Happy Pi Day! For everyone who doesn’t know today is March 14th, or Pi Day (3.14…), and that means it’s time to celebrate. I am a huge fan of all things mathematical, so in honor of Pi Day I will list some fun novelty items that will make your Pi Day celebrations much more enjoyable. And if you’re like me, you won’t limit yourself to bringing out all of this cool stuff one day per year, but instead it will be deemed worthy of regular use! If you like what I have listed, or if you know of something I forgot please leave a comment below. read more » »

Are you one of those people who must have all the newest gadgets? You have to run to the store the night before something comes out so you can get it as soon as it hits the shelves? Then after a few months, you suffer from “Man, was that a stupid purchase” syndrome. Like when you bought minidiscs thinking they were going to be huge!? Or that HD DVD player that you bought because let’s face it, Blu-Ray just won’t be cheap enough and will lose the format war? Well, now a couple of companies are hoping to help people like us. TechForward Incorporated is a Los Angeles based company that is offering a “guaranteed buyback” plan for gadgets. They actually call it “a wide-ranging service line to help retailers, product manufacturers, and consumers overcome obstacles to more frequent upgrade purchasing of popular consumer electronics product categories.” read more » »

As I write this post I realize that I have owned the same alarm clock since 1991. My sister and I received identical Sony clocks for our birthdays that year, and I know that she upgraded to something more sophisticated long ago. Perhaps it is also time for me to take the plunge and find something new. Here I’ll list some of my favorite possibilities, and if you know of others that I might enjoy please leave a comment below. read more » »

Let’s face it. Right now, there are a lot of mobile phones on the market. Phones for music, phones for texting, phones for email, and every now and then you can find a phone for talking. The problem is that because of all the contracts we’re forced to sign, we can only afford one phone at a time (unless you have money to throw away, and then you need to think about starving kids or something because you shouldn’t be buying another phone). What if I need to make a long trip and want a phone that plays music? Then, the next week, I want to wear my leather pants out to the club and need a really slim phone? But then, I’m going to family reunion and I need a really good messaging device? Well, an Israeli start-up company, modu, is hoping to change the way you think about and buy cell phones. read more » »

If you have read some of my other posts you may realize that I enjoy “decorating” my computer, often by choosing a fun Desktop theme or changing my system icons. In this same vein, I’ve also become a fan of iGoogle (short for interactive Google) which is a customizable homepage that includes lots of different themes and gadgets. Read more to see some of the latest options. read more » »

Last year, Apple realized impressive gains in notebook sales due in part to the widespread appeal of Apple’s OS X Leopard operating system and a switch to powerful Intel processors. Yet, jittery investors have sent Apple’s stock plummeting over 35 percent in recent weeks over concerns that the company’s recent income growth will not be sustainable. These concerns are due in part to analyst estimates that Apple has saturated the market within its target demographic, namely urban professionals, academic snobs, metrosexuals, and Democrats. Meanwhile, Apple’s marketing vision has little or no appeal among the highly coveted demographic of professional wrestling watching, beer drinking, truck driving, meat eating men between the ages of 18 and 24. One Wall Street report estimates that while 98 percent of Barack Obama supporters own at least one iPod, only 1 in 10,000 NASCAR fans have even heard of Apple Computer. read more » »