Credit the booming green industry, because all things organic-looking are in! My favorite offshoot of this movement are wooden-exterior gadgets. Suddenly, otherwise cold and robotic-looking electronics become something natural — well, nature-like. Check out my slideshow for the most fab wooden gadgets!
Oh, Karl! First we find out you own a whopping 70 iPods, and then I see that Chanel has joined the iPhone revolution and added a Chanel app to the App Store?!
You're trying to give me a very pleasant heart attack, clearly.
Yes, it seems that the seminal fashion house is also a geeky house, which cares about your mobile sartorial needs. Specifically, you get the Fall/Winter '08/'09 Haute Couture looks, video, and accessories — all for free!
Take time out from playing Super Monkey Ball and learn how to look totally hot for Fall!
Wii Fit fanatics, have I got the ultimate product for you. DreamGear has just come out with a Fitness Bundle that includes all the Wii Fit goodies you could ever want. For $60, you get a rechargeable battery pack, USB charging cable, jeli sleeve, fitness mat, travel bag, and one pair of "textured" socks. I've done the "bundle" math on this one, and it seems like one heck of a deal — just the Wii Fit Silicone Sleeves cost $20 alone!
The International Olympic Committee has already limited internet access for journalists covering the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China — which is bad enough — but now they are even imposing bans on professional camera equipment. The actual definition of "professional camera equipment" wasn't clearly defined on the official Olympics website, but many believe that this includes SLRs with big lenses (ones which would block views for spectators during the games).
Whatever the case, this isn't great news, considering you could take some amazing images with an SLR camera during the games. Although, if you are going to the Olympics, you can still take lots of shots with your point-and-shoot camera, which hasn't been banned . . . yet.
As geeked out as I was when Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone 3G and the new colors, I still remember feeling a little let down that we only got to choose from a black or white option, as exciting as those colors may be. Since my pulse quickened when I read the rumor that there may be a red iPhone, I knew I wouldn't be satisfied with the Oreo-color option for long!
Thankfully, Colorware, those artists who custom-color your gadgets (check out this pink BlackBerry Curve a TeamSugar user had "colorwared"), has just announced that they are ready to start colorwaring the iPhone 3G! Looking at the images on the site, I'm in love — and deciding what will go best with my Fall wardrobe!
Need a personal-gaming device that's perfect in every way? And what about a fun game to go along with it? Well, our friends over at Nintendo have hooked us up with not only the DS Space Chimps game (which I've already taken for a test drive), but also a beautiful Nintendo DS Lite! And for big fans, the DS comes adorned with removable SC decals for the full SC effect. So listen up, TeamSugar members, now's your chance to get your game on with Space Chimps and start having some fun with a hot new DS!
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Now that the iPhone 3G has been out for a few weeks, those of us who took the shot and bought the new phone have settled in with our new toy, and those of you who are still considering it may be basing you decision on what you've seen so far.
I've been impressed by the quicker speed of the 3G, and having GPS on my phone ain't too shabby either, but the best thing, hands down, is the App Store. It's obviously not limited to the 3G iPhone either — if you got the 2.0 update, you're good to go with new applications on a Touch or first-gen iPhone, but it's the main reason I'm so excited to pick up my new phone. The App Store has impressed so many, in fact, that the New York Times reports that other cell phone carriers are eager to develop more apps for their handsets, too, meaning that you won't always have to be an Apple user to get great time wasters like Scribble!
But tell me, is the App Store your favorite thing about the new iPhone, or are you most excited about the 3G, GPS, longer battery life, or colors?
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