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CES Day Three. More Tech.
Posted January 9, 2008 10:51 AM
Today's news on the CES front:
Sling showed its SlingCatcher and SlingModem, scheduled for release in Q2, which works well for them and us because apparently the SlingCatcher crashed a couple times, while also having sluggish menus and a generally unfinished look and feel.
Samsung presented it's 31-inch and 14-inch OLED's, showing up Sony's 27-inch prototype and 11-inch production sets. Samsung says they have no production plans, but that's a big "yet" seeing as Sony already has their OLED products open for sale. They also showed an HD DVD/Blu-ray Disc Combo DVD player. They've got home entertainment market under wraps. They even have a set-up for 3D capable plasmas, meaning you'll be watching movies in 3D soon. So freaking tight.
Server providers AT&T, Microsoft, and NBC announced that they are working on solutions against P2P piracy and are opening up the option of filtering at the network level. How about buh-bye! Unfiltered networks would take over in a second. The "pirates" are the ones that are spending all day at their computer, fueling the digital economy of the web, etc. Hopefully they do filter though, then some new companies can spring up and offer real customer service. No one needs more corporate big brother in their lives when they have so much already.
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2008 CES Lowdown On Comcast And Others
Posted January 8, 2008 10:00 AM
Okay we get it, Comcast offers faster internet at an affordable price. They have the largest on-demand selection with about 90% of the material begin free. And now apparently that's all going to get WAY better. Introducing Comcast 3.0: it's faster. Unveiled this morning at the Consumer Electrics Show, it's going to offer even more in the way of on-demand, speed (with the new network of fiber optic cables), and, still, a portable DVR/DVD player (talked up yesterday at Panasonic's keynote) to carry around TV shows. And that's about it.
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2008 CES Kicks Off Panasonic's New Works
Posted January 7, 2008 10:37 AM
The 2008 Consumer Electronics Show is under way in Vegas again and all the big R&D toys are coming to the stage. This mornings keynote unveiling, information courtesy of Engadget, kicked off with Panasonic's new 150-inch plasma TV. The monster has a resolution set at 4 x 1080p, essentially 4k by 2k. The presenter, Panasonic's AVC President Toshihiro Sakamoto, calling it the "Life Panel."
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Old School Revamped
Posted January 4, 2008 1:21 PM
Talk about old school! This must be where that crazy russian got the idea to make a game full of falling blocks. In fact all of those old game programmers were crazy. How could you not be when you're involved in revolutionizing the use of computers and the newly developed consoles. In fact we were too, crazy for the games not crazy. You guys remember busting out the Atari, dropping some asteroids or battlezone. Or maybe you waited till NES Nintendo came out and started in on mr. mario himself. What we're getting at is just how fun those games were. Not so much for their graphics (obviously) but for their uniqueness and simplicity, recognizable now with the graphics of todays games.
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Digital People Mind Control
Posted December 13, 2007 11:14 AM
Too bad it isn't the real kind (not really big brother!), but soon you guys will be playing video games solely based on thought. Sega and NeuroSky are teaming up to create games and toys that read and measure brain waves so they can in turn be controlled by them. That's right mind control. It's pretty simple right now, still at the stage where activity is measured along a single axis though signal strength allows for some variations on the axis. So far the program that runs the mind control only involves lifting, dropping, and pushing around objects on a map (read experience) but for the real bang on mind control you have to go to the big dogs.
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Geek Week Gifts
Posted December 11, 2007 9:56 AM
As holiday shopping continues in full swing we present a solid round up on interesting gadgets from the guys at ThinkGeek. Now don't be frightened off by the name, these are some geeks who know where it's at. They've got a selection of gadgets and gizmos that any guy would be envious of, are envious of if they've visited the site before. This particular gift selection we've collected features gifts for the office guy, along with a few geek extras that are definitely worth checking out. And ruining our office guy gift theme, but hey sometimes you just need to get up on stuff.
