Archive for May, 2008
| Posted May 31st, 2008 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Kill-A-Watt has expanded their product line to include a power strip so you can easily monitor the quantity and quality of your electrical power. Simply connect your electronics to the Kill-A-Watt PS, and it will assess how efficient they are while the built-in surge protection keeps them safe. Advanced features such as [...]
Posted in Audio/Video, Home Theater, Computers, Gizmo of the Day | No Comments »
| Posted May 31st, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
Android, the Google supported platform/OS for mobile devices, is starting to see the public light of day. The Android team has put together a bunch of live demos of the phone in action.
Having seen just a few of the many videos and images, I’m already looking forward to when I can have an Android-powered phone [...]
Posted in Phones, Portable | No Comments »
| Posted May 31st, 2008 by travis [e-mail, website]
Amazing! Say goodbye to those mediocre energy drinks and experience the newest energy rush available. These chips are packed with flavor and the caffeine many people crave through out the day. This product is not only a great snack, but it will give the energy boost that is regularly needed to make it to the [...]
Posted in Gizmo of the Day, Sports, Health & Fitness, Outdoors | No Comments »
| Posted May 30th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
This may be quite a leak if it turns out to be true, but take a close look at this photo. Do you see the Apple logo? Recognize the approximate size? Yep, it’s an iPhone, but this time in white and very curvy.
A couple of Dutch Apple fan sites released this pic and more this [...]
Posted in Phones, Portable | 1 Comment »
| Posted May 30th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
There are already lots of timed sprinkler systems out there that help you to automate watering your lawn and plants to keep them looking their best, but you usually have to intervene when the weather threatens to make your sprinklers moot. For example, when it rains or gets too cold.
Enter Orbit Irrigation’s solar-powered wireless rain/freeze [...]
Posted in Gizmo of the Day, Home Automation | No Comments »
| Posted May 29th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
Dell may have a mini Inspiron or Vostro laptop in the wings. So say the folks at Gizmodo who ran into Michael Dell himself toting one of these little lookers. The pencil in the image gives you an idea of the scale of it - probably an 11″ screen (hit the jump for the pic). [...]
Posted in Computers, Portable | No Comments »
| Posted May 29th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
MacRumors discovered a patent application that shows that Apple is looking into integrating solar power into their handhelds and laptops. The most interesting part of this, apart from the green benefits, is that the solar panel could be potentially integrated into the LCD screen themselves, laying right under the glass and LCD layers of the [...]
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| Posted May 29th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
Had to happen, right? Jumping rope is great exercise, but newbies tend to give it up after 5 minutes of tripping over the rope. Now you can do it wirelessly! The Jumpsnap ropeless jump rope has an LCD display built into the handles, timers, snapping sound (like the rope hitting the floor), tracks your time, [...]
Posted in Gizmo of the Day, Sports, Health & Fitness, Outdoors | No Comments »
| Posted May 28th, 2008 by travis [e-mail, website]
Sleeping through the alarm in the morning can be a huge problem for some people. They just do not seem to be loud enough to wake the dead from their slumber. The sonic bomb alarm clock’s highest volume can ogo up louder than a jackhammer. If the sound is still not enough to wake you [...]
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| Posted May 27th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
This is simply wicked cool. Although I’m not a huge fan of the iPhone, in terms of it being a cell phone, I’m immensely impressed by its touch screen interface. Here’s an example of that interface being put to amazing use by a company called Earthscape, who produces a virtual Earth app that is similar [...]
Posted in Networking & Internet, Phones | No Comments »