From its conception in 1993, Microsoft’s CD-based Encarta Encyclopedia has been educating our precocious middle schoolers, resourceful high schoolers, and bored dads with its bright visuals, contemporary typography, and that oh so addictive Mindmaze, where taking a quick 25% chance paid off better than actually reading the question. More »

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Tesla shocked the auto industry when its all-electric Roadster was put into production last year, and after its release, it’s been quite well-received, with its 248 hp engine and great handling, no doubt as a result of its Lotus Elise heritage. Tesla showed the world that electric cars don’t have to be boring - but, as it turned out, do have to be expensive, More »

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There was a time, many years ago, where to be a true manly man, you would have a Snake Light on the garage wall, and maybe one under your pillow, just in case your wife’s wedding ring rolls under the bed. Well, we all knew the allure of the snake light wasn’t actually the light component of it, but that oh so pliably slinky body of its, More »

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What IS it with Twitter lately? Troubled American car company General Motors is looking to add Twitter integration with their OnStar service, a sort of built-in safety service that notifies the OnStar office if your vehicle has been in a crash or is being jacked. It’s quite a nice feature that deserves praise, but one must remember that they’re being installed in GM cars More »

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In the heart of Tokyo’s Odaiba district (where the big Ferris wheel is), Sega lives on - the Joypolis is a “virtual theme park” not unlike Gameworks here in the US, with more of an emphasis on major attractions over smaller arcade machines. Their newest attraction is the Storm-G, a Wipeout-esque virtual game that puts you in the cockpit of a futuristic bobsled More »

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Asus keeps laying on the innovations: another interesting product they demoed at the recent CeBIT was the Eee Keyboard PC, a full-blown home theater PC equipped with a 5″ 800×480 touchscreen where the numpad is typically found. The bevy of ports found in the back show how serious Asus is at making this a true HTPC: More »

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With the recent Twitter boom, it seems like the entire world is jumping on the Twitter wagon lately. Well, now Botanicalls has given us a product that will allow even our plants to be a hip and trendy citizens of Twitter. The product has a sensor that keeps track of the plant’s moisture levels, and upon being over or under watered, will tweet (to its own account, no less) More »

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Lines snaked around the outside of Webster Hall last night as crowds gathered in droves for the highly anticipated Boxee New York Event. Soaring above the 600 mark, the attendance surprised even the Boxee team, as enthusiasts from all walks of life arrived to see what Boxee had on tap. They did a great job with organization, and encouragement of networking by requesting that attendees write both their real names and their @twitter identities on nametags upon entry. More »

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Gamers aren’t exactly the neatest bunch of people but that’s not to say that they can’t be.

Like all fanatical gamers, someone has taken the obsession to the next level and created (/drumroll) Xbox controller shaped soap. It’s complete with full detail so you wouldn’t know the difference unless you were paying attention. Can you say April Fools joke? More »

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The folks over at Computer Shopper got their hands on one of the new ASUS W90Vp-X1 gaming laptops, and after putting it through some extensive test, lauds it as something of a beast. Not just in size, mind you - it’s 18.4″ and weighs in at 11.5 POUNDS (!!), after all - but with frequent usage of such PC enthusiast drool-inducing descriptors like “blistering“, More »

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Right now the walls of my room are naked like a new born baby but while searching for geeky furniture I stumbled upon these little guys. I may be a girl but sometimes I like to be lazy so why not buy robot coat hangers to keep it real for me? More »

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Let your feelings soar as high as the clouds with this clever remote control helicopter, brazenly adorned with the ubiquitous four-lettered swear word that has permeated all facets of society. True to its social standing, the picture has the appropriate vowel blurred out, but one would do well to remember the actual product has no censors, More »

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If the saying “a drill is a man’s romance!” is indeed true, the Hitachi DH50MRY is the sweetest, hottest, most stacked romance ever. Never mind all the innuendo that comes with a hybrid drill AND jackhammer, but one has to agree, this would have to be the Ron Jeremy of power tools. More »

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For those that frequently find themselves sitting around twiddling their thumbs, here’s a way to attack your boredom - the SwitchEasy ThumbTack microphone wastes no time in getting to the point, keeping things simple for would-be gadget pinheads out there who might want to take a stab at using the record function on iPods. More »

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Regular coffee tables are overrated with the Microsoft Surface around. Its futuristic appeal is complimented by its multimedia center where you can browse through your media with it’s Natural User interface. Underneath this girl’s skirt is 2GB of RAM, a standard CPU with Vista (of course) and WiFi and Bluetooth abilities. Oh and did I mention is spill/party proof? More »

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