February 2008

Nerf Maverick

There comes a time in every cube-dweller’s life, when he or she has to take the law into his or her hands. Maybe it’s finding out that stooge from marketing has stolen your last pencil…again! Or perhaps you’re tired of having your office moved repeatedly. Well, it’s time to draw a line in the low [...]

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Sprint jumps on the unlimited cell phone plan bandwagon

Sprint has joined AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile in offering unlimited cell phone calling plans. Sprint’s first unlimited plan is $99 and includes *everything*, not just calls, but data and PTT (Push to Talk) if you have one of those phones. Sprint is certainly pushing its competitors harder, and they must if they are to stem [...]

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M&K Sound Returns!

High-end home audio speakers may be a bit bigger than your typical gizmo, but this is certainly welcome news for you audiophile geeks out there. Months back it was uncovered that premium home and professional speaker manufacturer M&K Sound would be making a return under new ownership… after being closed for over a year. Today, [...]

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Credit Card Size Digital Video Player

Is that a PMP in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Sorry, that’s all I could think of for this super mini video player that sports a 2.4″ or 2.8″ full-size bright high-res LCD display. The device can be expanded with a memory card (T-Flash or MicroSD) but comes with 2GB [...]

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Static Electricity Eliminator

As you travel throughout your day, electrons are shifting all over your body. Sometimes, like when you pull your sweater off or slide out of your car, an excess of electrons attach themselves to your body (you are actually tearing them off of the other substance). When you next touch a piece of positively charged [...]

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Japanese Star Wars Lightsaber Desk Lamp

Wicked gift for any Star Wars geek, this Star Wars Lightsaber Desk Lamp will be proudly displayed in cubes, offices and homes everywhere a SW Geek works, plays or sleeps. The desk lamp is a mini glowing desk lamps made to look like the Star Wars Lightsabers. Chose the dark side with the red Darth [...]

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Q Branch Would Approve: The Rinspeed sQuba

A cursory glance of the latest Fords, Chevys, Toyotas and cars available from any of the other big automakers in any given year reveals little in the way of truly new or revolutionary features. A redesigned cupholder here, a different color backlight on the instrument panel there, but when you think about it, there is [...]

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Review: Honestech’s VHS to DVD 3.0 Deluxe

[Buy v3.0!] [Buy v4.0!] [Buy v5.0!] Update: Honestech has released v5.0 of VHS to DVD Deluxe. If you have any kind of video collection dating back even to the 90s, then you probably have a number of VHS tapes collecting dust once you stopped using your VCR and switched to using your DVD player exclusively. [...]

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iStraw Emergency Water Filter

The iStraw Emergency Water Filter just might save your butt on your next backpacking trip… literally. The iStraw is a polycarbonate straw fitted with special micro-filtration technology on a membrane that can clean your water and protect you against water borne bacteria and protozoa present in drinking water and ice in many countries. The iStraw [...]

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Book Review: Hacking, The Art of Exploitation

Now in its second edition and twice as long as the first edition, “Hacking, The Art of Exploitation“, introduces the reader very rapidly to programming, pseudo-code, the C language, then dives deeply into exploits, and their associated code. If you’ve ever wanted to know what a buffer overflow, spoofing or password cracking was, then this [...]

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