Sharp introduces a new audio system to complete your home theater setup. Their HT-SL70 system includes twin sound bars and a subwoofer. The sound bars can be used vertically beside the TV on their included stands or placed together horizontally in front of the set like more traditional sound bars. Each slim sound bar produces [...]
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Home Theater,
sound system
Sherpa Pen Shells are thin covers for popular disposable pens like Sharpie, Uni-Ball, Pilot pen and Accent highlighters. They are available in a variety of styles from online retailers such as Paradise Pen for around $30. The main question that comes to mind is why? Would you buy one of these for your favorite cheap [...]
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Pen
Bored at work? Angry Birds not fun anymore? Then there’s a new toy in town. Desk Pets just released the TankBot. It’s a small tank-like robot, hence TankBot. It has three features: 1) Autonomous – Uses infrared sensors to avoid objects in its path. 2) Free roaming – Random driving around. 3) Remote – Which [...]
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desk pets,
tankbot
The City of Sydney Council, Australia is considering a system of high pressure underground pipes to collect garbage from inner-city homes. Already in place in a number of European and other cities, the system can be retrofitted into current infrastructure though it is obviously easier to implement in greenfield sites. The system may mean an [...]
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australia
The Power Tube 6600 from MiPow looks like an oversized pencil, but it contains enough power to double the battery life in your iPad. Inside the tube is a 1000mA lithium-ion battery with a 6600mAh capacity. The tube comes with an AC charger; it can be recharged 500 times. It has 10 adapter tips so [...]
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External power supply
Everybody has read about the technical specifications of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. We know that it runs the latest version of Android, so it will have access to the world of Android applications. We know we can connect to the world via cellular systems, WiFi, and Bluetooth – and navigate the world with GPS. [...]
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Android tablet
Dear Gadget Diary, Happy first day of Fall! Things have really cooled off here and the leaves are even starting to change a little. I have had the GardenWatchCam snapping pictures of my woods line for at least a week now. I’m looking forward to the time lapse video I’m going to see once the [...]
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gadget diary
Are you one of those lucky people with a “green thumb” and the beautiful yard that’s the envy of the neighborhood? Or are you in competition with one of those people? The Landscaper’s Companion for iPad may be the secret weapon you need to make your yard the winner in the neighborhood wars. This app [...]
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iPad app
Here’s another camera for your espionage games or nanny surveillance. This HC-GUM Covert Gum Stick Camera/DVR from Smarthome looks like an old-style pack of Wrigley’s Doublemint gum – if you don’t look too closely. (They have the look right, but for some reason it’s marked with “Dangerous Material” and described as a lighter.) It takes still [...]
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Digital Camera,
Spy camera
BlueAnt’s recently introduced the Embrace headphones, and they’ve graciously sent a pair for the Gadgeteer to review this week. These are BlueAnt’s first non-Bluetooth headphones, using a standard 1/8″ connector, and designed with a focus on sound quality and comfort. They also come with two cables, one regular cable and another with an iPod/iPhone/iPad controller [...]
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Headphones
Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, sent me an email apologizing for the way Netflix communicated their most recent price increase. Some of you (okay maybe 20 million of you) also received a similar message. Mr. Hastings opened up and told us about his deepest fears and then he broke the bad news…it would be better [...]
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Blockbuster,
DVD,
Netflix,
Qwikster
Martin Drashkov has taken it on himself to hack himself a 23″ Android Tablet Costing him around $600 with off the shelf components “devices like this will make simultaneous use by two users a practicality and will let users more fully immerse themselves in apps and games ” Won’t fit in your pocket or gadget bag though and Swypes gonna [...]
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Android,
Android tablet
Today’s LogicBUY Deal is the 23” Dell Inspiron One (2305) all-in-one touchscreen PC with extras for $749.99. Features: Blu-ray drive, 2.8GHz AMD Athlon II X2 dual-core cpu, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, Wireless-N, Radeon HD 4270 integrated graphics, Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student Edition, Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), wireless keyboard and mouse, 2-year [...]
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Deal of the Day
Most keyboard cases for iPad 2 are hard-to-hold book-style cases or have the keyboard in a separate piece that snaps over the iPad 2. The new Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad 2 from Logitech fits over your iPad 2 like a silicone case would (top image), though it will add more thickness and weight than silicone [...]
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Bluetooth keyboard,
iPad 2
Hammacher Schlemmer calls this the World’s Smallest Camera, and they’re probably right. This camera is so small, it looks like you might have gotten it from a gum ball machine, but it is a working auto-focus 2MP camera. It captures still photos as JPEGs at 1600 x 1200 resolution and captures AVI video at 30 [...]
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Digital Camera,
Spy camera
We aren’t beer drinkers here at the Cloninger house, but this cute Deluxe Mini Kegerator and Draft Beer Dispenser from EdgeStar makes me wish Sprite Zero came in 5-liter mini kegs. It may be small, but the Mini Kegerator uses DraughtKeg™ carbonator pressure technology so you’ll get a “pub-quality pour” every time. It has precise temperature [...]
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Draft beer,
Kegerator
In 1992 Nintendo won a lawsuit against Atari and was able to lock-out third-party software vendors from providing games for its gaming systems unless they purchased a key (license). Since then the Holy Grail of gaming, smartphone and now computer system companies was to bring to market systems where they had control of every third-party [...]
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Android,
Desktop,
ecosystem,
iOS,
Mobile,
operating system,
Windows
Bored with your current iPhone 4 case? Then we have a contest for you. id America is offering one lucky Gadgeteer reader their choice of case from 4 different styles (Cushi, Gasket, Skyline and Ice/DryIce cases). If you win, you get to pick the style, color, etc. Contest details after the jump. Pin it
Today’s LogicBUY Deal is the 13.3” Dell Vostro V131 ultra-thin “Sandy Bridge” Core i5 laptop for $649. Features: 4GB memory, 500GB 7200rpm hard drive, LED-backlit keyboard, fingerprint reader, Windows 7 Professional (64-bit), and more. $799 – $150 coupon = $649 with free shipping. This is the lowest price LogicBUY has seen. Core i3 models start [...]
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Deal of the Day
Star Trek’s Universal Translator is here! The Vocre iPhone app from myLanguage “listens” to your sentence, translates it into the selected language, then speaks it. It’s not instantaneous like the Universal Translator, but it’s close. You can choose a male or female voice to speak the translation. The speaking voice sounds like a human, not [...]
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iPhone App,
Language