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The ebook reader market certainly looks to be heating up quite a bit as of late.  There’s the new international version of the Kindle 2, Plastic Logic teasing us with a new reader, Sony’s new readers and tomorrow’s Barnes & Noble announcement among others.  Today, we can add another name… Continue Reading »

Livescribe, producer of the Pulse smartpen that can record writing as well as audio (voice) is expanding its line to include a pair of pens with different memory options as well as a business-focused pro pack bundle.  In the battle to replace pen and paper, the Pulse pen is an… Continue Reading »

The leaves are changing colors.  Football has become a weekend staple.  Pumpkins are seemingly everywhere.  It is that time of year again, fall is upon us and with that comes the chance to have some frightening fun.  You see offers of great scary gadgets all over the place, but which… Continue Reading »

This week I was forced to get out amongst the people and away from tech.  That doesn’t stop the tech world from moving on and making huge missteps and this week was no exception.  Here are the moves that make me suspect narcotics might be involved.  It would be worth… Continue Reading »

Well, we had gotten the early scoop quite a while ago, that Facebook was coming to an XBox 360 near you.  Unfortunately, it didn’t happen when Microsoft was first hinting that it would…way back in August.  It’s the “Big 3” apps scheduled to make their debut soon - Facebook, Twitter,… Continue Reading »

These days if you’re introducing a GPS, you’ve got to have a hook.  Satsports is bringing its Satsports GPS to North America and wants it to be the GPS for all sports.  It runs Windows CE 5.0, has an internal speaker, some built in memory with 256MB or storage, Micro… Continue Reading »

You’d have to be blind not to see Microsoft trying to shove Windows 7 into the living rooms of America through TV commercials.  The most recent—the gaggy sweet little girl making rainbow and flower pages though, is in my opinion, not their best effort.  But, that effort is now veering… Continue Reading »

There’s a good chance this scenario has happened to you before: you just hear about something or are asked about something that you’re not sure about.  You don’t have Internet access, but you know once you have it, Wikipedia will most likely be able to answer your question.  Now you… Continue Reading »

The Powermat is now available and we’ve got the iPhone 3G receiver/case.  Place the phone in the case and then place it on the Powermat charging mat.  Then your phone charges wirelessly.  Does it work like Powermat says?  Gadgetell finds out. Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: Powermat's iPhone 3G Receiver/Case

We’ve seen the Powermat at tradeshows and Gadgetell had some hands on time for plenty of testing.  Powermat is a wireless charging solution.  If you get a Powermat receiver and a mat you can simply place your device on the mat to charge it.  The claim is that you won’t… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: Powermat's Home & Office Mat