Treehugger gets comprehensive, compiling all the info you'll ever need to go green electronically. I've only gotten throught the second part of the first section, but already I feel enlightened. Well first I felt like an idiot, then I felt enlightened. Did you know that wasting electricity is possible even when your electronics are turned off? Since I was young my Mom insisted all electronics, including the television,be turned off when one left the room. This was a pain since, as mentioned in an earl  read more »

You buy jewelry solely from Tiffanys, dine only at 5-star restaurants and never fly commercial. So when it comes to your phone of course it has to be designer, dahling. Prada to be exact.

Okay, this LG collabo is just like the iphone, but it says Prada, dahling. Slated for release this year, first in Europe then in America.

A week later and lines are being drawn on Kindle. I still want one and think it's a revolutionary product albeit 1.0. Professional critics like John Dvork on TWIT had nothing good to say about it. Michael Arrington on a techcrunch video gave it 2 out 10, up from an earlier 0 out of 10. Robert Scoble has an impassioned critique on his site where he says the designers should be  read more »

The last couple of months have been very exciting for retrevo. After we started the public beta, towards the end of September, response to our first service has been phenomenal. Since the holiday season was approaching fast, we decided to put this amazing response to work by picking the top five tiny tech gifts from all the products that people searched for using Retrevo service. Don't forget to check out the daily deals if you like any of these products. Here we go:  read more »

It's a long-term goal of mine to complete the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle. It's a very long-term goal of mine. I still can't finish the crosswords in New York Magazine. I'm a failed wordsmith. It's amazing I've gotten this far in my profession. Thankfully now that's neither here nor there, since Nintendo has come out with a video game version complete with hints, so I may reach my goal sooner then I thought.  read more »

New York Times Tech writer John Markoff checks the temperature of those struck with iphone fever. It seems like everybody has an opinion, despite a release date thats weeks away (June 29^th).  read more »

My daughter relocated to Austin, Tx recently. She had a webcam, I didn't. After a little research on Retrevo  which indicated that Logitech had the edge over Creative I headed over to Fry's. We have the good fortune (or bad) of having a Fry's five minutes from Retrevo World Headquaters in Sunnyvale , CA . I decided to splurge on the high-end Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000  and boy am I glad I did. Webcams have come a long way in the last few years. Th  read more »

Whew, CES turned out to be more exciting than I had thought. When we flew in on Sunday evening, traffic was light, there was no chaos anywhere, no lines to get a CES badgeholder and no lines at the hotel. It just seemed anti-big-consumer-show. But come Mon, the show floor opens and people start pouring in, pushing and shoving to find their way through. Here is a rundown.  read more »

Normally Id do a week recap, but today the folks at Woot have 20 new deals, which means among the totally unnecessary, ugly and outrageous gadgets, there must be some legitimately good buys.
Exhibit A: Excalibur Plug and Play 6 Player Texas Holdem Poker  read more »