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  • Gift Guide 2009: Wireless E-book Readers

    Gift Guide 2009: Wireless E-book Readers

    Intro We're only about five weeks away from Christmas, so now's as good a time as any to talk about (drum roll, please) e-books. Amazon kick-started the e-book market (with apologies to earlier e-book readers) with the introduction of the Kindle in the fall of 2007. Two years later, Barnes and Noble, IREX, and Sony announced [...]

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  • The 5 rules of HDTV buying

    The 5 rules of HDTV buying

    So there you are, standing in front of Best Buy’s wall o’ HDTVs. Which one do you buy? There are just so many different factors and terms: LCD, LED, plasma, 3D, DLP, 1080p. No worries. Follow these five rules and you’ll end up with the perfect HDTV for you. Rule 1 – Buy for your room Forget [...]

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  • The third day of Peek-Mas

    The third day of Peek-Mas

    We’re giving away five Peek Protos this week, one a day, and we want you to ask us nicely for one so we can give you one. What I’m basically trying to say is that you should respond to this post with a comment (using your real e-mail address) and also follow CG on Twitter [...]

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  • Gift Guide 2009: Gaming Consoles

    Gift Guide 2009: Gaming Consoles

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  • Gift Guide 2009: Toys

    Gift Guide 2009: Toys

    Intro The problem with creating a category for toys on CrunchGear is that almost everything we review is a toy - it's fun, cool, and great to play with for at least a day or two until our attention is inevitably drawn to something else. That said, here are some gift ideas for the toy lover [...]

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  • Gift Guide 2009: Pocket Camcorders

    Gift Guide 2009: Pocket Camcorders

    Intro Pocket-sized camcorders continue to grow in popularity thanks to falling prices, shrinking form factors, and enhanced video quality. While there are plenty on the market to choose from right now, this guide will focus on models selling for less than $150. That seems to be a good price ceiling that allows you to get plenty [...]

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  • Review: Rogue Warrior Red Cell Watch

    Review: Rogue Warrior Red Cell Watch

    It’s not every day you find a watch that can feasibly kill a man. The Rogue Warrior Red Cell is just such a watch. The watch, designed by Richard “Dick” Marcinko AKA the Rogue Warrior, chairman of Red Cell International Corp., a security consulting firm. Mr. Marcinko (you call this guy “Mister” and “Sir”) has a [...]

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  • Gift Guide 2009: Netbooks

    Gift Guide 2009: Netbooks

    Intro The Year of the Netbook. That’s 2009. You can't walk into a consumer electronics store without seeing netbooks everywhere. Actually you can't really walk into a consumer electronics store, period, since they’re closing up faster than costume shops the day after Halloween. But that's another story for another time. While traditional netbooks sales will almost certainly [...]

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  • Gift Guide 2009: Portable Media Players

    Gift Guide 2009: Portable Media Players

    Intro The common portable media player has a tough existence. It's expected to handle many tasks well, while being rugged enough to withstand daily (ab)use. It's expected to look nice, it's expected to provide more-than-decent battery life, and it's expected to provide a simple enough interface that it can be operated almost exclusively while on the [...]

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