PC makeover with Best Buy $1,199.99Gadgettes 139: The summer episode
Whether you're BBQ'ing, lazing by the pool, or showing those (un)fortunate souls all of your summer vacation photos, this episode has a little something for everyone.
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EPISODE 139 |
Livio Radio review: Pandora streaming, with a high-end look
Bose unveils SoundDock Series II for iPod–and iPhone
TomTom GO 740 Live is our GPS Editors’ Choice
Sharp’s sun-powered phone almost beach-ready
Powerbrella juices up your gadgets while you lay in the shade
Apropos (of) nothing
Cold-brew coffee contraption for sensitive stomachs
Hot Asian Gadgets
Nintendo Wii gets catering channel in Japan
PinkWatch (Web site edition)
Dell’s new site, “Della”, teaches poor silly girls about computers
Kill Me (literal edition)
The Parrot SK4000 helmet lets you chat away Judge Dredd style
It’s About Time
Frankenwatch – freak of nature
It’s Potty Time (Tool Time edition)
Public toilet with transparent walls: Not as dumb as it sounds
Prettttty
RIO-lighted shower brings LEDs to your bathing experience
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This might go with a summer themed show.
-erick from michigan
Dear Gadgettes,
In reference to the watch winder that Jimmy from Barbados mentioned in episode #137, I saw one of these things once at a friend’s house. We were in her husband’s home office when I saw this strange box with 3 slowly spinning watches inside. When I asked her, “What’s that?” she explained what it was in a knowing way that her husband is in fact a tool. We aren’t actually that close of friends…
I think this is the one I saw.
Anyway, I figured you guys would need to know about this.
Love the show!
Julia
Molly Wood gets her
gadget on as part of the Gadgettes duo in addition to her duties on
Buzz Out Loud and the Buzz Report. Favorite gadgets include TiVo, Treo,
and the Logitech Harmony 880. 
Kelly Morrison has
been at CNET since 1996 as a features editor
for CNET Download.com. In addition to moonlighting as a gadgette, Kelly
is Director of Content Development for CNET. 
Jason Howell takes
time from producing podcasts for CNET to bark (and sometimes sing)
unintelligable nonsense as an honorary Gadgette. 
I need to call you guys out on something you don't know what you are talking about. I usually get comments that listening to music or talking through a Comm. System is unsafe from people who don?t ride. I have a motorcycle and I have been riding since February 2007 and have racked up 28,000 miles since. I have a helmet speaker system I installed into my helmet. Yes distractions are very dangerous operating any motor vehicle. In my defense, going at highway speeds the wind noise I am exposed to is well over 100 dB range; my helmet alone maybe only cuts that noise by 3 dB. To protect myself I put in ear plugs that cut out the noise by 34 dB, with or without them I don't hear normal traffic noises except horns and sirens. I listen to my iPod through the helmet speakers I mentioned above most of the time, and believe it or not it comes through my ear plugs clearer like noise cancelling ear buds. Most of the people I ride with listen to music while they ride. My friends and I like to take group rides up to the mountains, if we had a Comm. System it would be a more enjoyable safer experience. If someone is running out of gas, it would be easier to let the whole group know to look for a gas station. If there are deer crossing the road, it would be easier and faster to warn the people behind you to be ready. Another example, if a bad weather system is brewing up, a loved one at home may call to warn you a bad storm is coming your way, a few times I have been caught out in a bad storm wishing I had a warning.
Yes, there are also examples of music or phone time leading to fatal situations. Running through a red light while changing radio stations or skipping a song on the iPod. What if a person makes a non-urgent phone call to a buddy to just ?talk? or ?pass the time?. There are idiots who make mistakes like this, but there are also people out there who use these things responsibly and safely lowering their inherent risk.
I have been enjoying and listening to your show for about 6 months now and wish the best to you Molly, Kelly, and Jason.
-Take care,
Joe
Chapel Hill, NC
Most normal traffic noise occurs on local roads (e.g., ambulances, honking horns, children playing). It is unlikely that wind noise would mask this because travel speeds would be lower (stopping for lights, etc.), Use of ear plugs is not as dangerous as use of other masking sounds (like music or the radio).
Just saying...love the show. Very funny. (PinkWatch was classic.)
- JS
Ann Arbor, MI
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by PapaBradstein
June 11, 2009 5:00 AM PDT
- About the cold brew coffee, although it's not as shiny as the one you linked to, I've used and loved the Coffee Toddy cold brew system (http://www.toddycafe.com/). You can steep up to a pound of coffee at a time, which made enough coffee concentrate for my wife and me for a week. That means that in the morning, all we had to do was pour some concentrate into our cup, top off with water, nuke for a minute and we had a hot cup of coffee. Even better was in the summertime, since you have to refrigerate the coffee concentrate, which means instant iced coffee--mix cold concentrate with ice water--and heavy cream if that's how you roll, and...done. The coffee is good and making it once a week versus every day reduced the hassle factor to almost 0. That said, after over 20 years of a hardcore caffeine habit, I gave it up last year, 'cause that ****'ll kill you.
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