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Spotlight Gadget – Sony HBH-IS800 Wireless Stereo Bluetooth Headset

By Julie Strietelmeier / March 18, 2009 / News / Bluetooth, Headphones, Spotlight Gadgets / 10 Comments

Get rid of the pesky cord that normally comes with headphones and go wireless by using Sony’s lightweight Bluetooth headset with any compatible A2DP phone. Incredibly stylish, the headphones don’t look like the normally uncomfortable and clunky Bluetooth headsets, but they are simply regular, sleek headphones connected by a short cable. The stereo sound will […]

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Spotlight Gadget – Scosche solChat Solar Bluetooth Speaker Phone

By Julie Strietelmeier / March 17, 2009 / News / Bluetooth, Car Gear, speakerphone, Spotlight Gadgets / Leave a Comment

The solChat from Scosche is a Bluetooth speakerphone for your car, that can charge via the built-in solar panel on the back, USB cable, and a 12V power cord. It has a simple 3 button design that forgoes a display, in favor of a voice that announces incoming calls.

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Spotlight Gadget – 2-in-1 Language + MP3 Pen

By Julie Strietelmeier / February 23, 2009 / News / MP3, Spotlight Gadgets / Leave a Comment

Brando brings us the 2 in 1 Language + MP3 pen. Use this pen to learn English or Mandarin. Comes with a book of 1200+ words and phrases. Scan the word or sentence with the pen to hear a loud and clear pronunciation of the word or sentence. The pen will also play .MP3 files

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Spotlight Gadget – Bluetooth Vibrating Bracelet

By Julie Strietelmeier / February 20, 2009 / News / Bluetooth, Spotlight Gadgets / 13 Comments

This Bluetooth bracelet from Brando won’t let you miss a call when your phone is buried at the bottom of your purse. It vibrates when a call comes in and will let you answer or reject the call. It also has a Link Loss Alert Function that will cause the bracelet to vibrate when your

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Spotlight Gadget – Wasabi Printer

By Julie Strietelmeier / February 10, 2009 / News / Bluetooth, Printer, Spotlight Gadgets / 8 Comments

Dell’s little Bluetooth PZ310 Wasabi printer is shipping. They’ve lowered the price from $149 to $99 and it’s available in Pink, Blue and Grey. I really like that this printer doesn’t use ink. But the special Zink (Zero Ink) paper is pretty spendy at 24 sheets for $12 or 48 sheets for $20. Would you

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Happy Holidays from The Gadgeteer

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 24, 2008 / News / gadgeteer / 8 Comments

Just a quick but heartfelt wish of happy holidays to everyone from The Gadgeteer. If you’re so inclined, feel free to let us know what Santa brings you tomorrow 🙂 If I get something other than a few hunks of coal, I will consider it a great day! 😉

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Gadgeteer Mail – What’s a Good Multi-pen?

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 24, 2008 / News / gadgeteer / 16 Comments

Hey folks, I thought I would start up a new feature called Gadgeteer Mail. As you probably would guess, people are always emailing me asking for gadget advice. A lot of times, I can respond with info to help them, but sometimes, people ask me questions for which I don’t have a good answer. That’s

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Three Ways to Get a Free Sprint Palm Centro

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 24, 2008 / News / contest, gadgeteer / 1 Comment

The first way is to hurry up and enter the contest we’re running here. You still have a few hours left to get your entry in before I choose a lucky winner tomorrow. If you don’t trust your luck at random drawings, here are two more ways to get your hands on a ‘free’ Palm

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Win a Palm Centro for Christmas!

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 22, 2008 / News / contest, gadgeteer / 88 Comments

How would you like to win a brand new Palm Centro for the Sprint network? This Centro will fit right in with the holidays as it’s a very festive Christmas Green 🙂 Click through for more info on how to enter this contest.

