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Duct tape and Paper Laptop only $250?

Logan:  Campus Deal Pusher [TV Commercial 2011]People are sometimes just too gullible. Today on Gizmodo, a story discusses how a woman was approached by a man in a parking lot saying he had laptops, tablets and other products for incredibly low prices – they are in Fedex boxes. Only $250 for a laptop? Suuuuuuuuure! Well, the woman gets home and finds it’s only a ream of paper and some duct tape inside the FedEx box. So she calls the police. I mean did she think she was getting a deal that good without it being any type of stolen or ‘misplaced’ merchandise?

Well, here at TigerDirect you always know that the deals we have are what they say they are – even if you were to be on a college campus and Logan strolled up and offered you a great deal… trenchcoat and all – you can be sure it’d be a great deal and 100% legitimate. In fact, watch this commercial which has been running nationwide over the last month.

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PC World needs a Spell-Checker

pc_world_emersonPC World posted an article tonight entitled, “Full Emersion in the Cyberworld is coming” [sic].  Look at the image, yep, untouched. 

It’s 2010 folks.  Spell-check exists. 

Emersion?

Traditional print media, such as PC World and local newspapers, continue to tout their superiority in editorial skills, investigative reporting, vetting sources and grammar.  So what the heck is this?  Someone was totally immersed in their work.

For some reason, I have a feeling that using Windows Live Writer, just like me, Fred O’Connor is able to post instantly to his column on PC World.  Viola!  Instant.

Source:  PC World

Pimped Out Texas District Attorney

Pimped Out Gaming Rig (Image Credit: PennyArcade)When the auditors came around, seeing a pimped-out gaming rig in a bureaucrats office was quite a surprise.

Yet more surprisingly, the rig was paid for with State money all in the name of building a ‘backup server’ for a District Attorney. Well, shoppers of TigerDirect are able to confirm the lure of UV cables for inside your PC are pretty cool, and hard to resist.

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Livescribe’s Pulse: Take Notes and Record Audio Simultaneously

bigpromoimage_10.jpgThe Pulse is a Livescribe invention that allows the user record and sync audio with whatever they write. With the use of their own paper notes, they can play back exactly what was previously said. “The best way to think about it is that while you’re taking notes, it’s recording simultaneously everything your ears would be hearing,” Eric Petitt, a spokesperson for Livescribe.

This clever device debuted at a mass demo at Palm Desert, Calif., Livescribe last Monday. Technically, it is just a computer within a pen. The Pulse smartpen simultaneously captures handwriting and audio, and synchronizes them together. The device is equipped with a general purpose computer with rich I/O capabilities and a Java development environment that enables a wide range of applications. Pulse is a new type of mobile computer that supports the four basic modes of human communication namely reading, writing, speaking and listening. “Using an embedded speaker and display for audio/visual input, and microphones and a pen for audio/visual output, Pulse advances the power and flexibility of mobile computing — it’s the missing link that now connects the paper and digital worlds,” CEO Jim Marggraff futher explained.

Paper Replay requires that users write on special dot paper so that the pen can orient itself while writing. A notebook of dot paper comes with the device, and more will be available at prices comparable to those of ordinary notebooks. Further developments will be implemented starting in April. The developers are looking at enabling the users to print the dots themselves using a laser jet printer. Users of the smartpen will be able to fast forward, rewind, jump ahead, pause, and even speed up or slow down their audio recordings using controls printed on the bottom of each page.

“We’ve seen a lot of pen devices in the past, and they haven’t done very well,” Richard Shim, research manager for IDC’s Personal Computing program, noted. “At the same time, a lot of things have changed, and the market is becoming more receptive to alternative input methods. As prices fall for a lot of technologies, the opportunity becomes wider for something revolutionary to take hold.”

Source:
Technewsworld.com: A Pen with Ears-And a Brain

Waste-O-Meter

wasteometer.PNGIn a century where people start losing their social skills and the trend is to turn everything into online businesses, Waste-O-Meter is the scale that measures your PC/Internet “weight”. I bet your time is a precious thing, who’s isn’t? But have you ever counted how much time you spend on the Net chatting with friends or browsing?

The whole web industry is about you spending more time in front of the computer, there are many articles about what is the average time one spends on Google, My Space, Yahoo messenger or etc; all these companies are very proud of how much time you spend/waste on their sites. However, if search engines were better maybe people would find what they were looking for faster and hence the time spent would be smaller; Google for instance grew so fat that many times the results returned are irrelevant in relation to queries. Similarly, if someone is spending so much time on a social network maybe he/she doesn’t have a life; does it mean that my space is a place of jobless people?

Willing to compare that against the time spent on the computer while producing something useful or even working? (yeah, your boss will love these stats!)

Sources:

  • Intel’s Cool Software CoolSW.Intel.com
  • Waste-O-Meter

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  • Craigslist user Attempts to Hire Hitman

    Craigslist KillerA woman offered $5,000 for an ‘eradication task’ – or actually kill – her lover’s wife. Not only did she want to do this, she put an ad on Craigslist to get it done!

    While not a promoted employment listing category, this woman felt that someone in Grand Rapids would be willing to take the five grand for a little ‘eradication task’.

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    Nintendo Wii Helps Surgeons Improve their Fine Motor Skills

    wii surgeryPicture this: you’re getting prepped for surgery (it’s minor, nothing to worry about…) and you notice that your surgeon is not scrubbing or checking charts. He’s playing the Nintendo Wii. Your first impulse is to bolt off the table, collect your insurance card and get the heck out of there. But wait. Nintendo’s wildly popular little machine may have yet another use—honing the fine motor skills of surgeons. And it seems to work.

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    Snow-bot? Robot Shovels Snow and Makes Ice

    Snowbot - Eats Snow Makes Ice BricksRobots are a fast-moving area of development these days, and scientists have wasted no time in helping people cope with the annual winter blues of show shoveling. The robot pictured here not only clears the sidewalk, or driveway, it takes the snow it collects and packs them into ice bricks.

    These bricks can be stored and allowed to melt or alternatively could provide cooling elements as part of a renewable energy strategy.

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    Japanese Roads Designed to Play Music as Vehicles Roll Over Them

    This isn’t immediately applicable to the products or goings on around here at TigerDirect.com, but it’s so cool that I had to mention it.

    The Japanese now have roads that play music when you drive over them. A (brilliant) team from Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute have built several segments of road that utilize grooves cut in the surface to evoke a tune.

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    False-Buzzitis? ‘Missing Limb Syndrome’ may apply to Cellphones

    Cellphones are an intimate part of the human anatomy for many people during these ADD riddled times. While some may find their cellphone without power on the kitchen counter when they actually are leaving to go somewhere, many of us are actually attached to our phones for most hours of the day, save sleeping time.

    I wake up to my cellular phone’s alarm clock – and not all by myself. The RIM BlackberryTM has become an integral part of many up-and-coming executives these days. Executives truly give themselves the leisure to set aside their Blackberry (if they have one) and the young and hungry, ADD symptom-laden, can’t remember mom’s birthday without a ping from Outlook – they are depending on these devices for their lives.

    Although I have been able to stray from being addicted to a berry which is not my favorite (the Strawberry), I still depend on my phone to wake each day and texting – yep, that’s my preferred mode of communication. But do I suffer from the ‘Missing Cellphone Syndrome’? Yes.

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