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Ultra SpaceStation: 6 compact USB flash drives

Posted in USB Flash Drives by Conner Flynn on March 13th, 2008

Ultra SpaceStation
If organization is your thing, you’ll love the SpaceStation from Ultra. Many of us have several various sized USB flash drives sitting around everywhere. Chances are, they aren’t labeled so it’s a mess. The SpaceStation will definitely solve this problem with 6 individual USB flash drives in a credit card sized package. It also includes a set of labels, thereby making your organization complete.

You can get the flash drives in either 1GB or 2GB capacities giving you a total of 6GB or 12GB. Some included labels are for music, videos, games and work. This will help you know where everything is at, which will save you time. Plus you get a pretty credit card sized picture of Earth. What more do you want?

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Panasonic, Comcast producing portable DVR

Posted in CES 2008,Comcast,DVR,Panasonic by Nino Marchetti on January 7th, 2008

Panasonic AnyPlay P-DVR Model TZ-LC100Panasonic and Comcast are tag teaming to bring Comcast customers a portable DVR so they can record programming at home and take it with them wherever they go. The Panasonic AnyPlay P-DVR Model TZ-LC100 will be available beginning in early 2009 and is being showcased at CES.

The Panasonic AnyPlay P-DVR Model TZ-LC100 is developed by Panasonic and co-branded with Comcast. It’s got 60GB of hard drive storage space, an 8.5″ folding LCD display screen and integrated stereo speakers. Also included are dual headphone jacks.

Space Explorer lighting for the final frontier

Posted in Home,Lamps,Sci-Fi by Conner Flynn on November 20th, 2007

Space Explorer overhead lighting

It’s getting easier to decorate that Sci-Fi or space themed decor these days. This Space Explorer lamp is for anyone who has ever dreamed of being an astronaut, young or old. I want one yesterday.

It’s got alot of detail with thruster lights and the required floating astronauts, along with what appears to be a space station. This is the perfect companion piece to that Starship Enterprise that you have hanging on your ceiling already. It will cost you $185. Money is no object when making your room a Sci-Fi Space scene. It’s basically one small step for astronauts and one giant leap for cool overhead lighting.

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Google Maps coming to gas pumps next month

Posted in Google,News,Services by Darrin Olson on November 7th, 2007

Google gas pumps coming that have printable Google mapsGoogle has recently made an announcement that they will be making their way into your mobile devices and while your out driving around, starting next month you may start seeing Google Maps at your local gas station.

The internet search giant is expected to make an announcement tomorrow that they will be working with Gilbarco Veeder-Root, a gas pump maker based in Greensboro, N.C., to provide pumps at gas stations that have an internet connection and have interactive maps from Google on them. The maps will allow motorists using the pumps to scroll through a list of local landmarks and print out directions to them, all the while holding up the guy behind them a little longer while they fiddle with the new feature.

Lord British goes into outer space

Posted in Games,News by Chetz on September 29th, 2007

Richard Garriott aka Lord British computer game creator wants to go into spaceRichard Garriott has been one of the founders of computer role-playing games since the days of the Apple II. Under his gaming name of Lord British, the creator of the best-selling “Ultima” series and the first MMORPG “Ultima Online”, Garriott cemented his place in the video game history books. Now he wants to set another record: to be the first second generation astronaut (his father Owen Garriott was a NASA astronaut on Skylab and one of the early Shuttle missions) and the first-ever video game creator to fly into space. Garriott has announced his plans to fly to the International Space Station in October 2008 where he will help perform a number of science experiments.

“I am dedicating my spaceflight to science,” remarked Garriott in a press release. “It is my goal to devote a significant amount of my time aboard the space station to science, engineering and educational projects. I understand the necessity for conducting research in extreme environments whether it is collecting microorganisms from deep sea hydrothermal vents to carrying out experiments in the continuous micro-gravity of Earth orbit. We need to be adventurous in mind and stimulate our intellects to answer today’s most daunting scientific questions and to invent tomorrow’s technological marvels.”

The First Lightsaber in Outer Space

Posted in News,Sci-Fi by Chetz on August 30th, 2007

Luke Skywalkers lightsaber will be brought into outer spaceThe lightsaber wielded by Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker in the original 1977 “Star Wars” is being prepared to take a real-life trip out of this world. The movie prop was given yesterday to representatives from NASA by a troop of people dressed up as “Star Wars” characters so it can take a trip on an upcoming Space Shuttle flight scheduled for liftoff in October. A fan dressed up in a Wookiee costume presented the lightsaber to NASA officials in a ceremony observed by the media. To further publicize the …

Hercules Mobile DJ MP3 Mixer

Posted in Hercules,MP3,music by Chetz on April 24th, 2007

Mobile DJ MP3Say you’re a DJ chillin’ out with your crew when the urge to start a rave overtakes you. While our attempt at rhyming may sound as implausible to you as the likelihood of a rave spontaneously occurring within your vicinity, Hercules’ new Mobile DJ MP3 lets you indulge in your fantasy and make it easy to mix your beats.

