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eyeTV Lets You Watch and Record Broadcast TV on your Mac

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Elegato’s EyeTV for Mac allows you to watch and record TV broadcast via standard signals onto your Mac. The signal accepted by the adaptors varies as there are a few different types to meet your needs. While the devices are priced between $100 and $200 depending on the version, it does mean that you don’t have to buy a separate TV for that room and so you can save yourself some dollars.

We’ll have a brief look at the different versions here.

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BlueLine’s $100 PowerCost Monitor and Energy Meter Saves You Money and Electricity

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Some energy companies are offering energy consumption meters to help you work out how much you’re spending on electricity – sounds counter-intuitive doesn’t it? An energy company trying to make you spend less with them…

If you’re not lucky enough to get one of these for free, they’re definitely worth the investment. They can quickly help you realize what you spend money on the most and how you can cut back.

The money you will save by using one of these properly will cover the cost of the device many times over during its lifetime.

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New Year’s Resolution: Tidy Up Your Wires? Mr Handsfree Family Charger can help

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Most geeks take pride in having a room filled with lots of messy wires and equipment maybe because it baffles the ordinary person and they then get to answer lots of questions about what it all does. Satisfying. Perhaps.

For those that don’t, SmartHome has a neat little charging station that allows you to charge 3 portable gadgets from at any one time without the mess that usually goes with this.

The ‘Mr Handsfree Family Charger’ is just like a regular multiple-socket adapter except with 3 stands stuck on the end and tidy places to wrap your wires around, making for very neat and clean living.

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JOOS Orange Solar Charger Burns the Competition

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JOOS OrangeWhen I first got a solar charger for my Nokia N95 all those years ago now it seemed that it simply couldn’t sustain the phone’s energy consumption for any decent period of time, but the new JOOS (pronounced ‘juice’) Orange solar charger is planning to change that.

The manufacturers of the device are claiming that it can provide 20 times more power (offering up to 2.5 hours of talk time for every hour charging) than competing solar panels making it a very attractive option for some of the power-hungry devices it can charge.

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Eneloop Adds Sophistication to Portable Chargers

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Eneloop ChargerIn the past, portable charging devices running off a couple of AA batteries have been, for the most part, dodgy. You could pick them up in supermarkets for $10 and they wouldn’t have given you anywhere near enough power to switch your dead phone back on.

Sanyo has brought the battery-powered charger into 2010 by introducing their new Eneloop charging device. The Eneloop runs off AA batteries, but rechargeable Ni-Mh AAs, rather than disposable ones, that can be recharged by plugging the Eneloop into your laptop or other USB charger.

The Eneloop has immediately put itself a cut above its competition by supplying very high quality Ni-Mh cells with the charger that don’t leak over time. …

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Uber Small Radar Speed Gun by PocketRadar

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PocketRadarFor athletes, knowing the speed of things is important for training purposes. PocketRadar has altered the way you can do this by producing a speed gun that is incomprehensibly small; small enough to fit very comfortably in the palm of your hand.

According to the manufacturer, existing radar technology was be adapted to make it small enough, and the PocketRadar uses a Doppler radar signal sensing and antenna components to give it the most accurate speed reading possible – the manufacturers claim this to  be accurate within 1 mph (mile per hour).

PocketRadar’s target audience include sports and motorsports fans, although we’re not sure if the novelty wouldn’t wear off after a few uses.

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AirStash Wireless Flash Drive makes File Sharing easy

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AirStash Wireless Flash DriveThought you’d just about got USB flash drives all worked out? Sorry guys, they were so0o last year.

The new standard for portable media transfer will soon become wireless, with AirStash leading the way. However, this isn’t just a device to take files around on and distribute between computers, it’s so much more.

The AirStash is a mini media server and Wi-Fi access point meaning that any device with Wi-Fi capabilities can access the files on it through a Wi-Fi connection that it creates (that’s right, you don’t even need to be on a network to use it!).

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Trip Advisor App Helps You Record Your Holiday

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Trip Journal by iQapps

For those of you who like travelling, you should check out Trip Journal by iQapps for what is seen as the ultimate journey tracking and sharing app for mobile phones available today.

It even recently won Google’s most innovative travel app award, bagging them a $100,000 prize. Trip Journal allows you to fully record the journeys you take and share them instantly online. The app is compatible with iPhone, Android and Symbian (touch screen only).

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VectorX Launch Monitor is Under Par for Accuracy

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VectorX Launch Monitor“Under Par” Get it? Well you would if you’re a golfer!

And if you’re into your golf in a big way then you may have considered, or even used, launch monitors to try to sharpen up your performance. These can often mean lugging around heavy and fragile equipment, including laptops.

AccuSport is looking to change that with their VectorX all-in-one launch monitor; no laptop required. The VectorX is also designed with its target environment in mind so it will withstand the many hazards on a golf course; your laptop’s OLED screen won’t look too good after being hit by a golf ball at 100mph would it?!

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EA Sports Active 2 Released for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii

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EA Sports Active 2The Wii, especially the Wii Fit, was released on the premise that it would make us all much fitter; it would completely reverse the stereotype of couch-potato video gaming.

However, it never really took off to the extent that one would have imagined or Nintendo would have hoped. Sure some people do have some success with the Wii as a fitness device but it hasn’t lived up to its full potential.

But that hasn’t deterred other gaming companies. EA (Electronic Arts) for example is onto its 2nd version of EA Active and it even has its own heart rate monitor.

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