Baseball season is officially underway. Here are 10 must-have items for any self-respecting fan of the great American pastime.
Beerbelly Stealth Beverage System: $35
Eight bucks for a beer inside a stadium? Come on. The Beerbelly pays for itself in less than five beers. You wear it under your shirt and it holds 80 ounces of …
Baseball fan? PC owner? Look no further than the white hot MLB 2K10 deal this morning. Gamestop is selling the downloadable version for just three bucks. That’s down from the regular price of $30. I damn near spit out my coffee and tripped over my ottoman trying to get to my computer to download it this morning. It’s really an
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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.
10% ($0 to $8,375)
Don’t get down on yourself. …
In an interview with Techland, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts the existence of machines with human-level intelligence by 2029, offers advice to inventors, and discusses how you can prepare yourself for the very real possibility of human immortality in the not-too-distant future.
Dr. Kurzweil will be delivering a keynote …
The iPad launch is upon us. Here are ten apps that have been optimized for Apple latest creation and should be available by the time you get your new best friend out of its box.
Also, congrats to our lucky giveaway winner. Techland reader “doubleang” was randomly selected to receive the Universal Gadget Wrist Charger showcased in …
Gizmodo posted a story yesterday asking whether or not paying $12 extra for expedited iPad shipping was really worth it. It seemed that no matter the shipping method, people were going to get their iPads this Saturday, April 3rd. Well it turns out that Apple had a nice surprise in store for those who opted for expedited shipping: early …
The Story
In 1977, a Japanese fishing boat named the Zuiyo Maru hauled in a creature measuring around 33 feet long and weighing about 4,000 pounds off the coast of New Zealand. The creature had gotten caught in the boat’s fishing net about 1,000 feet underwater.
Crewmembers initially thought the creature to be either a rotten …
There’s not much that’s inherently cool about umbrellas, but there’s a lot that’s cool about broadswords. Mix an umbrella and a broadsword together and you’ve got a combined level of coolness that’s somehow equal to more than the sum of its parts.
Available from ThinkGeek for $40, the Broadsword Handle Umbrella features a …
Okay, so my idea for this week’s They Should Make It column is a system of car horns that, instead of making noise, jolt the driver in front of you with a little buzz that comes from a mechanism built into all cars’ driver’s seats.
Why?
For starters, it would make the streets a lot quieter. Let’s face it, most of the time …
Finally an answer to the ages-old question of where Pac-Man’s been lately. It seems he’s retired to one of Saturn’s moons. Mimas, as it’s called, shows Pac-Man frozen in full-on chomp mode as he prepares to eat Herschel Crater, which resembles a nice big power pellet.
The image was captured by the Cassini spacecraft as it
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If you like the iPad and/or well-manicured hand models, you’ll love the “Guided Tours” videos Apple posted to its site today. There are user interface demonstrations of Safari, Mail, Photos, Videos, YouTube, iPod, iTunes, iBooks, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
The landscape Mail interface looks pretty nice, and iTunes seems like
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Oh Monday, you come around approximately once every seven days. Your ability to abruptly end fun knows no limits. The only suitable recourse against your nefarious existence is for us to purchase discounted electronics items in preparation for the upcoming weekend–a weekend which always seems so far away. Well played, Monday. You’ve …
