Operation Gadget
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Burton Headphone Beanie Reviewed by The Gadgeteer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few companies have tried to make clothing and accessories gadget-friendly. The results have been mixed, particularly when the item actually includes electronics. Butron is trying its hand with the Headphone Beanie, a winter hat with embeded headphones. The Gadgeteer published a surprisingly favorable review of the Headphone Beanie, saying: Sound…
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S’mores Nativity Set May Be Taking the Theme a Bit Too Far
Reading Time: < 1 minuteS’mores Nativity Set: The Holy Family as marshmallows. [ Photo: Santa’s Depot ] Kathleen and I have a number of S’mores ornaments made by Midwest of Cannon Falls. Most of them are things like a marshmallow man dressed as a doctor or a marshmallow man in a halloween costume. Over the…
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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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Glen Fleishman is Writing a New Digital Radio Blog for Weblogs, Inc.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI learned yesterday that Glenn Fleishman has signed on to write a new digital radio weblog for Weblogs, Inc. that’s called Droxy.com. It formally launched today, although it has content that’s dated back to November 22. According to the first posting, the site will focus primarily on satellite radio services such…
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Most U.S. Mobile Phone Users Do Not Take Advantage of Mobile Data Services
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago, Operation Gadget pointed out that T-Mobile USA will not roll out high speed wireless data services for about two years. This flies in the face of strategies being pursued by competitors Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint PCS who are each commiting major resources to a deployment effort. An…
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Toshiba SD-H400 is the Cheapest “TiVo Basic” Device Available
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToshiba SD-H400 Combination Progressive-Scan DVD Player and TiVo PVR: Currently the least expensive device with TiVo Basic service. [ Photo: Amazon.com ] Some people who are interested in owning a Personal Video Recorder don’t want to pay for value added services from companies like TiVo. Earlier this year, TiVo rolled out…
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December 6 – 12, 2004 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of December 2004. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism for…
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Playing with Konfabulator for Windows
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI downloaded a copy of Konfabulator for my Windows 2000 blogging workstation. Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine that lets you place widgets on your Mac OSX or Windows desktop. There are a number of neat widgets available and creation of others is simple if you know JavaScript, XML, and a…