February 2006

AuraGrid Home Kit

Are you having issues with your wireless working in all areas of your house? You can use the coax cable run throughout your house to help distribute your 802.11b/g signals for better connectivity throughout your entire house. Read on to see how this nifty gizmo works. Two days in a row we’ve now featured gizmos [...]

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New Apple Products Released

Apple released a few new products to their arsenal today including the iPod Hi-Fi and a couple new Mac Mini’s featuring the Intel chipset. Unfortunately for me, the “iTablet” was not released (nor will this year). “Apple is reinventing the home stereo with the new iPod Hi-Fi, the first iPod accessory that adds true high-fidelity [...]

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D-Link DWL-P200 – Power Over Ethernet Adapter

Wouldn’t it be great to just have to worry about either power or ethernet connections rather than having to worry about both? D-Link’s Power Over Ethernet Adapter allows you to provide power to an ethernet device over the same ethernet cable. For example, let’s say you want to add an IP camera to the babies [...]

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Black & Decker 500-Watt Outdoor Lamp Module

I needed this gizmo a couple of months ago when I tried to waterproof a regular X10 lamp module that ended up melting! The Outdoor Lamp Module allows you to remotely use an X10 or Freewire controller to control your exterior lights. This is perfect for controlling your Christmas/Halloween lights and other exterior lights such [...]

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TempLinc X10 / X-10 Remote Temperature Sensor

Imagine being able to activate any device in response to temperature changes. Your smart home just needs the TempLinc along with a ControLinc Maxi to do just that. To get your geek mind flowing with ideas… here are a couple of ideas of projects you could perform with this gizmo. Some of the more typical [...]

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Star Wars: Empire at War Video Game

Normally the Geeks don’t feature video games but we had to feature Star Wars: Empire at War. First of all, what geek’s juices don’t get flowing at the mention of Star Wars? Secondly, this game allows you to follow your own path and either fight alongside Jedi and the rest of the Rebel Alliance or [...]

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VWB’s MediaREADY5000

I love Linux. I love it when companies use Linux in their products… especially when the products are cool! Video Without Boundaries has created a Linux-based Media Center. VWB’s MediaREADY500 features TV Tuning and an Electronic Program Guide, PVR, Broadband Connectivity through PCMCIA Wireless Card and Ethernet support, Web Browsing, Media Jukebox, DVD/CD Player, TV [...]

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Bond-style gizmo hid plate from police eyes

According to the Bay of Plenty Times newspaper, Garry Leonard Muzyka, 46, from Cambridge Heights, built a James Bond-style gizmo on his motorcycle to hide his license plate at the flip of a lever. The gizmo tilts his motorcycle license plate to foil police and speed cameras but he “was left shaken but not stirred [...]

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Samsung Announces Three New Cameras

Samsung Camera announces three new camera models, the Digimax L60 and L85, which are the newest members of the Prestige Line, and the GX-1L, which is the second DSLR model developed jointly with Pentax.

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Review: Otterbox iPod Case (Nano and Mini iPod Cases)

iPods are perfect gizmos for getting through the drudgery of workouts allowing your mind to wander to the music, but what if your workouts consist of water sports or swimming or anything more extreme that a stationary bike and treadmill? Otterbox says they have the solution with their line of waterproof iPod cases for the [...]

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