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Tired of your iPhone/iPod staring at you rigidly from its speaker dock, fixed in portrait position? Check out the iMM90 App Station “App Driven Rotational Dock” from iLuv. The App Station’s design allows you to dock your iPhone/iPod and orient it however you’d like depending on what app you’re using at the time. Watching a […]
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The HypnosEye turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a projector. No external power source is needed. The HypnosEye uses only the light from the iPhone screen, so it does require a dark environment. The HypnosEye works with photos or videos. The projected image size is 17″ to 45″ from a distance of 0.5 to 2
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For those of us that haven’t given up our analog landline phone in favor of going totally cellular, AT&T is debuting several new DECT 6.0 handsets including the TL86109 shown here. These phones can pair with your mobile phone via Bluetooth so that you can answer both your landline and cell calls with one handset.
AT&T Announces New Landline Phones with Bluetooth Read More
Now you can pop open a cold brewski and copy all those important files with the USB Bottle Opener Flash Drive from Brando. It’s available in 2GB ($19.00), 4GB ($22.00), and 8GB ($33.00) versions.
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You usually do not think of gadgets when you think of Pottery Barn, but PB Teen is offering up all kinds of goodies from electric guitar amps to mini speakers. PB Teen is Pottery Barn’s specialty store within a store offering up teen focused decor including some neat electronic accessories that work just a well
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Grand Illusions offers a pen with an 8 cm-long stainless steel body and no ink supply. There’s no need for ink because the pen writes with a soft metal alloy nib that’s been sharpened into a “pencil point” shape. The metal pen is inspired by Medieval writing implements that also used metal nibs to draw on specially coated paper. The
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Amazon will soon be releasing a software upgrade which should provide a solution to one of the annoying nuisances of the device: the lack of a decent way to organize items. Currently, items on the Kindle are listed without sophisticated organization. Additionally, a zoom feature for PDF files is supposedly on its way. Currently, the
Kindle 2, DX Software Upgrade End of May May be Worth Wait Read More
PURE announced today that three of its highly anticipated internet-connected radios will be available for purchase in North America on July 1, 2010. Pictured is the Oasis Flow. You can read about the other two products in the press release.
PURE Brings Their WiFi Radios to the US Read More
If you’d rather not be sent to slave away at the Spice Mines of Kessel, this R2-D2 Pepper Mill from Star Wars Shop may be more your speed. Just fill this trusty astromech droid’s body with pepper and twist his dome to add a dose of spice to your meal. This R2-D2 stands 4.3 inches
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SonyStyle is offering $50 discounts on two of their ebook readers for a limited time. The 5″ Sony Pocket Edition (recently reviewed on The Gadgeteer) is on sale for $149 if purchased from SonyStyle by May 9th. SonyStyle suggests the Pocket Edition would make a great Mother’s Day gift, and I agree. The $50 discount is also available
$50 Savings on Some Sony Readers Models Read More
Less deadly than the poison ring (review coming soon), yet more punch than the Kinext gear ring, the Stunning Ring is a nice in-the-middle choice for those with the discerning but not pretentious fashion sense. This bauble from Defense Devices can shoot a 2-second stream of liquid 2-3 feet by pressing a switch on the
Functional Jewelry – Pepper Spray Ring Read More
Now you can use WiFi and email to almost effortlessly add photos to a digital picture frame. The Kodak Pulse frame has its own email address; you email pictures to the frame and they’re automatically added to the frame’s library. Kodak says you can store up to 4000 images in the 512 MB of internal
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Well I think this is legit. While most postings for a see-through toaster make note that the designs are just concepts, I found the Magimix Vision see-through toaster (“coming to Williams Sonoma stores in Spring 2010”) on actual web sites, for sale as of right now. JohnLewis.com claims it has “more than 10 in stock”
See Through Toaster – Don’t Believe it Till You See it Read More
With Tivo Premiere, your mom can replace her cable box and have access to cable programming and much more. In addition to movies on cable premium channels, the Tivo Premiere lets you download from Netflix, Blockbuster On Demand and Amazon Video On Demand – even videos on YouTube. You can playback photo or video montages
Mothers Day Gift Idea – Tivo Premiere Read More
The Sony MDR-PQ4 Qlasp earbuds clip to your earlobe to keep them in place no matter how active you are. The Qlasp in-ear buds weigh less than a third of an ounce, have a 3.9 ft cord, and a gold-plated L-shaped mini plug. The 9 mm dome-shaped driver reproduces frequencies of 6-23,000 Hz. They come in a
The Easy Guide To Computer Networks [affiliate link] includes a step-by-step guides on how to set up different kinds of networks, how to use them to share internet, files and printers with others. Learn how to secure your connection and location, and how to access private networks. There are a few hoops to jump through
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RingCentral has chosen The Gadgeteer and 24 other blogs (see list after the jump) to host their Ultimate Small Business Start-up Package Giveaway. Each of these 25 sites will give away one (1) account for 12 months’ free service of RingCentral Mobile ($300 value) to the winner of each of our individual contests. From those
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“The Story of You As Told by Nerds” baby book from ThinkGeek is the perfect gift for the geeky new mother or mother-to-be. Instead of recording typical milestones in Baby’s life (first smile, first steps, etc), you’ll be able to document your little “Geekling’s” apparent opinion of being born, his/her first nosebleed, first genius moment, and
Mothers Day Gift Idea – The Story of You Keepsake Baby Book Read More
The Motz Tiny Wooden Speaker is a handcrafted wooden speaker that has been carved to look like an acorn. It includes a USB connector for charging the internal Lithium Ion battery and a standard 3.5mm jack to connect to audio sources. It also has a built in FM radio. It’s available from Pyramid Distribution for
Am I nuts for liking this speaker? Read More
An Etsy shop, iChocolates, is offering the perfect Mother’s Day gift for that iPhone-loving mom. You get 20 pieces of organic, fair trade, gourmet chocolates in a box made to look like an iPhone. The chocolates are made with the “Chocographics” technology, which prints full-color edible app icon designs. Normally, the icons look like the ones you’re
Just in Time for Mother’s Day – Chocolate “iPhone apps” Read More