April has arrived and I couldn't be more excited to showcase five of the hippest gadgets and tech accessories on the block. Get ready to start your engines because Mario Kart Wii edition will be hitting store shelves April 27 — vroom vroom! For more fun and functional tech treats that will get you gadget-ready for summer, click "start slideshow" below!
Wedding bells are here again! Today we're kicking off our second-annual wedding season bonanza on the Sugar Network! Over the next few months, the Sugar sites will be sharing all sorts of wedding ideas and tips, from fashion and beauty secrets to registry picks and party plans to advice on getting in shape for the big day. Together with our sponsor, Macy’s, we've also created a new site called IDoSugar.com, where you'll be able to find all of our great wedding content in one place.
We're kicking things off with Engagement Week, which will cover everything you need to know from the wedding proposal to budget-planning. Stay tuned all Spring for more wedding coverage, including showers, parties, wedding trends, honeymoons, and more.
The Westin hotel chain is going to start offering Wiis for free to hotel guests — upgrade!
I got so excited when I read that they would be renting the awesome consoles (one less thing to pack), but I also learned that Le Parker Meridien will be charging $50 an hour to rent a Wii! It makes sense have complimentary Wiis, like the Westin, but to have to pay?! Nuts!
Westin offering the Wii definitely makes this geek want to choose them the next time I travel, instead of being resigned to carrying it in my bowling bag travel case. What about you? Would you rent a Wii at your hotel?
For all my geeks who tool around in their own car (your girl geeksugar is a public-transportation dependent) and live in a city, this might be the perfect gadget. You set this Parking Meter Alarm when you park your car and it counts down the time you've put money in the meter for — and it'll beep at five-minute intervals when it's about to run out, so you can be ticket free.
It even holds a stack of quarters for the meter! But is it something you could do on your own? If I drove, I know I'd have it, and I'd also have no qualms about letting a robot park my car!
Instead of visiting your friend's house to rip all of her CDs one by one, you can save yourself the trouble with Mojo — it's a download that gives you convenient access to your friends' iTunes libraries. Now, you can't download Mojo and just grab everyone's music willy-nilly — the friends need to be on your network at the same time, and they need to have downloaded Mojo as well.
After you've both downloaded Mojo, you get your friend's username and add each other. When you open iTunes, the compatible library will show up in the left margin, and as you browse through his or her library, there's a download option next to it you can select when you see something you like.
It's easier and more efficient than sending songs and albums via IM or email, and it's available for both Macs and Windows. Have more questions? Check out the Lifehacker post for more details!
Google to Help the CIA Spy Google is helping the CIA get its blog on. The internet search engine giant will supply the technology for a Wikipedia-style intelligence site: Intellipedia.
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