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January 11, 2012 / Featured, Gadgets, Latest / Sunny

MakerBot Replicator Can 3D Print Two-Color, Loaf-Sized Objects

MakerBot has been cranking out their impressive desktop 3D printers for a couple years now. Their latest, called the MakerBot Replicator, steps up its game, producing larger 3D objects than previous releases and doing it in two colors. Since this is still a “desktop 3D printer,” it won’t let you automagically print a living pod for the backyard just yet. Instead, the new model can produce items about as big as a loaf of bread (yes, before you eat a [...]

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January 3, 2012 / Featured, Gadgets / nk

5 Best Tablets Of 2011 Not Named iPad

No matter how you dice it, the iPad 2 remained the dominant tablet of 2011. That doesn’t mean it didn’t have some worthy competition to keep Apple honest. These five represent what we feel to be the best iPad alternatives of the last 12 months. ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime I am not a fan of really with long names for products. Beyond that though, there’s little to dislike about the Transformer Prime whose big selling point is the [...]

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December 27, 2011 / Entertainment, Featured, Gadgets, Home / nk

10 Great Sounding Mobile Speakers That Look Good Too

As awesome as today’s smartphones and tablets are, their built-in speakers are usually a letdown. If you want to pipe your tunes out loud while away from home, these ten mobile speakers are your best bet for avoiding disappointment. Jawbone Jambox While it was technically released back in November of 2010, the Jambox remains one of the most crave worthy mobile speaker creations in the market today. With nearly every review we’ve seen the entire year singing its praises, [...]

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December 22, 2011 / Entertainment, Featured, Gadgets / nk

10 Cool Last Minute Gifts For The Console Gamer In Your Life

Just in case you didn’t know, we’re talking about you. Yes, you. Spending all day playing Skyrim and texting people you could have come to their party but you took an arrow to the knee and stuff. Even you deserve a gift, so get yourself something before the year ends. Preferably something that lets you feed your gaming addiction even further. Hey, it ain’t going away, so might as well embrace it. 1. G155 Mobile Gaming Environment Even gamers need [...]

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December 15, 2011 / Featured, Gadgets / nk

USB Mini Scanner Looks Convenient

Your wallet-sized scanner and scanner mouse still too big for what you use an image scanner for? How about one that’s as tiny as a thumb drive? If that’s more along the lines you’re thinking of, then you want this USB Mini Scanner. Measuring just 3.5 x 1 x 0.78 inches and weighing 2 ounces, this is as out of the way as a scanner gets. While you’ll likely torture yourself using it to scan a coffee table hardcover, it [...]

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December 4, 2011 / Entertainment, Featured / nk

Gumball Pinball Machine Forces You To Play Before Dispensing Gum

Tired of your gumball machine popping out a piece of gum as soon as you punch a button? Want to add some challenge to your life? Do away with that weak no-resistance dispenser and make getting round mounds of gum feel like work with the Gumball Pinball Machine. Yep, it’s a gumball dispenser that requires you to exercise well-honed pinball skills before sending a color-coated chewing gum your way. That way, you’ll have to run through hoops awhile before popping [...]

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Lasonic I931X Brings 80s Gaudy Fashion To Modern iPod Boombox

January 27, 2012 / Entertainment, Gadgets

When modern companies try to update the boombox, they often do it with the same trim and sleek designs as modern gadgets tend to have (example: the TDK Boombox). Which is an absolute travesty. If you believe the boombox, an icon of 80s street culture, was meant to be as gaudy and trashy-looking as Cyndi Lauper in her heyday, then the Lasonic I931X is the modern ghetto blaster for you. If you’re not familiar with Lasonic, they’re supposed to have [...]

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Beardski Ski Mask Comes With A 12-Inch Fake Beard

January 26, 2012 / Entertainment, Fashion

The Beardcap is cute and all, but it really is quite tame for a wearable fake beard accessory. If you’re going to rock a fake beard, might as well turn yourself into a real caveman and that’s exactly what you’ll get with the Beardski. An insulating ski mask with a monster-length growth of hair dangling off it, this novelty accessory should make you look like the absolute weirdo in the slopes. We would, however, caution you about wearing the grey [...]

