Operation Gadget
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Operation Gadget Weekly Summary for December 1-7, 2003
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of December 2003. 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…
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Amazon Offers Nokia 3650 or 3620 and Jabra FreeSpeak Bundle
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com has put together a bundle involving the Nokia 3650 and the Jabra FreeSpeak Bluetooth Headset. However, unlike the offer involving the Sony Ericsson T610 and T616, in the Nokia 3650/3620 offer are charging $19.99 for the Jabra Freespeak. Since this offer is for either the Nokia 3650 or the 3620,…
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Mattel Rolls Out Another Great Old Electronic Game: Classic Baseball Handheld
Reading Time: 2 minutesA couple of weeks ago, I pointed out the Mattel Classic Football 2 game as a really inexpensive, fun gift for Generation Xers this holiday season. Another game that Mattel has reissued is the Classic Handheld Baseball Game. Back in the late 70s and early 80s, this game was not as widely…
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Why Training Log Software is One of The Most Important Features of a Fitness Gadget
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier this week I said that in my opinion, most fitness gadget review articles don’t help serious amateur athletes choose the best fitness gadget for their exercise regimen. To understand one reason why, take a look at the output of my Polar S-Series heart rate monitor as viewed through Polar Precision…
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The Achilles Heel of Cable Companies’ DVR Plans: Monthly Cost
Reading Time: 2 minutesPVRblog has come up with more details about Comcast’s impending rollout of a settop box that will provide DVR and HDTV reception. Matt Haughey seems to think that this “could be another huge setback for TiVo’s financial future….” But, as a Central New Jersey Comcast customer, I’d like to point out one…
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MSNBC Reports on Increasing Number of Fitness Gadgets Available
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMSNBC published an article on Tuesday by Samuel Greengard about the increasing number of fitness gadgets that amateur athletes can use to measure their fitness and motivate themselves. The article talks about Fitlinxx, an integrated health club-based circuit training system, as well as a few heart rate monitor-based training systems, including…
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Reuters: Wait Until Next Year to Buy that Flat Panel TV
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn an article likely to disturb many early adopters Reuters suggests that flat panel TV fans wait until next year to buy their dream display. According to the article, “Shoppers looking for deep bargains on expensive flat-panel televisions will find only marginal discounts as the holiday season heats up, but experts…
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IDC Study Categorizes Users of Mobile Technology
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier this week, IDC released a summary of a new research report that they just completed called Exploring Usage Models In Mobility: A Cluster Analysis of Mobile Users. In it, they divided mobile technology users into four segments: Display Mavens, The Mobile Elite, Minimalists, and Voice and Text Fanatics. It seems…
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SmartDisk FlashTrax Make Displaying and Archiving Digital Photos Easy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you take a lot of digital photos, you’ve probably wanted a way to archive images in the field in order to clear space on your flash memory cards. One of the choices you have in this area is the SmartDisk FlashTrax FTX30 and its brethren, the FTX40 and the FTX80.…