Ask me my opinion in a survey and I’ll usually decline, knowing that there’s some sales pitch attached, or my name and personal information will go into some deep repository to receive never-ending spam. But there was something about the two freshly scrubbed kids in the Senado Square in Macao that made me stop, and willingly submit to their interviews. This was not a solitary incident. My husband Russ and [...]
Unless he’s one of those Arnold Schwarzenegger-dubbed “girlie men”, no guy in his right mind will carry around this netbook himself, but he sure might consider giving it to his Sweetie. Spotted on Shanzai.com, this rhinestone sweetheart netbook comes from China, created by the very independent Shanzai developers who keep surprising us with unusual mobile products. At the heart of this, uh, heart-motif netbook beats either a VIA C7 or Intel [...]
One of the irritations that goes along with owning an iPhone is the perpetual need to clean its surface. It looks oh so pretty when you firest take it out of the box – and after that, it’s a perpetual battle to keep it clean. Seems I was constantly grabbing a sleeve, a tissue or an eyeglass cloth from the optometrist to wipe the fingerprints off. And nothing seemed to work until I tried the 3M microfiber [...]
Ever wonder how Dad could answer all your questions? And then you grew up and got smarter. Now you can give him a Father’s Day gift that fits in a shirt pocket and help him reclaim his place as the smartest guy on earth: The WikiReader is a small handheld device powered by two AAA batteries and displays more than three million Wikipedia articles on an easy-to-use touchscreen. And what’s best, [...]
You remember when you were a kid at a neighborhood Halloween party and had to stick your hand in a bag and guess what you were holding? Cyber Clean feels like something you’d really not like to encounter without knowing what it is in advance. This gelatinous yellow gel comes in a yellow and green foil packet and feels like Play-doh gone bad or Jell-o gone old. But coax it out of the bag, then press [...]
Sitting at my desk on a Friday evening, papers scattered about, waiting for the big storm to hit this weekend, I took a look around and counted no fewer than eleven clocks within my view. My wristwatch (an elegant Swiss Army streamlined watch that goes with everything), an international clock with a map that I can touch to see what time it is anywhere in the world, the clock in [...]
It looks like an ultra mobile device, but it’s actually the controller for the newest first class seat on the new Airbus 340-500 when you fly long haul on Emirates airlines. Who knows what the rich and famous do at 35,000 feet, but if you can shell out $7,000 bucks for a one-way flight between Dubai and JFK, you too can enjoy 24kt gold trim, burlwood private cabins with vibrating [...]