Archive for December, 2008

Spark Talking Globe

Christmas might have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t find that as an excuse not to gift your little one another educational toy! The Spark Talking Globe is a full color 3D spinning globe that features seven touch-sensitive areas, where each touch will kickstart the computer within to provide more information about […]

Songbird flexfit hearing aid is disposable

I suppose somewhere along the industrialization process, we forgot about sustainable production and decided that profits were the bottomline regardless of the huge environmental cost. This has resulted in unprecedented levels of pollution that has adversely affected our ecosystem, no thanks to the proliferation of plastic bags, while disposable products like diapers, eating utensils, paper […]

Acer rolls out new Aspire 8390G notebook

Acer has grown up from being an awkward child on the playground to a pretty decent jock whom any mother would love to have their daughter date. After all, the Acer brand has grown by leaps and bounds over the years to end up as the third largest PC company in the world at the […]

Sprint readies local, 10-digit numbers for deaf and hard of hearing users

Sprint has a heart for the local community by announcing the availability of local, 10-digit phone numbers for internet-based Relay (IP), Instant Messaging Relay (IM), Video Relay Service (VRS) and Federal VRS customers. Their ‘Call Now’ service will enable IP and VRS users to be assigned a local 10-digit phone number so that they can […]

GiiNii International to unveil new products at CES 2009

CES 2009 is upon us yet again - has it been a year already? Time certainly flies by too fast for our own good. GiiNii International has a fair number of devices in their lineup that will make their debut in Las Vegas, Nevada, slightly over a week from now. The offerings in question are […]

Virus in your digital photo frame?

Don’t we all love receiving gifts and presents? After all, it makes us feel loved, and there is that indescribable feeling of tearing open the wrapping paper to discover what we’ve been hankering after all this while sitting there, right in front of us. Unfortunately in this day and age, there are some presents that […]

iKids Play helps soothe rowdy kids

The holiday season often involves a whole lot of travel, and regardless of the mode of transport, kids will be kids. You will certainly be bombarded with questions such as “Are we there yet?” for at least a few hundred times, even more so if you’re on a long road trip instead of taking a […]

Time, and money, almost out on DTV Converter Coupon program

By Congressional standards, the Digital Television Converter Voucher program has been a roaring success. So much so that the program may run out of voucher coupons limit by the first week of January nearly a month before the February 17, 2009 transition deadline. Congress appropriated $1.34-billion for converter box vouchers to help absorb […]

WeeP5 is one cool Wii Accessory

I’ve played a few First Person Shooters (FPS) on the Nintendo Wii before, such as Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Tomb Raider: Underworld, and I’ve found that many of these “gunframes” that game accessory companies make for Wii FPS games are not really up to snuff.
These gunframes are meant to make the Wii […]

The Wheel USB Hub

If your USB gadgets have been stacking up, you might be getting to the point you need a USB hub.  At some point we all end up needing one.  It might even be that you still have room on your computer to plug in more USB gadgets, however, sometimes it’s just easier to have a […]