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The Gadget: This olympus microphone plugs into a recorder and your ear, recording whatever you hear. That makes it perfect for recording cellphone interviews, which traditional telephone voice recorder setups meant for landlines can't.
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The Gadget: A soundbar by one of my favorite A/V companies that includes a sub. It is one of the rare soundbars NOT to block your TV if mounted on the same table. Processes DTS and Dolby surround through optical and coax and stereo inputs (But no HDMI). The sub draws power off the main unit at 40 watts, and the six 3-inch drivers get 22-watts each. It comes with a glow in the dark universal remote. 
The Gadget: Datto's Backup NAS, a 100/500GB network storage device that automatically uploads whatever is on it to Datto's servers, giving you an off-site copy of your important information in case of a catastrophic loss.
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Not to be a prick, but I'm a better gamer than probably 80 percent of you. At any given first-person shooter, I will probably kill you more than you kill me, and by a decent margin. The point is, I'm good—but I'm no pro. I've actually always been skeptical about "pro" gaming gear, and the sliver of an edge you might gain by paying a lot more. I put complete setups from both SteelSeries and Razer—using my beloved, well-worn five-year-old Logitech gear as a control—through a rigorous multi-day Battlemodo to definitively answer a single, fundamental question: Will pro gaming gear make me a better gamer?
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9:00 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By matt buchanan
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Latest by gifurocks: You forgot to mention which of the three headsets is most comfortable. Positional audio accuracy is going to blend at some point for all of us and 5 hour gaming sessions require comfort the most I would think. Steelseries isn't that more »
Crackberry, the BlackBerry fan site, bought a BlackBerry 9000 off of eBay for $828 and reviewed it. Why's this notable? Because the phone doesn't go on sale until July or August. This fact doesn't stop them from throwing lots of praise on the phone now, however, saying that the "9000 will leaves [sic] every other BlackBerry made to date in the dust."
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The Lenovo IdeaPad U110 comes in the wake of America's new obsession with tiny laptops. I could tell you that it's powered by a 1.6Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor (4MB, 800 MHz), packing 120GB of PATA storage and up to 3GB of RAM (2 tested), but all you want to know is that it's over half a pound lighter than the MacBook Air and will impress the fellow yupps at Starbucks. Still, if you're interested in seeing if beauty is more than ultra-glossy skin deep, hit the jump to see what I loved and hated about the Lenovo IdeaPad U110.
3:30 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Mark Wilson
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Latest by woolie: Best use of obscure reference in title since the GTA IV Koyaanisqatsi trailer. more »
The Gadget: The Livescribe Pulse Digital Smartpen records your notes two ways: it creates digital copies of everything you write by hand while recording audio at the same time. It also goes one step further and links the two together, so you can quickly access audio by tapping parts of your notes. All of this is uploaded to your computer where the Livescribe software archives and makes your notes fully searchable. In addition, it offers features like a calculator, translator, and a paper piano that plays a mini piano you draw on paper.
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The Gadget: Sony Ericsson's K850i is part of Sony's CyberShot line of phones which boast high quality cameras in a cellphone package. In addition to its 5 MP camera and unusual design, the phone has three touch sensitive buttons just below the screen. Is this powerful enough to throw your point and shoot aside?
7:55 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Adrian Covert
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Latest by jamar0303: @digitalexis: I believe that the $650 is referencing the phone I mentioned, the SO905iCS. It's got 3x optical zoom and the same sensor that they use in their Alpha DSLRs. more »
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The Gadget: A wooden stand that keeps your Rock Band and Guitar Hero guitars, mic, and various controllers in check so they don't otherwise destroy your living room in a mass of plastic and cabling.
The Price: $55 for the standard stand, plus $10 extra if you want extra microphone holder holes.
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I have a confession to make: I've never owned a digital camera. I've played around plenty with friend's point-and-shoots, and I have picked up a DSLR on occasion too. But I never saw the point of paying $300 for something my iPhone could pretty much do well enough. Now that summer's coming up and the price of high-megapixel cameras is going down, though, I figure it might be time to pick one out for myself—on the cheap. Let someone else waste money, I want to know what's good at $150 and not a penny more. I'm gonna be picky: I only want a camera that can take shots that make me look like a photography genius while in truth I'm a photography dumbass, but still, the key is to keep the price down. I tried out five $150-and-under cameras, and here's what I found:
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9:30 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Benny Goldman
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Latest by bandit: @outsdr: Actually, these ARE cheap. It's clear to me now that the reviewer picked cameras with an MSRP of $150 but several of these are available closer to (or below) $100 "street price." The Canon I recommended has an MSRP more »
It's been three months since we first got a true hands on with the Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard at CES, and we've had plenty of time to experience this innovative gadget by blogging with it full time over the course of three weeks. And by logging hours and hours with the keyboard—much like you would if you purchased one—we've come up with ten things you need to know about the Optimus Maximus keyboard's hardware.
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2:00 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Jason Chen
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Latest by Viaco: An interesting application would be gaming.. More than just merely mapping the control keys. Imagine gameplay where you are in multiple alien environments and you are required to interact with various interfaces. The keyboard itself could change to more »
The Canon Rebel XTi was highly regarded by prosumer camera enthusiasts. And now that Canon has released the XSi (also known as EOS 450D), the jump from 10.1 to 12 megapixels, the addition of image stabilization to its stock lens and new, optional Live View (where you see the camera's preview image on the LCD) should combine to make the XSi the most pantsworthy Rebel yet—all while staving off sub-$1000 DSLR competition from Nikon, Sony and Olympus. To find out, hit the jump for the first 5 takes on the Canon Rebel XSi.
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The Gadget: Kensington Ci70 compact keyboard with two USB ports and one mini USB cable for easy docking and syncing.
The Price: $49.99
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