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Despite uneasy feelings on Wall Stre5et, electronic gadgets are predicted to gain in sales by 3.5 percent over last year’s Q4.  While overall spending is set to decline on holiday shopping, gadgets are somewhat immune.  According the CEA (Consumer Electronics Association), specific gadgets will still do extremely well this holiday… Continue Reading »

Christmas is for the kids, right?  Better get them crossed off the shopping list first.  I checked out a few of the wish lists floating around and thought I would share them with you.  Wouldn’t you know, they are filled with electronics.  We have plenty of shopping days til the… Continue Reading »

100 entries.  20 finalists.  3 winners.  1 grand award.  And a confused girl.  You might be having a little chuckle over the confused girl part.  But I really am. Of the 3,162 exhibitors at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair and all their acres of eye-popping electronics, how does a China… Continue Reading »

Tru2way is coming and Panasonic is putting it in their VIERA TVs!  Yeah!  That’s great!  Now what is tru2way?! Well tru2way is the consumer-friendly name for a technology that lets you have access to all kinds of cable television guides, on demand services, and actual cable television without the need… Continue Reading »

Circuit City turned in second quarter results that looked a lot like a black diamond ski slope.  As reported in a previous Gadgetell article, drastic measures had to be taken with a sudden CEO change three weeks ago. Hopefully, new CEO, James Marcum, is a good skier.  Maybe you are… Continue Reading »

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council is hosting their 28th Autumn Edition Hong Kong Electronics Fair this week, Sunday through Thursday.  With over 2,600 exhibitors, there is guaranteed to be some of the best new electronics and ideas on the planet at the event.  How can it not draw the… Continue Reading »

Just imagine watching Monday Night Football with the players looking like they are running right at you.  Talk about experiencing the excitement of the game without actually being there.  Or fighting the bad guys in your favorite video game (and you thought the Wii made the fighting seem realistic). Scientists… Continue Reading »

Powering up a laptop with portable liquid fuel? It’s genesis is closer than you might think. The company PolyFuel, which develops fuel cell membranes, recently announced that it has developed a prototype laptop (the Lenova T40 ThinkPad), which uses methanol cartridges and a fuel cell as it’s power source. Although… Continue Reading »

A study conducted by Australian consumer agency Choice said that video game consoles and plasma flat-screen TVs are the biggest energy users which shoot up consumers power bills. From among the 16 electronic devices that were tested during the course of the study, both the Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft… Continue Reading »

While everyone else in the world seems to be forgetting about snail mail, here comes the US Postal Service putting the old way of communicating into a fresh and yet good use – recycling electronics. The US Postal Service is advocating the recycling of electronic products, such as mobile phones… Continue Reading »