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Video Game Gifts For Guys
Posted December 10, 2007 10:54 AM
If you haven't read Guy Gamer Gifts then make sure and do so, but check out the latest in sweet selections we've thrown together for you guys. We've got game gifts up for all the big systems, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, and of course the PC. And you can be sure these are all top games to get, all provided to you free of stress. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that most every title is offered for more systems than we're able to show so don't make any hasty decisions because of what you see at first. Other than that just kick back and enjoy the guy gift ideas that make your life easier.
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Guy Gamer Gifts
Posted December 10, 2007 9:49 AM
Every guy has some kind of system. If he doesn't/you don't then find out which you're gonna get so you can check out these top games to get for guys. The games run all over the map but they do have a couple things in common. First off these are among the top games to get. Second they have amazing graphics, while thirdly any and all guys will have a great time digging in and playing this collection of supreme titles.
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Digital Jingles Every Which Way
Posted December 7, 2007 9:09 AM
Tis the season... for a history lesson! Not really though, more of a comparison between then and now concerning some technology that people used to get along fine without. That's right, telephones. In 1959 we had the Western Electric 500 telephone, then came touch tone, then cordless and now of course we've wireless.
Wireless phones have turned each human into an epicenter for communication, receiving calls from any location at any hour. Unlike the WE 500, which by 1955 had only innovated beyond 5 new colors, there are a plethora of cell phone and pda choices for you to pick from. Since phones and other gadgets are such great guy gifts we thought a cell phone selection would make for some good holiday shopping.
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It's Your Choice Dawg
Posted December 6, 2007 10:05 AM
Alright guys this is a warning as well as a hook up: video games kick ass. Even better is that they've gone into a realm of gaming that is constantly mind-blowing. For instance the new game Assassin's Creed
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Fitness Redefined As Fun
Posted December 3, 2007 9:48 AM
The Wii Fit
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Manhunt
Posted November 29, 2007 11:37 AM
Just like the hunt for gifts, the first Manhunt
Telenav GPS Navigator: If you hate asking for directions, buy it
Posted November 21, 2007 8:16 AM
Getting lost sucks. But asking for directions sucks more.
Telenav must be a company created by someone just like me. Their GPS Navigator is a simple piece of software you add to your cell phone. With it, you get turn-by-turn directions, rerouting around traffic jams and all sorts of other fun stuff, like the cheapest nearby gas and available Wi-Fi access points.
If you have a Blackberry, all you need is the software. It costs $99 for a year.
If you have a Treo, you'll need a little GPS receiver. That costs another $99 - it connects via Bluetooth.
Telenav lists all supported cell phones and service providers on their site.
I've had the Treo version for about 10 days now. It works beautifully, steering me from a rentacar counter to a client's office without incident. My only complaint is the GPS receiver, which I dropped within 2 hours of purchase. It didn't break, but I was pretty pissed when I thought I'd wrecked it. Hey, Palm, get a clue and add GPS to the Treo, will you?!
A Friend For Accidents and Morons Alike
Posted November 8, 2007 9:04 AM
Whatever women may say, guys do know something as painful as giving birth to a child and that's losing one. iPods
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The Countdown: Housewife List
Posted November 5, 2007 9:38 AM
Hello guys and, more importantly, gals. This is the beginning of this year's Guyville Christmas list for guy gifts. It is still November, but we wanted to start getting some ideas out there so all of you responsible early Christmas shoppers can go ahead and begin your search, that is of course if you haven't already finished. Being a list for guy gifts however you'll find that this one is primarily centered around electronics, awesome.
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Techie Gifts For Men
Posted October 18, 2007 10:42 AM
Though there are still a couple months to go, the gift giving holidays will be coming up quick. Shopping will get put that crazed look in peoples' eyes with all the hundreds flooding the stores you go to. It will be pure madness. That means it's time to get the gifts for guys in gear. Here's a quick rundown of some cool guy gifts to give you some ideas what guys are looking for this holiday season (don't worry, we'll have several more of these lists in the coming weeks):
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Wiiality Gaming
Posted October 9, 2007 9:41 AM
"Wii would like to play" has to be something all you guys have heard running across the TV more than a few times. Paying attention to it was a little harder with graphics that don't quite compare to the Xbox 360 or PS3, not to mention those weird controllers. But while those two powerhouse consoles do have graphics that blow your mind (i.e. any game), they both lack one thing that Nintendo's Wii does offer: a physical, interactive gaming experience.
