Gizmos for Geeks

We were pleasantly surprised to learn that you can now get PC Magazine for free. Yup, that’s a full year of PC Mag (normally somewhere around $25/yr) courtesy of Netline Corp. Netline runs Tradepub and if you check out our GfG-branded Tradepub, you’ll find hundreds of other magazines that you can get for free.

What’s the catch? No catch for you, except you do have to fill out a little survey type info up front. The magazines make money because they get advertising, and advertisers are happy because folks (like you) are reading the zines and seeing their ads. Works out. After all, no one charges you to watch the ads you see in places like on TV, prior to movies, billboards, or sides of buses!

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Built in the UK’s Legoland to mark Lego’s 50th anniversary, this monster is over 100′ tall and has half a million bricks. The Lego snob in me doesn’t like the random use of colors!

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The Eiko egg broiler was designed to fit over the top of the boiling pot of water. It holds the egg in place and makes it easy to retrieve the egg when the egg is done cooking. The Eiko is shaped so that the egg hangs down in the boiling water and still allows the handle of the spoon to stay cool to the touch. This product is colored so that it makes it easy to differentiate the times. When the egg is finished cooking, just remove the entire spoon and run cool water over the egg. The spoons can then be used as an egg cup. No more extra dirty dishes. After all, geeks hate cleaning!

The Eiko egg boiler is made of plastic and will not change the flavor of the egg like many metal spoons are thought to do. It is made of heat resistant and scratch resistant materials. The egg boiler is also dish washer safe.

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Price: $19.00 for a set of 4
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

HTC announced the Touch Diamond yesterday in London and they’ve managed to pack even more features into a cell phone that many are already calling an iPhone-killer. At a minimum, it’s definitely a competitor.

The Diamond sports a 2.8″ VGA touch-screen running HTC’s own TouchFlo 3D interface and it promises some newer touch and gesture mechanism over the iPhone. A quadband phone, the Diamond is a smartphone with a slew of connectivity options including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS, and HSDPA. It also shows off its auto-righting display technology so you can view pages in either landscape or portrait modes. I’m just touching on its many features too.
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A USB charger with 4 ports for the car is a handy gadget to have around. This is great for any geek who is on the go and needs to charge their Ipod or camera. Ipods and Cameras are only a few examples of what this little critter can do, it is capable of working with many different electronics. It will charge any audio device directly from the USB ports while you are on your trip. This charger is designed with the 4 port and 1 DC unit that will work with most cellular phones that have changeable tips. It is also set up with overload protection and high temperature protection.

This unit is also equipped with a FM transmitter. It works by setting the system with the same frequency as the car stereo. Then once you plug it into the USB ports this allows the unit to transmit mp3 sound through the sound system already in the car. It will work with any audio device like the Ipod that is 3.5mm stereo jack. This unit is great for any one who does not have a lot of time to charge their electronics at home. If they are like most people who just forget, it won’t matter too much. Charge everything while you are on the go.

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Price: $5.19
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Dang! Take-two has sold approximately 6 million copies of the latest installment in its Grand Theft Auto series of video games. I won’t comment on the style of the video game, but I will comment on the financial windfall that this is for Take-Two. They’ve got some debt, but nothing that the $500 mil couldn’t take care of.

But think about this: the last release of GTA (Vice City Stories) was in Oct 2006, so they’ve been working on this latest release for at least 1.5 years. Let’s say it was 2 years. Let’s say they had 100 guys working on it averaging $100k each. That’s $20M over 2 years. Let’s double it to account for overhead expenses. So in 1 week, they’ve arguably made an 1100% return on their investment.

Yes, I could be completely wrong. I’m hardly a game insider or follow the field very closely. But even we said they had 10x the # of employees working on it (more than half of the company), they still would have made back their money and then some this past week. Very nice. Hmm… I wonder what kind of violent, non-PC game I could invent…?

In what is a great first, Rock Port, Missouri became the first US town to be completely powered by wind energy. They now have 4 wind turbines generating 16 Gigawatts of power annually (they require about 13). Granted that Rock Port is a relatively small town with a population of under 1400, this move demonstrates that alternative energies are not just talk and dreams.

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The T12 is the second model of the T series of tributaries power strips. This model is similar to the previously available T10 model. The T12 power strip was designed to give easy accessibility to any wall wart power supply. T12 models have twelve different outlets in which eight of the outlets rotate 90 degrees. This makes it easier when plugging in from different directions and angles. The remaining four outlets are equipped with safety shutters.

The T12 also features a built in resettable circuit breaker that is set with the power push button. The model has two led lights to show that the power strip is working properly. The red light shows that the power strip is working correctly, and the blue light shows that the outlets that are connected are grounded. The T12 also comes with a cord management design so that all the cords will stay organized.

T12 models are setup to protect all three legs of the AC line. The models are rated at 1875 watts and 125VAV/ 15A 60 Hz. The power strip is also made to with stand a voltage spike of 6KV and has a clamping voltage of 330V. Energy levels of 4320 joules can easily be dissipated by the T12 models. The power strip also has surge protection for the telephone/modem, and the f connectors. T12 is produced with a wide band line filter that will prevent EMI/RFI noise from interfering with connected equipment. It can reduce noise levels from around 150 KHz to somewhere around 100 KHz.

The T12 models have been rated with 8 separate listings from the Underwriters Laboratory ranging from the Standard Surge Protection Device (UL1449) to Standard Electromagnetic Interference Filters (UL1283). It also meets the requirements of California’s Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003. This means that the T12 is RoHs (Restricted and Hazardous Substance) compliant.

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Price: $120.00 (Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Fantastic. Now you can not only have an Internet connection by way of your cell phone’s data connection (tethered to your laptop), but you can also share it to create your very own WiFi hotspot! The Cradlepoint Personal Hotspot 300 is a fully featured WiFi router that uses your mobile phone’s data connection as its conn to the Net.

While it includes an AC adapter, its internal battery can be charged up for full portability. Wherever you want to work, now you can. No longer do you have to find some coffee shop and pay them $10 to get online.

The PHS300 support 802.11b/g computers, and its WiFi router includes a full set of the security and access controls that you’ve come to expect in popular home-based broadband routers.

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Price: $149.99
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As a Cinco de Mayo present for Geeks everywhere, the Geeks from Gizmos for Geeks has re-released Bargains for Geeks simply because we love to get our hands on various gadgets and gizmos, but if we have to pay full price we can’t buy nearly as many as we really want! After all, the Geek’s motto is “Whoever dies with the most toys wins!”

While visiting various Geek-related bargain and deal sites, we noticed only certain products and deals were listed. Unfortunately, these products were not always what we were looking for. We’ve decided
to grab all bargains and deals from our favorite shopping places as well as best selling and new products. You can get your hands on the latest deals from the various shopping places by visiting the website or subscribing to either the RSS feed or the daily email (you know us as some have received our newsletter for nearly four years, we will never sell the list).

Save your time for playing the latest game release or watching last week’s episode of Battlestar Gallactica on your TiVo and stop wasting time hunting for bargains by visiting multiple sites that pick and
choose what products you’re going to see. Leave compiling the deals to us, and just search for the right deal for you.