July 2009

Sony Walkman turns 30

In a day of MP3 players that hold thousands of songs, some of which are so small you can swallow, the Walkman seems blocky and ancient. Yet, the Sony Walkman (and all of its various imitators) had such an impact on our music listening habits that the brand name still survives to this day, 30 [...]

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Quirky turns ideas into products

Do you have an idea for what you think will be the next ‘big thing’? But you don’t have any idea how you would go about turning it into a reality? Or even if it really is a good idea. Well then take a look at Quirky, an online community and company that will take [...]

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Massive 60 Target USB Duplicator by Nexcopy

About 1 year ago, Nexcopy introduced their 20 target USB duplicator and just recently they announced all new 40 and 60 port USB duplicators.  These massive duplicators wouldn’t help the “average Joe” but for those who deal with flash drives on a daily basis, it’s worth a closer look. One questions we have; how did [...]

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Garmin Oregon 550/550t – GPS With Camera

We’ve had cameras with built in GPS so now it’s time for a GPS with a built in camera! Garmin have taken their award-winning Oregon GPS system and stuck a 3.2 megapixel camera in it with 4x optical zoom – enough to rival a lot of phones on the market today – perfect for those [...]

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Super Universal Car Mount

The Super Universal Car Mount is a neat idea for those of you who like to have pretty much all your gadgets rigged up in the car – mobile phone, Sat Nav and your MP3 player. The candle-style arrangement allows you to hold up to three of your favorite gadgets and comes with leads to [...]

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Microsoft launches Hohm, a power and resource monitor

We’ve seen Google trying their hand at operating systems but what about Microsoft trying to steal power usage market share from Google? Back in February we took a look at PowerMeter – a product from Google that allows users to monitor their power consumption via ‘smart’ meters, but Microsoft has released Hohm (still in beta) [...]

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Voting for T3 Magazine’s 2009 Gadget Awards is underway

UK Gadget magazine, T3, is running its very own gadget awards, and you can help them out by voting! Check out the awards website and vote now.

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Recover your Google password via SMS/text message

Nice new feature for your Google account (same as the one you use for Gmail) – get a password-reset code via SMS or text message. All you need to do is click on Accounts, then Password Recovery Options and add your cell phone #.

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Apple blocks Palm Pres from accessing iTunes

Wow, c’mon Apple – are you really hurting for more $ that you needed to block the relatively small number of Palm Pre users from getting to iTunes?! Of course, this isn’t really targeted at just Palm Pres, but other non-iPod/iPhone devices, but still. I personally don’t use either iTunes, the desktop software (even when [...]

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DeLorme Earthmate PN-30 – handheld GPS

So for those of you that are into GPS units, take a look at the DeLorme’s Earthmate PN-30. Very recently DeLorme released their PN-40 with a recommended list price of $400 – the PN-30 trumps this with a price of $300 whilst retaining the majority of the features. It is easily recognizable as an Earthmate [...]

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