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Evil Gaming To Come
Posted October 1, 2007 10:28 AM
Video/computer games hold a dear spot in any guys heart, but the ones that settle in the deepest, darkest parts are always the most intense kind of fun. If you've played F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon
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Apples Don't Grow In The Amazon
Posted September 25, 2007 9:31 AM
Sick of paying $1.29 a song? Tired of the monopoly Apple has on online music purchasing? Well guys, be weary no more! Amazon.com just released its public beta version for music downloads that offers DRM-free music at competitive prices ranging from $.89 to $.99, though about half of them are solid at $.89, and for $8.99 you guys can get any of the top 100 albums. All in all there are over two million songs from more than 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels. Yea sweet deal, and finally some competition for Apple.
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Apple owns like no other
Posted September 5, 2007 11:22 AM
Steve Jobs held a special event today presenting Apple's productions and plans concerning the iPod and the digital music movement. Apparently Apple is owning, or at least beginning to, in sales of music. How about throwing out some facts and figures, courtesy of Ryan Block over at engadget, so everyone can get an idea: 600 million copies of iTunes distributed, over 3 billion songs purchased on iTunes, and 95 million TV shows purchased. Freaking amazing, but I guess it makes sense seeing as 32% of the music sales last year were solely digital.
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Be an angel and play Halo 3
Posted August 24, 2007 9:36 PM
It looks like it's going to be an early Christmas this year guys, three months to be exact so start saving up. The finished Halo 3 code was released by Bungie Studios to manufacturers to start kicking out the retail versions. It's got all the crazy graphics and weapons and storyline that's come to be expected from Halo, but with a surprise addition, a versatile multiplayer map editor called the Forge, which lets you tinker with everything save basic level geometries. According to Brad Shoemaker over at Gamespot the Forge is one-part level editor and one-part Garry's Mod from Half-life 2, which sounds like it'll make for some insane raging multiplayer showdowns. The expected release date is September 25th and can be bought in-store just about everywhere. However if dealing with a mob doesn't sound too enticing you can also preorder Halo 3 online. Take a quick peek at the madness you're in for.
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How To Fly An R/C Helicopter: Try Drugs
Posted August 9, 2007 3:59 PM
"It's okay, man. If there's one thing I know, it's how to drive when I'm stoned. It's like, you know your perspective's f--ked, so you just gotta let your hands work the controls as if you're straight." -- Zeke, Heavy Metal
Flying the best radio controlled helicopter will make you wish you were stoned. Nothing about them makes sense. Flying a cheap one will make you think you're stoned.
The Reflex Micro Helicopter is marginally better than, say, the average $35 R/C helicopter. That's probably because it costs around $60, instead. Battery life is considerably better - I was able to send mine buzzing around the office for 30 minutes at a time. The radio range sucks, I'm afraid - no more than 10 feet. After that the rotors stop spinning and you plunge from the sky like you're in a bad typical Rambo movie.
After several hours of in-depth research, here's what I discovered:
- Assume that the device is some kind of drunk simulator. Every time you take off, it'll behave differently, flying backwards, forwards and sideways according to the position of the moon, whether the air conditioning is on, etc..
- Follow the instructions about trim. One bad landing will knock the helicopter's trim outta whack - the next time you take off it could start spinning faster than Taz on crack.
- Keep spare rotor blades. The latest breed of R/C helicopter is pretty tough, but it's like buttered toast - they typically land rotor-side down.
- Fly it indoors.
- Do not fly it near your cat. The result may be a permanently deranged animal, or a completely destroyed R/C helicopter.
- If you lose control of it in an open layout office filled with staff, don't yell "OMG we're going down!!!!". Everyone will either ignore you or dive for the exit.
- When in doubt, aim for something soft that will not sue you.
