In case you got tired of waiting for the iPhone to show up on Verizon, why not consider an Android phone, say perhaps the Google Nexus One, which you can currently get on T-Mobile.
HTC will be shipping these to Verizon by April. If you’re in Britain, expect Nexus Ones to show up on Vodafone too.
Meantime, enjoy the Nexus One Ninja video!
Looking for a high-tech gag gift, say for April Fool’s day? Take a look at the Cell-R-Derm which parades as a patch for obsessed cell phone users.
What’s amazing is how detailed their website is!
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Price: $12.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
What happens when you string 24 drives together is you end up with a computer that is blazingly fast. Watch the video. It’s entertaining and you’ll be dying to have you very own RAID array that has a throughput somewhere north of 30x what you currently have.
Sure, there are a million different iPod docks out there, but we just had to feature this one as it’s so unique and cool looking. The Panasonic SC-SP100 (great model name, eh?) is a universal dock for iPod and iPhones (except for iPod shuffles).
Plug your iPod/iPhone in and get 20W of speaker goodness that even includes a subwoofer. Sweet. One nice feature is the ability to still update your Apple iGadget with the USB cable plugged in.
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Price: $114.95
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Amazon now has a ‘green’ category off of its electronics page. The products listed within have certifications from both EnergySar and EPEAT.
Note that this doesn’t mean that all of the products match up equally – there are different levels of ‘green’. For example, there are only 14 TVs that make the EPEAT silver level.
Cell phone radiation – myth or real? Yes, it’s definitely real and you should wear a headset to reduce the level of radiation that you’re exposed to. But if you’re one of the resistant types that just loves holding your phone to your head, then Pong Research has an answer for you – the Pong Case.
The claim is that it reduces the amount of radiation that hits your head. A bunch of independent tests show that it really does reduce it. Not to zero, but 65% in some cases.
Unfortunately, radiation abatement isn’t cheap or ubiquitous since it’s only available for the iPhone 3G/3GS. We can still dream of a day when cell phone makers just build the darn radiation protection into the units or give you an electric shock if you hold it too long. 
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More info from the manufacturer
Price: $59.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Well the iPhone honeymoon at AT&T may be over, what with Android handsets coming to the network. The first one is here, the Motorola Backflip and like its name, it has a hinged design that lets the keyboard float below the screen or even to rotate all the way around.
Here are the big points:
You can get the phone with a service plan for next to nothing, or buy it outright for $350 at places like Amazon.
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Price: $349.99 (without contract)
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Here is another security monitor for your home – the RedAlert by Swann which is primarily a motion-sensitive video recorder. It records either JPEG photos or AVI videos when motion is selected. It can record from 1 camera at a time, although you can hook up a wired camera to it as well and switch between that and the included wireless camera. There’s a PIP feature that lets you watch both simultaneously.
The included 128MB SD card can record 250 10 second videos, and the wireless camera can ’see in the dark’ up to 16ft away. Connects to your TV for viewing the photos and video. What’s really missing is a network capability so you can monitor your cameras remotely.
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Price: $199.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Use one of your home’s largest gadget, your TV, to enhance one of the most low-tech activities we all do: read. The Wireless Page to TV Magnifier is a mouse-sized gizmo that scans your books or magazines and sends the image wirelessly to your TV in real time, magnifying it up to 25x it’s actual size.
The scanner is a 655×488 pixel scanner, and there’s a wireless base that plugs into your television via an RCA video cable. This would be a great gift for a lot of people, who enjoy reading but it’s too much of a strain on their eyes.
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Price: $149.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Another must-have gadget for your kitchen that is very practical and can replace your existing analog, boring tool. The Taylor digital measuring cup measures both dry and liquid ingredients, and displays it on the LCD screen on the handle.
It can convert weight to volume for water, milk, oil, sugar, and flour. It can display both metric and imperial units and weigh in increments of milliliters, cups, fluid ounces, grams, and pounds.
No need to change batteries – a long-life Lithium battery is embedded.
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Price: $34.95
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