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eye3 Hexicopter Flies Your DSLR For Aerial Photography

January 26, 2012 / Gadgets

Until the day we start buying jetpacks like we’re buying cars, you’re all going to have to get creative when it comes to taking overhead shots with your DSLR. Like commissioning a flying robot to take the bird’s-eye snap for you. If you’re not sure where to get a levitating automaton like that, look no further than the eye3, a hexicopter whose primary function is serving as a flying camera platform. While you can get many kinds of sub-$1,000 radio-controlled [...]

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This Solar Cell Charges Gadgets, Lights Up, Floats On Water

January 25, 2012 / Gadgets

There are plenty of portable solar generators in the market, so digital-dependent adventurers aren’t short of options when it comes to juicing their gadgets when hitting the outdoors. The HiNation HiLight differentiates itself from the herd by throwing in a built-in lantern right on its frame, so that the same device strapped to your backpack for soaking in sun during the day can serve to light up your path when the dark sets in. Built for the outdoors, it boasts [...]

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NAO Headlamp Self Adjusts Depending On What You’re Looking At

January 25, 2012 / Gadgets

Back in 1972, Petzl invented the headlamp which puts a torch light on your head so your hands are free to do other work whether you’re changing a tire, clearing obstacles in the jungle or fixing tube lights in the basement. This year, they’re innovating further on that innovation with the NAO Headlamp, a noggin-strapped torch light that self-adjusts the lighting based on what it detects you need. It sports two sets of LED lights: one with a wide beam [...]

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PocketStrings Is A Pocket-Sized Tool For Guitar Practice On The Road

January 24, 2012 / Latest

When you’re learning guitar, you’ll want to practice as much as you can. Problem is, guitars are big and heavy — not exactly the best thing to have around when you’re traveling light. If you’d rather not deal with the hassle of rolling with one, you can put your practice time in with PocketStrings. Aimed at folks who want to get their six-string practice without a guitar, you can use it to work on finger placements and chord transitions, allowing [...]

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Get Your Dinosaur Riding Poster From Last Vacation Right Here

January 23, 2012 / Latest

Just because dinosaurs are extinct, it doesn’t mean you can’t pose in pictures with them. All you have to do is get tight with a mad scientist who owns a secret island where he raises mating dinosaurs and rhinoceros elephants (no, really, I’ve seen them). In case you never come across one of those cats in your social circle, we guess the Dinoprints service will do. Instead of flying you to a secret island with their private zoo of prehistoric [...]

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Dress Pant Sweatpants Are Like Pajama Jeans For The Business Casual Crowd

January 23, 2012 / Fashion

Sweatpants: comfortable. Dress slacks: not so much if you really wanna compare. Sweatpants: great for doing laundry, bad for wearing to work. Not anymore with the Dress Pant Sweatpants, a pair of sweats tailored for business casual wear. Made by Betabrand, the pants should look like a fine pair of charcoal wool trousers at first glance. Stylishly tailored and shaped to go well with a button-down shirt, it looks like a regular pair of dress pants no different from what [...]

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Vortex MIDI Controller Revives The Keytar

January 23, 2012 / Gadgets

MIDI controllers already come in all sorts of sizes and form factors. That’s why it’s such a surprise that nobody ever put out a keytar one before. Until now, of course, with the Alesis Vortex. Just like the 80s classic strap-on keyboard, the MIDI controller lets you turn out your digital creations without being stuck behind a table. That way, you can prance around the stage like one of those big-haired 80s poppy new wave kids, all while popping tunes [...]

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ION LP 2 GO Is An Ultra Portable USB Turntable Vinyl Record Player

January 22, 2012 / Entertainment, Gadgets

Vinyl records are cool in my book. Don’t worry if some folks do not understand your love affair with this format because nobody understands my undying devotion to Justin Bieber either, so I won’t judge. I kid, I kid. About the judging part. Anyway, if you can’t quite get into portable music because all that digital crap just rubs you the wrong way, here’s a way to get your vinyl fix on the road: the ION LP 2 GO. Granted [...]

