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Be.ez - LA Robe Allure Macbook Sleeve
First to recommend
Description
While I love Neoprene, the Be.ez 'LA Robe Allure' laptop sleeve won me over for its looks and durability. It's made out of 5mm's worth of Low Resilience Polyurethane, which is super cool, memory foam like material. Basically, upon impact, the stuff crushes in gently, instead of transmitting all the force directly to your precious macbook.
It's also just a heck of a lot of fun to squeeze.
Two color options avialble - Black and a dark brown Moka, both with a sleek, digital-style vertical line pattern. The company logo is subtly embossed on the front. Worth the $30.
Updated Dec 8, 2009
SanDisk Ultra II SD Card - with USB connector!
First to recommend
Description
Another Nobel worthy gadget design. This smart SD memory card folds in half, revealing a slim but perfectly functional USB connector. Just plug it in to the nearest mac or pc and see, edit or play with your photos on a big screen. Sheer genius. The best part is, it's about the same price as a regular SD card- $30 for 4 gigabytes.
My only fear is folding it the wrong way and breaking it, but I seem to always realize that before I try to hard, and it looks pretty durable. A must buy for your next camera.
Updated Dec 8, 2009
LaCie - iamaKey USB Flash Drive
3 people recommended this item
Description
Nobel prizes. We need smart design to be recognized in much the same way, and the LaCie iamakey flash drive deserves to win.
Here's the thing. I don't often need a flash drive, but when I do, I inevitably don't have one on me. Why? Precisely because I don't like to have flash drives on me - bulky, relatively unattractive, and use just infrequent enough to make them not worth my time.
The iamakey works perfectly for me. Literally the size (and width!) of a standard key, you won't notice it on your keyring till you need it. When you do, a dead simple to see upside makes it easy to plug into the nearest USB port for file transferring bliss.
The transfer speed is NOT as fast as bulky black geek machines, but it's not bad either - I can transfer a 250 Megabyte movie in about 30 seconds. The included plastic cap got lost within 2 weeks, but I find the connecter doesn't scratch easily and when it does, it still works fine.
So go - no, run - out (ok, go to Amazon) and buy the LaCie iamakey in 4, 8 or 16 (!) Gigabyte versions, and say goodbye to "shoot, I need that file!" episodes.
Updated Dec 8, 2009
Hellolulu - 2 Ways Laptop Case
First to recommend
Description
hellolulu is a newish (well, to me) little company specializing in cute + functional laptop accessories. I like their '2 Ways Laptop Case.' This compact little wonder, as the name hints at, can be carried 2 ways - horizontally with the handles, or vertically with a detachable bag strap. There's an awfully convenient and discreet front zipper to store a mouse, cables, or some gum.
The interior is lined with a luxuriously soft, shag-carpet like material that keeps your mac/pc happy, and it even has a strap to secure it snugly into place.
My favorite part of hellolulu (besides the name!) are their color schemes, always professional but with a splash of fun, and wonderfully coordinated. Check them out!
Updated Dec 6, 2009
DROID by Motorola
2 people recommended this item
Description
Don't ask how, but I managed to get my hands on a DROID (well, for now.) Here's what I think:
Nice screen, super hi-res. It's relatively intuitive, with a touchscreen with much of the ease-of-use of an iPhone. After a few hours of playing, you get comfortable with the interface, which is pretty well made - this is Google's Android OS, and it kinda rocks.
All the appphone goodies are here: Real web browsing (with full flash support, including hulu.com, coming with the next update), easy to use full HTML/Images email, syncing with your Google calendar, Gmail and contacts, IM'ing, and a nice selection of some cool apps.
The screen has haptic feedback (which you can switch off), so when you click icons, move switches or push gizmos, you feel it. This is super helpful when dialing a number. When making calls, the screen goes off and on based on its proximity to your face.
The onscreen keyboard is great - I actually prefer it to the physical keyboard. IT has landscape and portrait modes, and gives your a running suggestion box on top of auto-complete words, which saves LOADS of time.
The 5 Megapixel camera takes understandably large photos, but it's also got a flash and a pretty good autofocus feature - no more blurry cam shots!
The included Google Maps rocks - it's like a full GPS device in your pocket. Street view, Satellite images, Latitude and turn-by-turn directions make it easy to get around any city or town.
The Android Market Place (app store) is very smooth and easy to use. Cool apps are there to be found - barcode scanners for price checking, streaming music and song finders, weather, camera and sound apps, and even a semi-workable metal detector. There;s also less filtering than on the iPhone; for example, Google Voice is avialble, and the company seems content to let users complain about apps rather than pull them from the get go.
