September 2006

Geek 4 Sale – William A. Burton

Last week, Geek 4 Sale was added to our network of sites and we featured our first “Geek of the Week”. This is “the Geeks” way of helping other geeks out. William A. Burton has been selected as our second featured “Geek of the Week”. Think of this site as the “woot” for buying geeks [...]

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Panasonic Bagless Vacuum with Infrared Dirt Sensors

The question here is when will *all* vacuum cleaners have infrared dirt sensors? Can’t be that far away, but until then at least the Panasonic MC-V7720 does (who comes up with these model numbers anyway?). Essentially, as the vacuum cleaner passes over areas that it determines to have more dirt/dust/animal dander/etc. than usual, it ups [...]

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21 HD Radio models coming online in November

If you’re considering buying an HD radio, then you may want to hold off for 2 months or so. TWICE magazine is reporting that at least 21 HD Radio SKUs for the home will be available from 14 brands by November. They’ve got a preview of some of these brands and models, including models from [...]

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Average American home has more TVs than people

This isn’t a completely surprising headline: there are 2.73 TV sets compared with 2.55 people in the typical American home. The statistic that I would like to see is how many computers there are in the average home. For comparison, my 2 person household only has 2 televisions, but 7 computers! Ok, I’ll admit that [...]

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8GB iPod Nano

About a week ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest incarnation of the extremely popular iPod Nano. As he put it, it is the “completely remastered” Nano. It sure is. Now beefed up to 8GB, and sporting a tougher annodized aluminum shell that is available in 5 different colors, the Nano is even a [...]

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Satellite TV Services’ DVR Receivers Compared

So you decided that you are going to switch to Satellite TV and part of the decision is based on which DVR you get in your package. Which of the two nationwide services should you get? Dish Network or DirecTV? This article takes a look at your choices and the major differences in the current [...]

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Automatic Sliding Patio Door System

For the ultimate in lazin… umm… home automation, check out the remote-controlled Sliding Patio Door System. This retrofits your existing sliding door and comes with 2 remotes that can be hand held or wall-mounted. When opened, the door pauses before closing again. Of course, it has sensors to detect whether there is an obstruction, and [...]

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teamslide: Web-based Presentation Application

German company, telepark, is billing its teamslide application as the 1st remote slide presentation software that needs no download and works across all platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux) and on any device as well as being the to integrate Powerpoint slides with Skype. Although I can’t vouch for the ’1st’ part, I can say that [...]

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Chauvet Laser Wizard

Using a 4.9m red laser, the Chauvet Laser Wizard generates and projects 16 preset geometric patterns using sound-activation or if you set the mode of operation to speed or manual. Using the manual mode you can create your own patterns too. You need to check out this page to view the product demos and see [...]

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Not one but three new Sling Media products making the FCC Rounds

As mentioned back on September 14th, TG Daily reported that Sling Media had received approval from the FCC for their first major hardware update to their award-winning Slingbox A/V. Well, according to Smartphone_Slinger on slingcommunity.com Sling Media actually plans on releasing three new models.

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