Dual Bay SATA Hot Swap JBOD Enclosure
Need space?
This DualBay USB 2.0 external enclosure combines up to 2x SATA I or SATA II 1000 gigabyte (GB) hard disks each for a massive 2.0 terabyte (TB). The Dual Bay SATA Hot Swap JOBD Enclosure supports two hard drives of different sizes, brand & RPM so no need to waste puny smaller hard drives. A built-in powerful 4 x 4cm fan, provides excellent cooling and reliable operation. Also, the One Touch Backup and Secure Door with lock to ensure the safety of your precious data.
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Star Wars DIY Force FX Lightsaber Kit
In order to complete Jedi training and become a full-fledged Jedi you must build your own lightsaber. This is just how it is done. If you lived long ago and far away and had just finished your Jedi-learning, you would be stopping by the local W'Al M'artt and buying yourself an Adegan crystal. Then you'd cram it into your saber hilt along with a power source, add a little bit of loving care, and voila: a lightsaber fit for a Jedi. Alas, there are no more Adegan crystals... Read more...
Stainless Steel 8GB Video Watch
I love watches. You love watching movies. It looks like you got your movies in my watch! Thinkgeek has a Stainless Steel Video Watch with 8GB of internal flash memory as well as a full color 1.8" screen.
High pixel count and frames per second make viewing a joy. Plus this watch has a built-in voice recorder, multiple OSD languages to choose from, a built-in high quality speaker as well as a earphone jack, the ability to view JPEG pictures and listen to music at the same time, and... Read more...
Wouldn't You Say $60 is About Right for Mother's Day Gift?
So how about this 7 inch widescreen LCD digital picture frame with clock, calendar and alarm? It's only $59 (after $20MIR). The picture frame is widescreen which makes it easier to display landscape pictures and with a remote it's easy to flip between pictures, click over to the calendar or clock setting.
It's safe to say any Mother loves pictures of her kids, grand kids or anyone else in the family tree. That's why you can't go wrong with a digital picture frame.
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Supersize Earbuds
Are the iPod earbuds a little too small for your ears? Thinkgeek has the answer with a product called Supersize Earbuds. These earbuds are 500x the size of regular earbuds so you actually need elephant-sized ears.
If you aren't an elephant or have huge ears, like my uncle, we've discovered that you could actually use these ginormous earbuds as desktop speakers. In fact, you'll probably look like a chic geek with these on your desk.
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Here Hanger
Geek-art obsoletes another standard everyday item... the clothes hanger. Instead of an old boring hanger, you can use this cursor-slash-pointer geek-art item that doubles as a coat hanger.
Your friends will either be amazed at what a stylish and interesting person you are for having such a cool conversation-starter mounted to your wall, or they'll put you in a rubber room for talking to a pointer with a jacket on it.
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Qwest rolls out 12 and 20 Mbps DSL service
It took a while, but now DSL is starting to compete with cable modem service on speed, as Qwest announces that they'll be offering 12 and 20 Mbps DSL service in 23 markets. When you call up, just ask for Qwest Titanium, or Qwest Quantum, as the services will be dubbed.
Sorry, but will I know you're drooling over this, you'll have to wait closer to the end of the year if not early 2009, and you'll need to be prepared to shell out $65/mo for the 12Mbps and $100/mo for 20. Hmm...... Read more...
Google's Annual Food Bill: $72 million
Silicon Alley Insider estimates that Google spends an average of over $7500 per employee per year on free food, assuming that each meal costs $30. That works out to over $72 million per year!
Is that worth it? Apart from considering how large their profit margins are and what a great perk does for employee morale, also consider this: given that a huge portion of Googlers make salaries north of $75k, a perk that costs 10% of that is easily worth it if those employees put in even 1 more hour of work... Read more...
3G Apple iPhone will have GPS
It's not exactly clear here, but either the iPod Observer and/or Engadget has a source that says the 2nd generation of the iPhone will be a 3G phone and will have GPS, real GPS that is, and not the triangulation stuff they do with now with cell towers. It will be a bit thicker and could ship as early as July.
via The iPod Observer and Engadget.
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France says Fiber-Optic Cabling is a must
As much as this seems like too much government to me, there's a part of me that wishes I lived in France where the French government is requiring builders to install fiber-optic cabling in new apartment complexes. The goal is that by 2010, all buildings with more than 25 apartments should be wired for broadband. Read more...
Star Wars R2-D2 Speaker Set
Just when you thought you had enough Star Wars paraphernalia, R2-D2 got together with R2-D1 to make sweet music as a speaker set.
You get a two-droid set, R2-D2 and his red doppleganger R2-D1. Each features a flip-up head to reveal a speaker. Plug the stereo headphone style plug into your PC, iPod or spare Wookie for some droid-based sound. We won't kid you, these speakers are not powered so their volume is limited by whatever audio input you give them. But don't you want to help out a droid who's... Read more...
HP Mini-Note 8.9" Aluminum Laptop
Finally, the US gets it! Geeks are moving from the high end performance (and heavy) laptops to the ultra-portables in droves. While this market has been hot in other countries throughout Europe as well as the Asian markets including Japan, it took the Asus Eee PC to ignite the passion for ultra-portables here.
While the Asus Eee PC is definitely a rocking ultra-portable, the resolution of the monitor and the small solid state hard drive were an inhibitor for me and others. HP has answered with a... Read more...
Eccentric iPod Alternatives
Put away your iPod. These music players don't hold thousands of songs, movies and audiobooks. Their features are limited, but you will get more of a "wow" reaction from them.
First up--the Foxhole Radio. These simple radios were built from scraps of wire, cardboard tubes, razor blades and safety pins by GIs in WWII. Instructions are here--the real challenge is to scrounge up the parts for one of these without spending a dime. Most of the components should be found in the layers of debris in... Read more...