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Apple Tablet to Reshape eBook Market?

As rumors about the upcoming Apple Tablet are swirling around, it's hard to tell what is true and what's not. Ultimately, we know that it's coming and that it will change tablets from being a niche pr...

Why You Can't Even Give Away Tube TVs Anymore

The Washington Post has a great write-up outlining the fall of the tube television set and the difficulties upgraders are now facing as they try and replace their old sets with new digital ones. Appar...

Panasonic's Robotic Bed; What Bloggers Dream Of

So we like to work from bed a lot. Like, a lot a lot. With posturepedic bed, a laptop, and a kitten who likes to sleep on our chest it's kind of impossible not to. Maybe that's why the Robotic Bed fr...

Zhu Zhu Hamsters on Kids and Hackers Wish Lists this Holiday Season?

Have you heard of the Zhu Zhu Hamster yet? It's supposed to be the Furby/Tickle-Me-Elmo/Tamagotchi of this holiday season and according to some reports it's already sold out and sellers are jacking u...

Michael Jackson's Technological Feat from the Grave
Try it at Home!

In Michael Jackson's 50 years on the planet, he reinvented dance, song, and the art of collecting arcade games, but even now, after his death, he's still reinventing. Kraken Opus publishers have rece...

Nintendo Drops Price of Wii Console to $199

Seriously, the Wii has revolutionalized gaming. Video games were once thought of as a single-person hobby enjoyed mainly by teenaged boys. But the Wii, with it's variety of multi-player, get-off-the-c...

AT&T's MicroCell Gets 3G Service to iPhones Everywhere

The iPhone is exclusive to AT&T, this isn't really news to anyone. However, the spotty 3G service has been a pain for a lot of iPhone users, especially in their homes. We all know the reason: AT&T's n...

First Apple, Once Owned by Star Trek Creator, to be Auctioned

We can't even imagine how insane it would be to own the first ever Apple Macintosh Plus, serial number 0001. Auction House, Profiles in History, is starting the bidding wars for the historical piece ...

Instant Book Printing? Make Room in the Home Library!

On Demand Books is a company that manufacturers the instant-book-press Espresso Book Machine. They were just granted access to Google's library of public domain digital books for use with their produ...

JVC HDTVs Go Ultra Thin and 3D

While other manufacturers have just announced that they are going to work on 3D HDTVs, JVC has already jumped the gun and released one! Wait, is there actually 3D content available on the market right...

Apple TV Drops $100, Raises Some Questions

Well, well. Surprised? Not really. So approximately two days after our write-up regarding the slow evolution of an actualized Apple Home Server, we see that Apple's dropped their Apple TV a full $100 ...

Packard Bell Announces Multitouch Computer Monitor

Touch screen technology has become the hot add-on for all things tech. From cell phones to digital music players to ATM machines, it's like companies can't get enough of your finger smudges on their ...

LG's AM-OLED TV Screen

While Gregory posted about Sony's super slim and super pricey $5,000 flat screen, LG just pwnd them by announcing the largest AM-OLED screen. She's 15-inches -- 4-inches bigger than Sony's own AM-OLE...

Philips' Wireless HDMI Box Gets Official, Priced

We were a bit bummed after hearing about Belkin's Flywire unit got canned, but luckily Philips, maker of the wild 21:9 aspect ratio television set, has gladly decided stepped in to fill the missing wi...

iPod Prices Dropped Just Before Today's Big Apple Event

It's the 09.09.09 event date for Apple and in preparation for this, iPod prices have been lowered early this morning. It's Only Rock and Roll promised to be filled with interesting tidbits, but for no...

Logitech Squeezebox Makes Internet Radio Stylish and Portable

We're huge fans of Pandora, and any way to get Pandora off our tiny computer speakers and blasting through something more substantial is a good thing. Logitech, yup the company known for their keyboa...

Sony Plans on Alarm Clock with iPod Dock

Looks like Sony has even been intoxicated by the iPod/iPhone Kool-Aid -- Oh Yah! The soon to be released ICF-CL75iP acts as one part digital photo frame, one part alarm clock, one part FM/AM radio, ...

LG Will Release 15-Inch OLED HDTV While Sony Does 3D

OLED displays are the wave of the future. Even with this economic downturn that we are facing, manufacturers are working hard at providing these elusive screens to consumers. Recently, Samsung announc...

Cash for Plasmas? California Talks About Banning Energy Sucking TVs

As the U.S. aims to weed out energy and gas guzzlers, the California Energy Commission (CEC) plans to take a vote on a controversial requirement that would restrict the sale of inefficient TVs starti...

More Rumors About the Infamous Apple Tablet Surface

Now that we've officially confirmed the new iPod rumor to be true, with Apple's recently announced event set to go live next Wednesday, it seems like the good ol' iTablet rumor is next up on the list ...

gScreen Shows Off Dual Screen Notebook

We've posted about multi monitor set-ups a few times now. We know we need to jump on the bandwagon soon as blogging simply requires more screen space than our Macbook allows. A new laptop company, Al...

XBox Price Lowered to Match Cheaper PS3

We like to whine and moan about how often gaming manufacturers release newer versions of the console, making the one you bought a month ago already old news. But sometimes, the constant upgrades mean ...

Philips Wake-Up Light Now Docks Ipod/Iphone

If you are like us, you must have trouble waking up. We tend to dislike our blaring morning alarms. The violent shock of waking up rarely puts us in a good mood. That's one of the reasons why we reall...

Home Appliance Cash for Clunkers Program?

Interesting, Consumer Reports is reporting about a program that could let you update that energy inefficient home appliance with a federally funded refund, much like the recent Cash for Clunkers car p...

Verizon Fios to Offer Sample Episodes from Premium Channels

In an interesting move from the cable giants, Verizon introduced some new upgrades to its FIOS TV service this week that seem to be moves in the right direction. DVICE reports that the new upgrades p...