Grandma Archive

  • New Sandisk WORM cards write once, read for 100 years

    New Sandisk WORM cards write once, read for 100 years

    Sandisk has created a new line of write once, read many SD cards, mainly intended for law enforcement. I suppose you could use one for taking pictures of grandma, but I don't really see the point for personal use. Well, maybe for weddings and graduations and such, but part of the attraction of digital cameras is that you can erase pictures without worrying about it.

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  • Review and contest: Vizit, the first two-way, fully interactive digital photo frame

    Review and contest: Vizit, the first two-way, fully interactive digital photo frame

    We've reviewed a number of digital picture frames here at CrunchGear, and they each strive to fit a slightly different niche. Isabella's new Vizit Frame brings some interesting new features to this crowded space. It sports a gorgeous 10.4" touchscreen, 3G wireless connectivity, and the ability to send pictures from the frame to someone's email address. It's probably the best digital picture frame I've reviewed yet, but still has a couple rough spots.

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  • New Android app helps you if you’ve fallen and can’t get up

    New Android app helps you if you’ve fallen and can’t get up

    Android phones save lives. Or they could, if they had this application installed. Let’s say grandma is walking around the house with her Droid in the pocket of her house coat, and she falls down. Luckily, you installed the iFall application. It uses the accelerometer in her phone to tell you that she fell down, [...]

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  • Gluvi, the remote control condom

    Gluvi, the remote control condom

    Are you disgusted by humanity? Do you find human contact repulsive? Are other people, in a very Sartrean sense, hell? Then you need the Gluvi.

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  • Review: Plextor 128GB SSD

    Review: Plextor 128GB SSD

    All the cool kids are playing SSDs these days. So much so that every manufacturer wants of piece of the sweet cherry pie. Even Plextor who was previously known as an optical drive/media company has a set of 64GB and 128GB SSDs available now. Too bad these options tastes more like a supermart-made pie than [...]

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  • Review: Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station

    Review: Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station

    Short Version: We now have so much storage in our homes that we could probably, each of us, start our own Rapidshare service. But how do we get all that data to the other machines on our network or, better yet, out onto the Internet? Devices like the Iomega iConnect allow us to place storage [...]

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  • Go Computer: Help the aged

    Go Computer: Help the aged

    As my sainted old father always says “It’s a stinking world because there’s no law and order anymore! It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it’s no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men [...]

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  • Spy Video TRAKR for mischief, peeping, potential law-breaking

    Spy Video TRAKR for mischief, peeping, potential law-breaking

    The Wild Planet Spy Video TRAKR is a toy with a mission. You send it into enemy territory, turn on the video camera, and start watching what’s going on in distant rooms. It has a built-in speaker and microphone, as well, so you can announce your presence at opportune times. Or not. The toy won’t be [...]

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  • MagicJack CEO: netTalk is garbage! netTALK: No we aren’t!

    MagicJack CEO: netTalk is garbage! netTALK: No we aren’t!

    I love CEO spats. A few days ago the MagicJack CEO, Dan Borislow (Shown above at his party at CES. Seriously. It was just like that.) was talking about his femtocell and was all like: I’m sure you’ve heard of netTALK, the new magicJack rival. Any opinions on the device? It’s a piece of sh*t. It has [...]

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  • Mysterious camcorder surfaces with DLP pico projector attachment

    Mysterious camcorder surfaces with DLP pico projector attachment

    The only info we can find about this camcorder comes from the YouTube video and description, which states it's a first-of-its-kind camcorder attachment using a WVGA DLP pico chipset. We can't make out the manufacturer and really anything else about the concept. But one thing is clear. We love it. Click through for the video demo.

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  • Photo frame features built-in scanner

    Photo frame features built-in scanner

    Oh boy, here’s the perfect digital photo frame for grandma, grandpa, or anyone else who’s deathly afraid of technology. Aside from the $200 price tag, it’s actually not a bad idea. It’s a digital photo frame with an integrated 4x6 photo scanner.

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  • Analysts: Blah blah Internet TV boxes are blah blah a dead end

    Analysts: Blah blah Internet TV boxes are blah blah a dead end

    Standalone set-top boxes like the Boxee Box and the Roku Player are good because they add Internet content to heretofore unconnected TVs. That’s a good thing. However, analysts at the Diffusion Group believe that the devices will eventually peter out to be replaced by Blu-Ray devices. I don’t quite understand their thinking here. Perhaps they think [...]

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  • Santa-Pain Brings The Cheer, Adds Holiday Tunes to I Am T-Pain

    Santa-Pain Brings The Cheer, Adds Holiday Tunes to I Am T-Pain

    Considering that it’s still one of the App Store’s top grossing apps of all time, I Am T-Pain is pretty great. With that said, it’s not exactly something you’d want to pull out at your family Christmas party. Believe it or not, Grandma probably wont be impressed with the on-the-fly Autotuning technology be it that [...]

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  • A DVD that lasts 1000 years (but is it scratch resistant?)

    A DVD that lasts 1000 years (but is it scratch resistant?)

    New kid on the block Cranberry claims that their new DVD will last 1,000 years. Of course no one will be around to dispute that claim, and by then we'll be using some kind of organic memory light data cell, but hey! Who knows, maybe future generations will want to see those vacation photos you took of Grandma Rhoda and Aunt Suzy.

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  • Woot Buzz for iPhone ensures you don’t miss the next Bag Of Crap

    Woot Buzz for iPhone ensures you don’t miss the next Bag Of Crap

    It’s probably a bit less apparent on this side of the fence than it is over at CrunchGear, but we loves us some Woot around these parts. Where else can you buy a “Bag of Crap” that you’d actually be excited to receive? Thing is, it gets a bit tough to keep up with Woot when [...]

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