Gadgets posts

For RIM, you are what you eat. The latest twist for tumbling company Research in Motion, they’ve chosen to change their name and branding to reflect who they really are. Instead of being the once-proud RIM brand, they will be known simply as “BlackBerry” going forward. This is a good move. It focuses all attention on the one thing that has a chance of keeping everyone in the company employed: a successful BlackBerry 10 launch. This is their last chance. If they cannot recapture some of the market that they’ve been hemorrhaging for a while, particularly in the business sector, than they will not be…

In many ways, smartphones are actually too smart. They have capabilities that few ever take advantage of and there are so many apps that there’s no way to explore a fraction of them. Smartphones can help you organize, remember, and hack life in general with their capabilities. Used properly, they can even help you make money. This video from Hack College gives us a breakdown of five different ways you can make the most out of your smartphone in a smidgen over a minute. From optimizing your actions to linking to the cloud, these hacks can take your smartphone use to another level.  …

The bad news is that it’s $52,000. The good news is that if you have time to lay in bed all day, you might just have the lifestyle cash available to buy this puppy. That is, unless you’re able to do so because you’re still living with your parents, in which case you now have an incentive to get out of bed, go to college, and get the type of job that can help you afford to leave mom’s and get the  Hi Can gaming bed. Need more to drool over than just the new age design? How about an HD projector, a top notch built in computer, state-of-the-art sound system, reading light (in case you don’t have a Kindle handy), and…

The Apple versus Google battle has been waging since well before anyone even knew there was a rift between the tech giants. Their relationship seemed fine to outsiders for years who saw no legal battles between them and integration of Google products as default on the iPhone, including Google Maps. What was brewing behind the scenes between the last two CEOs at each company was a heated enmity. Today, the smartphone market itself is the battleground but the individual battle that intrigues most is the battle between the voice-recognizing software that turns iOS and Android into virtual assistants…

Those of us old enough to remember the somewhat-cool-but-mostly-annoying boomboxes that were carries on streets, across playgrounds, and on public transportation during the 80s can experience the portable music machines all over again in the form of the Boompack by givingshape. It’s a ghetto blaster for a new generation that has grown up more secluded (and polite) with their musical enjoyment through smaller devices with earbuds. Bigger is better with the Boompack as it boasts 8 speakers, 100 watt sound power, and 32Gb of internal memory, plenty to store as many Beastie Boys or Def Leopard…

With 81% of Americans using smartphones while watching television, it’s clear that we’ve developed a penchant for multi-screen consumption of content. Our computers have more than one screen. We often have our iPads sitting next to our laptops, which are sitting next to our desktops, which are across from our video games that are connected to our big screens. In short, we love screens. That doesn’t seem to be a trend that will go away any time soon. This infographic by Uberflip takes a look at some of the stats surrounding the multi-screen generation.  …

Try as he may, Google’s co-founder has a difficult time trying to blend in with other folks who ride on New York City subways. His attire was inconspicuous. His hat, facial hair, and position as the least well-known of the Page-Schmidts-Brin Google trio would make it easy for him to walk the streets without being accosted by paparazzi. He forgot on thing – the mythical Google Glass specs that sat on his nose gave him away and made for a fun Tweet: Yeeeah… I just had a brief conversation with the most powerful man in the world. On the downtown 3 train. Nice guy. twitter.com/noazark/status… — Noah…

Say Allo to my little friend…my drill gun power screwdriver that is. This handy dandy drill gun looks like a real gun but in fact is a screwdriver that comes with 6 drill bits to boot. Shaped like a revolver, the Drill Gun Power Screwdriver will let you be the dawn at house work and have you laying down board’s mafia style. …

I think we can all agree that cell phone cases in general lack any luster. Most come in just black or bright pink and a few colors in between. Since we take our smartphones with us everywhere we go it would be nice to dress them up too and since it is 2013, isn’t it about time? …

We all love books and some are not ready to transfer completely over to audio book downloads quite yet or perhaps the book is not available in audio, either way one pet peeve is reading a book and coming across a word you do not know or understand. Pulling out a dictionary is not quite as glamorous as it once was and when studying for a test the last thing you need is to lug around another book. …