| Char-Broil Grill2Go Ice | |
9/3/2010 9:54:51 PM Gizmos for Geeks
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Football season is here at last after hybernating over the spring and summer months, the old pigskin is flying again! Football season begets tailgate season and every year innovative tailgating products are introduced including this Char-Broil gas grill from the Grill2Go series that includes a couple of coolers that you attach to the [...]
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| Do We Treat Computers Like People? Research Says Yes | |
9/3/2010 3:22:53 AM Gizmos for Geeks
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As it turns out, we have much deeper ‘relationships’ with our computers and other gadgets (think cars) than we think we do. Stanford professor, Clifford Nass, has done the research and even written a book (The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships) on the subject.
We treat computers and [...]
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| tugo Drink Holder | |
9/2/2010 9:37:15 PM Gizmos for Geeks
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tugo is one of those items you wished you would have thought of first… it’s a drink holder that keeps your cup suspended between the upright handles of your rolling bag and its unique design keeps your drink level and works as a shock absorber to help prevent sloshing.
tugo easily attaches and is [...]
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| Skullcandy Holua Wooden In Ear Bud | |
9/1/2010 9:10:28 PM Gizmos for Geeks
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Skullcandy has modified the headphone and earbud industry with incredibly designed and great sounding music ear wear. The Holua Wooden earbuds are popular among those who are lucky enough to own a pair as reviews appear typically between the 4-5 star mark (out of 5) on the various sites the geeks have [...]
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| Pentax Optio W90 | |
8/31/2010 9:40:11 PM Gizmos for Geeks
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If your digital camera can’t keep up with your weekend life, check out the Pentax Optio W90 adventure-proof digital camera. That’s right, adventure-proof as this camera is waterproof to 20 feet for underwater photography or rafting down the Colorado (JIS Class 8 waterproof), shockproof to 4 feet to withstand extreme use, dustproof for [...]
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| Review: Vuzix Wrap 310XL Video Eyewear & Giveaway | |
8/31/2010 3:01:19 AM Gizmos for Geeks
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Video eyewear company, Vuzix, has a new model in their Wrap line of video glasses, the Wrap 310XL. Here’s our full review after taking this pair for a test run. (By the way, we’re giving away this pair, so read on to find out how to enter to win!)
First of all, what exactly are these? [...]
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| Make Phone Calls from Gmail | |
8/30/2010 3:14:02 PM Gizmos for Geeks
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Guess where you can now make a phone call from? Gmail. Yes, Gmail. If you’ve been using video chat already, then you are already set up for making calls. If not, you’ll have to take a minute or two to install a plugin.
Until the end of the year, calls to the US and Canada are [...]
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| Book Review: Cooking for Geeks | |
8/29/2010 2:00:13 AM Gizmos for Geeks
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Let me just start by saying this is an amazing book. You should just ignore the rest of this review and go buy it!
So you’ve decided to read the review, eh? Very well. Although the book’s title seems to indicate that it’s geared to a small niche of society, don’t dismiss it too quickly. What [...]
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| Dyson Air Multiplier Table Fan | |
8/27/2010 9:02:57 PM Gizmos for Geeks
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Dyson is known for creating a unique vacuum cleaner with a ball but now they have worked to revolutionize the conventional fan. The Dyson Air Multiplier fans work differently from conventional fans. Using an airfoil-shaped ramp (like a cross-section through an airplane wing), airflow is amplified from 15 to 18 times depending [...]
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| The Icons of the Web sized by Traffic | |
8/27/2010 5:09:55 AM Gizmos for Geeks
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Security company Nmap, decided to toy with one of their scripts which pulls back favicons from websites and turn it into a map of all the icons it found in the top million. Surprisingly, only about 328k were found. What was more interesting was how they arrange it into a huge image with the size [...]
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