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Amazon Locker delivery system expands to NYC

Shane McGlaun, Oct 17th 2011 Discuss [3]

A while back, we talked about the first of the Amazon Locker cubbies for package deliveries that turned up inside stores like 7-Eleven in Seattle. They were interesting, but more than a little strange. The NYC package delivery system is now in place in NYC after the test in Seattle performed well. Right now Seattle and NYC are the only places where the Amazon Locker system is in place. Read The Full Story

Amazon Locker gets stealth launch, caught on video

Chris Davies, Oct 13th 2011 Discuss [1]

Amazon Locker has quietly gone live, with the option to have orders shipped to a locker system at a local 7-Eleven or other store showing up in the address book of some customers. In Seattle, GeekWire's nearest store showed up as a delivery option and they caught the whole collection system on video, which you can see after the cut. Read The Full Story

Gum goes high tech with Rev7

Shane McGlaun, Oct 13th 2011 Discuss [0]

When I was a kid, my brother and I were always chewing gum. My brother went on this gum bender once after watching the original Willy Wonka flick at school and started sticking his gum to the bedpost. At the time, we shared a room with a big queen bed and the gum managed to fall off the bedpost into my hair. Not fun times. Some of that gum remained adhered to the headboard for as long as we had that bed. Read The Full Story

Neato robotics XV-12 robot vacuum heads to Target in white

Shane McGlaun, Oct 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

Neato Robotics has announced that the cool robotic vacuum cleaner we reviewed not long ago is going to be sold in Target stores around the US exclusively. The exclusive version of the XV-12 vacuum is going to be offered in an exclusive Misty White color. The version we reviewed was in a gray color. The exclusive color is going to land in Target locations on October 16. Read The Full Story

Mini Monkey Light is much cooler than a card in your bike spokes

Shane McGlaun, Oct 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

Back when I was a kid, the only way to make your bike cooler was to put a bent card of some sort in the spokes so you could sound like a motorcycle. The Mini Monkey Light would have absolutely blown my 10-year-old mind back in the day had it been around. This is a device that attached to the spokes of your bike and when you ride, the light spins and makes some cool graphics. Read The Full Story

Neff Lumberjack Knit Hat is perfect for the facial hair deficient

Shane McGlaun, Oct 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Back in the 70's and 80's all the manly men on TV had mustaches. Just look at Tom Selleck, his mustache was practically a character on Magnum PI back in the day. If you are the sort that wants to rock a beard and mustache, but you lack the ability to grow anything other than a patchy stubble beard that is bald in places, this hat will fix you right up. Read The Full Story

Kisai Rogue Touch LCD watch lights up with a touch

Shane McGlaun, Sep 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

The nutters at Tokyoflash have another hard to read watch that has launched called the Kisai Rogue Touch. The Rogue Touch watch has a touch sensitive screen that allows you to access the watch functions like the backlight. The watch also allows you to read the time in two zones at a glance making it even more confusing than normal to read. Read The Full Story

Google digitizes the Dead Sea Scrolls and puts them online

Shane McGlaun, Sep 26th 2011 Discuss [4]

The Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most famous Christian documents in the world and they are the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence. The scrolls have a storied history that saw them stashed away inside a series of caves on the shores of the Dead Sea to protect them for the Roman armies that were invading the Holy Land in 68 BCE. The scrolls were lost until 1947 when a shepherd tossed a rock into the cave and discovered the scrolls. Read The Full Story

Electric Tron Lightcycle is perfect for green users

Shane McGlaun, Sep 22nd 2011 Discuss [8]

Last December Parker Brothers Choppers rolled out a real life replica of the Tron Lightcycle that was in the new movies. That replica was powered by a Suzuki V-twin engine out of a motorcycle. Parker Brothers Choppers are back with a new version of that light cycle that looks just as cool and has a lot more green inside. Read The Full Story

Columns

My Life Relies Upon Tech – And That’s OK

Don Reisinger, Sep 1st 2011 Discuss [5]

The last weekend was an adventure.

As I watched the news reports suggesting Hurricane Irene was on its way to my doorstep, I couldn’t help but think that it had little chance of affecting me. After all, I’ve never had to deal with a hurricane at any point in my life living here, and there was simply no reason to believe, I thought, that that would change.

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Photographer shoots clouds in their element 4 miles up

Shane McGlaun, Sep 1st 2011 Discuss [3]

I have plenty of photos around the house that have clouds in them from the same perspective of standing on the ground looking up. Clouds are really cool to look at, my kids are always looking for animals in the clouds and I bet lots more people are the same way. One photographer named Rudiger Nehmzow has taken photographing clouds to an extreme though. Read The Full Story

Slingshot slip and slide is awesomely dangerous

Shane McGlaun, Sep 1st 2011 Discuss [6]

Back in the day, the staple of summer for me and my brother was the Slip and Slide. We would spend hours sliding on that that thing until we were lobster red from friction and sunburns. Some adults still play with the Slip and Slide today, but a lot of those adults go much more extreme than they did in their youth. Read The Full Story