October 2009

New Google Search feature: Quick View of PDF files

Keep your eyes peeled for this new Google Search feature. If your result pulls up a PDF file, then look for the “Quick View” link – that’ll open up the PDF doc as a Google Docs document which previews the PDF nicely without you having to download it and open it up in your computer’s [...]

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Camera Cube Level – use bubble levelers to get your photos straight

This no-batteries required gadget falls into the category of things that make you smile wryly and wonder why you didn’t imagine it. The Camera Cube Level is pretty simple – it’s a transparent cube with 3 bubble levelers inside. You slide the whole cube onto the top of your camera’s hot shoe and now you’re [...]

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Moxi Mate – multi-room add-on for Moxi DVR

Digeo (now owned by Arris) recently released a new addition to their product line, the Moxi Mate, which solves the multi-room problem, as in how do you get the content on your main Moxi DVR to a TV in another room. The Moxi Mate has a large subset of the features of a regular Moxi [...]

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Borders bookstores to have free WiFi

Here’s another place to go hang out with your laptop and surf the Web – Borders bookstores. They’re rolling out free WiFi starting about the middle of this month in most of their stores nationwide.

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Comcast trialing service to alert customers of potential computer infections

Comcast just launched a trial of an automated service that would alert its customers if they have possible virus or malware infections on their home computers. Great, but… it works as a browser toolbar. Granted the average customer probably uses their Internet connection mainly to surf the Web, but what happens if they switch browsers [...]

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Barnes & Noble eReader may run Android

The folks at Gizmodo are saying that the upcoming eReader from Barnes & Noble will run Android. If that’s true, I’ll be thrilled. As a ‘power user’ at minimum, I always want my electronics devices to be more than just appliances. I want them to be computers, that can be modified and updated and hacked. [...]

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KeyScan keyboard with built-in color scanner and ID card feeder

This gadget is a bit unusual for the average home user, but I can see some businesses using this – it’s a keyboard with a color scanner built right into it. The scanner is a sheet-feed scanner that can also take plastic cards like driver licenses, ID cards, etc. It scans into color at 24/48 [...]

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Sony Ericsson MH907 earbuds – motion sensing

Sony just rolled out the world’s first ‘motion sensing’ earbuds. Well, that’s how they’re pitching it, but technically, it doesn’t sense motion. It senses body contact (electrical capacitance trick), similar to how some touchscreens work. Anyway, the MH907 earbuds has 2 main functions – plug both buds into your ears and your music starts; remove [...]

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Handheld Body Fat Analyzers

This gadget just smacks of ‘Made in China on a “3rd shift”‘! For just $10, this handheld device measures your body fat percentage, and is also a clock and an alarm clock. Ha! It can also stores 8 different sets of data. What’s scary is that it can apparently measure from 5 to 50%. Can [...]

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USB Ultrasonic Sonic Mosquito Pest Repeller

No idea if this specific product works, but the idea has been around for a long time in the form of other similar products that use certain frequencies to repel insects and other bugs. The twist with this one is that it is in the form of a USB stick. It is specifically meant to [...]

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