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Small Moves You Can Take to Conserve; These gadgets save power a |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
| Most people concerned about greenhouse gases know to install compact fluorescent light bulbs and shop for Energy Star appliances. Some might invest in getting their electricity from the sun or wind, but those expensive options can take decades to pay back. Gadget makers are offering new ways to cut energy use today with much smaller outlays. Most pay for themselves in saved energy and offer benefits of less noise, more natural light, or greater convenience |
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Survey Identifies Britain's Most Useless Gadgets |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
| Useless gadgets have been given the thumbs down in a new survey, which found electric nail files to be the most pointless product of all time.
The file, which supposedly gives 'technician' results to give a perfect shape and smooth finish, topped the poll of the top 20 most useless household gadgets.
In at second place were the Laser guided scissors, which claim to help you cut a perfect straight line. However, hundreds of people polled deemed the scissors useless as they don't help people with unsteady hands - the laser is attached to the scissors, so when the hand shakes so does the light |
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Taking control of your gadgets ; Universal remotes can do anythi |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
| List of remote gadgets with all the pros and cons..
The RF30 allowed us to set up individual devices, but it also has macros you can program. This means you can press one button to, say, watch a DVD, and the remote will turn on your DVD player, set your home theater audio/video receiver to the right mode and set your television to the right input if needed |
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Technology's Impact On Emerging Economies And The Year's Hottest |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
| The Consumer Electronics Association issued the following news release:
Technology's impact on emerging countries and predictions for the year's hottest gadgets were the focus of day three at the 2008 International CES®. Produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®, the 2008 International CES, the world's largest tradeshow for consumer technology, runs through today in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The inaugural CES Industry Insider Program, "Technology and Emerging Countries: Advancing Development Through Technology Investment," kicked off Wednesday morning with an opening keynote address from Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) and the MIT Media Lab. Negroponte spoke passionately about OLPC's goal of eliminating poverty in third-world countries through education. He explained that most of the nearly two-billion children in developing countries are poorly educated, suggesting that,"We must restore, introduce and create the passion for learning in children. |
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The heat is on for gadgets ; Whether it's ice cream, juices or b |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
| SUMMER means eating al fresco, and for children it means more ice cream.
There is no shortage of great new gadgets for making it at home.
Older ice-cream makers can be fiddly and have a bulky bowl that must go in the freezer before you start.
But the Delizia, an update from Philips, is easier to use, replacing the bowl with a neat "cooling disc".
Although it still needs 18 hours in the freezer first, it takes up much less spac |
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Travel light gadgets |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
| This week we look at gizmos that help you avoid over-packing your suitcase
EVEN seasoned travellers can be overwhelmed by the desire to pack as much as possible when getting ready to go away. That?s why we end up taking far too much on holiday in our grossly over-stuffed suitcases.
These gadgets promise to help you travel lighter and more efficiently.
What could be better now summer, perhaps, is finally here |
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US Companies Launch Gadget Buyback Services |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
| We think a lot about getting new gadgets, but not so much about getting rid of old ones. The result: old cell phones, defunct laser printers and Pentium III computers gathering dust.
A couple companies want to help us clear out those old gadgets, while feeding our upgrade habit, helping the environment and making a buck for themselves.
Instead of being hit up for an extended warranty next time you buy a gadget, you may find yourself hearing a pitch from TechForward Inc., a Los Angeles-based company selling a "guaranteed" buyback plan for electronics |
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What would you pick as your favourite gadget? |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
| GADGETS. We've always been in love with them - the smaller, the shinier and the more expensive, the better. We fell in love with mobile phones when they were big and unsightly and made a mockery of the word 'portable'.
We love having music-on-themove, even when that meant lugging around boom-boxes so large that they could simultaneously make you deaf and give you a hernia .
Gadgets have since been shrunk to more manageable proportions, capable of doing far more than their predecessors, and we can't get enough of them |
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You'll love 'em; you'll love 'em a lot Gadgets certain to captur |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
| Not everyone is blessed with a green thumb. Some of us can use all the help we can get.
So we turned to the world of high technology to find ways to simplify chores and have a greener, more beautiful garden. Or maybe just cool gadgets.
Options abound.
How about letting a robot cut your grass while you enjoy a cool one loafing in the porch swing?
"It's our smartest, highest-tech model," said John Tarvin, marketing manager at Kyodo America, supplier of the robotic mower featured here. "It will do an acre right out of the box. |
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Gadgets are 'the other woman' in one in four relationships. |
Topic: Gadget Articles |
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