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Pre-Order Skooba Design’s New Laptop Weekender V.3 and Save 25%

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Do you like to travel light, but find a laptop bag isn’t quite big enough to fit all your gear and your clothing and toiletries?  The new Laptop Weekender V.3 bag from Skooba Design looks like a normal duffel, but it’s designed to hold enough clothing for a couple of days plus your laptop and

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The JDRF Artificial Pancreas Project

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes each year. With a total shutdown of insulin production, this illness requires regular testing and injections.  The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) is working on the Artificial Pancreas Project in conjunction with Universities worldwide.  A conventional insulin pump and continuous glucose

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Add a Polarizing Filter to Your iPhone 4/4S with the Trygger Camera Case

This is another Kickstarter project, and this one has exceeded funding goals before the end of the funding period.  The Trygger Camera Case is a bumper-style case that includes a felt-lined sliding panel on the back of the phone.  Slide the panel up to move the polarizing filter (a color-neutral polarizing film layered between two

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Energizer Edge Accent Lights Add Ambience to Your Home

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Energizer, perhaps best known for their batteries, is offering a new line of household lighting products.  The Energizer Edge Small Accent Light has touch controls at the base of all four panels that “allow you to dim or brighten the light to customize the mood and ambiance of any room in your home.”  Twelve LEDs

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Vodafone Booster Brolly – Keep the Rain out and the Sun in

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Announced on Vodafone UK‘s blog site, the Booster Brolly combines your traditional umbrella with a high gain antenna and low power signal repeater to enhance phone reception for both the the brolly user and those around them. The umbrella also incorporates 12 solar panels for powering your phone via a handsfree cradle and an LED torch for

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ArtyA Werewolf Watch Puts Silver Bullets on Your Wrist

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ArtyA wants you to be protected the next time you’re in Transylvania or Forks Washington. Their Son of a Gun Werewolf watch has a real silver bullet incased inside it. According to ArtyA, the bullet was forged under the full moon… so you know it’s going to work against Lon Chaney Jr. or Taylor Lautner. Bonus points to those

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Microsoft Surface Tablet – The Cure All Tablet?

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At a press release today Microsoft  announced the Surface Tablet, Microsoft’s foray into the tablet market. The unit is made of lightweight magnesium, has a 10.6″  HD ClearType display with full size USB, 2X2 MIMO Wifi, Display Port, microSDXC, Gorilla Glass screen and a built in kickstand . Much like the Apple Smartcover, screen covers connect via magnets however there’s also the

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Logitech G600 MMO Gaming Mouse

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The Logitech G600 MMO Gaming Mouse gives you complete control in your favorite MMO games.  It has 20 user-definable buttons, and you can download optional Logitech Gaming Software to access more intricate macro and scripting capabilities than the onboard macros can provide.  Define the G600 G-Shift function to a button on the G600 doubles the

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iSteady Shot Pro-Holder – Keep your GoPro steady

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Sick of all your GoPro videos being all shaky and unsteady? Even worse, sick of watching someone else’s shaky videos? The iSteady Pro-holder is a lightweight  aircraft-grade aluminum camera mount for the GoPro camera series (see related links) currently up on Kickstarter.  It mounts using your standard GoPro mounting system with an aluminum easy-detach clip. With three

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New TV accessory product gives highest fidelity picture possible for HDTV

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If you’re looking for a simple way to improve the picture quality of your TV, the Darbee might be one of the easiest ways to do it. The Darbee is a small iPhone sized device that has HDMI Input and an HDMI Output jacks. Plug this device in between your HD TV and your source

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InaTrap High-Tech Insect Trap Keeps Mosquitos From Ruining Your Cookout

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The InaTrap from Acase is a futuristic looking LED lamp that attracts those nasty blood sucking mosquitos and traps them without having to use harmful sprays, chemicals or even propane gas. A noiseless built-in fan produces a small amount of carbon dioxide to lure the mosquitos and then sucks them into the trap. It features an 8 hour

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Smarter Stand increases the IQ of your Apple Smart Cover

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The Smarter Stand is a great little add-on for your existing Apple Smart Cover or Smart Case. The Smarter Stand consists of two specially molded clips that slide on the sides of the Smart Cover to immobilize the folds, creating a stand. As an example, you can slide one clip over the first fold and

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AOC Aire iPlay is the First LCD Monitor with Built-in iPod/iPhone Docking Station

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The AOC Aire iPlay (e2343Fi) is a 23″ inch monitor that is only 12.9 mm-thin and offers full HD 1080p resolution, a 50,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio and 2 ms response time. The feature that sets this particular monitor apart from all the others on the market is that it has a built-in 30-pin docking station

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Red Bull is sponsoring a Maker’s Contest where you could win $10,000

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If you are a builder, maker, inventor, hacker or a person who just likes to tinker, then you should consider trying out for the Red Bull Creation contest where you could end up winning $10,000 worth of tools and cash. The way it works is that you register on the Red Bull Creation site and

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Satechi WTR-A Wireless Timer Remote Control Shutter for Canon Cameras

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The WTR-A Wireless Timer Remote Control Shutter from Satechi is designed for compatible EOS Canon cameras.  This shutter-release tool lets you set a timer to delay shooting a photo, managing exposure time, setting a shooting interval and organizing a number of shots from up to 50 feet away.  It has a beeping alert to indicate

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V-MODA introduces VAMP, an Audio Multitasker for the iPhone 4/4S

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V-MODA, maker of the Crossfade M-80 and Crossfade LP headphones, have introduced the VAMP, a headphone amplifier with a dedicated 150mW x 2 amplifier, DAC (Digital-to-Analog convertor), optical audio output and a 2200mAh battery – all integrated into a metal case for the iPhone 4/4S. It’s based on the GO-DAP 4.0 by VentureCraft, but tweaked

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Win a $10,000 Apple Gift Card From Crucial.com, the Memory Experts

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This post brought to you by Crucial.com. All opinions are 100% mine. Isn’t it funny how quickly what was cutting-edge technology when you bought it becomes old and tired?  Computers are too expensive to replace on a whim, so you need to find ways to get more life out of yours.  Having sufficient memory is

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