- Don't buy the really cheap $25 ones. They're worthless. They're worse than worthless - they may be some kind of sick terrorist invention designed to put out the eyes of innocent Americans.
- Don't give it a name like 'Red Five'. It just makes you look like a dork. If you have to give your shiny new helicopter a name, consider something like 'Mattel's Revenge' or 'Going Nowhere' or 'OMFG'.
- Don't let your friends fly it. They'll just wreck it, leading to years of bad feelings between you. Instead, buy them their own and let them wreck that one. Or give them yours when it's damaged and you have to replace it.
Reflex R/C Helicopter on Amazon
Cool Clock You Can Read
Posted August 5, 2007 4:38 PM
A coworker has this ridiculous clock on his wall. It's basically a random jumble of lights. I can't understand it, which apparently makes it seriously cool.
Well, here's a cooler clock that you can actually read.
I have already ordered one:
THIS. IS. XBOX!!!!!
Posted July 25, 2007 4:18 PM
If you're at Comicon, they're giving away 10 XBOX 360s styled with the profile of King Leonidas on one side, and a nice blood spatter on the other:
Tank Limo? Heck Yeah!
Posted July 24, 2007 1:28 PM
When I lived in L.A., I frequently found myself sitting in traffic. Those times, one of two thoughts went through my head:
I really need a limo so I don't have to drive in this crap.
or
Wouldn't it be fun to just drive right over all these other cars?
Now, you can have both, with twin DVD players to boot: Crave reviews the Tank Limo.
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Upload Your YouTube Porn, Lickety-Split
Posted July 20, 2007 11:36 AM
GadgetCandy.com reports a new Sony video camera that lets you upload video straight to YouTube. Not the first one we've seen, but it's nifty.
Sadly, it's not out until September, so you'll have to hold off on any lense-to-YouTube perversion you're planning
Get Your GI Joe On: Custom Action Figures
Posted July 19, 2007 11:44 AM
Herobuilders.com now offers custom action figures. You can get one made based on your own photo. And they can even talk.
You choose clothing, and even weapons and accessories. If anyone's listening, I'd like mine with the Mega Gat and Max Axe...
E3 Wrapup Podcast on Weekly Geek
Posted July 18, 2007 6:11 PM
The Weekly Geek Show has a great wrapup podcast of this year's E3. It's considerably more entertaining than the news out of the video games expo, where the year's highlight was apparently yet another non-gaming Wii accessory that sucks.
What Every Man Wants In Bed!
Posted June 7, 2007 10:07 AM
All right fellas, I have no details on this yet. But I just saw the video on youtube, and I'm posting it on Guyville. I have a few questions out to the poster of this brilliant device. How do I get one? Where can I buy it? How quickly can I get an equity line of credit on my house? We blog about gifts for guys and there ain't nothing much that can beat this. GENIUS!!! For more gifts for men ideas (yes stuff as cool as this) go to our Guyville Store. More details on this insane device to come soon. I promise!
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Gifts for Men - Quiet Kids
Posted May 24, 2007 2:54 PM
In the world of portable DVD players, it is wise to consider name brand. Mintek and Coby aren't exactly household names in consumer electronics in the U.S. That's not to bash them, though I thought I was saving a few bucks last year and threw down a hundy on a Mintek portable DVD and it lasted exactly two weeks.
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A Flying Pterosaur, For Fun
Posted May 18, 2007 8:00 AM
Want to terrorize your neighbor's yappy dog? How about a radio controlled flying pterosaur (not a dinosaur, as my son pointed out to me)?
Courtesy of FireBox
Big Bangs in Small Packages
Posted May 8, 2007 1:49 PM
Bigger is not always better, even though conventional wisdom in searching for the perfect gifts for men usually tells us differently. You can probably play that dialogue in your head, "Oh, honey I gotta have me the full size Ford not the single cab. I gotta carry stuff!" Or perhaps it sounds like this, "What am I gonna do with a 52 inch big screen? I gotta have at least seventy inches, or nothing at all!"
