If there’s one thing that’s kept most of us from climbing Mount Everest, it’s been the total lack of 3G service. What’s the point if you can’t tweet, "Climbing #Everest today. Totes miz, but totes worth it LMAO!" along the way? If you don’t put it on Twitter or Facebook, it never happened.
Luckily, mobile provider Ncell just installed a
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Your car is a big computer of sorts, your cell phone is a small computer of sorts; why not connect the two? That’s the promise of AutoBot, a $300 device that hooks into your vehicle’s OBD-II connector and relays diagnostic information to your cell phone, integrates with mapping functions, and lets you start and unlock your car …
Cobra’s iRadar system pairs a Bluetooth-enabled radar detector with a free iPhone app to warn lead footed motorists of nearby radar guns. The iRadar app also includes an automatically updating database of known speed traps, dangerous intersections, and red light cameras.
The radar detector hardware itself is a bit pricey at $170, though
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The newly-announced Pogoplug Pro is a $99 hardware device that’s capable of turning an external hard drive into an internet-connected drive. It features four USB ports for hooking up hard drives, thumb drives, and even printers. Once connected to your home network, files can be accessed and shared over the internet through just about any
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If you find yourself constantly travelling and even more constantly running out of power for all your gadgets, has Quirky got the backpack for you.
The $130 Trek Support backpack’s main highlight is the removable “gadget dock” that doubles as a big rechargeable battery pack, feeding juice to up to three USB-powered devices—iPad, …
JetBlue will be getting Wi-Fi on all 160 of its airplanes. Hooray!
Installation won’t even begin until the end of 2012. What? Boo! We’ll all be telepathic by then. Who needs the internet?
JetBlue struck a deal with a telecom company called ViaSat, according to the Associated Press. The report indicates that the deal is to install …
Oh Martha, that’s a lot of storage to go in one pocket. Seagate’s 1.5TB GoFlex hard drive sports a USB 3.0 connection for quick file transfers and is compatible with Seagate’s $130 TV connector dock. It can also be converted into a network- and internet-connected hard drive with the $100 GoFlex Net Media Sharing dock.
How much storage …
If you own a car and you’re sick—SICK!—of watching it lazily sit out on your street while you’re not driving it, you can make it earn its keep by renting it out by the hour, a la ZipCar.
While there’s no shortage of ZipCar competitors, Getaround appears to be one of the newest. The service is still in beta but offers car owners the
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If you’ve got an iPad and Apple’s $29 Camera Connection Kit, you’re all set up for “the only hard drive in the market that can connect directly to the iPad without using a computer.”
That’s the HyperDrive, which was announced today.
As portable external hard drives go, it’s not cheap—not by a longshot. Pricing starts at $249 for …
Kensington’s $40 Pocket Battery for Smartphones is roughly the length and width of a credit card, with a thickness of just over 1/4 inch.
The battery pack features two-inch mini and micro USB connector cables that snap in flush to either side of the casing. The underside of the battery pack stores a one-inch standard USB connector that
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The wife and I just got back from a cruise. It was unforgettable! I won’t be able to forget it no matter how hard I try. The food that hovered somewhere in between airplane food and wedding food? Unforgettable. The compulsory 15% tip for everything plus the expected extra tip plus the $12 per person per day tip that’s added to the …
While $1,629 seems like a lot to spend on a notebook nowadays, it’s oddly comforting to know that you can get a decked-out computer with very few compromises for well shy of two grand.
Such is the case of HP’s EliteBook 2540p, a 12-inch rugged-but-portable notebook with a low-voltage Intel Core i7 processor, six-cell battery, Windows …
