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 …
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HP EliteBook 2540p Review: Elite Features Offset the Elite Price
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 …
Tiny ‘T.25’ Car to Cost $9,000 and Get 74 Miles Per Gallon
Auto enthusiasts may know Gordon Murray best as the guy who designed the McLaren F1 but the rest of us will all eventually know him better for the T.25, a $9,000 compact car that measures just four feet wide by eight feet long, can drive two to a lane, and fit three to a standard parking spot.
Oh, and it gets 74 miles to the …
They Should Make It: Big City Tourist Chairlifts
I live in Boston. Charlestown, if you’re familiar with the area. The other night I was over in the North End for dinner, which is about a mile or so from my place. The North End is Boston’s preeminent Italian neighborhood and most weekend nights are jam-packed with tourists and locals looking for dinner. Getting there by cab, even …
They Should Make It: Buy Stuff With a Tollbooth Transponder
The tollbooth transponder that I have on my car’s windshield is slick city, my main man. So slick, in fact, that it makes taking my wallet out of my back pocket to pay for gas, curbside pickup, and fast food seem like the most un-American waste of my very important time in recent memory.
I propose that the interconnected network of …
Volkswagen Electric Bike Folds Into Spare Tire Compartment
Now we’re talking. Volkswagen has developed an electric bike that folds down into the spare tire compartment, features no pedals, and goes up to 12.5 miles on a charge at up to 12.5 miles per hour.
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The company is apparently getting ready to actually sell this bike, although …
Ben Heckendorn Finishes His Second PS3 Slim Laptop Mod
Modder extraordinare Ben Heckendorn has just wrapped up his second PS3 Slim laptop. This one has a 17-inch 720p display, built-in speakers and headphone jack, and McMaster-Carr friction hinges.
The display’s HDMI cable can be detached from the PS3 in case you want to hook it up to a bigger TV and the headphones allow you to play
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Google Maps Gets Earth View With Official Google Earth Plugin
Available as a developer tool since 2008, Google has now officially opened up Earth View in Google Maps to everyone. You need to install the Google Earth plugin for your browser but once it’s up and running, you’ll have access to three dimensional views of certain places of interest (search for Stonehenge and zoom in, for example).
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Google’s Free GPS Navigation Coming to Non-Android Phones
Google recently revealed that its free GPS navigation software that currently runs on newer Android devices will someday be available on other smartphone platforms such as the iPhone. No timetable’s been given but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it made available for BlackBerry and perhaps Palm devices, at the very least. Maybe …
MEDL Introduces 13.3-inch Portable Monitor
Portable USB-powered monitors aren’t anything new but the current crop is made up mostly of 8-inch screens with 800×480 resolutions. A Hong Kong-based company called MEDL, however, has just introduced a 13.3-inch portable LED-backlit monitor called “The Panel.”
The Panel isn’t fully powered via USB like current travel monitors
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