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Samsung Giving Away 7" Galaxy Tab Tablets With Appliance Purchases

Samsung Teams Up With Lowe's, Will Be Giving Away Galaxy Tab Tablets To Those Who Purchase Select Samsung Appliances
By on Thursday, 22. September 2011

We don’t often get to talk about household appliances here, well, with the exception being when they come with gadgets built-in such as the LCD-equipped refrigerator that Samsung announced back in June. Anyway, it looks like we have since found another reason to bring them up, and yet again, this [...]

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Powermat & Duracell Join Forces To “Globalize Wireless Charging”

Proctor & Gamble Announced A Joint Venture With Powermat That Will Advance & Globalize Wireless Charging Technology
By on Friday, 16. September 2011

Wireless charging is an interesting technology. Products on the market today allow you to charge multiple devices at a time simply by placing them on a surface of some sort, like a mat. Duracell has been selling their myGrid products and Powermat also has a product of their own. Recently [...]

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Skype Begins Pushing Their Freetalk Connect-Me Phone Adapter, Has it Priced From $39.99

Skype Freetalk Connect-Me Adapter Allows You To Make Skype Calls From Your Standard Home Phone
By on Thursday, 8. September 2011

Skype recently announced a new adapter that will allow you to make Skype calls using little more than your existing home phone. Well, your home phone along with the adapter, which is the Skype Freetalk Connect-Me.

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Now You Can Tell The Time With Nothing But A Block Of Wood

With The Knock Clock Just A Knock-Knock Will Get You The Time, In Knocks
By on Monday, 5. September 2011

Clocks and watches are getting so high tech these days, some having cool features such as GPS and the Android operating system. Sometimes it’s nice to see a simpler design perhaps just giving us a quick breather from all that tech. That brings us to the Knock Clock, which perhaps [...]

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Toshiba Brings Out The Smarbo Robot Vacuum

Toshiba Looks To Take On Roomba With Its New Smarbo Vacuum
By on Thursday, 25. August 2011

I admit, I’m not what you’d call a great housekeeper. Tales of robotic vacuum cleaners are to me a vague hope that one day I’ll actually be able to fully vacuum under the bed without having to contort myself into positions that would make some circus acts green with envy. [...]

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Motorola KORE Will Not Be A Tablet

Motorola KORE Revealed As Fitness Gadget, Not The Next Line Of Motorola Tablets
By on Thursday, 11. August 2011

Motorola bought a domain and the web began to speculate. You remember, this event took place just a few days back when domain names such as motokore.com and motorolakore.com were discovered to have been registered.

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Scosche Releases The myTREK Wireless Pulse Monitor

Scosche myTREK Pulse Monitor Tracks Your Pulse Wirelessly, Controls Your Music, Is Worn On The Wrist & Has Its Own iPhone App
By on Tuesday, 9. August 2011

Scosche has officially announced their latest iPhone related accessory, and this one comes as one that should be nice for those who like to keep up with their health and don’t mind using their phone to assist. The gadget is the Scosche myTREK Wireless Pulse Monitor.

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3D Hurts Your Eyes & Brain, Says Small UC Berkeley Study

University of California-Berkeley's Small Study Says 3D Has Damaging Effects On Eyes & Brain Alike
By on Friday, 22. July 2011

A study recently released from the University of California at Berkeley says that 3D can, in fact, be harmful to your eyes and to your brain alike. The details of the study, however, leave something to be desired.

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Willow Garage's PR2 Robot Finds New Success Shaving Quadriplegics

The Willow Garage PR2 Robot Learns A New Task Of Huge Benefit To Society
By on Thursday, 14. July 2011

It’s been almost a year–ten months, roughly–since we last heard anything out of the Willow Garage PR2 robot, and man, do we have an update for you! Turns out the PR2 has discovered a purpose that’s of huge value to society: shaving quadriplegics.

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Jawbone Unveils The "UP" Fitness Wristband, Aims To Help You Live A Healthier Life

Jawbone Makes A Further Break From Bluetooth Headsets, Introduces The "UP" Wristband
By on Thursday, 14. July 2011

Jawbone has long been trusted as a company that offers quality Bluetooth headsets, and while we recently saw them venture out from under that umbrella with the Jambox — it looks like they have yet another non-Bluetooth headset product in the works.

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