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Hack Your Kindle So That It Supports Bluetooth

We think that Kindles are great. They allow you to take almost all of your books with you when you aren't at home, which is a great thing when you are traveling, a student, or on the go a lot of the...

Amazon Kindle May Receive Touch in Next Release

Acquisitions are a funny thing. They tend to bring tons of public speculation and keeps us consumers at the edges of our seats. Like Amazon's recent buy-out of touchscreen start-up company, Touchco, h...

Sale Alert!: $30 Logitech Laptop Stand for Only $5

You can score some great deals shopping online, especially if you want to go the EBay route. But this laptop stand (normally $29.99) from Logitech is on sale for a gasp-inducing $4.99 at Amazon.com r...

Guardian Waterproof Case Protects Your Kindle From Spills

There's nothing more annoying than dropping your new Kindle in a puddle and having it zonk out on you. No need to worry anymore, because this case will protect your Kindle from any kind of water. ...

5 Best Online Store iPhone Apps

Tis the season when we are spending more than the average amount of time shopping, so we've decided it was about time to roundup 5 iPhone store apps that we've tested and found the most useful. Sinc...

M-Edge GO! Jacket for Amazon Kindle

Goodness, gracious! We think we're in love. M-Edge brings the sensual, luxurious touch of leather to our beloved Kindle and multiples our desire for the device by 10. Maybe 20. Oh, voluptuous Go! Jack...

Kindle 2: Our 6 Month Review
Unplggd Test Lab

Name: Kindle 2 Price: $259 Rating: Strong Recommend* Any avid reader can list some of the things they love about sitting down with a good book. These range from the solid feel of the book, it's we...

5 Great Black Friday Apple Deals From Amazon

We love our PCs, but there's just something about Macs that makes even PC afficionados lust after them. The main reason why not everyone in the world has more Macs is because they are more expensive ...

Best Black Friday Week Deals on Amazon

Amazon.com's always been one of our favorite little shopping havens. Not only because of their sweet free shipping, but they tend to take things to the next level. Like taking Black Friday and turning...

AmazonBasics Private Label Store

Looks like Amazon is setting to take on ultra-discount consumer electronics accessories retailers like Monoprice.com with their new private label, generic packaged AmazonBasics. The selection includes...

Original Refurbished Kindle Available Drops to $150

If you're one of the millions of students getting back to school, or if you just enjoy reading books, and have always thought that spending $300-500 on an ebook reader was too much, then maybe getting...

Personal Shopper: Firefox Extension Helps Find Sales

There have been rumors for months now that the Playstation 3's price tag is on the verge of dropping, but you can't be expected to check Amazon every day for that day to come. Instead you can use a ne...

News: Amazon Replacing Cracked and Broken Kindles

On our summer trip to Boston, we struck a conversation with our plane seatmate about his Amazon Kindle e-book reader. The frequently-traveling businessman sold it like a pro and billed it 'the perfect...

Amazon Kindle 2: Lower Price, Same Device

For the e-book savvy, you may be glad to hear that Amazon has recently shaved off $60 off the Kindle 2's retail price of $360, dropping it down to a sweet $300 price point that's more in line with oth...

Unplggd's Sales Calendar: Tech Week Is Back

Okay, so last week's deals were probably too well priced and reasonable for all you spendaholics out there. This time around, we're finding you the hottest tech deals on the Internets. This week's spe...

Readius Pocket E-Reader: Folds Right Up Into Your Pocket

Amazon just released the second version of their popular Kindle e-reader. They have also announced a large-screen DX version. The only trouble is that Amazon uses a very restrictive platform for their...

Online Shopping: Is it Better Than the Real Thing?

Online shopping can be a blessing and a curse. I recently got some great deals on a book and a cell phone silicon case from Amazon.com third party sellers. I've never had problems with the Amazon Mark...

Colorware Does the New Kindle: Looks Better Than in White

People love to customize their laptops. Now that other devices are becoming very popular, they too will be customized. It's sad when a company only offers their devices in one color. The Kindle has sl...

The Amazon Kindle DX: Bigger Size, But Is It Really a Big Difference?

click for more picsOur team over at Apartment Therapy New York was bubbling with anticipation with today's announcement about the updated, larger Amazon Kindle DX. Perhaps it's because we live in a ci...

Nine Affordable Home Entertainment Sources and Solutions for Movie Night

With times getting tighter many of us have looked for ways to cut corners in monthly costs. We've ditched our Netflix account, cut our landline phone service and have looked for alternative low cost s...

Design Flaws that Ruined Great Gadgets

Popular Mechanics published an article featuring five smart gadgets that were ruined—ruined!—by stupid design flaws. Clearly, this was a link we had to post and share. We went inside expec...

Add Anything From Any Website to Your Amazon Wish Lists

Do you find a lot of items on various websites you browse over the course of the day that you want to keep saved away for a later time to hunt down, purchase, comparison shop or just put together for ...

Survey: Thoughts on Amazon's Kindle 2?

While Amazon's first Kindle managed to create quite the fan base over the past few years, we've been a bit hesitant to welcome it with open arms due to its lack of expandability and passable appearanc...

Headphones or Earbuds? Now You Can Have Either When Jamming on the Phone.

There are boob men and there are ass men. On the same note, there are earbud people and headphone people. Unfortunately, for a while now, if you wanted access to your phone while jamming out to the t...