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iPod Nano - 2nd Generation
Posted April 16, 2007 3:35 PM
If you've been searching your brain looking for the perfect items on your gifts for men list...and if your guy has been living under a rock and doesn't have an iPod...he needs one. Obviously you must determine his needs - is he a video guy or a music guy or both? If you know he's a music guy for sure, then the Apple 2 GB Nano is an awesome and affordable starter mp3. This item is consistently high on the Amazon sales rank in consumer electronics (currently at #18) and for its size and weight (nearly nothing and nothing), it really has the bang for the buck.
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Hi Def Camera For Your Hi Def TV
Posted April 8, 2007 2:41 PM
Why on earth would anyone even consider buying a standard def mini dv camera anymore is beyond me. If you're wondering what consumer grade mini-dv camera would best suit you in your gifts for him quest, then look no further than the Panasonic HDC-SD1 HD Camera. We get asked the question, what is the best mini dv camera to buy, and as technology changes so quickly, it's always a hard answer to give. What we do know is that the price of HD cameras is coming down into the normal stratosphere. This particular camera is just a hair over a grand, and for the image quality on a 16:9 frame, you would be hard pressed to find a better camera for a better price.
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Will It Blend?
Posted April 6, 2007 11:08 AM
Will it Blend? The simple one minute videos on youtube have created a viewing frenzy as everyone clamors to see what this crazy old guy in the white lab coat is going to blend every week. I think there's a fascination with watching things get destroyed. It's probably a man thing that started out when we were kids.
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Clean Floors For Lazy Guys
Posted March 4, 2007 8:17 PM
What guy do you know that has time to actually clean the floors in his home? There are so many other things that fill up the hours in the day that on the list of priorities, watching every rerun of "What's Happening" on TV Land will take precedence over the mop bucket. If only someone could invent some sort of robot that could do it for us...that would be tops on the gifts for him list I would think. Well, thankfully, someone smarter and more ambitious than us got it together and created the iRobot Scooba Floor Washing Robot. This nifty device has won awards for its unique design, and while he's resting comfortably on his can this thing is working its wheels off cleaning and scrubbing up to 500 square feet of space on a single charge.
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TV Anywhere Anytime
Posted March 2, 2007 1:32 AM
For those of us who absolutely can't stand to tear ourselves away from the television, there is a new/upgraded technology to absolutely cater to our every programming whim. MobiTV works with a plethora of cell phones and offers an abundance of programming so if you have to pry yourself away from the boob tube to say, get in your car and drive somewhere, (heaven forbid) you'll have that new Fox Sports highlight at your disposal. Because seriously, folks, we need another distraction for the 200 million drivers out there. I'll be the jack-ass on the motorcycle who is minding my own business cruising slowly and obeying all traffic laws and I'll get wiped out by the yay-hoo who's completely absorbed in that funny clip of Jeff Corwin tossing around monkey poop on the Animal Planet channel and completely forgetting that he's driving his six-thousand pound Suburban into on-coming traffic.
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Gadgets For Men
Posted February 25, 2007 4:50 PM
Here is a must have gadget gift for your guy at home. IPod, meet car, car meet charger, charger meet car and IPod. Now you can enjoy listening to your IPod in your car without getting those pesky tickets for having your ear-phones in. This awesome 3 and 1 Car Kit is a charger and an FM Transmitter with built in IPod holder. Simply plug the FM transmitter into the headphone jack of your mp3 player, tune your car stereo to the clearest FM frequency and listen to your personal collection of tunes. Okay, this is just a must have in the category of gifts for men. Normally it's around $70 bucks, which is a small price to pay to get your favorite music available and at your beck and call, but as of right now it's less than half that, currently on sale for only $27.99.
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Co-Inventor Of Remote Control Passes
Posted February 21, 2007 7:41 AM
It's a sad day in Guyville as we mourn the loss of inventor, Robert Adler, co-creator of the greatest guy gift known to man, the remote control. Not that I'm that old, but I do remember the times where as a kid I'd have to get up to manually change the channels and adjust the volume. Frankly, it really stunk. It wasn't because the remote control hadn't yet been invented, it was because it was such a fantastic device, my old man used to hide it so the kids (mainly me) wouldn't break it. Things have changed quite a bit over the years and remote control technology has been drastically upgraded since that Zenith Space Command was born in 1956.
