September 2005

Tracking Your Kids with Cell Phones

Teen Arrive Alive is a GPS-based service that works with Nextel cell service and can track where those Nextel phones are, as well as how fast they are moving and in what direction. Once you’ve signed up your child’s cell phone with the service, you can login to the Teen Arrive Alive site and see [...]

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SLAPPA Playstation Portable (PSP) Storage Case

SLAPPA Distribution LLC., today announced the launch of its new SLAPPA® Playstation Portable (PSP) Storage case. The line, as described on SLAPPA’s website (www.slappa.com), combines highly tactile materials and a unique design focused on secure protection, this new PSP case is a must-have for any avid gamer-on-the-go. The SLAPPA HardBody PSP Daily Case is designed [...]

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Halloween Gizmos All Next Week!

Check back all next week from September 26th through October 2nd for our second annual Halloween week edition of Gizmo of the Day! Some Geeks appreciate a good Halloween house to scare kids and we plan on helping them by featuring some cool items.

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Apple iPod Nano

Apple describes the iPod nano as “impossibly small” and considering the dimensions of 1.6 x 3.5 x .27 inches, we have to agree. Oh yeah, that depth measurement is point 27 inches. Weighing in at 1.5 ounces, you are also more likely to realize you have change in your pocket than the nano which could [...]

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Dentistry Makes Use of Lasers

Ah, I love technology. Especially when it can make my trips to the dentist even less painful. The FDA has cleared the use of an Erbium:YAG laser since 1998 which can effectively substitute for a traditional drill. The laser vaporizes decayed tooth tissue, is usually painless, does not vibrate and is more precise than a [...]

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Franklin Princeton Review Pocket Prep For The New SAT

If you are a high-school student or the parent of one, then you’ve heard about the new SAT test. What you may not yet have heard of is this handheld electronic preparation device. This interactive handheld features comprehensive verbal, math, and essay preparation, full length practice tests, instant scoring and personal diagnostic reports. Also includes [...]

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Nintendo’s Revolution Controller has been Revealed

Nintendo’s new and upcoming console’s controller has been revealed and it looks like a sideways version of their original controller or a remote control… but much much better! The new controller has a chip inside and with two small sensors placed around the TV, the positioning and orientation of the controller is tracked which allows [...]

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Media Tank All-in-1 External Enclosure

In addition to its 7-in-1 media reader/writer, the Media Tank has bays for both a 3.5″ hard drive and a 5.25″ optical drive (or other 5.25″ drive), It can be customized to suit your needs and there’s a USB 2.0 port up front as well. Add your own 3.5″ ATA/ATAPI (IDE) drive and a DVD [...]

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The Coming of Holographic Storage

As we’ve seen traditional optical storage smash the boundaries of conventional storage, so will holographic storage techniques do to optical. While a CD can hold 783 megabytes of data and a double-sided, double-layer DVD can hold 15.9 GB of data, holographic memory offers the possibility of storing 1 terabyte (TB) of data in a sugar-cube-sized [...]

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GM Light Luminiferous Message Board

This isn’t your parents message board! When you draw or write on this message board, it lights up. It does nothing other than that, but hey… that’s groovy enough for us.

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