October 2005

Discovery Color-Changing Projection Clock

How many geek chic items can you fit into one clock? Discovery Store believes the magic number is four. First, the clock has a LCD screen that changes colors between green, red, blue and violet. Second, the clock projects on to a wall or other surface. Third, the clock displays temperature as well and the [...]

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Firefox sees 100 millionth download

You may have noticed in the past day or so the Geeks have added a Firefox button in the lower left column of our site. Not only that but we saved on web hosting from Site5 because we purchased our current web hosting using a Firefox browser instead of IE. What I’m trying to say [...]

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Oregon Scientific Touch-Screen Weather Station

Are you a fan of weather but hate the Weather Channel commercials and waiting for the “eights” to get your local forcast? Oregon Scientific, the leader in home weather stations, brings you this touch-screen weather station console with four wireless remote sensors which tracks wind speed, rainfall measurements, indoor and outdoor temperature and barometric pressure [...]

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Woodstock to repay $125 on some water bills thanks to a Gizmo

Woodstock (Georgia not the groovy one) installed radio transmitters in the lids of the water meters so meter readers would only need to drive by to get meter readings. Unfortunately, over 200 have gone bad in just a couple of months and some water users have been billed $125 each for replacements of the transmitters. [...]

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Sony MDR-EX81LP/B Bud-Style Stereo Earphones

Without having to sell your first-born child, you can pick up these highly-regarded Sony headphones for your iPod or other MP3 player at a relative steal. These lightweight, aluminum earphones with neodymium magnets deliver powerful bass and clear treble while fitting snuggly in your ears. They fit well enough to go running with them. The [...]

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Cell Phone Owner Tracks Down Thief Using GPS

This is just one of many such stories that are going to be occurring on a more frequent basis: a cell phone thief was quickly tracked down when the owner activated the GPS program that could pinpoint the location of the cell phone. I imagine that with the rise of RFID tags and GPS-enabled everything, [...]

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Skip Dr. Motorized Disc Scratch Repair System

Do you have a CD, DVD or Playstation disc that refuses to play properly? Then you need to get the Skip Dr. In about a minute, this machine sands off a thin layer of the plastic on your disc that continas the scratches that are causing the skips and tracking problems. You can even re-sand [...]

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Possible New Gadget: Solar Powered Purse

If this isn’t vapor-ware, then this will definitely encourage more purse and cell phone carrying folks to go out and buy some new purses. Joe Hynek, a grad student at Ohio State University, is reportedly working on a solar-powered purse that will be able to charge a cell phone or other electronic device. Hynek is [...]

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Video iPod

Grrr baby grrr… the long awaited Video iPod has been released along with a new version of iTunes. Sporting the ability to hold 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos or 150 hours of video on the 60GB version. With all this storage space and a 320×240-pixel 2.5″ QVGA color display you would expect a much larger iPod [...]

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Linux on Cell Phones?

I can only dream at this point for the most part. But wouldn’t it be cool if my PDA/cell phone/media player all-in-one device ran Linux? I could hack it to my heart’s content. I could install my own digital decoder instead of having to live with the MP3 format. I could write & run small [...]

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