Tomorrow is the first day of October, and you know what that means… It’s time to start planning yours or your child’s Halloween costume. BuyStarWarsCostumes.com wants to help you with that task by letting one lucky Gadgeteer reader win $50 of their choice of Star Wars gear. Spend it on a costume, a mask or […]
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The SaberTooth Ultraportable LED Utility Light from Bask Blade looks like a small fluorescent light bulb, but it’s a portable LED light with a rechargeable battery inside. It has a durable, shatterproof casing, and it’s weather resistant. At 8.3″ X 1.2″ and weighing 4.8 ounces, it’s small enough to fit in a backpack, bag, or
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The Griffin Multidock is a steel enclosed iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch charging system that can charge up to 10 devices (or link 3 Multidocks for a capacity of 30 devices) at one time. Connect a Mac to it to to serve as a host computer to sync your apps, media and other content through iTunes.
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The Kisai Rogue Touch LED watch started out as a concept on the Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog less than a year ago, and it’s now available for purchase. Tokyoflash Japan says the Rogue Touch has “time, date, alarm, dual time zones, animation feature, LCD ‘always on’ display, and LED backlight at a touch. The watch has
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Bill’s review of the magicJack Plus have been really popular with our readers. Now iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners can make free calls to U.S. and Canadian phone numbers or to any magicJack number, anywhere in the world using WiFi or 3G. The calls won’t use your mobile minutes or require any purchase. It’s
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Belkin has introduced two new covers to protect the back of your iPad 2. The first is the Snap Shield Secure (right, shown in smoke). This translucent polycarbonate shield has a soft-touch finish, and it snaps over the back of the iPad 2. The camera and all ports and controls are accessible, and the case
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Have you ever wished you could project whatever you did or watched on your MacBook to your TV? I know I have and now it’s possible with a device called McTiVia. While there have been various ways to do this in the past, now I can just boot up the mac, start the McTiVia app,
Oh Paris Hilton, eat your heart out! I attended a local “Puptoberfest” (yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like) last weekend and came across this vendor– the Mommy Bus. The bus is a fashion pet carrier designed for small dogs and cats up to 15 pounds, 15″ in length, and 13″ tall. It’s a top-entry carrier
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LEGO Life of George takes iOS gaming into a new direction where games aren’t 100% virtual anymore. This game comes with 144 bricks and a Playmat. The idea is that the iPhone / iPod Touch app shows you a model and it’s your task to build it as quickly and as accurate as you can.
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Today Amazon announced 4 new devices and I was so excited, that I ordered / pre-ordered 3 of them (Kindle, Touch 3G and Fire). New hardware might be fun, but I think we should all be more excited about the Kindle Fire’s new Silk web browser. It’s not been that long ago that the only
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I’ve lived in Greensboro for many years now, and I’m continually amazed by how it’s changed since I moved here. I often notice a new building as I’m driving along and try to remember what used to be there. Many of the houses in my neighborhood were demolished to make way for a cross-town road
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Toshiba has announced the new 7″ entry into their Thrive tablet family. The Thrive 7″ tablet has an AutoBrite LED-backlit multi-touch display with 1280X800 resolution. It’s powered by the NVIDIA® Tegra™2 Dual Core Mobile Processor, and it will run Android 3.2 (Honeycomb). You can see the dimensions on the above photo; the Thrive 7″ weighs less than
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No one has ever mistaken me for an environmentalist, however, I drive a hybrid car; my previous car ran on E85; I replaced most of my light bulbs with CFLs and I sort my trash for recycling. I do these things, not because it makes me feel good. I do them because it saves me money. Hence, when
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It seems like upsizing is flavour of the day at the moment. First there was the 23″ Android Tablet and now there’s the giant Game and Watch hack. Seems appropriate since we did an article on the original Nintendo Game and Watch recently. The unit is capable of playing the games found at Pica Pic. I
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Keeping your camera at the ready can be a pain in the neck – literally. A camera that feels light in your hand can feel like it’s breaking your neck after wearing it on a neck strap for a while. Spider Holster makes camera carrying systems, including the Black Widow Holster designed for entry to
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Exercising, working out, getting fit, whatever you want to call it, is a chore that a lot of us don’t enjoy doing. Finding ways to make physical activity actually beneficial can increase the enjoyment. Because, let’s face it, if your workouts aren’t helping you lose weight or get fit, what’s the point in doing them?
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After months of rumors, blurry pictures of prototype cases (or someone’s old loafer) it appears that Apple is going to introduce a new iPhone model and I see little reason for all this excitement. Okay, give me a few minutes before you grab your torches and pitchforks. The iPhone is a fine smartphone. It has
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Voltaic makes a line of gear and laptop bags with built-in solar panels, like this Generator Solar Laptop Charger. The bag is made of 600-denier fabric made from recycled soda bottles; the fabric is waterproof, lightweight, and UV resistant. Inside is a padded laptop sleeve that fits up to a 17″ MacBook Pro. Wire channels
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“One Device to rule them all, One Device to find them, One Device to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” ( Apologies to JRR Tolkien 🙂 ) Having just returned from a three week trip to Vietnam, I was putting away all my gear and was thinking, whatever happened to a single
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Proving that green technology is more then hybrid technologies or hydrogen powered vehicles, Toyota subsidiary Toyota Industries Corporation, set the new compressed air speed record at 80.3MPH at the Japan Automobile Research Institute’s test track in Japan. They plan to post the new record to the Guinness World Book or Records. The car is setup
