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BANG! Your Lights Are Out
Back in the days when I was on the look out for the “perfect tablet” (in other words, before I got my iPad), I used to love checking out Dynamism. While I’ve become more focused in my “gadget-selection”, Dynamism apparently is branching out. I just received an email and one of the new products they [...]
RIP Eugene Polley, Inventor of the TV Remote at 96
Image courtesy of Wikipedia I remember reading an article about 25 years or so ago! on how everything wired was going wireless and everything wireless was getting wired. The article was mainly about cordless phones and wired cable television, but it is one that comes back to me often about the transformative effect of technology [...]
Get a Droid RAZR 16GB 4G LTE Plus $25 Apps Plus $40 Credit Plus Double Data
AmazonWireless had the 16 GB Droid RAZR for just $0.01 with new two year contract. Thatnis pretty amazing considering the fact that it is currently $199.99 at Verizon. And that is just the beginning of the savings. You see, you will also get a $40 credit and $25 in free apps and the phone will [...]
Windows XP’s “Bliss” Background: A Blissful Happenstance
Most people who have been using PCs in the past decade or so have doubtless seen this image, the default background image on Microsoft Windows XP. “Bliss” it is called. I’ve always had a soft spot for this image, plus images like it for my desktops. To my mind there is something soothing about undulating [...]
Google Music Pre-Summer One-Day $2.99 Album Sale!
Google Music is having a cool one-day ‘pre-summer’ sale with a bunch of albums for $2.99, including Daft Punk, Smashing Pumpkins, David Guetta, Coldplay, Ellie Goulding, Rush, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, The Best of U2 1980-1990, Steve Miller, Bon Jovi and more. They are also featuring a bunch of ‘summer pop classics’ for $3.99, [...]
INRIX Releases New App to Help You Avoid Traffic Gridlock and Finally Stop Being Late
Living in Atlanta, there’s one thing I have begrudgingly become accustomed to dealing with — sitting in traffic. All that wasted time. All that stress! Sure, GPS and smartphones with turn-by-turn navigation help — but rarely pick up accident information until it’s too late. That’s where INRIX, a leading provider of traffic [...]
Microsoft Windows 8 RT: Really, Microsoft? Have You Learned Nothing?
I’m an iPad user (I write many of my posts on an iPad these days), and I have a big interest in tablets and tablet technology. Lately, I’ve been reading a bit about Windows 8 and the new “RT” version for is specifically for tablets. By the way, for those that don’t know “RT” stands [...]
Google Doodle Celebrates Bob Moog
Today’s Google Doodle is a fully interactive synthesizer to celebrate the life of synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog. The sound of so many classic recordings from the 70s owes almost entirely to Moog and his crew from the small Trumansburg, New York manufacturing facility hand-wiring these innovative musical instruments. The ‘Moog Sound’ is not just due [...]
Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 Multi-touch All-In-One “Ivy Bridge” Desktop, New and… Awesome
Lenovo has a new IdeaCentre A720 Multi-touch All-In-One Desktop and it looks awesome. In fact, it looked so good that it won 3 awards at CES 2012. The desktop has a 95-degree adjustable hinge that rotates the screen a normal viewing position down to entirely flat. Even better, the super-thin 27″ 1080p display supports 10-finger [...]
Is Kickstarter Limiting Hardware Projects Because of the Pebble’s Unprecedented Success?
We love Kickstarter; Dan and I (along with others on the Gear Diary team) have backed many projects, and we are always on the look out for new ones. That is, of course, why we started Kickstart This! We love the way that Kickstarter helps inventors and artists get funding so that their products and [...]
“The Amazing Robots of Israel”, a Live Video Feed
There is something rather neat taking place at my synagogue tonight, and Judie and I thought it would be fun to share it with you all. Dr. Amir Shapiro, the Director of the Robotics Lab of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is joining us. Dr. Amir develops robots that benefit humans and improve the safety [...]