However, it resembles the iPhone app store in it's infancy - very few polished 'wow' apps as of this writing. The total number is something like 10K compared to Apple's 100,000.
The pull out keyboard's nice when getting used to the phone or when you don't want to peck the screen too much. It has a convenient arrow pad for moving around the screen and selecting stuff. It's backlit as well.
It's only con is the most important one - the keys. Since the whole thing must slide under the phone, the keys are rather flat, and it's easy to press the wrong one. Numbers are only available with a shift + # key, and they're laid out on the top horizontally, making it hard to input any numbers.
There's NO included desktop software, making it a bit of a puzzle to load your music and movies onto the device.
Other than some smallish cons, its a great phone and the first real iPhone competitor (if you don't do a head to head with the movies and music part). The OS should get (FREE) updates and the app store should only grow, so if you're hesitant now, check back in a few months and see where it's at.
Updated Dec 8, 2009
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Speck MacBook 13" See-Thru Hard Case - PINK - Fits all versions of 13" MacBooks: Electronics
5 people recommended this item
Description
Speck specializes in hard-shells, and this one's a winner. One of the few problems with the aluminum Macbooks is their tendency to dent or scratch. The smooth looking Speck See-Thru cases prevent this tragedy while keeping your laptop 100% useable. Comes in an array of neon, pastel and rainbow colors.
Updated Dec 6, 2009
Molecular Model Set For Organic Chemistry
First to recommend
Description
Methane! Carbon Dioxide! Caffeine!
All carbon based compounds. Build them in your own home with this organic chemistry model set. If you want to look smart, it's either this or a DNA model on your shelf, and this one's cheaper.
For organic students, this set it pretty darn good. The atoms are solid; the different bonds are flexible plastic of varying lengths. Lots of attention to detail: Each atom has the slots drilled at precisely the right angles - so when you build a carbon compound (black balls), the atoms end up being exactly 109.5 degrees apart from each other. Pretty cool, huh?
The flexible plastic make it super easy to learn Newman projections, as well as demonstrate steric, angle and torsional interference.
Just a wee bit of cons: Pricey at $40 whopping dollars, but that;s due to the quality and being made by MolyMod in England.
A bit lacking in Carbon, with only 14 atoms in total, so don;t expect to build anything too big.
Lastly, the nature of the plastic makes it hard to accurately 'see' some cyclic structures and and play with chair conformations, but there are other sets that specialize in that.
Updated Nov 17, 2009
kgb/542542 - SMS answer service
First to recommend
Description
kgb (Knowledge Generation Bureau, officially) is a newish outfit specializing in answering all of your questions via text messages. While they're not the only such company, they stand out with a concerted marketing push, and more importantly, an emphasis on pretty high quality answers. I've used kgb on occasion and found them able to answer questions ChaCha couldn't understand.
For those unfamiliar with such services, you simply send a text message to kgbkgb/542542 with your question, and a human, aided with some computing mojo (Google, for one), gets back to you with an answer. Pretty neat, huh?
The only con? Answers are $0.99 a piece. However, if you NEED to know something, can't/don't want to search for it, and chacha doesn't get it, I recommend kgb.
P.S. Their first two ads are kinda cute:
http://bit.ly/2NqSFx
http://bit.ly/41JQwE
Updated Nov 17, 2009
Wolfram Alpha
First to recommend
Description
It's not a search engine (heavens, no.) It's a 'computational knowledge engine'.
I haven't played enough with it yet, but right off the bat, this thing is a bad-ass calculator (can a calculator be that?) You can put in any equation and you'll get the answer, graphs, rounding, scientific notation - all the good stuff.
For normal folk, you can input any term you like. Unlike Google, you won't get a zillion pages of possibly related links. Wolfram Alpha delivers a single page with all the info you could want on your query.
Here's the catch: It's designed for computational knowledge, meaning stuff computers can understand, So if you want to know FACTS - the distance between two cities, census data for a certain district, sports scores, birthdays, and of course, chemistry, math and physics, Wolfram Alpha may well top Google.
Of course it's limited, and it can't answer everything. But if you just need to find a quick fact, you may want to give it as shot. Check out the example searches they display on the right side of the page. Did I mention it's free?
Updated Nov 24, 2009
Fluorine Uranium Carbon Potassium - T- Shirt
First to recommend
Description
Wow. Just...
This is the EPITOME of geek humor. Take something somewhat obscure, put it on a T-Shirt, and make a slightly naughty joke out of it. Classic.
For normal people: On the periodic table, Potassium is designated by the letter 'K'.
On a side note, they couldn't stick in Ununtrium somewhere on teh bottom half to complete the effect?
Then again, Ununtrium kinda sucks. Also, it would ruin the clean lines...
Updated Nov 17, 2009
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