March 2006

High-tech meets the Restaurant Industry

Restaurants are using more gadgets as well as the Internet to help them retain and satisfy their customers. Quite a number of restaurants are using handheld devices that contain wine lists wiith applications that customers can use to choose the best wine for their meal and price range. You can find waiters/waitresses at Denny’s in [...]

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Geocaching: New Game for Nerds

GPS-Gadget-owning nerds have had a new game for a few years now: geocaching. Here’s how the game works: you lookup the locations of geocaches on various geocaching websites, find the geocache, take something from the cache, add something else and make a note in the frequently enclosed logbook. Typically, the caches have little value. Doesn’t [...]

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Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED Film Scanner

If you are serious about digitizing your family stockpile of photos or if you are a professional or serious photographer hobbyist, you need to check out Nikon’s Super CoolScan 9000 ED. Supporting formats from 35mm slides and film strips to 16mm film, the Scanner-Nikkor ED glass lens offers a 4,000 dpi optical resolution. While the [...]

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A Certain Manufacturer’s Surround Sound Receiver

This Gizmo of the Day has been removed due to the manufacturer’s “request”.

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Beanbag Cell Phone Chair

No batteries needed for this gizmo-hugging device. Get one or two of these mini beanbags, stick them in an accessible location and drop your cell phone/blackberry/PDA/iPod into them when you’re at home. You’ll never lose those little gadgets again. Comes in lots of colors: Neon Green, Turquoise, Orange, Red, Fuschia, Charcoal and White.

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Swash Toilet Seat Bidet w/Remote

Being lactose intolerant, I love a good toilet seat. While the Swash rings in at $549, it’s actually a high tech seat that heats up (nothing worse than a cold seat to disrupt your duties) and the seat has a built-in Bidet which delivers a warm water wash with adjustable temperature, pressure and pulsation allowing [...]

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ICON Dimmer Switch

The ICON line from Smarthome utilizes INSTEON which is a next generation home automation networking technology and is value-oriented having similar features as regular INSTEON products without the added cost. For the price of a standard dimmer (check Home Depot or Lowes, dimmers now run $20!), you can add an INSTEON controlled dimmer. If you [...]

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iPod nano 1GB – Black

One of Apple’s latest released products includes a 1GB version of the iPod Nano. Released in both white and black, you can now get your hands on a Nano for under $150! Considering iPod Nanos are commonly used for working out, the 240 song capacity of the Nano should be plenty for any workout and [...]

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Review: Slappa PSP Complete Case

The Geeks have played with several Slappa products over the years and have never been disappointed with the various products they sell that “protect your digital gear.” Today, we will test the Slappa tagline by putting a Sony Playstation Portable at risk in the PSP Complete Case. If the PSP survives the tests today, we’ll [...]

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Scarecrow Water Spraying Animal Repeller

Do you have pests that mess up your yard… you know, deer, dogs, cats, raccoons, kids? Well, scare them off your property while dousing them with a burst of water! Not only is the Scarecrow Water Spraying Animal Repeller a good deterent but if you get to watch an unsuspecting kid, er, I mean pest, [...]

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