Starting later this year, Series 3 and TiVo HD subscribers will be able to access YouTube videos directly from their TVs via their TiVo DVRs. Considering YouTube is rolling out HD videos, this may be a step in the right direction. But then again, with Hulu going public today, most of us will be able to catch all our favorite shows directly online, for free. Either or, I'm not going to complain about the ever-expanding options!
Need a GIANT MP3 player? Spotted in the aisles of Walgreens, a $22 dollar MP3 player — the size of your head! Walgreens and their genius digital music player manufacturer have apparently glossed over the fact that iPod's success came largely from its convenient small size to bring you the Colossal 256MB mp3 player! Who cares if you don't own any bags big enough to fit it. It's COLOSSAL!
Who knows what they were thinking with this thing — it has just 256MB and requires 2 AA batteries, and the packaging gives away no sense of irony whatsoever.
Don't bother checking online for this bad boy — I could only find it in person at a downtown San Francisco store. I have half a mind to go back to that Walgreens and buy it, just so I can wear it around town as a social experiment. And it's pink, because, you know, a white one just isn't attention-catching enough!
Although Wii Fit has been the big hitter for exergaming this year, it may have a new companion to help you tackle those unwanted pounds. My Weight Loss Coach for your DS, is like a personal trainer and nutritionist, all packed into your tiny mobile gamer. With personal profiles that allow you to track your fitness goals, record your daily food intake and exercise, it's a sure fire way that you will stay involved in your fitness, since it's way more fun on the DS. Even Tony Key from Ubisoft thinks so:
“The game creates customized coaching sessions based on skill level, and, for the first time on DS, includes a pedometer. My Weight Loss Coach not only allows users to take control of their physical well-being, but it does so in a fun and engaging manner.”
I mean, how many times have you signed up for an online fitness tracker, only to give it up a few weeks in? At least on your DS, you can be anywhere, and at anytime record your data to keep yourself on track. Find out what else comes with My Weight Loss Coach when you read more
Remember when Miss New Jersey's racy Facebook pics spread like wildfire across the Internet?! And in-turn, I posted a story about how to reclaim your name online, just in case this had happened to you?
Well there's now a book called Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online by Andy Beal and Judy Strauss which outlines ten tactics to help individuals and companies cope with the consequences of people talking about them online. Tactics and tips like assuming everything will make its way to the web and monitoring your online reputation as often as your email. Although this book is predominantly business oriented, there are still alot of useful tips we can all implement in our everyday lives to ensure that our online image stays squeaky clean!
Yummy! J'Tote has amped up their selection of laptop bags with new sexy and sophisticated additions like this limited edition Saoirse leather laptop tote.
The purple Saoirse, Saoirse meaning "freedom," features a deep purple lining to protect your laptop, a removable padded strap, and large zippered compartments for all your goodies. This style is said to fit most 15" laptops and is currently on sale for $208.
To see other J'tote designs and colors, check out the entire gallery below!
A story that PetSugar would appreciate – but seems to come from a Sci-Fi movie – discusses how a Sea Cucumber has inspired a super-plastic which turns from hard, to soft and is pliable when exposed to water. Say what?! Let's start at the beginning, shall we?
You may (or may not) know that the little sea cucumber can shift anywhere between a soft leathery body, to a hard rock-like shell when threatened by predators. How? Well, it's all thanks to highly rigid collagen nano-fibers that are embedded in their connective tissue that they can "switch on or off" whenever they want. To find out how we got from sea life to plastic, read more
I'm forever finding deals online for "refurbished" iPods, laptops and various other electronics, but I haven't yet taken the plunge and purchased one myself. I must admit, when I'm constantly seeing these "as good as new," half-the-price special offers, it gets hard to turn a blind-eye to this world of refurbishments.
If you've ever checked out the refurbished section on the Apple site, you'll notice all your favorite Apple products at a fraction of the price. What's great about Apple's refurbished products is that they come with a one-year warranty, include all the proper documentation, are repackaged, put through an entire testing process and given a new part and serial number. . . Not too shabby, right?! On that note, do you ever buy refurbished electronics? Source
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