Category: Miscellaneous Gadgets
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Japanese Beetle Traps Stop Unwanted Guests from Eating Your Plants and Trees
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe most unpleasant surprise of relocating to Newtown, PA was finding out that the area of town where we live is infested with Japanese Beetles. According to the Japanese Beetle information from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, these beetles: are not native to the United States, were first found…
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Mowing The Big Lawn
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen Kathleen and I moved to Newtown, Pennsylvania we got a bonus with our house: a big lawn. The backyard of our house is at least half an acre. I bought a really good lawn mower: the Toro Recycler Personal Pace Electric Start. This is the Consumer Reports Best Buy in the…
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Ambrogio Robot Mower from Italy Makes Mowing Automatic
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Better Way to Mow?: The Ambrogio Professional is a robotic mower that will keep a half acre of grass neatly trimmed with no human assistance. I could use that at my new house. [ Photo: The Robot Store ] When Kathleen and I move in two weeks, we will be taking…
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How Can I Use My Pocket PC with a GPS to Get Driving Directions?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I mentioned in an earlier article, Sammarye Lewis, co-author of the new book Tour de France for Dummies asked me how to make her H-P iPAQ h6315 work smoothly with a Garmin GPS 10 Deluxe or another handheld GPS, so that she can get directions to places along the Tour de…
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12-Inch Powerbook G4 Would Have Made Writing Tour de Georgia Stories Easier
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe working environment for credentialed members of the media when I was at the Dodge Tour de Georgia was different every day. We worked in two different offices, a hotel conference room, the theater in the observation tower at Brasstown Bald, and a conference room at women’s club, depending on where the…
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Did You Know There is a Gadget Price Index?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday Reuters reported that gadget prices fell by 0.8 percent in January compared with retail prices in December 2004. Apparently NPD produces a statistic called NPD Consumer Electronics Price Watch which tracks a market basket of the “27 most popular electronics goods”. Reuters apparently considers the NPD Consumer Electronics Price Watch…
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Headsets are Another Reason Bluetooth is Coming into Its Own
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLevi Wallach of Twelve Black Code Monkeys made a good point in a comment he posted to End User Awareness of Bluetooth on the Rise According to Survey. Levi said: I would have to agree with you. I recently went out with some friends for dinner who are not techie at…
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End User Awareness of Bluetooth on the Rise According to Survey
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBargainPDA reports that Bluetooth awareness is growing among individuals in the United States. This may be due to the fact that many laptops and PDAs sold in the last year come with Bluetooth on board. According to the Bluetooth SIG who sponsored the study, awareness of Bluetooth reached 42 percent in…