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Must have for the iPad: ThinkGeek's iCade Arcade Cabinet
Too good to be true (Happy April 1), but oh, what a great idea: “When the iPad was announced, we all crammed into a conference room to watch live and drool over every shiny corner and reflecty icon....
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Popular Science makes pitch for "Mark of the Beast"
Microsoft proposes tattooing patients. PopSci appears to like the idea. — MB Photo: Yuichiro C. Katsumoto/Flickr CC You might take this PopSci bit about an “invisible,” ultraviolet tattoo ID system,...
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ViewSonic: immersive 3D under $1,000
From my Boston Globe column this week… “I expect that ViewSonic’s PJD5352 projector (about $749) (www.viewsonic.com/products) and its PGD-150 Active Stereographic 3-D shutter glasses ($99) will be a...
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Obama's Emancipation Proclamation: Kill your PlayStation
Photo: Emily and Alex/Flickr CC That, and your iPod and iPad, and Xbox: “‘With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a...
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Power up, with juice from the yard – The Boston Globe
Call it the democratization of wind, sun, and rain: You catch it, you keep it. With a residential turbine on your roof or in your backyard, subsidized in part by tax rebates, you (and your accountant)...
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Gadgets: LG Aria is a delightful, wee songbird
The LG Aria Aria looks like a palm-sized version of HTC’s Incredible… Wonderful device, but another example of what my friend, Sean, calls “the poor man’s iPhone.” You can support my work on this blog...
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Swann’s latest security device has that sinister vibe – The Boston Globe
From my latest Boston Globe column, and the US Department of “Start Snitchin’”… Swann made its name in the security business, with cameras designed to catch shoplifters and home invaders in the act....
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VTech makes fun stand-ins for pricey gadgets
Photo: tinkerbrad/Flickr CC VTech is pitching its new $60 MobiGo and V.Reader devices as a means for Mom and Dad to get their iPads and Kindles back. I am not quite sold on the idea, as I write in the...
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Verizon's "Rule the Air" message: "Be the surveillance you fear"
Rules nothing. Photo: Ed Yourdon/Flickr CC Given that Verizon allowed the NSA to secretly tap millions of calls in the past decade, it’s stunning to see the company selling surveillance as sexy and...
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Tablet-size panel delivers enough juice to charge a laptop
For years, there have been plenty of hand-held solar devices that can charge your phone over the course of an afternoon. Now, ThinkGeek (www.thinkgeek.com) says it has a $200 solar charger mighty...
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