Category: Gadgets
- The Little Things
In the process of porting our cell phones from Metro to T-Mobile. After getting my own line moved, I noticed when you call support line they use caller id to give a personalized greeting… “Hey Jason, …
- Roku Voice Remote Pro
So, Roku has a new pro version of their remote that uses a rechargeable battery, nice! I like that idea, since it seems that our current remote eats batteries like nobody’s business. Unfortunately, at …
- Good bye trusty friend...
My trusty KD Links dash cam stopped working at some point recently. Looks the like the battery swelled and blew the whole casing apart. For a whacko brand name I’d never heard of before, it worked …
- Hacker exploits printer Web interface to install, run Doom
Hacker exploits printer Web interface to install, run Doom | Ars Technica. Too much time on your hands?
- I could see this getting a lot of use in my house...
Revenge of the completely useless machine.
- Logitech - Wireless Solar Keyboard
Logitech - Wireless Solar Keyboard K750. Solar power for the a wireless keyboard is brilliant. My Apple keyboard at work is starting to get some miles on it. This may be a contender for replacement. …
- Tablet Showdown
Will It Blend? style. Yes, putting electronics in a blender is silly. But, it’s pretty impressive that all you get out the other side is dust.
- Sleek Ipad Mini Mount in a VW CC
Slick!
- Five Best Drive Enclosures
Five Best Drive Enclosures. I vote for the Thermaltake BlacX Docking Station. I have the Rosewill branded version and its the simplest way to use bare drives with minimal fuss.
- circuits.io
circuits.io. Interesting. Its kinda like a github for hardware. Also has some kind of back end for actually producing circuit boards. Nice!
- Like an iMac, but Ubuntu.
Meet The $799 All-in-One Ubuntu PC from System76 | OMG! Ubuntu! Pretty nice, but I don’t see them moving a lot of them at that price point.
- Apple Sends Press Invites for iPad Mini Event
When will the madness stop? Apple Sends Press Invites for iPad Mini Event. Wouldn’t mind upgrading my few year old iPod touch to something with a little bigger screen.
- Memory Lane
The Best PCs You Can Build for $600 and $1200. Remember when people used to build their own computers? I do and all the frustration and cut up knuckles that went along with them. But, it was oddly …
- Single Handed Typing with the Frogpad
With my left hand pretty useless at the moment, I decided to try out some one handed typing with my father-in-law’s Frogpad keyboard. After a little trouble getting the bluetooth part on the air with …
- Apple iPhone Finally Here!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard that Apple (now just Apple, as opposed to Apple Computer) finally let the cat out of the bag out their new cellphone. 30 months in the …
- Handy New Firefox Plugin
Meet PermaTabs, a little hack that allows you to have tabs that can’t be closed. After installing it, just right click on the tab and turn on the Permanent Tab option. It also persists across …
- Hardcore Blender
Heard about a guy who tests his hard core kitchen blenders by blending items that you normally wouldn’t on one of the Twit podcasts a while ago. Finally saw a link to the site go flying by on digg. …
- Awesome Flickr Based Screen Saver
Slickr, by cellar door software gives you a photo screen saver that scrolls through your (or everybody’s) flickr photos. Cool pan/zoom/fade effects kinda like the similar screen saver on OSX. Bonus, …
- Wow, that's a little excessive...
Was flipping through the latest PC Magazine, and spotted a full page ad for the new Black Diamond high end cell phone. Its got a pretty sexy form factor, Windows Mobile, Quad Band, Mini SD slot, 4 …
- Bring that Beat Back
Was pleasantly surprised at my recent birthday (yeah, I’m feeling old again) to receive a new MP3 player and some other useful electronic gadgets from my Amazon.com wishlist. Props to the wife and …
- Cool Web Technology: DabbleDB
Making my bi-weekly scan through CssMania, I spotted DabbleDB. At first, I thought they were just another webified ASP version of Microsoft Access (there are a bunch of them these days, along with …
- Now that's a monitor!
Dell is now selling a 30" widescreen lcd, ala Apple. I’ve seen Apple’s in person, and its pretty impressive; guessing that Dell’s is just as nice. Until the bucks start rolling in by the truckload, …
- Turn CDs into an iPod?
A while back, I was on Gizmodo and found a company that was offering to trade used CDs for an iPod. Too good to be true? Millennium Music has their exchange rates posted for CDs to a number of iPod …
- Cool Google Maps Hack
A while back, my pal Larry showed me a cool mapping site that lets you take out a virtual tape measure and measure distances arbitrarily. It really hit the spot for figuring out how far I’ve been …
- Coming Soon: Self Heating Containers?
Yep! Buy your pre-brewed coffee (or tea, soup, or even baby formula) in its own self heating container. A company called Ontech has blown through a cool $20 millon in development of the idea, now …
- Teeny Tiny Linux Box
Slashdot reports about Picotux a new Linux compatible PC the size of a RJ-45 ethernet jack. Wow, that’s pretty darn small, and its only 99 Euros. Now if I just had a cool project to use it in!
- TikiUSB?
Whoa, this is pretty cool. A tiki shaped USB drive. How cool is that? They’re a little pricey, but they’re hand made. Probably no more expensive than a one made by a street vendor in Maui. Don’t be …
- Building your own DVR, Part I
In my last blog, I brought you up to date on the hell that is dealing with Time Warner Cable for service. In the comments, my pal Sean was surprised that I didn’t just dump the Time Warner DVR and buy …
- Next in World Domination for Google
Maps. Props to Sean for passing on the info that Google’s Maps application is now in beta. I goofed around with it a little bit, and it seems to work pretty well. The most impressive stuff to me was …
- Cool FireFox Hint of the Day
Did you know that you can add search types to the FireFox search gadget? I never noticed the add engines item at the bottom of the search list. There are a ton of other handy searches available. I …
- Whoa, that's a biggin'!
I was in CompUsa the other day and spotted a new 30" Apple Cinema Display. Running at a staggering 2560x1600 resolution, it seems to provide acres of desktop real estate. Man, I would love to have …
- Pogo Sticks go High Tech!
Saw the Flybar Model 1200 on amazon.com; the pogo stick, evolved. So what’s so special about this $299 toy? Thrusters! Activate all 12 of the independent rubber thrusters and you’re capable of …
- A Quiet PC for DVR
Hush Technologies specializes in fanless PC designs for noise conscious applications like living room PVRs. Their latest effort looks pretty sweet. Unfortunately, at about $2500, I’ll be sticking to …
- Now that's Extreme PC Modding...
Check this out, some one using a radiator from a Toyota Corolla in his liquid CPU cooler rig: http://www.winbeta.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6594 Nice!
- Sweet, new Ipods available!
The latest Ipod innovations include ratcheting up the drive space (tops out at 60Gb) and adding a color screen for displaying photos. Check ’em out: http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/ The photos idea is …
- Plug: Password Safe
If you’re like me, you’ve got about a zillion passwords to keep track of. Password Safe is a decent free password manager. Basically, its specialized database for keeping track of your password info …
- hey, that doesn't suck!
my keyboard on my pc at home outlived its usefulness (a number of stuck keys, driving me nuts) so I decided it was time for a new one. I found this one for a steal of a deal at amazon: Microsoft …