http://itselectronica.com Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:35:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have a geeky book worm in the family? Check out our geeky and tech book gift recommendations. Are You a Geek?: 1,000 Ways to Find Out - $8 Let’s face it–we all do geeky things, from checking e-mail obsessively to playing video games to tripping over ... http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/04/gifts-for-the-cool-book-worms/ Firebox has made available the revolutionary Tikitag, touted to be the first commercially available DIY RFID tag kit to the masses. This piece of high-tech wizardry enables users to connect real world items to online electronic applications, opening up the doors to unlimited, on-the-spot information at a single touch. ... http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/04/tikitag-diy-rfid-tag-kit-from-firebox/ If you join MvixCommunity today and join in the group order, you can get an MvixBOX for as little as $159 including shipping! In case you don’t know what the MvixBOX is, it’s a NAS Server. You can get more info about it here at GfG or over at MvixUSA. ... http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/04/mvixbox-nas-media-server-for-169/ There have been several attempts to find alternative methods to help you fall asleep. Some seem a little ridiculous, but if you don’t want to take sleeping pills a lot of them are worth a try. This light actually seems to be based on a decent idea, whether ... http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/04/nightwave-helps-you-sleep-using-breathing-exercises/ Just when you thought that iPod accessories consist of nothing but cases, speaker docks and earphones, along comes the iBreath Alcohol Breathalyzer. This is pretty much a self-explanatory device - it allows you to take your own alcohol breath test before your brain cells decide that it is better ... http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/04/ibreath-alcohol-breathalyzer/ We’ll be totally honest — we pretty much blew Ruslan Kogan off when he proclaimed that he was about to push out a $199 Android phone by the year’s end. And truthfully, the guy still hasn’t totally delivered, but you won’t find us kvetching about more Googlephones, regardless of ... http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/04/kogan-intros-world%e2%80%99s-second-android-phone-agora-agora-pro/ SAFA today rolled out the Bandi prosumer mp3 player in the Korea market. The gadget offers firefly lights GUI and has a 1.5-inch OLED display with flash memory from Samsung. The Bandi also features touch scroll. The 4GB version is priced at 69,000 Korean Won. [Source] Share This http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/04/safa-bandi-prosumer-mp3-player/ I had a chance to try out the new Bodygroom BG2030 from Philips and Norelco, and I have to say that my face has never been so smooth. It was only afterward that I discovered that the Bodygroom is actually designed for all areas below the neck. However, ... http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/04/philips-norelco-bodygroom-bg2030/ Shortly after updating a security bulletin recommending widespread use of antivirus software on Macs, Apple took it down. The action reflects the company's confidence in the security of Mac OS X — confidence that is, for the most part, well-founded. "We have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it ... http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/04/mac-security-threat-evaporates-in-24-hours/ For almost twenty years, The Simpsons has been poking fun of American culture. Last Sunday, they satirized three things that are a long time coming: Apple, iPods, and Steve Jobs. To product themselves from copyrights, The Simpsons called the Apple store a “Mapple store”, substituted “My” for every ... http://itselectronica.com/2008/12/03/the-simpsons-poke-fun-at-apple/