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Pick Up The Pace!
Posted February 19, 2007 12:17 PM
Gifts for him that keep his heart thumpin!
Technology and fitness have come together to make exercise fun and interesting for once in our lives. Who would have thought those two words would ever be used in the same sentence? Fat people hate to run. Fit people probably don't love it either, but they've figured out that if they buy some of the cool, futuristic technology that is available to them, they can mask the pain of the run with enough distracting things to make it all worth while. You love your Guyville Guy, right? You want to see him live a long and full life, correct? (Stop thinking about the million dollar insurance policy!) Then check out this cool guy gift that he will absolutely love.
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Video Games Good For Your Health
Posted February 7, 2007 7:45 AM
I know it seems like a joke, but a recent report out of Singapore (Reuters Life!) says that U.S. researchers have discovered that video game playing is actually good for your eyes. A University of Rochester study showed that gamers playing action games a few hours a day over the course of a month actually improved their vision by about 20 percent. Apparently action video games change the way our brains process visual information. Play video games, lose glasses. I'm pretty sure the word serendipitous could be inserted somewhere in that last sentence. Well, we are all over finding the best gifts for him on this site and I think we can all agree that a Play Station 3 or Nintendo Wii is in serious order here. If your Valentine's day present hasn't been purchased yet, then get your game on, ladies, you need a gift for him and gifts for men are what we do best.
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Watch Gadgets
Posted January 28, 2007 7:49 AM
Need a gift for him for Valentine's day that will help induce the secret to weight loss (by the way, the real secret is less brownies, more carrots and putting on the running shoes at 6:30am four days a week.) Try the amazing Garmin Forerunner Personal Training Device. As far as watch gadgets go, with the GPS sensor, you can track your precise speed, distance and pace. It's designed to give you a built in workout partner as it's info is constantly pumping you up by allowing you to set your goals. Your results (in a cool graph format) is simply a glance away. The secret to weight loss is right in front of us and always has been.
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Home Fire Safety Gadgets
Posted January 24, 2007 5:43 PM
You can never be too safe at the old household, right? You likely have smoke detectors coming out the ying yang, but do you have the all important CO (carbon monoxide) alarm system? CO is an invisible and odorless poisonous gas that is a killer. It's also the number one cause of unintentional poisoning deaths in the U.S. What has to be amongst the greatest priority in possible gifts for him should be the gift of life. The Kidde Battery-Operated Carbon Monoxide Alarm is battery operated and uses the Nighthawk electrochemical CO sensor to make sure nobody in the household is sucking up deadly fumes.
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Six Megapixels For Two Hundies!
Posted January 15, 2007 6:55 AM
Well it's a hair more than that, actually, but remember when digital technology was three times that amount for a mere 2.2 megapixel camera? It wasn't all that long ago either. I would try to blow up those images to make movie posters and they'd look grainy and awful and I'd find myself going back to film cameras out of frustration. The Canon PowerShot Digital Elph camera gives you not only a great and high powered image at a very affordable price, but it's essentially a no-brainer camera to operate. We do suggest boning up on all of the great features (i.e. read the instruction manual this time brainiac) such as built in auto red-eye reduction, movie mode with high-quality images at up to 60 frames per second, night snapshot, and enjoy the 2.5 inch LCD display with 16:9 aspect ratio widescreen.
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Quest For the Perfect Shave
Posted January 12, 2007 4:54 AM
As reported in Wall Street Journal Online, a product that we felt worth mentioning that makes a great gift for the men of the household is the Zadro LED Lighted Fogless Mirror. As we all know, men need to have that great steam to really loosen up those tough whiskers and if you're like me, your five o'clock shadow begins to rear its ugly head around nine a.m. It's been a struggle for as long as we can remember, however, because the steamier we get our bathrooms, the foggier the mirror.
