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PacSafe Anti-Theft Bag

The reason is that I frequently travel toc ountries rife with hooligans and thieves. Have you ever landed at a decrepit airport only to be mugged by customs, overcharged by the cabbies, then slashed of your bodybags at the fleamarket? It happened to me a lot. The most saddening time was when a burly dude in what looked like pajamas ripped the strap of my prada and made off with my wallet as I struggled to collect my spilt belongings.

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Pacsafe Anti-Theft Bags Review

Could the Amazon Kindle be an Ipad killer?

Here’s what the staff at the network feel.

The Super: Anorexic in size, boasting a crystal clear screen highly readable even in sunlight or darkness; quicker page turning response and capability to handle massive pdf libraries, documents, magazines and the like. It lets us download new stuff wherever and whenever with the onboard keyboard! The baby sings to the tune of Mp3 and AAC as well without draining the massive battery. Oh- and you can stash your sexy pictures too.

The Nasty: You can’t expand it nor can you ad more memory. I’d have preferred that the battery were external so I can use kick ass eneloops.

Will I buy it: Yep! If I don’t need the tons of apps at the Apple store, this is the far better option. There’s virtually no eye strain using this tool (unlike the ipad), and with its better battery life and lower price, you can carry your work and social life on the Amazon Kindle!

Yes yes yes. I know you want to experience the 5x faster processor. The twin cameras. The superb smart cover. I did. So I went out and bought one on launch date.  Sheez. I should have waited for the version 2 release of the Ipad 2.0. This thing is buggy as hell. For starters, the company spits out fringed pictures at certain periods. Then, it often fails after long hibernation. And that lag? The processor hangs at infrequent intervals.

I had high hopes. This was to be my dream toy, but the firmware requires work. Apple rushed the unit to market to soon, so much so that the Ipad 1.0 sings more beautifully than  this rushed monster.

Wait till the firmware update. Save yourself some grief.

Past few days, I’ve been musing about one of the most beautiful novelties ever sold on the internet. It’s a bonafide cutting laser. And it looks like a light saber.  Aspired to be a Jedi? Now here’s your chance to have a tool that can really kill. No whooshing sound though, but who cares?  This demonic laser that outputs 1W and has a visible beam even under normal conditions.

The makers of the Wickedlaser sold at wickedlasers.com are based in Hongkong and claim that their special circuitry and array of prisms can pump a beam capable of puncturing ballons and even lighting matches. It’s no idle claim. I tried it- the thing even melted plastic casings used for electronic projects. Looks like I can put away my mini drill. Continue Reading »
WickedLasers: Deadly In The Hands of Pranksters

Noise canceling technology may be the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Think about it, can sliced bread make a cross country trip in a cramped airliner any better?  Likely not.  Sliced bread will not silence Bob, the over-caffeinated insurance salesman who wants to be your new friend.  Nor will it turn that screaming banshee of a toddler into a model of decorum.  No, sliced bread is no match for noise canceling headphones.   Continue Reading »
Sony MDR-NC7 Noise-Canceling Headphones

Let’s talk drills. Certainly, the fire drills from high school were great and got you out of the monotony of Geography class, but the drills at hand here are literally, at hand. Cordless drills offer convenience, ease of use and plenty of power for most jobs. The Hitachi DMR-18 Cordless drill has all the features most homeowners, do-it-yourselfers and handymen (or handywomen) are looking for.
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Hitachi Drill DS18DL – A Drill Even Girls Love

Wow.  I didn’t realize that movies could look better at home than in the theater, but after I bought the Sony BDP- S470 it proved possible. Watching animation on Blu Ray with a High-Definition LCD television is a feast for the eyes. Continue Reading »
Sony Blu Ray BDP S470

Do you have Apple’s latest toy?

Im So happy I purchased the iPhone 4 by Apple.  The email and internet allow me to work from just about anywhere, which has added tremendous flexibility for my work schedule.  Also I’m able to play games with other iPhone users via apps.  Staying connected is important to me and this phone gives me more access than I could have ever imagined.  

This is a great phone, but I’m pretty clumsy and drop it on several occasions.  Since the back cover and front screen are made of glass the phone is definitely not shatterproof.  This I learned firsthand after I dropped it on the sidewalk and watched back of the device crack like a windshield.  I was able to get it fixed quickly, however I made sure to add a new case to the price of the repair.  Overall I definitely recommend the iPhone 4 to anyone looking for a smartphone.

Erika Kenneth

Got game?

