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Did you buy a brand new MacBook Air and want to keep it as clean and pretty as the day you unboxed it? NewerTech understands and has just announced their NuGuard keyboard covers for the MacBook Air, MacBook and MacBook Pro. Made of silicone and available in Black, White, Pink, and Red, these covers protect against key wear, […]
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There are dozens of docking speakers for iPods/iPhone, but there aren’t quite so many for iPad. The JiPS-250i from Jensen is a docking speaker for iPad that offers a bit more – plus it will even work with iPhone/iPod. The first thing you’ll notice is the arm assembly that allows you to rotate the iPad to
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We know the iPhone can do a lot of things, but turning it into a microscope never occurred to me… Brando is now selling an attachement for the iPhone 4 that will do just that. It is a special slide on 60x lens with an LED illuminator. It actually has 3 LEDs. Two for the
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OptiShot, an Infrared golf simulator from Dancin’ Dogg Golf, lets you and up to three of your friends play a round of golf without leaving home. Using your own golf clubs and the OptiShot optical infrared pad and software, you can play on simulations of a variety of US golf courses, one in Thailand, and
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Music not your thing? Ok, would you pay $5 to have someone read your fortune with Tarot cards, plan a vacation for you, draw your portrait, or take a picture holding a sign with your message in front of the Whitehouse? You can have all these things for just $5 each by going to fiverr.com.
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If you have a lot of books that you aren’t interested in keeping and you’d like to read a lot of other books without buying them or going to the local library, you should check out BooksFreeSwap. To get started, you simply list all your books by ISBN. Hardcovers, paperbacks, kids books, textbooks, and audiobooks
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Dang it, I should have taken this keyboard and iPad combo with me on my vacation last month instead of my old Stowaway keyboard. The USB Typewriter is exactly what it looks like – an old fashioned manual typewriter. It will work with any USB capable computer and iPad. You can buy a pre-converted typewriter for $500
To heck with portability, connect a USB Typewriter to your iPad Read More
Now this is cool. I’ve been to Italy several times and the ingenuity of the ancients is truly remarkable. Colosseums, aqueducts, and now this. I dental colleague of mine had a post on his dental blog about this awesome gadget, yes, GADGET, found in the Mediterranean area, dating from the Middle Roman period, that’s 200-300AD!
The MiLi Power Spring 4 case for iPhone 4 does more than protect your device. Inside the case is a 1600mAh battery that can increase your talk or internet time by about 6 hours, or music by 36 hours, or video by about 10 hours. The case has a glossy black finish with a one-piece design; the
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Sculpteo is a French company that does 3-D printing from your own 3-D designs. If you aren’t skilled in 3-D graphical design, Sculpteo has a special product that still lets you create your own customized figure. You can create your own avatar simply by sending them two photos of yourself – face-on and profile – and specifying
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The T-Mobile G2 was finally rooted permanently, and the folks on Engadget pointed to the XDA-Developers forum with the instructions. The big warning about bricking your phone should be understood throughly before even thinking about trying this out on your own G2: WARNING: THIS COULD PERMENANTLY BRICK YOUR PHONE, INSTEAD OF ROOT IT IF YOU
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ZAGG, the people with the invisibleSHIELD skins for gadgets, has a 6000mAh extended battery that works with any device that charges with a USB cable. The ZAGGsparq 2.0 has a rechargeable lithium-ion battery; the power plug to recharge the unit is built in to the ZAGGsparq 2.0, so there’s no extra cable to carry. There
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The new Zipbuds from Digital Group Audio have an actual zipper for the cable. The zipper keeps the cable from tangling. The speakers have 8mm drivers, Kevlar-reinforced cords for extra strength, a gold-plated 3.5mm audio jack, and optional ear clips for extra stability. Frequency response is 20-20,000Hz with 2mW of power. You get three sets of ear
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Phosphor has just announced the availability of the World Time Watch with curved E Ink display that utilizing the paper-like display technology found in the Amazon Kindle. This watch offers the ability to select from 24 time zones for one display mode, while optionally displaying a second time zone simultaneously. The Phosphor World Time Watch
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Soundfreaq has launched its first wireless, multi-device-enabled hi-fi audio dock. The Sound Platform is a Bluetooth-enabled speaker, equipped to support multiple devices, including the iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry. In addition to providing external sound for TV shows, videos, games, Internet radio and apps like Pandora, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users can download the
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