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Alienware X51 Proves Gaming PCs Can Be Tiny Too

January 21, 2012 / Entertainment, Gadgets

Hearing the term “gaming desktop” always brings to mind large hardware boxes with huge cooling systems that occupy a considerable slice of your desk. I guess that notion is soooo 2011 as Dell is showing with the Alienware X51, a proper gaming computer that looks about the size of a PS3 Slim. While not exactly as small as a nettop, it’s a considerable reduction compared to the gaming rigs we’re used to. I mean, I can actually bring this along [...]

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New Era By You Lets You Make Custom MLB Baseball Caps

January 21, 2012 / Fashion, Sports

You love your favorite MLB team’s franchise colors as much as the next guy. But you’re getting sick and tired of ball caps with the exact same logo in the exact same colors as everybody else. Doesn’t have to be that way with New Era By You, a web-based custom-ordering service from the ubiquitous maker of pro baseball’s headwear merchandise. Using a Flash-based web app, customers can now put together custom-designed caps that mix-and-match colors and team logos, giving you [...]

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Akai MPC Fly Turns Your iPad Into A Music Production Center

January 20, 2012 / Gadgets

Akai’s series of MPCs are among the most popular sampler/sequencer rigs in the business. Soon, you can turn your Apple tablet into one with the Akai MPC Fly, an iPad case with built-in control pads for sampling, recording, mixing and producing kickass music on the go. While producing tracks on the iPad has always been possible with the selection of software on the App Store, Akai’s setup seems to make it more professional than ever. The hardware comes with an [...]

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Nike+ FuelBand Tracks Your Movements The Whole Day

January 20, 2012 / Gadgets

Sure, it does pretty much what the FitBit does. Nike has always done fitness gadgets right though and we’re pretty excited for the Nike+ FuelBand, a wristband that tracks your physical activities throughout the day. Taking pedometer-based tracking a step further, this new wearable tech uses a built-in 3-axis accelerometer to track all of your movement throughout the day. Not just running and walking — but dancing, jumping and zig-zagging through the streets in a drunken stupor at 3 in [...]

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Covert Is A Hidden Universal Lock For Drawers And Cabinet Doors

January 20, 2012 / Simply Cool

Desks with drawers in the office are great. Except the cheapskates in purchasing decided to buy ones without locks. Which means you can’t hide your ninja weapons there for fear of someone opening it and your affiliation to a secret warrior cult exposed. Support the Covert drawer locks over at Quirky and you just might be able to solve your dilemma. An add-on universal lock, the clever contraption lets you put a lock on an erstwhile unprotected door without looking [...]

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Smittens: A Hand-Holding Mitten For Two

January 19, 2012 / Fashion

Mittens are great for keeping your fingers toasty. But they can be quite inconvenient if you like holding hands with your partner. Not if the sweet couple is wearing Smittens — an oversized wool mitten built to hold two hands. The product page cheekily calls it the “glove of love.” And we guess that’s about right. I mean, dressing up for cold weather is uncomfortable enough. Having to share a single accessory that attaches you like siamese twins conjoined at the limb [...]

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These Shiny Pickup Trucks Are Actually Bowls

January 19, 2012 / Home

They look more like shiny children’s toys than storage bowls, but bowls are exactly what these desktop Pickup Trucks are supposed to be. You know for holding jellybeans and gummi bears and M&Ms and keys and condoms and other tiny items in the living room. Hopefully, not all mixed in together, but we won’t judge. Made by Areaware, the back of the truck serves as the open-top container for the bowl, which you can fill up with your stash like [...]

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Photorito Turns Your Lens Into A Burrito

January 19, 2012 / Simply Cool

Sure, your camera bag is so awesome it can fit and protect your big-ass SLR, along with all the lenses and accessories you could need for an entire day of shooting. You don’t need a dedicated wrap for your lenses. As true as that might be, however, it’s hard to resist being able to tuck each of your backup lenses into a Photorito, a lens wrap that looks like a tortilla. Really. A novelty sleeve, it literally looks like a [...]

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