896 posts tagged Geek's gadgets

If you ever needed some motivation to wake up in the morning, here’s an alarm clock where you have to shoot to shut it up.  Check it out here.

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio We fully expected that Ferrari logo and lacquered paint job to add a stuff premium to Meridian’s F80, but that is undeniably insane. The “transportable home entertainment system,” which has been hovering about since last March, is at enlarged last ready to be purchased.

Help is on its way for users affected by the Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 endless-reboot problem that has plagued some users for the past week-plus. Both Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are readying patches that should remedy the glitch, which seems to affect primarily users of AMD-based systems.

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsApparently HP’s gotten so desperate to connect with the youth market that they’ve actually hired on a “teen council” to help design a new line of products — likeliest PCs — from top to bottom.

Apple screen savers are pretty much just Quartz Compositions (graphics created via Quartz Composer, a node based visual programming language), and, while there are some nice ones that come pre-installed, they get old rather quickly.

whether you haven’t tried yet, but are interested in running a server, now is your chance to get some free training about Mac OS X Server. Apple assures that whether you don’t have a committed IT staff, you can still run a server with their wicked easy-to-use Leopard Server.

Filed under: Peripherals iKey’s done that whole rugged keyboard thing a instance or two before, so when it builds one meant to operate like a champ around environments laden with grease, you know it means business.

Wil Shipley, head of Delicious Monster, posted that Twitter message early that AM: I have deployed the new store (also the basis of Golden % Braeburn) and it’s taking DL1 orders right now. Will watch it, soon after ship DL2.

Filed under: Laptops With its minute keyboard, the Eee PC can be unbreakable to use in the dark. Imagine, soon after, whether yours had a backlit keyboard. The folks at Popsci have come up with — and explained — a way to add one of your own. And get that: you can do it in 3 hours for just $13.50.

Filed under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentMoving beyond day-and-date releases via World Wide Web and HD video-on-demand, movie studios may be ready to move towards regularly putting movies online ahead of the DVD release instance for a premium price — that surveys say some of us are willing to pay — but prepare to have your analog gap plugged again.