Category: Miscellaneous Gadgets
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Electronics Outselling Books According to Amazon.com
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn Amazon.com‘s monthly newsletter to Amazon Associates (websites that have joined Amazon’s e-commerce affiliates program), the company reported: In a recent survey of 10,180 Consumer Reports readers, Amazon.com received the highest rating for overall electronics buying experience. Those surveyed evaluated 20 retailers and gave Amazon.com top marks for our great prices…
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British Gadget Users Said to Be Becoming “Digitally Obese”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis has been a great week for attention grabbing headlines in market research reports. The BBC reports that a Toshiba-sponsored study characterized 60 percent of British gadget users as “digitally fat”. This means that they carry with them 5 to 10-Gigabytes of digital music files wherever they go. The study further…
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Asians Generally Have More and Better Gadgets to Choose from than Americans
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out this San Francisco Chronicle article from late last week that says there’s a gadget gap between Asia and the United States and if there’s any day-to-day change, the gadget gap is widening rather than closing. Of course Jeff Yang (the author of the piece) is right. He…
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College Students Stock Up on Steel Footlockers and Safes to Protect Their Gadgets
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTextured Steel Trunk: a 30 3/4″ x15 1/2″ x 15 3/4″ steel footlocker that willprotect electronic gadgets from theftin a dorm room. [ Photo courtesy ofThe Container Store ] The Palm Springs Desert Sun reported yesterday that college students are stocking up on security devices to avoid losing their electronic gadgets…
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Souvenir That Some European Tourists are Bringing Home from New York City This Year
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Souvenir from New York Citythat includes an image ofthe World Trade Center Towers As you know, last week I had dinner with Sascha Bereksasi and Stefan Kulla in New York City. At midnight, they dropped me off at the 33rd Street PATH Station so I could go home, but they were…
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Amazon.com Now Taking Orders for Microsoft Portable Media Center Devices
Reading Time: < 1 minuteReuters reports that Amazon.com has begun taking pre-orders for Microsoft Portable Media Center devices including the Creative Labs 20 GB Zen Portable Media Center and the Samsung Yepp YH-999 20 GB Portable Media Center. Both units will cost about $500 and include 20-Gigabyte internal hard drives, bright color displays between 3.5…
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Nokia Announces Wireless Keyboard, Due Out in Third Quarter 2004
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInfoSync World reports that Nokia announced a wireless keyboard for their line of Series 60 mobile phones at press conferences in Helsinki and Singapore earlier today. This keyboard works with Bluetooth personal area networking and makes phones like the Nokia 6600 a much better device for text-intensive applications, such as SSH…
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Norelco Products on Sale Again at Amazon.com
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA little while ago, I received an email from Amazon.com that said: Receive a promotional certificate for $30 off a future Amazon.com purchase when you spend $99 on Norelco products. Offer valid through June 30, 2004. I’ve repeatedly pointed out sales on Norelco products since I started Operation Gadget, mainly because…
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MobileBurn Compares Four Bluetooth Headsets
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI really appreciated the Bluetooth Headset Roundup that Michael Oryl wrote on MobileBurn. I can use the information here to choose a headset to use with my Nokia 6600. According to the article: The players in this review are as follows: Motorola’s HS810, Plantronics’ M3500, Tekkeon’s ezTalker, and Tekram’s TM-312…. All…