If you’re one of those Xbox fanatics, your eyes probably hate you. The average gaming session exceeds 4 hours- just about enough to cook your eyes to a slow boil. Suffer BlurryVision (TM) right now?  It’s a safe bet you’ve been gaming.  And that’s something Gunnar knows- and capitalizes on. They have just the solution for you: Gunnar Performance Eyewear. Continue Reading »
Gunnar Performance Eyewear: Hype?

Want a PC tablet that’s almost not there? What about a sub 7 inch unit that packs in less pounds than a model withanorexic bulemia? The ICD Ultra tablet is surely one of the tiniestt tablets I’ve ever seen recently, as it boasts a 7-inch screen. But small doesn’t mean pathetic. This beauty sports a blistering NVIDIA Tegra T20 chip. That means games capability. If you dare.

This specific model uses a resistive display but ICD is planning to upgrade it with a capacitive display prior to actual launch on 2010. The company also promises an integrated 3G SIM to keep it persistently connected, which also means that there is a possibility that carriers AT&T or SingTel could subsidize it. The best part? A price tag of $249… which means even the Asus eeePC gets a run for the money! Continue Reading »
ICD Ultra Tablet: Smallest In The World!

One thing about the ole Xboxe360 is that they overheat. A lot. Play them beyond 4 hours and there’s a strong chance they’ll blink red and go kaput. Repairs should cost almost $100 for the steamed-up chip! It’s for this reason that most folks buy cooling fans and play their units in an airconditioned room. Too bad for the afficionados in Africa or Indonesia. Their Xboxes are just begging to kick the bucket!

Microsoft must have heard of all the griping that a few months ago they released the Xbox360 which addressed the overheat problem. Since I lost two Xboxes to overheat I decided to try the new offering… and today I’m enthused to write that the upgrade was well worth it.

The Arcade edition I own is almost 4 months old and I play it about 6 to 12 hours a day. Sometimes 6 hours straight when business is slow. Know what? It’s still kicking! And that’s to think I didn’t install any cooling fans.

Thank God for this! If you haven’t already, buy the Xbox Arcade edition and sell your old stuff at ebay. You’ll never have problems again!

The electric power company is a soulless robber. My monthly electric bill reaches up to $400 a month. That isn’t good. $400 can buy me a lot of stuff- especially new PCs which I’m addicted to. It can also pay my kid’s eduction.

I tirelessly fight the bill of course. One of my initial attempts to lower the bill was to purchase those energy savers like EnerMax which funnels waste power back into the lines. It helped- but only by dropping my electric consumption by 20%. That isn’t much.

Then last week I stumbled across building plans that teach how to generate free power using a free energy generator. Dubbed the MagniWork, this is a scalable, DIY project that lets the enthusiast generate completely free electric energy, meaning , create energy without needing any source of renewable or non-renewable energy. The Magniwork generator powers itself and creates energy by itself, without requiring solar energy, heat, water, coal or any kind of resource. This generator powers itself and works indefinitely, without stopping, creating a large amount of energy. Continue Reading »
Magniwork: Eliminate Electric Bills With Free Energy Generator

With more and more netbooks popping out, external hard disks are becoming popular. Plug in a 300 gb hard disk and voila! Your 20GB eeePC suddenly has the power of its larger cousins.

But there’s a problem.  External hard drives while handy and useful, suffer from some problems:

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How To Juice Up Your Netbook

They call it a pandemic. But I yawn. How many did they say were infected?  A thousand? A hundred thousand? It doesn’t matter to me. Yep, I know there’s no vaccine yet and many cases have been fatal. But the thing is, I know I’m protected.

My confidence lies in the fact that whatever those buggers do, I can destroy them with my secret weapon. It isn’t a drug. It isn’t an elixir or potion. It’s electricy.

Got that right. Electricity. I use this baby to ward off diseases:

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How To Beat The Swine Flu

Ultraportables are fine. PDA phones are great. But wearable PCs? That appears to be the trend with some tech firms like Cybernet. Check out this weirdness:

While it gets you plus points amongst geeks, it definitely won’t let you hobnob with James Bond. Imagine telling your hot date: “Im sorry I keep bumping my hard drive on your toes. Next time I’ll make it a hybrid”

Now more than worrying about your style, think about all the EMF. There’s enough concentrated EMF there to kill your link to the next generation.

Wi-fi has gotten faster. With Draft N burning alleged speeds 16x that of wireless G and at 4X the range, folks have been ditching their old routers for the new offerings of Belkin, Linksys, Netgear et al.  Im one of them.

And Im sorely disappointed. Continue Reading »
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