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Will Punxsutawney Phil Be Next To Lose His Job To A Machine?

Will Punxsutawney Phil Be Next To Lose His Job To A Machine?

Well, folks, it’s almost Groundhog Day again, and you know what that means.  No, the post office doesn’t get yet another screwball holiday off to screw up your Netflix queue–it means that once again, Punxsutawney Phil [...]

Cambridge Computer Laboratory Declares The ADE 651 A Fraud

Cambridge Computer Laboratory Declares The ADE 651 A Fraud

You guys remember a few months ago when we were talking about the ADE 651, supposed to be the world’s greatest bomb detector because it could literally sniff out explosives from up to half a mile [...]

CES 2010 Useless Product Number 1: V-Screen

CES 2010 Useless Product Number 1: V-Screen

CES 2010 was chalk full of lame ass products and this weird fish eye screen was just one of them.  The display they had going was the V-Screen on top of a regular screen showing just [...]

USB Eye Warmer From The Crazies At Thanko

USB Eye Warmer From The Crazies At Thanko

Cold eyes got you down?  Supporting USB 1.1 and 2.0, this new Eye Warmer set-up from Thanko assures you that warm towel feeling you been missing all these years.  On sale now for just $22 you [...]

The ADE 651: The Ultimate Non-Working Bomb Detector

The ADE 651: The Ultimate Non-Working Bomb Detector

The ADE 651 is a device with an impressive marketing angle.  Over in Iraq, it’s being used to sniff out everything from bombs to guns to drugs and beyond, and detect them all from a distance [...]

The Docupen X-Series: A Pen Sized Scanner

The Docupen X-Series: A Pen Sized Scanner

Way back in the depths of 2005, we talked about a kind of ultra portable scanner called the Docupen.  Well, the company that makes these has just released a brand new kind that they’re hoping will [...]

Nokia’s N-Gage Gaming Platform Disengages, Moves To Ovi Store

Nokia’s N-Gage Gaming Platform Disengages, Moves To Ovi Store

I’d love to say I could say ‘I told you so’ but since I never once wrote about the inevitable demise of Nokia’s N-Gage gaming platform on this blog I really can’t.  But alas, the gaming [...]

Etre Touchy Gloves: Make Your Own At Home!

Etre Touchy Gloves: Make Your Own At Home!

With winter fast approaching and the cold weather coming to match, you may well start to wonder how you’re going to keep your hands warm and still manage to work your iPod and whatnot.  Clearly you [...]

BluLink Remote Handles All Devices, But Only PS3 In Bluetooth

BluLink Remote Handles All Devices, But Only PS3 In Bluetooth

Now here’s an interesting idea for you, folks–you’ve heard of the universal remote before, but now it’s gone to a whole new level with the BluLink remote, a Bluetooth universal remote. The BluLink can control up [...]

Verizon Hub Meets End Of Life

Verizon Hub Meets End Of Life

It was just this past February when Verizon officially put their Hub touchscreen VoIP device up for sale.  At the time it required a 2-year contract and $200 to get aboard, which is and was one [...]