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Now, I know what you are thinking, how does a book rate a mention on a gadget site? It does when the book is The Jedi Path:A Manual for Students of the Force and comes in a mechanical vault. This Vault Edition of the Jedi Path comes with: hardcover version of the book letter tracing the [...]

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Did Santa bring you a bucket of LEGO bricks and now you have no idea what to build with them? Never fear my brick snapping friends, I have 4 books that will have you building cool stuff (or dreaming about building cool stuff) in no time.

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I’m not a gun person, but I can’t help but be impressed by Jack Streat’s LEGO Heavy Weapons book from No Starch Press. First of all, he’s only 17 years old! Secondly, he offers plans for replicas of 4 guns: a Desert Eagle handgun, AKS-74U assault rifle, Lee Enfield sniper rifle and a SPAS combat shotgun. The plans don’t [...]

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Now I must admit pretty much all my reading’s done on my Kindle these days, but the Albatros Bookmark looks very interesting.  Made in France the bookmark is made of a thin piece of polyester and thanks to its structure and shape, everytime you turn a page, the bookmark follows.  Available for pre-order via Indiegogo [...]

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Even though I’m a big fan of eBooks, I still love browsing through honest to goodness physical books. I find that there are some types of books that I prefer to be of the dead tree variety. One of these types is the large format, picture rich, coffee table book. I have a great example [...]

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Here’s a great gift idea for your favorite gadgeteer. It’s a coffee table book titled Gadget Nation by Steve Greenberg aka “The Innovation Insider”. Steve travels the country looking for innovative products and reports on them through various television programs such as NBC’s Today Show, CBS’s Early Show, ABC’s World News This Morning and World [...]

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If you thought the LEGO Stop Animation Digital Video Camera that Janet posted about earlier today was interesting, you might want to check out the 3 volume series of LEGO Technic Idea Books from O’Reilly. These books offer 100′s of ideas through photographs with little to no text. Volume 1 is The LEGO Technic Idea [...]

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Do you think your tweets are so wise and profound that they should be captured forever? No one should ever forget the tweet about your 10 inch tall pastrami sandwich masterpiece and subsequent bathroom episode an hour later. Your tweets can live forever in a TweetBookz. TweetBookz are 5.5 x 8.5 inches wide hard cover [...]

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Windows 7 will be available in October.  If you are a Vista survivor this will be a long-awaited and welcome relief.  And this book will be a nice read as your blood pressure returns to pre-Vista values.  I can tell if a book passes my goodness test if, while reading it, I pause and double-check [...]

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Palm Organizers, a book by Jeff Carlson, proclaims right on the front cover that with it, you can "Teach yourself how to use Palm OS-based devices the quick and easy way!" Does it do this? As we say here in West Texas, "You Betcha!" Not only is Palm Organizers easy to read, it actually does [...]

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