Archive for the 'gadgets' Category

09 Feb

Cell coverage still sucks outside of town

Well you’d think that after 7 years they’d have done something to improve cell phone reception when you get more than a couple miles outside of town, but nope. I had to go out on a service call the other day and sure enough, no signal when I got out there. I got [...]

02 Feb

TV Finally Arrived

So my new TV finally arrived a few days ago but you must know by now how upset I am that I’ve waited for more than 1.5 months for it. I ordered it on Boxing Day and had to spend hours hunting it down with Future Shop and when they finally made the arrangements [...]

18 Jan

New Surround System

To go along with my new TV (some day, if it ever shows up, damn you Futureshop!) I had a chance to pick up a Bravia 5.1 system. 850 watts, smaller speakers than my current setup but damn did it sound nice. And it’ll take up less room, especially the sub which is [...]

31 Oct

Blizzard Authenticator

A few weeks ago I had written about my WOW account getting hacked again. So enough was enough, even the wife was pissed that I had to spend so much time trying to retrieve my account. I had to prove that it belongs to me by waiting on the phone with Blizzard to [...]

23 Sep

Listen To ESPN On iPhone

Wanna listen to sports like ESPN while you are traveling home from work in an hour’s long ride on the train..?? I would need appetite suppressant to keep me from munching on junks. But now you can keep yourself occupied because ESPN has launched a new application for the iPhone, ESPN [...]

11 Aug

Extreme Gamers

Everytime I read about Japanese gamers.. and how some would die in front of their computer or gaming system, it never failed to leave me flabbergasted. How do one get to this extreme and ignore their health and even their life. Someone that I came to know online was on disability insurance played [...]

29 Jul

Pocket Projector

This is a Pico 2 Projector and supposedly better than its forefather because it is a lot brighter, you can get this handheld I’m sure at best buy but when you have to pay like $349 for something like this.. would you really wanna pay that much..?? Well, if you have lots of spare [...]

17 Jun

Mobile Mouse

Wireless mouse is the in thing in our store and the wife would love one of this when it comes out in August by Microsoft. The Mobile mouse 6000 was recently released in conjunction with a similar 5000 model. Both use BlueTrack and are comfortably sized without being too bulky to cart around. The [...]

06 Jun

Little Gadgets

I’ve been getting quite a collection of little gadgets building up in my store. Digital cameras, Mp3 players, game systems & controllers and so on. It’s pretty normal for this time of year though, June can be a pretty slow month with lots of people looking to sell stuff, but it turns around [...]

28 Nov

PSP & DS

I’ve never been a big fan of handhelds for some reason even though there are some really good games out for them. Even getting a gameboy emulator didn’t hold my attention long enough to beat those old Gameboy Final Fantasy games, many years ago. It’s not that the graphics are bad, graphics don’t [...]

21 Nov

Ultimate Gaming Chair

I’ve seen gaming chairs advertised before, ones with a bit of vibration, or with speakers built in. This one however takes the cake. It’s not a gaming chair. It’s a full blown massage chair from Takemi Select ! What better way to relax when playing some games than to sit in [...]

18 Nov

My New Camera

Old faithful finally kicked the bucket a couple months back. We had bought a Canon PowerShot S400 shortly after the kid was born and it saw a lot of use. Over 13000 pictures/videos taken. It still works but I think the image sensor is dying, sometimes the screen goes all funky with [...]

10 May

LiveViewGPS

It’s one thing to be able to use a GPS to see where something has been, but it’s even cooler to be able to tell where something is. Right now. In real time. There are so many uses for a live gps tracking system in today’s world. Find your stolen car, [...]

11 Apr

Discount Cables

Cables cost a fortune, typically, it’s one of the few items that electronics stores actually make good money on. My last trip through Staples in search of an HDMI cable would have set me back $80, but I know that’s retarded so I hit up the smaller computer stores instead and picked one up [...]