Visually this baby looks like it fell from the same molded white plastic future presented in “2001: A Space Odyssey” but its main asset is the unit’s lack of cords letting it be totally free from …

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Roughing It 21st Century Style

Posted in Outdoors,Tents by Chetz on April 10th, 2007

Eureka N!ergy tent has battery and power outletsAh, the great outdoors. There’s nothing like getting back to nature and away from technology, right? Wrong. Screw that. What are you going to do if your phone or camcorder battery goes low and you want to look at some photos while it’s raining outside? Hey, it’s all about the what ifs, right?

Johnson Outdoors’ Eureka N!ergy 1210 camping tent solves all your portable energy needs. After buying the E! Power Pak rechargeable battery and plugging it into the tent, you’ve now got a stream of juice to power all …

Bravia Finally Meets the iPod

Posted in Dock,Home Theater,Sony,iPod by Chetz on April 5th, 2007

Sony Digital Media Port iPod Dock TDM-IP1Two months after releasing its first docking station for Apple’s iPod, Sony is back to show off a new adapter that connects your ‘pod to Bravia home theaters. The Digital Media Port iPod Dock, a.k.a. TDM-IP1, acts as the middleman between the two technology titans, a move that Sony had been putting off for some time.

The sleek black appearance weighs about 220 grams and is 90 x 78 x 65 mm, so it doesn’t take up too much space somewhere close to your TV. The TDM-IP1 is compatible with …

8-Core Mac Pros Launched

Posted in Apple,Mac,News,Processors by Chetz on April 5th, 2007

Mac Pro 8 Core WorkstationsApple has uncovered the specs behind its two new Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro and they’re drool worthy. The company is offering two models, an 8-core or quad-core one, and at different processing speeds.

The higher end 8-core unit consists of two Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Clovertown” processors and has a processor clocking in at 3.0 GHz while the two Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” processors model comes in three processing speeds, 2.0 GHz, 2.66 GHz and 3.0 GHz. Apple claims that the latter speed demon runs up to two times faster than the Power …

Nokia 5070 announced targeting mobile youth

Posted in 5070,Nokia by Darrin Olson on March 29th, 2007

Nokia 5070Nokia has announced a new entry level mobile phone clearly targeting the more youthful of consumers by focusing on messaging type communications and a high level of personalization at an affordable price.

The Nokia 5070 comes in colors of blue and red, comes with a battery, charger, stereo headset and a host of messaging features. Voice mails can be sent through the Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, you can take your pick of text message mediums including email (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, TCP/IP) with SMS support, MMS, instant messaging, and top it off with predictive text input for …

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Sony launches site to register for Home Beta Trial

Posted in Home,News,PS3,Sony by Darrin Olson on March 11th, 2007

Sony Home Beta trial web siteA new Home Beta site has been launched shortly after the announcement of the new virtual and interactive universe called ‘Home‘ from Sony at the annual Game Developers Conference last week in San Francisco.

The Home Beta site (www.homebetatrial.com) is a domain registered to ‘Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited’ in London, and was purchased less than two weeks ago. The site describes the new Home virtual world and urges viewers to check back in order to register for a chance to take part in the Beta Trial of Home.

“Home™ is …

Femto to Wipe Out WiFi VoIP

Posted in Mobile Phones,News,VoIP by Darrin Olson on January 30th, 2007

femto to challenge WiFi VoIP phones with 3G basesA recent report by Unstrung Insider shows that 3G home base stations “Femto cells” could pose a market challenge for WiFi VoIP phones in homes and businesses. According to the report, “Ultra-low-cost home base stations that allow wireless users to communicate across any IP access network using a standard mobile handset will challenge WiFi VOIP for dominance in the consumer fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) market. ”

What this report is referring to is a challenge between phones such as the WiFiFone from Samsung, or one of the iPhone’s from

Apple Unveils New Airport Extreme with 802.11n

Posted in Apple,Networking,News,Routers by Darrin Olson on January 10th, 2007

Apple released the new Airport Extreme Base Station with 802.11nAlthough greatly overshadowed by recent releases of the Apple TV and the iPhone, the new Apple Airport Extreme Base Station was also recently released by Apple and probably deserves a little more recognition than it’s gotten so far.

The new Airport Extreme is an upgrade from the previous version in multiple ways. The design changed to a square look, similar to that of a mini-Mac or the new Apple TV, with small dimensions of only 1.3 inches high and 6.5 inches square. The wireless capabilities are …

Google and NASA to Solve the World’s Problems

Posted in Google,News by Paul Patterson on December 18th, 2006

Google NASA CollaborationA unique collaboration between Google and NASA was announced in a press release from the NASA Ames Research Center on Monday. The organizations have signed a Space Act Agreement that outlines a joint effort to work on a variety of challenging technical problems. This relationship will give NASA access to Google’s expertise in distributed computing and search to make NASA’s voluminous amounts of data searchable on the Internet.

The first issue the collaboration will focus on is making the useful items from NASA’s catalog available on the Internet including: real-time weather visualization and forecasting, high-resolution …



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