Archive for May, 2008
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| Posted May 12th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
Remember the days when you just bought (or built) a computer with however much storage you needed/wanted? Nowadays, your computer is more brains and less brawn, at least in the storage department, as detached storage, typically on the network becomes more popular for the home.
Here’s another such example - the HP Media Vault. We’re featuring […]
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| Posted May 11th, 2008 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Germs suck. Using UV light at germicidal wavelengths, odor-causing fungus and bacteria are destroyed with a pass of the Cleanse Light.
To coincide with one of the two peaks the germicidal effectiveness curve, the Cleanse Light emits about 86% of it’s light at 254 nanometers. UV light at these germicidal wavelengths […]
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| Posted May 10th, 2008 by travis [e-mail, website]
This ClickFree product is one of the first of its kind. The best part about it is that you do not have to do anything but plug it in to your computer. This gizmo will start to back up files all on its own. No more time wasted on installing programs that take too much […]
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| Posted May 9th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
We were pleasantly surprised to learn that you can now get PC Magazine for free. Yup, that’s a full year of PC Mag (normally somewhere around $25/yr) courtesy of Netline Corp. Netline runs Tradepub and if you check out our GfG-branded Tradepub, you’ll find hundreds of other magazines that you can get for free.
What’s the […]
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| Posted May 9th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
Built in the UK’s Legoland to mark Lego’s 50th anniversary, this monster is over 100′ tall and has half a million bricks. The Lego snob in me doesn’t like the random use of colors!
via methodshop
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| Posted May 9th, 2008 by travis [e-mail, website]
The Eiko egg broiler was designed to fit over the top of the boiling pot of water. It holds the egg in place and makes it easy to retrieve the egg when the egg is done cooking. The Eiko is shaped so that the egg hangs down in the boiling water and still allows the […]
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| Posted May 8th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
HTC announced the Touch Diamond yesterday in London and they’ve managed to pack even more features into a cell phone that many are already calling an iPhone-killer. At a minimum, it’s definitely a competitor.
The Diamond sports a 2.8″ VGA touch-screen running HTC’s own TouchFlo 3D interface and it promises some newer touch and gesture […]
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| Posted May 8th, 2008 by travis [e-mail, website]
A USB charger with 4 ports for the car is a handy gadget to have around. This is great for any geek who is on the go and needs to charge their Ipod or camera. Ipods and Cameras are only a few examples of what this little critter can do, it is capable of working […]
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| Posted May 7th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
Dang! Take-two has sold approximately 6 million copies of the latest installment in its Grand Theft Auto series of video games. I won’t comment on the style of the video game, but I will comment on the financial windfall that this is for Take-Two. They’ve got some debt, but nothing that the $500 mil couldn’t […]
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| Posted May 7th, 2008 by Chief Gadgeteer [e-mail, website]
In what is a great first, Rock Port, Missouri became the first US town to be completely powered by wind energy. They now have 4 wind turbines generating 16 Gigawatts of power annually (they require about 13). Granted that Rock Port is a relatively small town with a population of under 1400, this move demonstrates […]
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