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  • Traveling with batteries and ordering gadgets online could soon get pricey

    Traveling with batteries and ordering gadgets online could soon get pricey

    Posted on February 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Here are two totally unrelated things I like to do: order gadgets and smartphones online, and travel with loads of spare batteries. Well, perhaps they’re not all that unrelated. Both offer a lot of convenience and save a good amount of cash, but with a new proposal from the U.S. Department of Transportation, that could [...]

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  • Hidden gadget charging station could save marriages

    Hidden gadget charging station could save marriages

    Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
    I have what I consider to be a modest number of gadgets lying around the house. The exact number is usually in flux, depending on what I'm reviewing for CrunchGear. Nonetheless, there's almost always something sitting in my living room plugged into an outlet to charge. My lovely wife just barely tolerates this, and regularly asks if I need to have all these things lying about. She would love to see me start using a hidden gadget charging station, like the one pictured here. Nestled under the lovely fake plant are a number of connectors to charge gadgets, while keeping them politely out of sight.

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  • All those gadgets we’re using? Yeah, we’re draining a whole lot of power these days.

    All those gadgets we’re using? Yeah, we’re draining a whole lot of power these days.

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    You know what would be a fun experiment? To go outside and find your electricity meter. All those laptops and netbooks and iPhones and PS3s and speaker docks you've got plugged in are, in fact, drawing power. As such, we're all essentially killing the planet. I don't know about you, but I'm patting myself on the back right now for being so awesome.

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  • Rock out with your gadgets out: MusicSkins lets you customize your gadgets PLUS a contest

    Rock out with your gadgets out: MusicSkins lets you customize your gadgets PLUS a contest

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Music Skins offers cool, removable stickers for most of your gadgets and they like CrunchGear so they wanted us to announce their latest endeavor, the MusicSkins Customizer. The customizer lets you create custom stickers for almost any device including BlackBerries and iPods. They cost about $20 each. The interface allows for layered graphics and it’s actually quite [...]

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