The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just announced some big, big wins for consumers. Labeled as “exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act,” a law enacted in the late ’90s to protect copyright holders against piracy, it’s now within consumers’ legal rights to jailbreak phones, rip DVDs (for certain uses), and a 2006 …
Another Monday, another set of handpicked gadget deals to help you stave off the work you may or may not have piling up on your desk. Best Buy has a couple great deals—internet connected GPS for under $100, the very-excellent Logitech MX1100 for $35—along with a couple good camera deals from the likes of Walmart and Amazon. …
MetroPCS is now offering the BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone with a $60 no-contract plan that includes unlimited voice minutes, text messages, web access, taxes, and regulatory fees.
You’ll have to purchase the phone outright at $279 and wait for a $50 rebate but even comparing this offer with the free 8530 you’d get with a …
Amazon has hammered out a deal with The Wylie Agency to offer 20 of its Odyssey Editions books exclusively on the Kindle e-book platform for two years.
The deal also marks the first time the books– from authors such as Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, Hunter S. Thompson, and more–have been available electronically.
The …
The Chicken Stick is a $40 Wii accessory. Wait! Don’t go. Don’t go. It’s better than you think. Developed with true golf fans in mind, the Chicken Stick is made from a real golf club–Golf Pride grip, True Temper shaft–shortened, and with a slot on the end to hold a Wii remote and MotionPlus attachment securely in place. Check out the …
A new iPad app called Flipboard is attempting to bridge the gap between the straightforward, simplified layout of a magazine and the endless amounts of disorganized information available on Facebook and Twitter.
The app is free to download and positions itself as “a social magazine that brings to life the stories, photos, news and …
Just when you thought USB hubs couldn’t get any more exciting, they go and add a solar panel to one of them. Head? Explode.
Now how much would you expect to pay for a miracle of modern technology such as this? A million skillion dollars? A bajillion?
Keep in mind that it’s a 4-port USB hub while you’re at your desk but once it’s …
Back in early June, we got a glimpse of some of the iPad competitors that’ll be hitting shelves later this year. One of the main contenders is Asus, with the company showing off 10- and 12-inch versions of its impending EeePad line due in early 2011.
The company’s 12-inch tablet will reportedly run a full blown version of Windows 7
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It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
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You’ve read the live blog, now see the movie! Apple’s made video of its July 16th press conference available online at Apple.com (it’s at the bottom of the page). Enjoy.
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Back at PAX East in March, Peter and I spent some time trying out Breach, a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade first person shooter. While pricing hadn’t been revealed, it was tipped that the game would likely be available for around $15. Breach was impressive enough that $15 seemed like a steal.
The game itself is along the lines of a TF2 …
If you’re a Firefox user and iPhone owner who’s longed for a way to synchronize the data between your computer’s web browser and your mobile device, Mozilla’s new Firefox Home project may be right up your alley.
The system consists of the Firefox Sync add-on running in your Firefox browser and the iPhone-specific Firefox Home app. …
