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Review: LapWorks Laptop Desk

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Lapworks Laptop Desk

Come and listen to a story about a lady named Jen,
Poor work laptop overheating once again,
Company’s tech support always dealing with her,
They finally discovered the problem, a down comforter…

While this tragic theme may seem comical, it is a true story. After purchasing a down comforter, a user had several issues with the fans going bad in the laptop and the laptop always overheating… but only at home! Like many of us, she’ll lay on her comfy bed while working and watching TV at night. Quite often laptops work themselves into bed nicely cutting off the external flow of heat from laptops. This is especially true with Jen’s down comforter as not only the bottom of the laptop’s air flow is cut off but so are the sides and back of the laptop which is not a good thing!

Not only is the laptop at risk from overheating but so are people, particularly men!

LapWorks specializes in products for laptops and products that help the cooling process for laptops and have several offerings including a line called Laptop Desk. There are two versions of Laptop Desks including “UltraLite” and “Version 2.0”. Read on to see what the Geeks thought of the Laptop Desks.

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Review: VoSKY Chatterbox

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Review: VoSKY Chatterbox

Tired of being tied to an uncomfortable headset when making Skype calls? Untether yourself with the new VoSKY Chatterbox, a plug-and-play USB speakerphone from Actiontec Electronics. Just plug it into a free USB port on your PC and start talking. The powerful speaker and microphone will carry and pick up sound up to 12 feet, so you can even walk around the room while you’re catching up with friends and family.

The VoSKY Chatterbox from Actiontec is marketed as the “go-anywhere speakerphone solution for Skype“. If you use Skype you need to check out this review.

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Review: Boostaroo Revolution

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Review: Boostaroo Revolution

Have you ever traveled with a companion and wanted to share your headphones while listening to a portable DVD player or MP3 player? When travelling can you simply not turn your device up loud enough to drown out the rest of the noise on the plane? Are you a motorcyclists bored of hearing the drone of the motorcycle motor and wish you could listen to music instead? Are you an audiophile that would like your digital music to sound full even while wearing headphones? UpBeat Audio‘s Boostaroo Revolution may be the solution for you. Read our entire review to see what the Geeks thought of the product.

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Review: Sid Meier’s Civilization IV

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Review: Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Producer: Firaxis
Distributor: 2K Games

A perennial favorite, Sid Meier’s Civilization series has set the standard in the past for turn based strategy games. Now the 4th generation in this series is released, with a new fully 3-D graphics system and some changes to the tried and true formula that has made Civilization the masterpiece series that has spawned imitations and hybrid versions (namely Sid’s Alpha Centauri, and Colonization.) How does this new version fare?

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Review: Wipe Out! CD DVD Game Repair Kit

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Review: Wipe Out! CD DVD Game Repair Kit

Can you really recover a scratched DVD or CD? Is it possible to take a pre-owned scratched game disc and recondition and use in your game system? There are several products that promise to repair your CDs, DVDs and game discs but do these products actually work or do they over-promise and under-deliver? The Geeks tried out two samples of Wipe Out! CD DVD Game Repair Kit.

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Review: Belkin TuneBase-FM for iPod mini

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Review: Belkin TuneBase-FM for iPod mini

If you cannot afford the ultimate iPod accessory (a new car with iPod integration) but want your digital music played through your car speakers, there are a few ways to accomplish this. Provided you have a tape player there are a couple of devices that you could use. The devices have a fake tape that you put in the tape player and play with a wire connected to a connection that either plugs into the headphone jacks or the bottom of your iPod. Also, and more popular, several manufacturers have created mini radio stations or FM transcievers that plug into your iPod and transmit over an FM frequency to your radio like a radio station would. The FCC is quite strict on these devices though so you can only transmit a decently weak signal.

The Geeks got a hold of a Belkin TuneBase-FM for an iPod mini and put the device though some testing. Read on to see what we thought of the TuneBase-FM.

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Review: XM or Sirius – Which is better?

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Review: XM or Sirius - Which is better?

Why would anyone pay for radio when it comes over the air for free? First, satellite delivers 65 or more channels of music not to mention a large number of entertainment and news channels. More importantly, with XM going commercial-free earlier this year, all the music channels are commercial free. Another great feature is being able to drive across the country and listen to one channel! Finally, satellite radio streams the music in digital-quality sound and static free.

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