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DiskGO! 2.5″ Ultra Portable Hard Drive

Gizmo of the Day, Software / By Doug Felteau / October 25, 2005

Yesterday we talked about my painful hard drive crashes in October (somethings gotta crash in October) and how I will save my personal information on a USB Flash Drive. Of course with USB flash drives limited in their size, I can only backup so much information.

I tend to keep ISOs of the programs I install and I would love to backup pictures and music, but the Flash Drive simply cannot store that data whereas the 100GB version of the DiskGO! 2.5″ Ultra Portable Hard Drive can. Larger than a USB Pen Drive or other Flash Drive, the DiskGO! is still small enough to carry in a briefcase.

Be kind to your data and back it up!

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EDGE Dock & Multi Flash Card Reader for iPod

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Gizmo of the Day, Portable / By Doug Felteau / October 23, 2005

Edge Tech Corp always comes up with unique technology products and have decided to merge a multi-flash card reader with an iPod dock.

Is this going to far with USB products or is this a great combination using only one of your dwindling USB ports on your machine?

By the way, the following formats are supported by this device: xD Picture Card, SD Memory Card, MultiMedia Cards (MMC), Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Dui, SmartMedia Cards, Type I/II CompackFlash Cards and IBM Microdrive. Also, the following iPod work: iPod nano, iPod mini, iPod photo and iPod.

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The Complete Cable Manager

Gizmo of the Day, Tools, DIY, Home, Office / By Doug Felteau / October 15, 2005

How do you hide all the cables under or behind your desk for your computer, cell phone, iPod, etc…? Have you tied everything together or is it in a big mess? The Complete Cable Manager is a handy gizmo that helps take care of that cable clutter by lifting the cables off the floor and stores them neatly and labeled. The Complete Cable Manager allows you to organize up to 14 cables as well as three or four different small devices (router, hub, etc…) as well as a power supply.

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Philips SA 178 MP3 Player w/ Bright OLED Display

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Gizmo of the Day, Portable / By Khalid Hosein / October 14, 2005

Sure, we’ve featured lots of MP3 players, but this one has a bright blue OLED display that you can see in almost any lighting conditions (ok, so the subject gave it away!). Yep, from dark to bright, you can see the large, 2-color LED display that has customizable color combos. This recahrgeable 512MB player also plays WMA files, includes an FM tuner and can record voice memos. It has a flip-out USB plugs that allows you to connect it to your computer and use it as a standard thumb drive.

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Logisys Mouse with Built-in Fan

Computers, Gizmo of the Day / By Khalid Hosein / October 13, 2005

This is cool. Pardon the pun 😉 The Cool Fan Mouse by Logisys keeps even the most hardcore gamer or Internet surfer’s mouse hand nice and cool by blowing air on it through a number of circulation holes and shutters on the top and sides of the device. There’s an on/off switch on the side of the mouse. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s even an LED light that lights up the whole body.

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ROKR is a Flopper

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Phones, Portable / By Khalid Hosein / October 8, 2005

The long awaited iTunes phone, the Motorola ROKR, is a flop. In fact, according to this article, at a Engadget reader meet-up in San Francisco the device was booed when the Engadget editors held up the ROKR as a door prize!

While the ROKR apparently sounds great many of the features were poorly implemented such as needing to use a USB 1.0 cable to transfer music to the phone (at very un-whopping transfer speeds up to 12MB/s). Also, the phone should be able to connect to the iTunes server and download the music directly without needing a PC. Finally, why the hard limit of 100 songs?

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Fisher FVDC1 CameraCorder

Cameras and Photo, Gizmo of the Day / By Doug Felteau / October 7, 2005

We’ve seen more and more of the tapeless digital camcorders lately that save data on various memory cards instead. According to the specs on this digital camcorder, 512MB can handle 30 minutes of DVD quality video. That’s not too bad, but if you go on vacation or a graduation, you’re liable to want to record more.

These digital camcorders are great for most people, and will be great for even more people when larger capacity memory cards become available. Currently though, a 2GB memory card will give you 2 hours of DVD quality (compressed via MPEG4)!

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Laser -based Parking Guidance System for 2-Car Garage

Gizmo of the Day, Tools, DIY, Home, Office / By Khalid Hosein / September 24, 2005

So if your husband/wife/roommate just can’t seem to park in your tiny little 2-car garage very well, and you have to pretend to be Mr. Fantastic (Stretch) from the Fantastic Four to get out of your car, then you need the laser-based guidance system from Daytona Brands. This simple yet effective system integrates into your overhead automatic garage door opener. It replaces the light bulb (although you can get an adapter to continue using the light bulb), and turns on when you open up the garage door shining a bright red light to the same 2 spots each time. You just need to drive your car to the same spot everytime and you’re golden.

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Canon Powershot SD550 7.1MP Digital Elph Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

Cameras and Photo, Gizmo of the Day / By Doug Felteau / September 21, 2005

How sweet is a digital camera the size of Canon’s Digital Elph line with 7.1MP? As a fan and owner of several Canon camera’s, the new line of Canon digitals does not disappoint!

The Canon Powershot SD550 sports a 2.5″ LCD which, considering the size of the Digital Elph the LCD screen, is huge allowing for the photographer to frame pictures easier as well as viewing pictures.

The SD550 features DIGIC II–Canon’s renowned processor that ensures images have superb resolution and color quality, as well as giving improved camera performance overall. With 9-point AiAF, the camera automatically focuses on the subject, even when it is off-center. iSAPS intelligence ensures that the camera assesses the scene and adjusts the settings to achieve the optimum results. Three methods of exposure control can be selected, evaluative, center-weighted, and spot, and the ISO can be set to Auto, 50, 100, 200, or 400.

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Media Tank All-in-1 External Enclosure

Computers, Gizmo of the Day / By Doug Felteau / September 16, 2005

In addition to its 7-in-1 media reader/writer, the Media Tank has bays for both a 3.5″ hard drive and a 5.25″ optical drive (or other 5.25″ drive), It can be customized to suit your needs and there’s a USB 2.0 port up front as well. Add your own 3.5″ ATA/ATAPI (IDE) drive and a DVD or CD drive and you’ll have a powerful, versatile and portable data center.

You do need to put in a 3.5″ hard drive and 5.25″ drive (optical drive, DVD writer for instance), so the price of the complete solution will go up, but if you’re looking for a storage tank, here it is.

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