September 2008

Photo: The Burj Dubai Skyscraper

This thing is phenomenal. This a building gadget if I’ve ever seen one. The Burj Dubai Skyscraper. Oh yes, this is already the tallest man-made structure on Earth. Price tag: US$4.1 billion. Click the pic for the full-sized image.

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TiVo HD XL DVR – 150 hours of HD recording

TiVo has a new HD DVR box – the HD XL that boasts a capacity of 150 hours (about 1 terabyte (TB)) of High Def recording. The HD XL also sports a tri-tuner that lets you record 2 HD channels while watching a 3rd live. As far as HD support goes, the XL supports 480i, [...]

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Picasa 3 is out with lots of new features

Picasa was already a pretty damn good application for managing photos and even videos. Version 3 of Picasa has even more cool features. Here’s a taste: Retouch your pics with a little airbrushing without needing to know Photoshop movie editing and creating using your photos, movies and music Upload your pics to Picasa Web (sync [...]

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Solar Powered Bonsai Tree Can Charge Your iPod and Mobile Phone

Recharge your cellphone, iPod, iPhone and camera with this USB solar powered bonsai tree by French designer Vivien Muller. Thanks to 54 tiny photovoltaic panels, the iBonsai (we just made that name up) will store energy in a hidden battery during the day, allowing you to recharge your gadgets even at night.

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Amazon’s Emmy Event

In anticipation of the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards show (Sep 21), Amazon.com has built a special page highlighting all of the nominees and naturally links to buy the DVDs of those shows. Hop over and browse the list of shows that you may not have been watching, but turned out to be better than you [...]

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Kevin Rose says New iPods Coming Soon

Is Digg.com founder and Diggnation star Kevin Rose abusing his Apple contacts? This past weekend Kevin blogged about some new stuff being released by Apple next month including new iPods and an iTunes update.

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Samsung offering a recycling program in the US

Thank you Samsung for deciding to launch a recycling program in the 50 states. With the exception of appliances, you can drop off any Samsung consumer electronics at various drop-off points. Here is the Samsung Recycling Direct website. If you’re looking for more recycling resources, just do a search on our site as we’ve covered [...]

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Comcast to cap broadband users’ bandwidth

Ok, so 250 gigabytes of traffic is a pretty high limit, especially compared to some other providers, but why such a cap if they say that the average usage is 2 to 3 GB? Well, it’s their call, but if you’re going to have a limit, you better make sure you give users a way [...]

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Charge your Mobile Phone by walking around

M2E Power has announced that they will start selling a cell-phone charger that can convert your movements into power for your cell phone and/or other devices. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to buy this device until next year. The other letdown is that the upcoming gadget won’t be built directly into a cell phone. At [...]

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Best Buy charging $30 to remove bloatware from computers

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – computers are complicated, even for folks like me who are in the business. With that in mind, Best Buy has discovered another way to mint money – charging folks a small premium to remove the bloatware that the major computer makers install on their computers. [...]

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