Category: Gaming Gadgets
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Guitar Hero May Be a 2006 Holiday Hit with Young Adults
Reading Time: 2 minutes A couple of weeks ago, I suggested to my wife Kathleen that her brother John might like playing Guitar Hero, a videogame for the Sony PlayStation 2, more than he would like playing a real guitar. John’s been talking about learning to play the guitar for sometime. Kathleen didn’t think that…
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Personal Electronics Power Station is a Good Central Point for Charging Most Handheld Gadgets
Reading Time: < 1 minute The other day, my brother Scott Aiello tipped me off to a device that can be used as a convenient one-stop place to charge all of your handheld devices. It’s called the Personal Electronics Power Station and it’s available from several vendors on Amazon.com. The Personal Electronics Power Station is…
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Successful Executives Building “Treadputers” to Work While They Exercise
Reading Time: 2 minutes Brad Feld’s Treadputer: Venture capitalist Brad Feld added a 3.2-GHz IBM ThinkCentre to his Vision Fitness T9450HRT Treadmill. This lets him get his runs in while he’s on conference calls. [ Photo: Brad Feld ]. Brad Feld is a managing director at Mobius Venture Capital based in Boulder, Colorado. He challenges himself by…
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Sudoku Games Popular with People Who Like Math
Reading Time: 1 minute We have a number of people who like math in our family, so Kathleen and I were pleased to discover Sudoku last week when we were shopping for Christmas gifts. Wikipedia says that Sudoku is a Japanese logic-based numeric placement puzzle which reportedly became popular in 1985 but only broke out…
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Leapster Titles That Play on TV Using the L-Max
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the questions that Operation Gadget readers have about the Leapster L-Max learning game system is which Leapster games play on the television with the L-Max?. Here’s a list of games that are known to work on your TV: Leapster Kindergarten, Leapster 1st Grade, Leapster 2nd Grade, Leapster Batman,…
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Leapster L-Max is a Popular Gift for 4 to 10 Year Olds
Reading Time: < 1 minute Leapster L-Max is turning out to be one of the most popular electronic learning games for the 2005 holiday season. I discovered this because of the response that has occurred since I mentioned the L-Max in an Operation Gadget called Electronics Dominate the Toy Wishes “Hot Dozen” Holiday Gift List…
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TiVo Programs Coming to Your iPod or PSP
Reading Time: < 1 minute Many media organizations reported that TiVo announced that the ability to transfer recorded programming from TiVo Series 2 digital video recorders to iPods with Video Playback and PlayStation Portable handheld devices. I emphasize that this capability will be available from TiVo Series 2 DVRs such as the TiVo TCD540040 Series2…
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Shell Shocker Leading the Way in Holiday Toy Sales
Reading Time: < 1 minute Since I published Electronics Dominate the Toy Wishes “Hot Dozen” Holiday Gift List for 2005, Operation Gadget readers have “voted with their wallets” by purchasing several of the toys and games that were highlighted. Early results indicate that the hottest selling toy among the dozen is Shell Shocker, a radio-controlled…
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Electronics Dominate the Toy Wishes “Hot Dozen” Holiday Gift List for 2005
Reading Time: 3 minutes Toy Wishes Magazine has released its ever-popular Hot Dozen Toys for 2005. This list is intended to forecast which toys will be the most popular during the 2005 holidays. We can safely assume that if the magazine is correct, many of them will also become hard to find in stores at…