Operation Gadget
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Gadget Links: First Game of the Season Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRibcap Knit Helmet on CoolTools: “D3o Labs has come up with a new foam that is soft in general use, but gets rigid when impacted. This material was used in Olympic slalom ski suits to take the sting out of the on-coming gates and to offer crash protection. A Swiss company,…
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Gadget Links: The Big 4-0 Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorld AIDS Day marked with warnings, services, art actions on USAtoday.com: I’m in favor of having a World AIDS Day, I just wish it didn’t fall on my birthday, every year. Running Vista on a Mac, Mossberg’s Mailbox on WSJ.com: I didn’t care as much about Walter Mossberg’s answer to the question…
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Gadget Links: A la Carte Edition
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Internet Allows Consumers to Trim Wasteful Purchases on WSJ.com: “Photo companies made customers pay for 24 shots in a roll of film to get a handful of good pictures. Music publishers made customers buy full CDs to get a single hit song. Encyclopedia publishers made parents spend thousands of dollars on…
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Giro Produces a Livestrong Special Edition of Its Atmos Cycling Helmet
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just found out that Giro is planning to produce an authorized Livestrong Special Edition Atmos Cycling Helmet again for its 2007 model year. I love my Rudy Project Ayron Helmet, but the Livestrong Special Edition Atmos Helmet is one I’d wear in its place. Giro will donate 5 percent of…
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Review of Sesame Street – Old School Volume 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently received a copy of Sesame Street – Old School, Volume 1 (1969-1974) for my birthday. Kathleen, Jimmy, and I are watching it together, and we’re reliving some of Mommy and Daddy’s childhoods while showing Jimmy some parts of Sesame Street that are consigned to history. I’m not sure how much…
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Gadget Links: Snow What Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSnow falls on Seattle home game for first time on NFL.com: “Steady snow began falling 20 minutes before kickoff, marking the first time a Seahawks home game has been played in the white stuff. The temperature at kickoff was 34 degrees, the coldest for a Seattle home game. The Seahawks played…
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Nintendo Wii: A Good Workout If You Can Find It
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Wall Street Journal reports that quite a few Nintendo Wii owners are developing aches and pains as a result of playing Wii Sports (included with the Wii console), Rayman Raving Rabbids and other games that require a bit of physical exertion. One of the more interesting aspects of the article…
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Adding a Large MiniSD Card to the Nikon N93 Makes All the Difference
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKathleen and I continue to be wowed by the digital video capabilities of the Nokia N93. We used it on Thanksgiving to shoot a couple of short videos of our family around the dinner table. The problem we ran into was limited memory. The N93 comes with a 128-Megabyte MiniSD Card.…
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Gadget Links: Back to Work Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhich game console should you buy? from The Seattle Times: “The Wii doesn’t play movies, and is not going to be the multimedia hub of your living room. But the machine is so small and unobtrusive that you could keep it in your living room pretty easily, and it’s a good…