The good news: Time Warner is ready to give you unlimited bandwidth for your high speed Internet connection. The bad news: it’s gonna cost you. A lot. The company issued new price plans for users in a blog post yesterday.
Ten to 60 GB a month will cost somewhere between $25 to $65, depending on where you’re located. Up to 100GB will run you $75, plus $1 for every gigabye above that–up to $150 a month.
The reCOIL’s available now direct from Scosche or at retailers, priced at $29.99 list.
You needn’t shell out the big bucks for a scanner that produces high-quality scans of photo prints and strips of film. The Canon CanoScan 5600F is an easy-to-use flatbed photo scanner that will produce results pleasing even to a serious amateur photographer. Its main downside is that it’s relatively slow, particularly when scanning transparencies, for which it foregoes the LED light source it uses to scan prints for a traditional cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL). Although you can scan office documents with the 5600F, the absence of an ADF (automatic document feeder) makes this a laborious process, its real forte is photo scanning. The CanoScan 8800F is a bit faster and has slightly higher resolution, but costs about $50 more.
For the price you pay, the 5600F can’t be beat, and is deserving of its status as the new PCMag.com Editors’ Choice for a low-priced photo scanner.
The Candy Man has made his way into consumer electronics. Jazwares is joining up with The Hershey Company to sweeten up tech products. The products aren’t not Willy Wonka style–you won’t be able to eat your digital camera after taking a photo–but they look delicious. The Hershey’s-inspired line will start at $9.99 and will be available this fall. We’ve got an assortment of eye candy for you.
FIrst, who’s not a fan of an assortment of candy? The Hershey’s Miniatures-inspired memory stick is available in Mr. Goodbar, Krackel, Twizzlers, Bubble Yum, and Hershey’s bar (the tasty art above is pending licensor approval!). The sticks comein capacities from 1GB to 4GB and range in price from $14.99 to $29.99. And the Hershey digital camera assortment comes in Jolly Rancher, Hershey’s Miniatures, and Bubble Yum. They go for $24.99.
More sugar after the jump.
SanDisk released today its new ImageMate memory card readers: The ImageMate All-In-One and the ImageMate Multi-Card. ImageMate will offer users faster data transfer rates, and a smaller, sleeker body than prior SanDisk readers.
One of the nice features of the ImageMate readers is the inclusion of a Transfer button that automatically launches a user-defined application or Web site, eliminating the tedious old drag-and-drop method. For example, you can designate an application or account, such as Adobe Photoshop or your flickr.com account, and with a click of the Transfer button, open the program and transfer or edit photos.
Did you know that 33 percent* of people said they would prefer to send an SMS when asking someone out for the first time? Yes, it’s a geeky, geeky world we live in, but thankfully, there are some geeky ladies out there just waiting for that text…
OK, so the text might be a bad idea, but these Valentine’s gifts will surely woo your tech-savvy babe. Check out Part Two of Gearlog’s Valentine’s Day gifts for geeky gals, but make sure to peruse Part One for ten other Valentine’s Day ideas.
Heart Meter Shirts (above)
So, you know how in video games, if your heart meter reaches zero, you die? Buy one of the 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirts for you and one for your girlfriend. During regular activity, only two and a half pixelated hearts will light up, but when you’re in hugging distance of your honey and she’s wearing her shirt too, the hearts on both shirts will light up until you “have full health.” Yes, the shirt is extremely cheesy, but if your girl is a fan of Zelda, she’ll appreciate it. $24.99 from ThinkGeek.com.
More geeky gal gifts after the jump!
I know this might surprise some of you, but there are women in the world who like things done a certain way–in a nerdy way, to be more specific. For example, they prefer their marriage proposals to arrive via a video game, or at least tangentially related to video games. That’s right, geeks aren’t just guys–there are lady geeks, too.
So what do you give your geeky girlfriend for Valentine’s Day? Check out Gearlog’s gifts that only a truly geekified gal will appreciate. And make sure to check back for Part Two of our geeky Valentine’s Roundup!
The iBuzz (above)
Treat your love to some pleasure–set to the sound stylings of Barry White or Al Green, of course. Plug your MP3 player into the iBuzz Two, and the toy delivers music-activated vibrations with four pulsing patterns and 11 vibrating speeds. You can plug the two provided bullets into the iBuzz Two, or you can plug in any sex toy that has a mini-jack plug. It’s £19.99 (about $30 in the US).
More after the jump.
It’s been more than a year since PCMag.com first tested the magicJack, a clever VoIP device that lets you make very cheap phone calls using your PC. We’ve now retested magicJack in the Labs, and it works–most of the time. If something goes wrong, however, you are pretty much on your own. Just type “magic jack complaints” into Google and you’ll see what I mean. I’ve offered upmy take on the magicJack, but I want to know what Gearlog’s readers think.
How many of you have tried magicJack? And how much technical support can you reasonably expect when you buy a $40 USB dongle and hand over just $20 a year for unlimited phone service?
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Ever notice that a printer–a multifunction printer in particular–shows up in Windows as five or six different parts? And they seem completely unrelated, too: Launch a scan and it’s as though Windows has no idea you’re already printing. Microsoft aims to unify those features in Windows 7, through Device Stage, a new visual interface that makes it easy to find and launch the tasks you want from your devices on your Windows 7 PC.
Most hardware at present isn’t set up for Device Stage, which requires the manufacturer to create a series of XML files that define functionality and include all those pretty pictures. And no, the camera, phone, printer, monitor, or whatever you currently own probably won’t suddenly grow this extra functionality when you install Windows 7. But the Canon MP980 works with it, out of the box. Simply plug the multifunction printer into your Windows 7 PC; the Device Stage files are located as part of the device driver installation, and load seamlessly in the background. The MP980 doesn’t install a taskbar icon by default, as the Nokia N95 I tested did, but it was easy enough to add: Just open the printer’s window from the Devices and Printers control panel, right-click the window in the taskbar, and select “Pin this program to taskbar.”
More details about this new functionality, after the jump.
Intel chairman Craig Barrett will retire at the company’s May board of directors meeting, the chipmaker announced Friday.
Barrett joined Intel in 1974 and served as CEO from 1998 through 2005. More recently, he has focused his efforts on bringing technology to developing countries, an effort he highlighted during his 2009 CES keynote.
Independent director Jane Shaw, who joined the Intel board in 1993, will serve as as non-executive chairman beginning in May.
“Intel became the world’s largest and most successful semiconductor company in 1992 and has maintained that position ever since,” Barrett said in a statement. “I’m extremely proud to have helped achieve that accomplishment and to have the honor of working with tens of thousands of Intel employees who every day put their talents to use to make Intel one of the premier technology companies in the world. I have every confidence that Intel will continue this leadership under the direction of Paul Otellini and his management team.”
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