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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on October 7, 2007
While I don't travel very often, I travel regularly. One issue I occasionally run into in airports is an utter lack of power. The worst airport I've been to in this regard is Chicago O"Ha...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 26, 2007
Something I saw quite a bit in Europe, but rarely see in the states, are waterless urinals. Makes complete sense to me that you don't need water. Or those damn Urinal cakes.
The way it works is...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 26, 2007
Among all the gadgets, gizmos, and electronic items I've had over the years, there's one thing I've always kept: my Timeband digital alarm clock (made by the legendary Fairchild Semicond...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 23, 2007
Prostitutes wear platform shoes? Goes to show you how much I know about them.
However you may feel about the world's oldest profession, I think most reasonable people can agree that nobody dese...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 16, 2007
As much as I like technology, my television is about as old school as it gets. An old RCA 19 inch from the late 1980s. The buttons are falling off, but damn it, it works, and I see no reason to replac...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 14, 2007
As someone who grew up in Northern California, I learned that in order to find out what the current time was, I needed to dial 767-2676 (which spells POPCORN). In fact, to this day, I still dial 408-7...
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by Mark Rollins on September 12, 2007
I'm sure a lot of people were excited at our announcement of the Voltron movie a while ago, so you should be pleased with the latest anime-to-live-action big screen development: Robotech.
In case...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 12, 2007
This device certainly looks benign. However, stick your disk on this little bad boy, push the red button, and in five seconds, the disk is toast.
The USB-powered CD Destroyer places deep, damaging ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on September 1, 2007
The idea of making your own fuel at home is appealing. In the Back to the Future movies from the 1980s, they had a Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor where you shoved in your trash and out popped energy. ...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 26, 2007
The one problem with traveling by air, at least in the US, is that most of the airlines haven't put any sort of power jacks into the seat. You might get lucky on a cross-country flight, but on sho...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 23, 2007
The Forever Last Radio seems to work a bit better than that hand-cranked cell phone charger I reviewed. One minute of cranking gives you 20 minutes of radio/night light time or 40 minutes of flashli...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 23, 2007
Let's face it: sometimes all the electronic gizmos in the world won't help you when what you really need is a knife. Just like your Electronic Gadgets, your physical gadgets need to serve more...
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by Mark Rollins on August 20, 2007
Sure, we all want our personal videos on our iPod, but why deal with the all the middleman of the computer. Fortunately, the iCube iRec allows you to connect your iPod directly to your source and reco...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 5, 2007
A recent survey of 2,057 people at salary.com says that a typical office worker admits to wasting 1.7 hours of a typical 8.5 hour work day doing non-work related tasks. The most popular time waster is...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on August 3, 2007
I just moved into a new house. My new "office" in the new home is much bigger than the old office, and even the old one was a little big! The idea of "walling part of it off" seems...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on July 27, 2007
Everything I'm hearing suggests that the first YouTube Democratic Debates was quite successful. What was unique about these debates-and why I am bringing it up on a tech/gadget blog-is that the qu...
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by Mark Rollins on June 15, 2007
Oral-B's Triumph Electronic Toothbrush is much like Triumph, the insult dog: both serve no purpose but to demean you.
You see, the Oral-B Triumph comes with a LCD screen and radio transmitter th...
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by tiago on April 23, 2007
In case you you want to hide your TV from other people there are a few alternatives, but the best one is certainly the plasma Lift created by Auton. It features a motorized system that makes it easy...
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by Mark Rollins on March 26, 2007
I'm not certain why this photo looks less like a genuine photo and more like a CG concept, but I suppose it's more practical to create something in 3-D space than it is to actually build it.
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by Eric Hanson on March 22, 2007
At last, a USB peripheral that actually makes sense! As I sit in front of my desk, rubbing my tired eyes after a long day starring at a computer screen, I can see the need for the USB Vision and Postu...
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by Mark Rollins on February 19, 2007
Every once in a while, I have to ask myself if the "Bold Look of Kohler" is getting too bold. Generally, Kohler has been the one to give us bathroom fixtures that you would design your entir...
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by Mark Rollins on January 30, 2007
Usually I don't do stories about electronic dictionaries. They may not be big in America, but they are all the rage with our friends in Korea and Japan.
The Sharp RD-9100MP caught my eye because...
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by Eric Hanson on January 5, 2007
At some point, we all learn how to walk - failure to learn how to do so (unless you've got other issues going on that, say, make walking impossible) is one of those barriers to entry to becoming a...
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by Eric Hanson on January 3, 2007
I hate wires with a passion that might be described as slightly sick. I recently spent two days rearranging my desk at work because the wires were cluttering things too much and it still bothers me th...
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by Eric Hanson on January 3, 2007
Small gadgets are a double-edged sword - they're easy to carry around because they're so small, but they're easy to lose because they're so small. Enter the Loc8tor, the family of tags...
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by Eric Hanson on December 22, 2006
Whether you're the sort of guy who believes that hairlessness is next to Godliness, or have frequent run-ins with the word "metrosexual," or simply like the power of optical illusions, P...
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by tiago on September 13, 2006
One of the announcements that many Apple fans were already expecting was related to an upgrade to the iTunes software that is now on version 7. Along with the upgrade came the big change that everyo...
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by tiago on September 7, 2006
Vinyl records are becoming a rarity these days, the old-school songs that aren't available elsewhere (besides on the LPs) are pretty valuable so it's better if you record them to your comput...
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by tiago on September 5, 2006
I doubt your iPod will get any scratches while making use of the iTank cover, it won't break the screen (or any other part) if you drop it either. The cases are made of "solid aluminum"...
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by tiago on September 1, 2006
The best way to get some attention when launching a new product is including the words: "world's smallest" or "world's biggest" and the product name next to it. It's ...
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