Uniden’s ELBT595 Digital Bluetooth Cordless Phone is a normal 5.8GHz cordless phone for your home, but acts like a cellphone. The base station has the usual expected features: caller id, digital answering machine, speakerphone, dial pad, address book, etc. The handset is about the size of your typical clamshell cell phone, complete with color LCD …
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The Roomba Red robotic vacuum by iRobot is a squat little creature that, according to the literature “happily” cleans floors, under furniture, etc. It’s fun to watch as it figures out the best way to navigate a room, and it drives my dogs nuts. My Robosapien had better watch out … there’s a new robot …
We did a little room reorganization last weekend that ended up moving my home office to a different room. Not a problem, since I run a wireless network, but I had to move my Brother MFC3820CN multi-function machine into the new office as well, away from router which it had been directly cabled to. Enter …
The home theater system I started building back in 2000 when I purchased my Pioneer receiver and a set of speakers was finally completed this weekend when I added the Panasonic TH-42PD25UP 42″ plasma EDTV to my setup. My budget couldn’t handle a full-blown HDTV, but I am perfectly happy so far with the excellent …
The other week I entered a contest on woot.com and won a RoboSapien by Wow Wee. Talk about a tech toy! This little (18″ high) robot was designed by a NASA scientist, features 67 different functions and can also be programmed to respond to touch and sound. The built in demo modes are fun to …
Ok, yes, I am addicted … but I can stop any time I want … really! Today I purchased my second TiVo. Now that the Home Media Option is no longer an option (i.e., it’s free and included with the TiVo service) and the subscription price for multi-TiVo homes has gone down (only $6.95/month for …
I’ve gone through quite a few Linux “servers” as I’ve acquired new computers and relegated the older ones to more menial (but still important!) tasks. Years ago, I had been running Linux on my old 486 with only 16mb of RAM and it did the job admirably by serving up MP3s and running a small …
For Father’s Day I received a pair of Sony’s 900Mhz wireless headphones (MDR-RF960RK), a perfect companion to my home theater system. Now I can watch TiVo, or a movie, at a comfortable volume (i.e., loud!) without disturbing the rest of the house late at night, or when other people are in the common area reading, …
Much as I loved my old Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro, it had been discontinued by Microsoft, and the media keys didn’t seem to work to well with the latest players. Also, it was white, and everyone knows that black (for computer accessories) is the new beige. So it was time for a change, and why …
My old Brother MFC-7150 multi-function (color printer, fax, scanner, copier) was starting to get old. I hadn’t used it as a printer in months, maybe even years (it was at least before I got my Epson C80). It was still doing duty as my scanner, but that was about it, and it was time for …
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