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Spotlight Gadget: nio Security Tag

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 17, 2008 / News / Bluetooth, Security, Spotlight Gadgets / 3 Comments

nio Bluetooth tags can link to an existing Bluetooth enabled mobile phone or PDAs to establish a 20 meter security zone for the tagged item. If the security zone is breached, both the tag and your mobile phone emit an audible alarm, which alerts you to the potential loss or theft of your article.

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HP Magic Giveaway Contest – Day 17 & 18

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 16, 2008 / News / contest, Gear Diary / Leave a Comment

The last set of sites have announced their HP Magic Giveaway contests. Visit them and enter their contests for more chances to win $6000 worth of computer goodies from HP and Windows Live. Monday: CiberPrensa Unión de Bloggers Hispanos Tuesday: Last100 JK On The Run Geek News Central

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Contest: Win an Acer Ultra Mini PC from The Gadgeteer

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 15, 2008 / News / contest, gadgeteer / 652 Comments

Staples wants to make one lucky Gadgeteer reader a winner of an Acer Ultra Mini PC Netbook (a $349.98 value!). Keep reading for more info and how to enter this contest…

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Please Excuse Our Dust

By Rob Tillotson / December 14, 2008 / News / gadgeteer / 23 Comments

As you may have noticed, there have been a few changes here. We’ve switched to the WordPress blog platform and while we’ve tried to make the change as seamless as possible, you’ll probably notice a lot of upcoming changes as we clean up and add new features. For example, the huge list of categories you

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HP Magic Giveaway Contest – Day 15, 16 & 17

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 13, 2008 / News / contest, Gear Diary / 1 Comment

A bunch of new sites begin their HP Magic Giveaway contests this weekend. Visit them and enter their contest for more chances to win $6000 worth of computer goodies from HP and Windows Live. Friday: OSNN Slashgear Digital Home Thoughts Saturday: Study Hacks – Demystifying College Success Sunday: Digital Inspiration GeekZone The Digital Lifestyle

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HP Magic Giveaway Contest – Day 14

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 11, 2008 / News / contest, Gear Diary / Leave a Comment

Four more sites begin their HP Magic Giveaway contests today. Visit these sites and enter their contest for more chances to win $6000 worth of computer goodies from HP and Windows Live. Stop Drop and Blog Living – In Theory Geeks Room Eliax

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HP Magic Giveaway Contest – Day 13

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 10, 2008 / News / contest, Gear Diary / Leave a Comment

Today we have three more site starting their HP Magic Giveaway contests today. Visit these sites and enter their contest for more chances to win $6000 worth of computer goodies from HP and Windows Live. Slashdot Review Gadgetell Liliputing

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HP Magic Giveaway Contest – Day 12

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 9, 2008 / News / contest, Gear Diary / Leave a Comment

Today we have one more site starting their HP Magic Giveaway contests today. Visit the site and enter their contest for another chance to win $6000 worth of computer goodies from HP and Windows Live. Student Bloggers

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The Gadgeteer’s HP Magic Giveaway Contest Winner Chosen!

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 8, 2008 / News / contest, Gear Diary / 31 Comments

The wait is finally over. After 7 days and 137 entries, I can announce that the winner of our HP Magic Giveaway Contest is… Lloyd Viente and his painting “To Gadgeteer, With Love“. I picked Lloyd’s entry because he understands HP’s idea behind this contest and also what The Gadgeteer means to me and the

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The Gadgeteer’s HP Magic Giveaway Contest Search For A Winner (Fourth Cut)

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 8, 2008 / News / contest, Gear Diary / 2 Comments

We are now down to the final 3 entries!!! Go check the fourth cut flickr set to see if you’re still in the race. The winner will be announced in the next few minutes! Good luck and thanks to everyone who took the time to enter!

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The Gadgeteer’s HP Magic Giveaway Contest Search For A Winner (Third Cut)

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 8, 2008 / News / contest, Gear Diary / 11 Comments

We are now down to 10 entries. I know this is hard for all of you that are waiting to see if you win, but believe me, this is extremely hard on me too. Fun, but very hard… Go check the third cut flickr set to see if you’re still in the race. The next

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