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May 09, 2008
The respected DVD studio the Criterion Collection announced Thursday that it will soon release its first-ever slate of Blu-ray Discs. The first 13 titles announced are set to appear in October, the company...
 
May 09, 2008
HP’s upcoming MediaSmart Connect digital media receiver will include a special twist: full-screen YouTube clips. The companies announced Wednesday that users of the MediaSmart TV and the MediaSmart Connect...
 
May 09, 2008
Dual Electronics has announced a new fully loaded in-car head unit, featuring an LCD monitor and iPod and Bluetooth connectivity.

The 300-watt XDVDN8290, which comes at a suggested retail price of $1,199.99,...
 
Are you a couch potato because you can’t tear yourself away from your TV’s constraining schedule? Let the Neuros OSD help. The Neuros OSD allows you to record content from a variety of sources, including...
 


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Are you a couch potato because you can’t tear yourself away from your TV’s constraining schedule? Let the Neuros OSD help. The Neuros OSD allows...
 
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April 01, 2008
Buglabs Founder and CEO Peter Semmelhack demonstrates a new product that allows you to build your own CE devices.
 
 
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March 31, 2008
Singer/Songwriter Jonathan Coulton rose to fame providing music for the Code Monkeys TV show, the video game Portal, his online Thing a Week project and virtually every avenue except traditional radio. E-Gear talks to him at SXSW about what it means to be a musician in the digital age. Listen to the full-length interview as a podcast here.
 
 
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March 31, 2008
E-Gear talks to comedian/technophile Baratunde Thurston at SXSW about everything from working for “America’s Finest News Source” to the influence of technology on the Obama campaign. You can listen to the full-length interview as a podcast here.
 
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Really, it’s even better than not bad. It’s pretty damn good. Hulu is the NBC/Fox streaming video venture that went public last week (it had been in beta mode for a few months prior). There are several...
 
My friend Leann, a keep-it-real techie, says she will mount a HDTV in her living room the day they come up with a “post-it approach.” No motorized or cantilevered mount installation for her. She wants...
 
Perhaps the reason Iron Man, a movie based on a superhero without the brand name recognition a Super, Bat or Spider-Man, opened to $100+ million this weekend is that he’s a superhero for the gadget generation.

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Sure, I had my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV primed and ready to endure my reviewer’s scalpel, but true be told I haven’t even cracked the game yet. My living room was hijacked this week by friends’ kids...
 
Friday afternoon, Buena Vista Home Entertainment announced a slew of TV-on-DVD box sets coming later this year. Among them: complete Season Four box sets for Desperate Housewives, Lost and Grey’s Anatomy....
 
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I can be a hazard on the road when I’m talking on my cell phone, so it’s a good thing I ride a train to work. There are numerous devices on...

 
Of the many additions to cell phones through the years, one of the best things has been the adding of the ability to carry around music and...

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E-Gear talks to comedian/technophile Baratunde Thurston at SXSW about everything from working for “America’s Finest News Source” to the influence of technology on the Obama campaign. And that’s just for starters.
 
Singer/Songwriter Jonathan Coulton rose to fame providing music for the Code Monkeys TV show, the video game Portal, his online Thing a Week project and virtually every avenue except traditional radio. E-Gear talks to him at SXSW about what it means to be a musician in the digital age.
 
A Necessary Death premiered at SXSW this year and sold out two consecutive screenings. David Thomas interviews writer/director Daniel Stamm and cinematographer Zoltan Honti about this dark and compelling feature debut.
 
 
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