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News March 29, 2012

Tokyoflash Keeps it Simple and Clean with the “Kisai On Air Acetate” Watch

Image courtesy of Tokyoflash Another month, another Tokyoflash concept-to-reality creation unveiled. Today the Kisai On Air Acetate watch has been announced and is currently on special sale on the Tokyoflash website. The On Air Acetate has a large touch screen display that incorporates 4 zones that each control a different function. This time around [...]

Editorials March 28, 2012

by Francis Scardino

Not into the iPad? Here Are Some Smaller, Cheaper Alternatives

After a week of record busting sales if you were uncertain before then you should be now. The iPad is indeed the ruler of the roost on all things tablet. Everyone at Gear Diary was thrilled by this model’s updates, and it’s clear that the new HD display, 4G/LTE, 5MP camera graphics upgrade was [...]

Android and Wii Assist in Human Flight

Image courtesy of HumanBirdwings Since the beginning of existence, humans have been attempting fly. Leonardo Da Vinci decided he wanted to fly back in the late 1400′s and created numerous drawings and sketches on winged flying devices. Unless you happen to attend Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, chances are that you won’t be flying [...]

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News February 29, 2012

by Francis Scardino

HTC One X (G4X) Rumors for T-Mobile; Tegra Quad Core Inside?

Image courtesy of HTC HTC has been pushing out some pretty powerful phones, but the options have been pretty underwhelming over at T-Mobile. The Samsung Galaxy S II has been pretty much ruling the T-Mobile flagship phone department, but a rumor flying around could put that to the test. We are hearing that the [...]

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News February 22, 2012

by Francis Scardino

Tokyoflash Launches Another Concept to Reality Design, the Kisai Stencil

Image courtesy of Tokyoflash Tokyoflash has been ringing in 2012 with some pretty cool new designs. Today they announced the newest member to the Kisai clan, the Kisai Stencil. The Stencil is yet another concept to reality design submitted by Heather Sable, a U.S. math teacher. The design breaks the display into 4 equal [...]

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News February 21, 2012

by Francis Scardino

AppSense Puts Your Dropbox Files on Lock Down with Free DataLocker Suite

Image courtesy of AppSense Security is pretty much on everyone’s radar these days. With online file services standing up left and right people find themselves syncing their data all over the “cloud” allowing cross-platform anytime access to almost everything. For the most part things are pretty secure, but as we’ve seen in the past [...]

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Reviews February 16, 2012

by Francis Scardino

The Startech USB 3.0/eSATA Quad Bay Docking Station Review

Image courtesy of StarTech Those of us in the IT business know that you simply can’t have enough tools to get the job done. Anything to make life easier, and give you more time to for other things is usually worth it’s weight in gold. StarTech makes some of the coolest and hard to [...]

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News, Quickies January 23, 2012

by Francis Scardino

T-Mobile Cashing in on Aquisition Failure; Spectrum Upgrade Coming Soon Courtesy of AT&T

Image Courtesy T-Mobile Today is a good day for T-Mobile customers. This morning the FCC listed the filing for a $1 billion transfer of Spectrum from AT&T to T-Mobile. This pretty much means to the common consumer that T-Mobile will be getting some more bandwidth to grow their GSM network. If you followed the deal [...]

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Events, News January 18, 2012

by Francis Scardino

Buffalo Laughs at Your WiFi-N Router Capabilities, Doubles Down on Current Speeds

realtime throughput of their prototype AC routers on a large flat screen TV I really don’t know many (if any) people these days NOT running a WiFi network at home. Most Internet Service Providers (ISP) now provide a WiFi router or router/modem combo when you sign up for service. WiFi-N has pretty much become [...]

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News January 17, 2012

by Francis Scardino

Hands on with a Mimoco Han Solo 4GB Mimobot Thumb Drive; Carbonite Included

Image Courtesy of Mimoco (yes, this wallpaper is included) Everyone has a few flash drives lying around these days but unless you have a Han Solo mimobot with a Carbonite case key chain then you have no shot at defeating the Dark Side. One of my favorite stops at CES was the mimobot booth and [...]

A Quick Hands-On with the PlayStation Vita

I simply could not leave CES without getting some hands-on with the new Sony PlayStation Vita. Having abandoned Sony’s PSP after the original device, I was hoping to get a feel of what the Vita had to offer. Gaming on a mobile device is coming along quite well, but I still feel the need [...]

Victorinox Puts 1 TB of Swiss Storage in Your Pocket

This past week I did not see too much earth shattering news regarding USB flash drives at CES. I had a chance to swing by the Victorinox booth to check out their 2012 product offerings. The only real highlight on their storage front was their Swiss Army-inspired USB stick. This was the first USB 3.0 [...]

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Reviews, Travel November 30, 2011

by Francis Scardino

The Gammatech’s U12C Durabook Review

It takes a certain type of laptop to stand up to certain jobs. Most laptops find comfort on a desk, in a padded bag, or possibly in the local coffee shop around the corner. Gammatech sent me a laptop suited perfectly for all those tasks and a whole lot more. Usually the worst that happens [...]

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News November 11, 2011

by Francis Scardino

Veteran’s Day, America’s Day to Say Thanks to Those Who Proudly Serve

Image courtesy of Free Republic Happy Veterans Day! But what does that really mean? Does it mean that everyone in uniform is a Veteran? Does it just mean another day off of work for some or some killer deals at the local Home Depot and Best Buy? The short of it is, that [...]