Sony Takes A Cheap Shot At The Amazon Kindle
That’s right, Sony is taking two cheap shots at the Amazon Kindle – a $199 shot and a $299 shot. Sony announced plans to launch two new, El-Cheapo (by Sony’s standards), electronic readers aiming directly at the Amazon Kindle. The Marketing Jedis at Sony even came up with wickedly snappy names that roll off […]
SureFire Pen II – One Tough Pen
If you are one of the few who doesn’t constantly lose your pens (like me), and want an industrially strong pen that will last… check out the SureFire Pen II. The pen isn’t cheap at $135, but it is made of aerospace grade aluminum, has a Schmidt technology easyFLOW 9000 ink cartridge (umm ok?), and […]
iPhone App Goes Topless
Back when Apple first launched its App Store, Steve Jobs showed a slide with six categories of apps that would be verboten: “Porn, privacy, bandwidth hog, illegal, malicious,” and “unforeseen.” Well, as the App store has matured, apparently Apple has, too, and is now officially allowing uncensored “explicit” content to make its way into the […]
Iolite Vaporizer Review
The Iolite Portable Vaporizer gadget is able to deliver all the benefits of vaporizing in a very small package., Since you are just heating up the product (and not burning it), the hit is tasty and smooth.
Use your old PalmOS apps on the new Palm Pre
A company called Motion Apps has created an app called Classic which will run your old school PalmOS apps on the new Palm Pre. So if you’ve purchased an app like ePocrates for your older Treo, no worries you can port it over to the Palm Pre and it will run approximately twice as fast […]
BlackBerry Advertisement That Never Made It
The advertising folks at RIM had an edgy commercial that never made it to air. The video shows a “Blackberry” bullet blasting through an “Apple”. The best part of the entire thing is that the Blackberry Storm sucks… badly. Oh… and by the way, the advertising team at Apple has nothing to worry about as […]
Amazon Kindle Version 2
Amazon has already sold over 500,000 versions of the Kindle e-book reader. The Kindle 2 is the same thing… but with a bunch of improvements. The Amazon Kindle 2 weights only 10.2-ounces, has a larger screen, includes built in 3G wireless (no extra charges, nice), and the battery life still lasts for days. Read on […]
UMID’s Mini Notebook – Super Tiny
The tiny laptop rage is out of control… the latest by UMID puts the EEE PC to shame when it comes to it’s size. This tiny netbook uses an Atom CPU, 1GB of memory, and a 32GB SSD drive. Everything wireless seems to be jammed into this little package, WiBro, digital TV receivers, HSDPA, WiMAX, […]
Amazing Flashlight Charges In Just 90 Seconds
Flashlights spend most of their lives sitting idle… while the batteries lose their charge. So, that one time when you go looking for the flashlight in an emergency it is dead. You could charge the batteries, but that takes hours. That was then… the 5.11 Tactical UC3.400 Light For Life (that really is the name) […]
Potenco – Pull The String… Get Free Power
Gotta love free power whether it be solar, wind, hamster, or now human powered (like the wind up shaver). Potenco is revolutionizing simple human powered electricity generation and storage. There are two models available today, the PCG1 (personal device charger… hand held style) and the PCG2 (charging station wall mounted style). PCG1 1 minute […]