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Pure Digital = Pure Genius
Posted December 20, 2006 9:16 AM
If you have kids you are probably accustomed to the usual nagging from the wife of, "honey, did you remember to bring the mini-dv camera for Sally's recital?!" Subconsciously you absolutely remembered to purposely forget it because you have no desire to deal with the mini dv tapes and transferring them over to a DVD format or find your fire wire cable to import it into your system so you can then burn a DVD of it. So you explain to your wife that while you forgot the mini-dv cam you did remember to bring your
digital camera to shoot some stills.
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CAN'T WE PARK OUR OWN CARS?!
Posted December 18, 2006 8:32 PM
Toyota/Lexus has unveiled and unleashed it's self-parking system upon North America and the world and I separate the two because there are extra safety precautions in the U.S. to avoid potential litigation that have to do with additional braking systems, etc. My brother recently purchased the new Lexus LS 460 L and bragged about the parking system. I asked if he'd used it and found it useful. He had never really used the system as he still found it a bit complicated considered himself a good parker. The way the system works is you drive past a parking spot traveling no faster than 12 miles per hour. The rear and front sonar sensors detect the cars and the gap between. You put the car in reverse and it activates a rear camera.
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Cable TV Only A Mouse Click Away
Posted December 14, 2006 5:54 PM
Imagine if there was technology out there that gave you the ability to watch your digital cable outside of your home. Assuming you had digital cable and were stuck at work, or were stuck out of town and your beloved sports team was playing a huge game, you'd be relegated to looking at the updating box scores wishing you could tune in.
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When the Lights Go Out
Posted December 7, 2006 12:39 PM
Okay, sure we live in uncertain times in an uncertain world where earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and ay, geeze, the threat of terrorism always looms. It doesn't mean I'm going to run out and build a bomb shelter and erect a pair of super canons to defend my home from evil doers. What it does mean is that I want to keep emergency food, water and batteries on hand to make sure I've got a few days of goods available just in case something happens. I went through the 1994 Northridge quake and was completely unprepared for that. Hell I ran around in circles screaming and naked expecting to see Jesus at any second, and that's not an exaggeration at all. An extremely handy item to have on hand in case of emergency and an item we strongly recommend as the ultimate gift for the head of the household is the Black & Decker StormStation If the man of the house doesn't have this handy item that lights up when the power goes out, plus has a 12-volt charger, AND has a 25-watt power inverter, not to mention AM/FM/TV and weather frequencies, then he simply doesn't have it all. We think this is a great gift for every guy. Man want power...man need power...man got power. Ug.
All I Want For Christmas is a Plasma TV
Posted November 25, 2006 4:29 PM
Gone are the days when those crystal clear gorgeous plasma TV’s cost the same as a sturdy three year-old Toyota with fewer than 70,000 miles on it. Plasma’s, LCD’s and DLP’s were the future and the future is now. Over the past two years we’ve been noticing that great quality picture plasma’s have been coming way down in price. We’ve seen some come down as far as the fifteen hundred dollar range for 42 inch screens. In the not-so-old days, Mitsubishi and Sony were the standard for best picture quality in the world of TV. That’s not the case any longer.
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The Spirit of Gaming
Posted November 22, 2006 1:18 PM
The E3 was quite an experience with mile long lines lasting for hours for folks just to be able to sneak a peek at the newest stars coming out for the holidays, Play Station 3, the Nintendo Wii, and the Xbox 360. There are countless blogs and opinions out there that will inform you that the Wii’s motion control sensing capability is better than the Playstation’s, which is why Sony only had one playable unit on the floor. The Wiimote is clearly the more advanced unit – at least during this beta test phase, however where they end up during actual distribution is still up for grabs. You’ll also likely hear that the PS3’s and the XBOX360’s graphics blow the Wii’s out of the water.
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Turn Your Vinyl Into a CD!
