gadgets

Reminder: Father’s Day Approaching

The Geeks would like to give you a friendly reminder that Father’s Day is only a month away! Amazon has some specific gift stores setup for the occasion including a Gladiator GarageWorks storefront, a Deals and Bargains storefront and my favorite, a Tools and Home Improvements Gift Store.

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Happy New Year! And our 2010 Gadget Predictions

Happy New Year to you, our readers, your friends and family. Here’s hoping that 2010 is a better year for us all. In the meantime, while we wait another 12 months to see how things will shake out, we dare to give you our humble predictions for what’s in store gadget and technology-wise for 2010. [...]

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Gadget Gifts – Ideas, Recommendations, Suggestions

We’ve put together a list of gadget gifts for the gizmo-lover in your life. These aren’t just great for the Christmas holiday season but any time of year. For the most part, we’ve tried to stay away from the usual and obvious electronic gadgets like MP3 players, phones and cameras, but instead bring you a [...]

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Google introduces social gadgets for iGoogle

iGoogle now has ‘social’ gadgets, gadgets and widgets that allow you to collaborate (a.k.a. play games), share info and see what your friends are up to. For example, there are gadgets for Scrabble, chess, trivia, horoscopes, sharing photos, YouTube and much, much more. Video after the jump.

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Forensic gadgets you can buy for home use

Interested in becoming like one of those folks on CSI? Want to start toying around in your house first? Well take a look at this nice list of forensic gadgets you can buy for yourself. This article is from a site that is geared exactly to those folks looking to become CSIs. They cover gadgets [...]

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Top Three Weird & Nerdy Gizmos

Evil iPod Shuffle Case – If you love your iPod shuffle, and you’re a little on the evil side yourself, then you’ll love this little guy. In exchange for $1 (and possibly your immortal soul) you can stow your tunes and your Shuffle inside his skin. Be careful putting him in your pocket though; you [...]

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Top Three Weird, Must-Have Electronics

Muji CD Player – This CD player isn’t your standard “walk-around-very-carefully” music device. As a matter of fact, it looks a lot like a little lamp. The Muji CD Player is wall ounted, and absolutely indispensable, at around $180. You mount it, and turn it on by pulling the string. It’s flat, with its own [...]

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What Is A Gizmo?

We often use the words Gizmo and Gadget here at Gizmos for Geeks (as the name suggests), but what do they mean? The first thing is that “Gizmo” and “Gadget” pretty much mean the same thing, so this post could easily be titled ‘What Is A Gadget?‘ Princeton defines gizmos as ‘devices or controls that [...]

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CES 2009: The Geeks Prepare

For the fifth straight year the Geeks are preparing for our annual pilgrimage to the holy land of consumer electronics… the Consumer Electronics Show.  Rather than report on every gadget at CES, we’ll provide our slant on the larger trends and focus on the few groundbreaking gizmos similar to what we’ve done over the past [...]

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Myvic Electronic Cigarettes – simulate smoking

Like smoking but don’t want to quit? Well UK company Myvic is touting their Electronic Cigarette as the answer. Instead of the usual tobacco, tar and a gazillion other chemicals, the electronic cigarette is mostly nicotine. Yep, so you can stay addicted to that one chemical. You still get smoke which is mostly water vapor, [...]

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