I have never been a fan of the overpriced retailer, Best Buy… but I may be visiting them today. Best Buy is currently testing a free e-waste recycling program in over 100 of their stores in eight states. Here is the list of participating stores. I will test it out…
I saw this at a friends house (Ray and Viv you ought to be ashamed of yourselves) over the weekend, and I wondered why anyone would buy this product. I mean, the last thing a kid needs after eating a sugary cereal is a sugary straw (?) to drink the…
San Jose State University (SJSU), my alma mater, is taking a big leap forward by offering a virtual campus on the Second Life game (?). Some day, mark my words, we are all going to be socially backwards and scared to see anyone face-to-face in this world of drive through’s,…
Dear Sony, I used to love your products. They were cutting edge and high quality (and expensive, but typically worth it). But then you started doing really stupid things. Without going into too many details/products, let’s just point out one of your latest “stupid things”… the Sony VAIO Mouse Talk…
Looks like Dell decided to jump into the UMPC market and give the Asus Eee a run. Their isn’t much data on the unit other than some Dell press shots… what we do know is that the color is ugly, it has 3 USB ports, an ethernet port, VGA out,…
Name this gadget contest. Don’t be yucky. And what will you win? Good question… I will work on that. ** The winner is… drum roll… wait for it…. wait for it…. – It’s the “Hand me that Wrench” by Amy (check your email for details).
We love the Tesla all electric car, but the price and deliverable times make them unpractical… so, when we saw “The Amp” we got excited. Say you have a Saturn Sky (similar to the Pontiac Solstice) laying around and just found $25,000 in the couch cushions… you can convert the…
For about $50 you can conserve energy in your bird flipping arm… just push a button and your rear window lights up with a message of how you really feel. There are different versions available, from a happy faced to middle fingers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU8kEVFlmAY [Source]
The world’s largest LED billboard is being installed in NY at Times Square. The billboard will be 17-stories tall (212 feet high), weigh 250,000 pounds, and contains 12 million LED’s. The quantity of LED’s will allow some decent resolution. One of the first advertisers waiting to defile the skyline…
Looks like Amazon is offering a pretty sweat deal to get a free HD TiVo DVR with certain TV’s. The promotion isn’t just for the ridiculously expensive TV’s either… you can get the 40-inch Samsung (720P, 8000:1 contrast and 2 HDMI ports) for $947.71 and still get the free TiVo…