Posted November 21, 2006 3:59 PM
Don’t throw away those awesome vinyl collections! Do you have a milk crate full of awesome records from the seventies and eighties and you’re thinking about dumping them at your next garage sale for fifty cents a record? Don’t do it, man! Nothing is better than technology and the Ion Turntable with USB connection is an incredible device that will convert your awesome record collection into any CD or MP3 format and will work nicely with your MAC or PC or anything that has a USB connection. It even includes Audacity software for cleaning and restoring that awesome vinyl quality sound.
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Pedometers – Not Just For Girls Anymore
Posted November 11, 2006 6:47 PM
Let’s face it, if you were to wear a pedometer, this would be the one to wear with the to ability display time, aerobic steps, distance in miles and most importantly, the Omron HJ112 Premium Pedometer also has the ability to track your calories and fat grams burned.
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Need a Travel Assistant?
Posted October 20, 2006 3:46 PM
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Guys never need directions. We can be fifty miles off course on our way to Mexico when we're trying to get to Canada but we'll just as soon eat a pound of horse manure than stop the car and ask for help. Well, now you don't have to.
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Not Just Any Whine Opener
Posted September 26, 2006 11:23 AM
Why are those fancy wine openers such great gifts for guys? This particular wine accessory gift set being a unique and cool gift as it adds personalization as an added touch.
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Swiss Army Money Clip & Knife - Silver Alox
Posted August 29, 2006 2:44 PM
What is it about the popularity and unbelievable success of the Swiss Army products? I did a little digging on the company and realized that company founder, Carl Elsener, designed the early products himself in the company’s infancy. The original Swiss Army Knife is over 100 years old and they produce and ship more than 34,000 of those little knives with the funky cross on them each and every day. So one would think, well there must be something to be said for a guy who has intense vision and grows his company the good old-fashioned way, through determination and hard work. The real kicker, however, is that all of the Swiss Army stuff is specifically designed to withstand treacherous conditions (hello, Switzerland…freaking cold as a witch’s tee-tee) like ice, snow, hail, floods, etc.
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Dalvey Explorer Compass
Posted August 29, 2006 2:43 PM
There is something about the elegance of the pocket watches of the late eighteen hundreds that have always held great interest to this reviewer. Something about the vision of a three piece suit a monocle, a top-hat and a chrome watch on a chain in one of the many finely sewn pockets that makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Perhaps it reminds me of my immigrant great grandfathers that I never had a chance to meet. The Dalvey Explorer Compass with its pocket watch design and excellent craftsmanship possesses these same fine qualities and design features.
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Stayclip - Collar Stay Organizer
Posted August 29, 2006 2:41 PM
Ever see those impeccably dressed guys like Ari Gold from Entourage and wonder why even when you’re wearing your Sunday best, you still don’t look nearly as well put together? Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s the little things that really matter. It’s not only the $500 shoes, but it’s the finest leather conditioners and polishes that give guys that million-dollar quality. The same goes with the dress shirts.
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Swiss Army Golf Tool & Callaway Ball Set
Posted August 29, 2006 11:39 AM
Golf…there should be a song about the greatness of the game. Let's face it; golf is a billion plus dollar industry that has guys obsessing about whacking a tiny ball around. More curse words have been invented on the links than in any other place in the world in the history of our human race. It's a lovely walk in the park ruined by a teeny white dimpled ball. Oh, did I mention that I obsess about playing a round three days before I even get to the course? We love the game. Why fight it? We need all of our cool stuff too. We need the Dry Joy shoes, the pro-bag, and the best balls in the business as well as tees, markers, and a divot fixer. Basically only the whole shebang will do. If only we could get one device that had the majority of these contents…if only Swiss Army would develop a golf tool set that perhaps had a sleeve of balls, we would be half way there. What's that? They did?
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Dalvey Micro Flashlight
Posted August 29, 2006 11:27 AM
Dalvey claims that their Micro Flashlight is embedded with energy-efficient technology that makes this little keychain gizmo visible over one mile away. Well, we here over at Guyville.com call that a challenge. Armed with a buddy and two cell phones we patiently waited until dusk became dark and paced off one mile with our cars on a straight, flat road. The conversation went a little like this…
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