If wooden USB drives tickle your fancy, ZaNa has just come out with these handcrafted SO2 USB drives made from either merbau wood, silver 925 or natural amber. When you plug the SO2 into your USB port, a flashing amber light is used as the access indicator. According to GetUSB, ZaNa includes "Ultra Stable Technology" in their drives to insure data doesn't get lost with an accidental power down or disconnect. Priced at $64 for the 1GB and $83 for the 2GB. Spill the beans. . . geek or chic?
Audrina may have finally kicked Justin Bobby to the curb in this week's episode, but that didn't mean the drama stopped there. With Spencer's sister Stephanie stopping by for a visit, things certainly got heated in more ways than one. Want to test your Hills tech knowledge? Take part in geek's quiz to see how well you were paying attention. Just scroll down and click on the "take quiz" link. Test your beauty trivia as well with The Hills Beauty quiz. Be sure to stay tuned for next week's episode when Lauren gets her hands on an iPhone! Photos courtesy of MTV
Last week comedian and new host of The Price is Right Drew Carey talked to Parade about his love for his iPhone and compared getting a new phone to sex. While I couldn't agree with him on that point, I did agree with him regarding his take on Bluetooth: It's uncomfortable. Or as Drew put it:
"I don’t have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me. I got one when I got my phone. You put it in, and you look at yourself in the mirror. And you’re like, ‘Nope, not me. I’m not going to do it. I’m not wearing one of those stupid things in my ear.’"
I know plenty of stores sold fancy Bluetooth units on Black Friday and I recognize that it's probably the safest option for talking on your phone while driving, but I never use my headset. Am I alone on this one?
The fact that my aunt prints up my emails and takes them over to my grandparents house made me realize that the following product would work wonders in my family. Presto is a great new service that is designed for people who don't use a computer or go online.
How it works: Using any email account, family and friends can send email and photos to a HP Printing Mailbox user (with its own individual email address) and Presto will convert regular emails into Presto Mail — easy-to-read color printouts. All you have to do is plug the printing mailbox into a power outlet and an existing ordinary phone jack and insert paper and an ink cartridge. Within a few minutes your parents or grandparents will have beautifully printed emails to read.
If you're worried about set-up and all that jazz (which they claim is quite simple), you can either do it from your own PC through the Presto site or call one of their representatives to do it over the phone. The HP Printing Mailbox is $100 and the monthly service is $10. Definitely a great way to stay in touch!
If you ask most people they'll tell you that good things do come to an end — think Arrested Development, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and romantic dates — but if you ask the creators of Orange's Unlimited website they'll tell you it shouldn't be so.
The Good Things Should Never End website falls under the same lengthy category as the Visuals of the World, a site that aims to be the longest visual website in the world and asks web users to share and contribute to their strip of seamless images.
Unlike Visuals of the World, the long strip of images on the Good Things site is created entirely by Orange Shop, a UK phone company that offers pay as you go phones as well as old school devices. It's a marketing scheme in the most entertaining way possible — the site does little but entertain. And it never ends. Seriously, try scrolling to the bottom of the rainbow road.
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If you were as big a fan as I was of the original Tomb Raider, and spent hours in front of the TV (or PC) trying to figure out puzzles, flipping switches, and finding keys, this anniversary edition for the Wii will definitely keep you occupied this coming Winter.
Tomb Raider: Anniversary does a great job of reliving the game, but throwing in so much extra content, it seems like a whole new game that you've never played before. Think of it like a good high school friend that you haven't spoken to since graduation and then you meet up at your ten-year reunion. She's the same person, just . . . different. Grown-up perhaps, but much more interesting.
Multilayered puzzles and the addition of minigames make for a more involved experience. Not only are you searching for keys and unlocking seemingly unreachable doors in bigger and grander settings, but you are dodging traps, bobbing, and weaving past rabid animals and of course, facing Jacquline Natlas's thugs. Yeesh! It's enough to make a girl cry out for Calgon.
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