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I’m lucky. The Olevia TV I bought two years ago is working just as fine as it was the day I brought it home. But not everybody’s that lucky. I have a few friends whose LCD or plasma TVs have presented varying problems. That seems to be what’…
(Credit: Matt Hickey)While Palm has likely done a notably good job with the new Pre smartphone of reversing its slide into obscurity, the company has said little about the other half of its historical strategy, that of desktop syncing.
With the original Pilot 1000, Palm made handheld devices viable …
(Credit: Amulet Devices)I’ve got a pretty awesome remote control. I’m a home theater nerd, so it’s a must. But the new Amulet Remote by 2-year old Irish start-up Amulet Devices does something mine does not: respond to voice commands.
I can see why this device–demoed this …
Originally posted at CES 2009
(Credit: Matt Hickey)I just last week spent $30 on new iPhone earbuds. Mine were in the pocket of my favorite peacoat, which was recently stolen by some awful human being. I was shocked by the price, but that’s the Apple way.
Today at my local QFC (the “Q” is for quality), I saw the above item for $5.99: eight AA batteries with iPod earbuds included for free! Imagine my excitement! I’ll have a backup in case in the jacket thief (or, indeed, thieves) decide to strike again! For less than one-fifth what the fancy name brand cost! I scored, right?
I mean, look at them. They look just like regular iPod earbuds. They’re white, shaped with the same design, and feature the helpful “left ear, right ear” icons. I’m sure they’re of the same quality I’d get from Apple.
(Credit: Matt Hickey)I needed the batteries because I’m a photographer. I mostly take photos in the evenings, which means I use an external flash that burns through batteries. That’s what prompted my purchase. But at this point my excitement wasn’t about the bargain of the power sources but rather the bargain of the free–I mentioned they were free, right?–iPod earbuds!
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A company called EFi-X USA (no, that’s not a throwaway droid from Empire Strikes Back) apparently plans to take on Mac clone maker Psystar by bypassing the consumer market and jumping straight to the power user demographic.
(Credit: EFi-X USA)The machines it’s prepping sound pretty nice, with …
(Credit: Boy Genius Report)According to this leaked ad posted on Boy Genius Report, Radio Shack is poised to offer an Acer 8.9-inch Netbook for only $99 for people who sign up for a two-year mobile broadband contract through AT&T.
This type of subsidized Netbook is hardly surprising–in …
I’ve remained steadfastly neutral on this whole iPod versus Zune thing. I use an iPhone, so it’s easy for me to sit out, but before I got my iPhone, I had both a Zune and an iPod. I liked both quite a bit and still do. They both …
(Credit: eBay Motors)It’s no Ferrari, but an original 1956 Aerocar–the first flying car to be deemed street-legal in the U.S.–is listed for sale on eBay. And it’s only $3.5 million–if you use “buy it now.”
It’s presumably in good shape, with the …
(Credit: AT&T)While I’m not yet sold on the idea of cell phones as gifts (really, a two-year contract is the gift that keeps on taking), I have to like AT&T’s new mobile phone holiday gift finder.
It’s a Flash-based Web site that lets you …
(Credit: FCC)Before collapsing under the incredible blogger peer pressure and buying an iPhone, I was a user of Helio’s Ocean. The thing was great. It did everything the iPhone did and still outperforms it in some ways (MMS and video capture, anyone?), and Pantech’s engineers used the …