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Episode 862

30 June 2009, 4:15 pm

Palm Pre
Touch-screen Smartphone
Link: Palm
Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday

Leo comes up at the last minute with this gadget, a 7-day review unit of the Palm Pre. The latest smartphone from Palm, revealed at CES 2009, is a touchscreen phone using what Palm calls the WebOS. It has rounded edges and feels good in the hand. The Pre is smaller than the [...]

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Episode 861

29 June 2009, 4:15 pm

Digital Coin Counting Money Jar
Digital Coin Bank
Link: Graveyard Mall

The Digital Coin Counting Money Jar from Perfect Solutions takes coins of any size, tells you what the denomination is, and tells you the total in the jar. For another digital coin bank that Dick talked about, see the Pig E-Bank, in Episode 329.
Gadget AddictionThe Graveyard Mall, [...]

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Episode 860

26 June 2009, 4:13 pm

The Missing Button
Tie-Tack/Button Replacement
Link: Softlife Products Company on eBay
Dick's Gadget Warehouse

When Dick first learnt about the Missing Button, he thought the vendor was going to make millions of dollars from it. It was a tie tack in the form of a button, which could be handy if one should lose a shirt button – no [...]

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Episode 859

25 June 2009, 4:12 pm

Aqua Alert
Water-Activated Safety Band
Link: Amazon

The Aqua Alert is a wrist band to be worn by a child which will sound an alarm over 100dB if it gets the slightest bit wet. Dick does give the caveat that if your child got immersed in water, you would not be able to hear the alarm, so that [...]

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Episode 858

24 June 2009, 4:12 pm

SmartSwipe
Security for Online Shopping
Link: smartswipe.ca

Back in Episode 450, Dick talked about the Compaq Smart Credit Card Internet Keyboard, which came with a smart card reader for online shopping with smart cards. The new SmartSwipe, made by a Canadian company called NetSecure Technologies, is a USB credit card reader. When you do any online shopping, swipe [...]

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