Blender Archive

  • CrunchGear’s Gadget Club Contest with Peek and Radio Shack

    CrunchGear’s Gadget Club Contest with Peek and Radio Shack

    Remember the Radio Shack Battery Club? Back in the old days you’d go into Radio Shack with a card and they’d give you free battery once a month. It was heaven. I used to go in and grab a 9-volt - the best battery to have, by a long shot. Well, Radio Shack and Peek [...]

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  • Video: Making a smoothie with Joel Johnson and the Vita-Mix 5200

    Video: Making a smoothie with Joel Johnson and the Vita-Mix 5200

    How many times does one man get to watch another man make a Smoothie in the comfort of his wood paneled home? Well, Joel at BBG shared his experience with the Vita-Mix 5200 blender, a $450 uber-blender that reduces frozen fruit to "fruit slop" in seconds. The blender is quite powerful yet he notes that its "laudable blending ability doesn't even make itself apparent unless you're blending quite a bit of food at once." The same can be said of my lower intestine.

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  • How to Destroy a Hard Drive? Blend It

    How to Destroy a Hard Drive? Blend It

    Erasing a hard drive. How do you do it? For home use, you don’t need to worry, but when you’re selling a computer, you really don’t want your information to stay on there in any form. I don’t care about the porn so much, but I do worry about bank details and my secret (and [...]

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