8 February 2010, 2:07 pm
PowerGenix
Nickel Zinc Rechargeable Battery
Link: PowerGenix
PowerGenix batteries are Nickel Zinc rechargeable AA batteries with an output of 1.6V (other AA batteries give 1.2V). Shorter recharge time and 1000 recharges. They’ve been included in Popular Science’s Best of What’s New 2009.
MacWorld Live
Leo will be hosting MacWorld Live this Friday. The line-up will include Heather Gold, Roger McGuinn, [...]
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27 October 2009, 4:00 pm
Breville Variable Temperature Kettle
Electric Kettle for Tea Making
Link: Breville USA
Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday
A gadget to go with last week’s Penguin Tea Timer (Episode 942), and a recommendation from Alex Lindsay. The Breville Variable Temperature Kettle BKE820XL has different temperature settings for different kinds of tea or beverage you want to make: green tea 80°C, white tea 85°C, oolong [...]
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Tagged breville, breville smart toaster, breville toaster, bumper sticker, distributed music system, dvd rewinder, dyslexia, eos wireless speaker system, food and beverage, home appliance, kettle, penguin tea timer, s5, Sandisk, sansa clip plus, sansa clip+, screw you, screw you sticker, sonos, sonos zoneplayer s5, tea, toaster, variable temperature kettle, zoneplayer, zoneplayer s5
26 October 2009, 5:22 pm
Jabra Stone
Bluetooth Headset
Link: Jabra
The brand new bluetooth headset from Jabra, the Stone is so called because when the earpiece is slotted back into the portable charging station, the whole unit resembles a pebble. The main attraction is the sleek design, but also with useful features – dual microphone with noise cancellation, touch volume control, indicator [...]
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Tagged a2dp, alex lindsay, attack of the show, audience number, battlestar galactica, bluetooth headset, call-for-help-a-thon, chris pirillo, Coby, coby camcorder, coby snapp cam3000, comic book convention, comic con, cruzer, dennis wunderlin, dukes of hazzard, extreme pro, g4, jabra halo, jabra stone, john schneider, kevin pereira, matt nagel, mediafly, olivia munn, Sandisk, sandisk cruzer, sandisk extreme pro cf card, schadenfreude, snapp cam3000, stone, sunday times, the wrestler, tom wopat, twit video channel
16 October 2009, 4:00 pm
SanDisk Cruzer (2002)
USB SD-Card Reader
Link: dpreview.com
Dick’s Gadget Warehouse
Introduced at CES 2002, the original SanDisk Cruzer hailed itself as “the world’s first personal, pocket-size storage device with removable flash memory cards”. Essentially it was a USB1.1 SD/MMC card reader, thumb drive style. The USB plug could be extended and retracted, and when retracted, the removable memory [...]
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Tagged abc world news now, apple 2e, atari 800, atari cassette recorder, bluetooth headset, card reader, casio dictionary watch, casio te2500, commodore 64, data storage, dictionary watch, first computer, flash memory, james brooks, mac 2ci, motorola s805, police, Sandisk, sandisk cruzer, sansa clip plus, trs80, usb card reader, usb thumb drive, zenyatta mondatta
7 September 2009, 4:30 pm
Sansa Clip+
MP3 Player
Link: Sandisk
The Sansa Clip+ is Sandisk’s latest MP3 Player. The “plus” to the previous Sansa Clip (Episode 493) is a microSD card slot for additional storage and compatibility with the slotMusic and slotRadio cards (Episodes 688 and 888).
.comwars
Today Leo, his family and friends, and the TWiT Team are going to play Capture-the-Flag in [...]
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Tagged .comwars, capture the flag, email from the past, futureme, jennifer birthday, labour day, lasertag, mp3 player, pete helmore, pmp, Sandisk, sansa clip plus, sansa clip+, slotmusic, slotradio
