May 2007

UV Disinfectant Wand

You know that guy down the hall who is hacking up a lung? That guy who picked up your limited-edition Greedo action figure, spreading his diseases all over it? Come on, you can’t be sick – you’ve got too much work to do! Why didn’t he stay home, and keep his germs to himself? The [...]

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Mario Bros. USB Mouse

Just when you thought you saw everything Mario known to mankind… along come these stylish Mario USB Mice. Your choice of a pixelish Mario or the highly desirable golden star. Both offer a retro 8-bit appeal and feature the original mechanical mouse ball mechanism that you probably forgot existed. Push one of these beauties across [...]

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How Do I Keep Dogs / Cats / Deer From My Yard?

The Geeks continue to try and answer your questions with one we’ve received over a dozen times this past week… How Do I Keep Dogs / Cats / Deer From My Yard? There are a couple non-Geeky ideas including sprinkling moth ball all over which eventually melt into the lawn and cats and dogs do [...]

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Time Projecting Red Laser Pointer

From ThinkGeek, the porn for geeks store… We think it was the great philosopher Beck who once observed, “time is a piece of wax fallin’ on a termite …that’s choking on the splinters.” Okay, so we’re not quite sure what he might have ingested before making this observation but it could be a reasonable explanation [...]

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How Can I Turn On My Porch Lights at Sunset Automatically?

Our next question the Geeks tackle is “How Can I Turn On My Porch Lights at Sunset Automatically?”. Hate coming home in the dark? There’s no need to stumble across your walkway or bump into scattered items left in your home’s entryway. With just a few simple products, you can use INSTEON technology to turn [...]

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Animated Retro Table Tennis Shirt

Get the grand-daddy of video games on a t-shirt… animated! This is a great shirt for any retro gamers. Simply pop two AAA batteries into the concealed pack, push a button and voila! Amazing animated glowing old skool gaming on your chest. The two automated computer players are very talented and never seem to miss [...]

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Remote Control Daleks

Dr. Who is a guilty pleasure in the US and an obsession in the UK. Amazingly the show is still being produced today with the tenth successive Doctor now in play. Of course we all know the Daleks are the real stars of Dr. Who. With a toilet plunger in one hand and a elongated [...]

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X-Arcade Tankstick Review

The newest edition to X-Arcade’s arcade joystick lineup, the Tankstick, includes two complete arcade joystick and button arrangements as well as a center Trackball for retrogames like Centipede and the arcade Golden Tee series. A couple years ago my wife surprised me for my birthday with X-Arcade’s Dual Joystick which I really enjoyed… see if [...]

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Hydrodynamic Building Set

Water is everywhere. It covers 71% of the Earth’s surface and composes about 112% of the human body. Gaining control over water would be an awesome super power, but for now we are stuck with using science to master water. Good thing someone invented this Hydrodynamic Building Set. It makes science fun again. But this [...]

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Apple iPhone Approved By Feds

The FCC has approved Apple’s iPhone for sale in the US according to posted documents on the FCC Web Site. With the FCC certification, Apple should go ahead with plans to sell the iPhone sometime in June/July. The documents confirmed that the iPhone will work with AT&Ts EDGE wireless data network and not their 3G [...]

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