Christmas Gadgets

Electronics Projects for Dummies - Who says the Science Fair has to end? If you love building gadgets, this book belongs on your radar. Here are complete directions for building ten cool creations that involve light, sound, or vibrations — a weird microphone, remote control gizmos, talking toys, and more, with full parts and tools lists, safety guidelines, and wiring schematics. These projects are fun to build and fun to use. Make lights dance to music, play with radio remote control, or buil

Some might argue it’s the most subtle update in the iPhone family thus far, but Apple’s iPhone 3GS still seems to be moving the sales meter, regardless. The latest and greatest iPhone officially hit the market a few weeks back, and even though Apple claims that demand is still far outpacing supply, we’re of the belief that most everyone who wanted one has managed to snag one by now. During our time with the unit, we definitely didn’t find too many reasons to upgrade from the already solid iPhone

Samsung has a good success with their spinpoint hard drive and now they have pushed another series of Spinpoint hard drive coded as ‘Spinpoint F3′ which has an impressive high-density 500GB per platter technology. This high density Samsung Spinpoint F3 has equipped with 7200RPM rotary motor, 3.2 GBps SATA II interface, NCQ or Native Command Queuing technology, and up to 32MB buffer memory. There are two models for this Spinpoint F3 series with different size at 500GB and 1TB. The 500GB has

Here’s something fun to start your weekend with. Amazon’s German site now has a listing for “ PlayStation 3 Konsole slim” from Sony Computer Entertainment, and really, it doesn’t take years of foreign language class to figure out that English translation. It’s listed as “platform independent” (har) and has its own Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN), but on the flip side, we’re lacking a picture, release date, or any other tangible details. Can’t say we’ve got a feel for the site’s tra

Set to be bundled with the Easy Piano instructive game for the Nintendo DS is this Piano/Keyboard controller, which lets you go from punishing ears on a full-size piano, to punishing ears on your handheld. The game itself seems about as fun as reading theoretical physics when you’re drunk, but the controller seems like it would work nicely with more than a few games on the DS—namely the Korg DS-10 simulator, or future versions of Rock Band-type games—IF it had proper support and wasn’t Eur