If you live in an apartment or building with a water heater from 1901 (like me) you know how long that sucker takes to heat up the water. The Shower Start is a little device that can detect when water is warm and turn off the flow. Confused? Yeah, me too. Apparently you turn on the water then go about your regular business of making breakfast, shaving, whatever, and the Shower Start will flip off the water flow when hot water is detected. When you are ready to hop in just flip a lever and rub-a-dub-dub. No more wasting water or time waiting for the vintage water heater to do its job. $50.
Love Mario kart, but hate nintendo? Well, it’s… possible I guess? Anyways, now you can have the Mario kart expierence where ever you want it. You can take your favorite Nintendo player for a race on this track, thanks to the Mario Kart DS Track Race. It is slot racing, but it’s still Mario Kart, if your stingy parents who won’t buy video games….. It is the 21st century.
Even with certain forms of e-ink displays starting to appear into real world settings it’s still unlikely that you’ll meet someone on the street with some e-ink tech. E-ink is just too expensive, and regular people can’t dream of getting their hands on it for a while. The closest we could get is peeks at the E ink blueChute e-ink tablet. Even though it’s a good for something like a newspaper. Anything that could be or is written on paper could be transfered to this, to an interesting style considering it’s run with flash memory.
Ever want to be hardcore and just can’t? Your iPod, and MacBook ruining your straight edge reputation? No more! The Velocity Pro Spyder Backpack will change all that.. Targeting the geek community, this unique backpack comes with Xtreme Padded Comfort collar straps that make lugging even a 3kg notebook easy on your shoulders. The bag also consists of industrial strength zippers, a patented CORE3 protection system to offer an extra layer of defense against knocks and bumps, and puncture-proof BuckBlast suede. The Velocity Pro Spyder Backpack caters to notebooks that are 15″ to 17″ in size and retails for $99.
Are you Overbearing? Do you want to control everything your kid does? Your in luck! KidSafe USB makes it so the computer will only work when the USB key will be plugged in. It is $29.99, and you can make it so you can access it online, incase you get forgetful and make your computer a big brick. This way you can keep the kids off of myspace, AIM, or anything that could make them social children. This way, you are one step closer to being Amish.
The shiny, new Windows Vista beckons, and an upgrade is mighty tempting. But before you take the plunge, be aware that you may end up forking out a lot more money than just the cost of an operating system upgrade. If you’re upgrading to Windows Vista, the first cash outlay you likely face is buying more RAM for your PC and 1GB of RAM for as low as a little over $100, while 2GB will run you $180 and up. Vista is graphics-hungry. If you want to run its Aero environment, you’ll need a good graphics card with support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, a minimum of 128MB of graphics memory, and what’s called Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel. You can get a graphics card that meets these specs for as low as about $60. If you want better performance, of course, you can pay more, in the $100 to $150 range. Vista installs only via DVD and these you can get a reasonable one for as low as about $30 to $40. You should have a hard drive with at least a 40GB capacity hard drive with 15GB of free disk space and can get more for $70 or $80 with a 250GB capacity. Hidden costs can finally total up steep being the bottom line!
A coalition of rivals charged on Friday that Microsoft Corp.’s new Vista operating system coming out next week will perpetuate practices found illegal in the European Union nearly three years ago.The group, which includes IBM, Nokia , Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Oracle and Red Hat, said its complaints made last year are yet to be addressed just days before Vista is due for release.
The European Commission found in 2004 that Microsoft used its dominance to muscle out RealNetworks and other makers of audio and video streaming software and that it made its desktop Windows deliberately incompatible with rivals’ server software.
Laser Printers have always been an office staple, since prices were so high. They became such an aid to print lots of copies at a high rate, and less crumple on the paper. However, as the prices drop, should you be in the market for a laser printer? Here is a few questions to ask yourself.
Do I print a large volume of pages? Some people don’t print often, but when they do it’s a large amount of paper. Sitting next to the old inkjet for an hour just isn’t fun. You can’t leave due to paper jams. Lasers also print 2 sided effortlessly, so they look much more professional.
With the Core 2 Duo release, Alienware re-released the Area 51. A high end computer company with affordable prices. Quite a rarity.
This is the middle brand from Alienware, as the ALX is their high end and still is waiting re-design. The computer is highly upgradeable, ready to really be pushed to a higher end computer. You’ll find that the processor runs video games rather seamlessly and only minor upgrades would get this to a high end model.
Ever lose a remote, and have to get one of those cheap remotes? The ones that do nothing, you lose all function of your TV, and you just end up frustrated for years? Logitech has really recently come of age and cornered the market on this. The Advanced Universal Remote is the end all universal remote.
While the advanced remote isn’t the cheapest at $130 dollars, it controls everything. It’s made with Xbox 360 compatibility, so it works your gaming systems, DVD players, TV’s. This remote works everything, and it’s backlit. So everything is visible in the dark for easier use.