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DGW Episode 620

Sony SRF-X90 Monocular Sports Radio Monocular Radio Link: www.monocular.info From 1994, Sony made this SRF-X90 Monocular Sports Radio. It was a 8x magnification monocular made for live sports viewing, with an AM/FM stereo radio. The idea was you could watch the sports event while listening to radio...

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DGW Episode 619

Siyoteam Card Reader and Bluetooth Dongle USB Card Reader and Bluetooth Adapter Link: USB Geek This Siyoteam device combines a Bluetooth Adapter with a Card Reader, using a USB interface, in a tiny 2.7" x 0.9" x 0.67" body. The bluetooth adapter is Bluetooth 2.0 compliant. The card reader supports...

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DGW Episode 618

Samsung DVD-VR375 Combo DVD-VHS Recorder Link: Samsung The DVD-VR375 is a combo DVD and VHS player/recorder, with a slot for DVD and another for VHS. It plays and records all forms of DVD discs, and VHS tapes. The DVD player supports Digital Dolby Surround Sound, progressive scan and 1080p...

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DGW Episode 617

iPhone 3G Smartphone Link: Apple Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday No one except Leo believed that he would be able to hold off buying the new iPhone 3G for long, and true to form, by Saturday he had got himself a white-back 16GB iPhone 3G. The main new hardware features includes 3G and GPS, and improved...

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DGW Episode 616

Parking Meter Alarm Parking Timer Link: Spoon Sisters The Parking Meter Alarm is a timer which alerts you to feed the meter when your parking time is up. You can set the time by 5-minute increments. It has a spring-loaded cylinder which holds up to 10 quarters, and a key-ring for your keys....

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DGW Episode 615

Chatterbug VoIP Device Link: Chatterbug New York Times Article Dick's Gadget Warehouse A fairly recent gadget from the Gadget Warehouse, the Chatterbug hails from 2006. It was a VoIP device which you connect between your home telephone and the land line, and when you dialed a long distance number,...

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DGW Episode 615

Chatterbug VoIP Device Link: Chatterbug New York Times Article Dick's Gadget Warehouse A fairly recent gadget from the Gadget Warehouse, the Chatterbug hails from 2006. It was a VoIP device which you connect between your home telephone and the land line, and when you dialed a long distance number,...

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Bourne: Last week's 24-hours of iPhone coverage made history

Here's a very nice post from Scott Bourne of MacBreak Weekly and the Apple Phone Show from last week: I Saw A Little History Yesterday Thanks to Leo Laporte. Scott says a number of very nice things, including this excerpt: Leo managed to make sure things kept rolling even though the iPhone was...

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DGW Episode 614

AutoTether Boating Safety Link: AutoTether An important device for boating is the emergency stop lanyard, which is connected to the engine kill switch and worn by the boat operator, so that if the operator falls overboard, the engine will stop. However, it does restrict movements and can cause false...

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DGW Episode 613

PLANon Printstik PS910 Portable Printer Link: PLANon The PLANon Printstik PS910 is a portable handheld printer which works with Windows and Blackberry phones. It's 1" x 10.75" x 1.5" in size, 1.5 lb in weight, and prints black and white on to custom thermal paper (20 pages in one paper cartridge)....

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DGW Episode 612

Canopus ADVC 110 Video Converter Link: Thomson Grass Valley Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday Thomson Grass Valley makes high end broadcast, TV and film equipment. The Canopus ADVC (standing for Advanced Digital Video Converter) line has a wide range of models, and the ADVC 110 is near the low end. It is...

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DGW Episode 611

Digital Day Counter Food Hygiene Link: HowManyDaysAgo Dick and Leo go all yada-yada today and almost forget to talk about the gadget. DaysAgo's Digital Day Counter is just that. It keeps track of the number of days that have elapsed since you started the counter going by pressing the button. You can...

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DGW Episode 610

Mother Nature's Monitor FM Transmitter for Sounds of Nature Link: SmartHmePro Dick's Gadget Warehouse At least 10 years old, Mother Nature's Monitor is a monitor for your birds. You hang the device under the bird feeder in your backyard, and it will transmit the birdsong (or just the sounds of...

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iPod Touch Apps

I've spent a good part of the night watching Leo Laporte on his 24 hours of iPhone coverage. So I got iTunes 7.7 to get into the App Store and as you can see I've already downloaded some apps. Unfortunately they still haven't pushed the 2.0 firmware so hopefully it will be out when I wake up in a...

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24 Hours of iPhone Leo Laporte!!

We’re calling this insanity “24 Hours of iPhone.” Then at 3p Pacific we go live with wall-to-wall coverage of the iPhone launch. The first 3G phones are already being sold in New Zealand and as Apple Stores open at 8am local time worldwide we’ll be talking with folks in line. We’re also...

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24 Hours of iPhone

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DGW Episode 609

Philips Avent Digital Baby Monitor Baby Care Link: Philips Avent (USA) The Philips Avent DECT Baby Monitor uses DECT technology to ensure zero interference between the baby monitor in the baby's room and the parent unit, by automatically switching among its 60 available channels, and to give you a...

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DGW Episode 608

Eye Fi Explore Wireless SD Card with Geotagging Link: Eye-Fi The makers of the Eye-Fi Wirelss SD Card (Episode 441) have updated their product. Apart from bumping up the capacity to 2GB (with the same wireless connectivity and uploading capability), the new Eye-Fi Explore adds geotagging to your...

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DGW Episode 607

Sanyo Pro-700 Walkie Talkie Cellphone Link: CNET Review Sanyo's Pro 700 and Pro 200 are designed for the Sprint Nextel network. They have the same features, but the Pro 700 has a more rugged design (built to military specs, though not waterproof). These are CDMA phones with "QChat" enabled to make...

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DGW Episode 606

Display Link Multi-Monitor Display Technology Link: Display Link Display Link is a technology built into different products which enables easy multi-monitor display from a single computer or source. The extra display may be an extended display, or a mirrored/cloned display. At the simplest level,...