The Geeks will run two contests from August 1st through August 5th.

The first contest will be a daily contest where the Gizmo of that day is given away. On each Gizmo of the Day from August 1st to August 5th there will be a clue to a code somewhere on our site. The first registered user to post a comment to the Gizmo of that day revealing the code will win that Gizmo of the Day! It sounds a little more complicated than it really is I promise!

The second contest involves gathering all the non-winning comments from each of the days from August 1st through August 5th and the Geeks will randomly choose a winner. How simple is that?

There are a couple of rules:
1) Only one prize per person;
2) If person does not live in US, a gift certificate to either Amazon or Apple iTunes will be presented for $20 instead of the Gizmo of the Day.

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Tell time in hi-tech style with this incredible Powers of 2 BCD Clock! It uses the binary code (the language of computers) to indicate the time. After a few minutes of practice, you’ll be able to tell the time by simply adding the values of the blue lights in each column. This compact unit is not a typical light show, it’s actually a working clock! This Powers of 2 BCD Clock is a great gift for technical people or for anyone who wants to exercise their mind.

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UK Consumers could be paying almost double what they need to for their hi-tech toys, an investigation has found. The research, carried out by reporters at PC Pro magazine, found that a basket of gadgets and software cost £3,500 from UK shops, but was £1,000 less when bought directly from US websites. The saving varies by gadget but in many cases PC Pro found that US prices were half those in the UK. Software, laptops and portable music players were all cheaper overseas.

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On August 1, 2005, Gizmos For Geeks, one of the fastest growing gadget websites, is celebrating its one year anniversary. To mark the occassion, a giveaway will be held every day from August 1st through August 5th inclusive.

According to the company’s founders, Doug Felteau and Khalid Hosein, they set out to build a community website for visitors interested in learning about new and cutting edge gadgets. The website at gizmosforgeeks.com features a new gadget every single day as well as reviews, news, reviews, coupons & deals, contests, forums, and links to shopping sites and other gadget sites. In the year since launching, Gizmos for Geeks has experienced exponential growth in visitor traffic. Gizmos for Geeks also intends to launch new services in the next year.

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Once you play with this neat gadget, you will probably find yourself checking the surface temperature of everything in sight. Simply squeeze the trigger and an instant reading, based on infra-red emissions, appears on the backlit display. With a temperature range of 0 to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, you can check the temperature of that overclocked chip you have running in your case. Also check your oven, refrigerator, heater, AC, fish tank, wine cellar, and so on. Accuracy of +/- 2 percent. Selectable in Celsius or Fahrenheit readings.

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By: Russell Shaw

In this series of posts, I am comparing the much-ballyhooed Gizmo Project to Skype. For this post, I compared the plans you will need to make each softphone make and receive calls.

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Make movies anywhere with this tiny, tapeless digital camera. In fact, this multifunction video camera/digital still camera is so small and lightweight, others might mistake it for a cell phone. But don’t be fooled by its diminutive design; the VPC-C5 sports a five-megapixel image sensor and can capture more than 15 minutes of DVD-quality MPEG-4 video on the included 128MB memory card.

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By Reuters

Broadband Internet access via TV cables can reach 100 Megabits per second as early as next year, 50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish firm said on Wednesday.

Similar data transmission speeds are possible over fibre networks, but these cost much more for the operators to build.

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The StreetPilot c340 provides in-car navigation that is simple for anyone to use directly out of the box. After selecting a destination from the user-friendly touch screen interface, Garmin’s text-to-speech feature tells users the name of the street, when to turn, and in what direction. If you miss your turn, the c340 automatically calculates a new route to the destination. Notification of traffic delays is a c340 option that lets drivers see congested areas via a color-coded map. This feature lets users avoid traffic by simply pushing a button that will calculate a new route. This traffic awareness is made possible via the new Garmin GTM 10 FM TMC receiver that connects to selected Garmin street navigation products. The GTM 10 receives digital data from specific FM broadcast stations in select major metro areas throughout the United States and Europe. Garmin has also added the ability for customers to augment the preloaded maps with custom POI’s from industry-standard CSV files, such as school zones and safety cameras. In addition, a proximity alert feature is included to optionally notify the driver of upcoming custom POI’s.

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Global and regional digital leader LG Electronics predicts mobile phones will overtake all other entertainment consumer electronics in the next three years as the pace of development in handset features becomes ever more rapid.

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