October 2007

Irregular IQ Cube

Everyone’s played with that other cube toy, and there are so many YouTube videos and other sites explaining how to solve them, it’s gotten to be a little boring and passé. This cube toy ramps up the difficulty to INSANE. No more straight vertical and horizontal cuts in the cube shape – oh no! There [...]

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eStarling E-Mail Enabled Wi-Fi Photo Frame

Obviously printed photos are so last-decade. Digital photo frames allow us to go directly from shooting to displaying our photos with no messy meatspace-based printed version needed. The eStarling 2.0 Wi-Fi Photo Frame takes this concept to the next level by connecting to your local Wi-Fi network and allowing you to send photos to it [...]

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Halloween for Geeks

Are you all about the DIY? Are you geeky about Halloween? If so, the Geeks are compiling a list of Halloween DIY projects that Geeks can get into over on Halloween for Geeks! We’ve scoured the web and linked to the coolest Halloween projects including creating your own Axworthy Flying Ghost or a Animatronic Skeleton. [...]

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360 Electrical Outlet

One of the joys of being a technology enthusiast is owning enough electronic gadgets to outfit a small (or large!) IT department. The downside is you have to plug all that equipment in somewhere, ultimately resulting in a power cord mess. Wires get tangled and outlets get blocked and before you know it your gadget [...]

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Cool Costumes for Halloween

Normally the Geeks have a week’s worth of Halloween gizmos, but this year we’ve done something differently and created a couple new Halloween themed sites because we like Halloween so much including Cool Costumes for Halloween which features the coolest and newest new costumes. Themed costumes from Star Wars to Superheros exist on the site [...]

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Pocket Microscope

A microscope can be a pretty handy device, especially when looking at objects that are microscopic. They have been in use for nearly 400 years and have developed into some pretty sophisticated devices, such as the scanning electron microscope or even a USB microscope. With an entire universe of small stuff all around us, the [...]

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LED Magnetized Telescopic Rescue Stick

It has happened even to the best of us. You’re installing that new rack mount server and you’re putting in your last rack screw as it gently slips, falling down into a maze of wires and metal brackets. Doh! Now you’ll have to walk back down to the second floor just to get a single [...]

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Glow Brick

Yep – it’s a glow-in-the-dark light bulb trapped inside a solid acrylic brick. The Glow Brick recharges from energy in natural sunlight during the day and glows at night. Not only that, it is actually made with a real light bulb! That’s right. The glow-in-the-dark* pigment is trapped inside a real light bulb (just like [...]

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Star Wars X-Wing model – will really fly!

Holy @(*&#$. Just when you think Sci-Fi fans, particularly of universes like Star Wars, had just about gone all out with their crazy fan-ness, someone goes and does something like this: build a 21-foot X-Wing fighter that they plan to launch next week. It has real moving wings and solid-fuel rocket engines. Ok, so no [...]

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Synology Disk Station DS107+ NAS Review

The Virtual Hideout gang reviewed the Synology Disk Station DS107+ NAS and believe the solution is perfect for a small office or home users: The average price I can find for the DS107+ is about $330. This seems like an amazingly good deal as far as I’m concerned. It’s external storage with gigabit Ethernet, a [...]

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