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Get your own 15 minutes of fame with the Balloon Boy Halloween Costume

I have a surprise for all of you party goers still trying to come up with the perfect costume idea for next week’s festivities. Our friends at Plantraco (the same company that brought us the Micro Butterfly RC plane) have created a funny as heck Halloween costume kit to commemorate (or make fun of) the …

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A new e-Book Player – The Nook from Barnes & Noble

(Note from Julie – I know this is the 2nd Nook posting. My team is excited, what can I say 🙂 ) Barnes & Noble finally released details of their new e-book reader, the Nook. You can see all the details on their web site. Be sure to look at the video. The reader incorporates …

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The “Kindle Killer” is here – Barnes & Noble’s Nook

Today Barnes & Noble finally unveiled their foray into the eReader world that Sony and Amazon have thus far been dominating with the Nook.  At first glance, it looks suspiciously similar to a Kindle and does have many of the same features–instant ebook downloads, $9.99 best sellers,  E ink display, in text dictionary, and wireless …

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Get your NPR fix with the Livio NPR Radio

From the company that brought us the Livio Pandora Radio, comes the Livio NPR Radio. It’s the first internet radio with an exclusive menu dedicated to NPR stations and programs. NPR stands for National Public Radio. It’s a a privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization that produces noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. Now, with one …

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ViewSonic takes on small-format computing with VOT132 PC mini

ViewSonic has expanded into the small-format PC market with the VOT132 PC mini. Weighing in at just over a pound, this tiny computer offers real performance in a miniature package with Win 7 OS, Intel(r) Atom(tm) 330 processor, latest NVIDIA(r) ION GPU, built-in Wi-Fi and 2GB internal memory and an optional attachable CD/DVD drive. The …

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First came books, then came eBooks and now Vooks?

We’re swiftly coming into the golden age of eBooks. For those of us that have been reading them on our PDAs and smartphones for years, it seems like it’s taken quite awhile to get to this point. All of a sudden, eReaders are popping up all over the place, with the Kindle 2, Sony’s eReader …

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$35 alternative to a speedlight camera flash?

Professor Kobre’s Lightscoop is a clever and inexpensive ($35) device that clips on to the hot shoe of your DSLR or SLR camera. It then transforms the light from the pop-up flash into pro-quality light by reflecting the flash’s light to the ceiling, to bounce it back down on your subject. It is compatible with …

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Bluetooth Laptop Speakers – Creative Inspire S2

Check out the new sleek and compact wireless Inspire S2 speaker system from Creative. This 2.1 system includes a 17-watt subwoofer and 2 palm sized satellite speakers. It makes a great companion for notebooks, PCs or mobile devices and provides wireless music playback via its built-in wireless receiver (using the apt-X Audio Codec) or any …

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Your iPhone app idea could earn you $1000

Appswell launched yesterday, releasing a free iPhone application (also called Appswell) that uses crowdsourcing to identify and build the next great iPhone app. Appswell allows users to submit creative, entertaining and useful application ideas and receive immediate community feedback and votes. Winners will have their iPhone app developed and sold, and in return they will …

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