April 2008

Star Wars DIY Force FX Lightsaber Kit

In order to complete Jedi training and become a full-fledged Jedi you must build your own lightsaber. This is just how it is done. If you lived long ago and far away and had just finished your Jedi-learning, you would be stopping by the local W’Al M’artt and buying yourself an Adegan crystal. Then you’d [...]

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Stainless Steel 8GB Video Watch

I love watches. You love watching movies. It looks like you got your movies in my watch! Thinkgeek has a Stainless Steel Video Watch with 8GB of internal flash memory as well as a full color 1.8″ screen. High pixel count and frames per second make viewing a joy. Plus this watch has a built-in [...]

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Wouldn’t You Say $60 is About Right for Mother’s Day Gift?

So how about this 7 inch widescreen LCD digital picture frame with clock, calendar and alarm? It’s only $59 (after $20MIR). The picture frame is widescreen which makes it easier to display landscape pictures and with a remote it’s easy to flip between pictures, click over to the calendar or clock setting. It’s safe to [...]

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Supersize Earbuds

Are the iPod earbuds a little too small for your ears? Thinkgeek has the answer with a product called Supersize Earbuds. These earbuds are 500x the size of regular earbuds so you actually need elephant-sized ears. If you aren’t an elephant or have huge ears, like my uncle, we’ve discovered that you could actually use [...]

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Here Hanger

Geek-art obsoletes another standard everyday item… the clothes hanger. Instead of an old boring hanger, you can use this cursor-slash-pointer geek-art item that doubles as a coat hanger. Your friends will either be amazed at what a stylish and interesting person you are for having such a cool conversation-starter mounted to your wall, or they’ll [...]

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Qwest rolls out 12 and 20 Mbps DSL service

It took a while, but now DSL is starting to compete with cable modem service on speed, as Qwest announces that they’ll be offering 12 and 20 Mbps DSL service in 23 markets. When you call up, just ask for Qwest Titanium, or Qwest Quantum, as the services will be dubbed. Sorry, but will I [...]

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Google’s Annual Food Bill: $72 million

Silicon Alley Insider estimates that Google spends an average of over $7500 per employee per year on free food, assuming that each meal costs $30. That works out to over $72 million per year! Is that worth it? Apart from considering how large their profit margins are and what a great perk does for employee [...]

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3G Apple iPhone will have GPS

It’s not exactly clear here, but either the iPod Observer and/or Engadget has a source that says the 2nd generation of the iPhone will be a 3G phone and will have GPS, real GPS that is, and not the triangulation stuff they do with now with cell towers. It will be a bit thicker and [...]

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France says Fiber-Optic Cabling is a must

As much as this seems like too much government to me, there’s a part of me that wishes I lived in France where the French government is requiring builders to install fiber-optic cabling in new apartment complexes. The goal is that by 2010, all buildings with more than 25 apartments should be wired for broadband.

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Star Wars R2-D2 Speaker Set

Just when you thought you had enough Star Wars paraphernalia, R2-D2 got together with R2-D1 to make sweet music as a speaker set. You get a two-droid set, R2-D2 and his red doppleganger R2-D1. Each features a flip-up head to reveal a speaker. Plug the stereo headphone style plug into your PC, iPod or spare [...]

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