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  • Bag Week Review Round-up

    Bag Week Review Round-up

    Wow, we just burned through 14 bags over the last seven days. We looked at dual-purpose bags, weather-proof backpacks, camera satchels, and even went hands-on with a bag worthy of Batman. Hopefully you were introduced to a few new options. There is no reason why you should still be using that laptop briefcase you uncle [...]

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  • The UltraMega Weekend Giveaway: $500 gift card from Lottay.com

    The UltraMega Weekend Giveaway: $500 gift card from Lottay.com

    Good morning. We have a week until Christmas and we've been pounding out giveaways left and right. We've had Smart Pens, Olive Hi-Fis, and your own personal Ninja for a year (didn't see that one? There's a reason.) But today we're here to announce the final big giveaway: a $500 gift card towards anything you want from the kind folks at Lottay.com. Here's what's up.

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  • Friday Contest: Win a triple-tuner Moxi HD DVR

    Friday Contest: Win a triple-tuner Moxi HD DVR

    Sure, all the cool kids are ditching cable and satellite these days, but us normal folk still pay for our TV. If that’s you, then you need a DVR and Arris wants you to have a brand new Moxi HD DVR this holiday season. And yup, you get the new triple-tuner model that allows you [...]

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  • Disappointing Gifts, 1986 Edition: The Etch A Sketch Animator

    Disappointing Gifts, 1986 Edition: The Etch A Sketch Animator

    Gather ‘round, kids. Gather ‘round. I’m going to tell you the story of a disappointing Christmas gift from back before many of you were born. With every blog on the internet doing year-end and best-of lists, I thought I might try to shake things up a bit by telling you about an overhyped and underwhelming [...]

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  • Giveaway: 500GB G-Drive mini external hard drive

    Giveaway: 500GB G-Drive mini external hard drive

    Everyone needs more storage. But why spend the cash an external drive when we're giving away a sexy 500GB G-Drive mini? It's small, has both USB and Firewire interfaces, and sexy like it's big brother I just reviewed.

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  • CrunchGear’s Uberprize: A SMART Board 685ix interactive white board

    CrunchGear’s Uberprize: A SMART Board 685ix interactive white board

    This week we're going to go a little crazy. We'll have daily giveaways but we're going to offer you the chance to totally go nuts and win a SMART Board 685ix short throw magical whiteboard with installation included. What's that you say? What will I do with a whiteboard? Good question!

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  • Public Service Announcement: Holiday Shipping Deadlines

    Public Service Announcement: Holiday Shipping Deadlines

    The fine folks over at dealnews and Dealhack have put together a list of shipping deadlines for popular online retailers so you can make sure to get that special gift sent out on time. Here are some of the more gadget-oriented retailers for your reference. The dates below are to ensure delivery by December 24th. Amazon.com Free Shipping [...]

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  • Review: Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin mini

    Review: Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin mini

    The design of the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin mini is a thing of beauty. Not as much so as the $800, full-size Zeppelin, but that’s fine. It’s sort of like how da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man might not be the Mona Lisa, it’s still a work of art. But as good as it looks, it can be very [...]

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  • Review: The $1200 URC MX-5000 remote

    Review: The $1200 URC MX-5000 remote

    So this is how the other half lives, huh? It must be nice to have a house full of $1200 remotes customized with user profiles and home automation controls. Yes, this remote costs $1200 and that doesn’t include installation and yes, you need it to be installed professionally. This isn’t a Harmony remote that can [...]

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  • Presenting a collection of Cyber Monday deals for your perusal

    Presenting a collection of Cyber Monday deals for your perusal

    Today is Cyber Monday. It’s like Black Friday but with more indoorsiness. And while Black Friday is more of a brick-and-mortar, you’re-there-in-person type of thing, Cyber Monday is all online and there are far too many stores and deals to completely cover. Here’s a head start on some of the better deals from the bigger sites, though.

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  • Awards: Best of Black Friday

    Awards: Best of Black Friday

    Black Friday is just two days away. If you have what it takes to wake up at the crack of dawn, brave the crowds, and spot the best deals, there are plenty of savings to be had. Here’s a quick list of some of the best deals from the most popular product categories being [...]

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  • Gift Guide 2009: Gifts for the Technologically Impaired

    Gift Guide 2009: Gifts for the Technologically Impaired

    If you’re like me, you’ve got a fair number of family and friends who don’t quite share the same level of enthusiasm for technology as you. But the thought of buying someone a gift that wasn’t a gadget? Insanity. Pure insanity. In that spirit, here’s a list of products that ought to make easy-to-use gifts for the technologically ambivalent in your life.

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  • iFixIt Announces Answers: Do Not Return Product to Store

    iFixIt Announces Answers: Do Not Return Product to Store

    Our buddy Kyle at iFixIt.com has just announced a beta version of iFixIt Answers, a collaborative repair community for gadgets. It might be a great resource for friends and family who can’t figure out how to work the TV remote. How does it work? You ask a question on Answers and then can follow as folks [...]

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  • Bass in your face with the BassJump for MacBooks

    Bass in your face with the BassJump for MacBooks

    If there’s one thing I’ve always missed about MacBooks it’s the lack of gut-thumping bass. I mean the kind of bass that curdles your insides and causes them to blow out in a wet, pink slurry. I’m talking about bass that will make your parents come down into the basement and ask just what do [...]

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  • iPhone Apps to keep you fit this Friday

    iPhone Apps to keep you fit this Friday

    Go ahead and take that second helping of bacon-broasted mashed potatoes and high-fat gravy this Thursday, friends, because even if your tummy gets big and round like a steamed black bean bun, there’s an app for that. Fitness apps for all! iPhone fitness apps have come a long way since Nike+iPod. The addition of GPS opened entirely [...]

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