inch display with optional 1920 by 1080 resolution powered by NVIDIA GeForce 310M GPU (512MB or 1GB), optional Blu-ray, optional backlit keyboard, [...]

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For me, winter weekends mean staying indoors and either reading a book, watching some TV, playing my ukulele, surfing for gadget news or playing iPhone games. Today I’ve been trying out four different puzzle games that have helped me waste a large chunk of my Sunday afternoon – but in a good way Pin it

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