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Cool tech find: Airboard personal hovercraft

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/ Oh, you have a skateboard? Well, that's nice and all. Does your skateboard hover 1.5 inches off the ground? Does your skateboard turn 180 or 360...
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Cool tech find: Electric Radiator Firepit with lifelike fire

Ever wanted a firepit in your home, but didn't want to be blamed for arson when your house burned down? Then the Nobo Firepit Electric Radiator is for...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? Page 1 - Intro and Benefits

By now you have heard all the buzz about a slick little storage medium called a solid state drive (SSD). Running the risk of oversimplification, these...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? Page 2 - Drawbacks

SSD Drawbacks 1. Like mechanical hard drives of yore, SSDs have varying qualities between manufacturers that are...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? Page 3 - Cases and Conclusions

Cases for use The most common use, and arguably so, for SSDs is as a boot drive for the operating system. This is...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? - Page 4 - Benchmarks

Test System* ManufacturerPart/TypeGigabyteMA790X-UD4P MotherboardGigabyteATI Radeon HD4890AMDPhenom II X4 940Cooler MasterHyper 212 Plus CPU...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? Page 5 - Benchmarks Cont.

CrystalDiskMark 2.2 CrystalDiskMark is yet another useful and compact program for measuring the read and write performance of storage drives. As I...
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Cool tech find: Ergodex keyboard - movable, customizable keys

Have you ever taken a hard look at your keyboard? Did it fill you with disdain? If you are anything like me, you have a few keys that annoy you to no...
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Cool tech find of the day: Right-side up, upside down magnetic spice rack

The find of the day is from Gizmodo via Yanko Design. The boring and entirely unimaginative name for this product is Magnetic Spice Rack. Sure it is...
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Cool tech find of the day: penny-sized nuclear battery

Many may wonder why we'd want nuclear batteries powering our devices, but the truth is that they have been powering various other critical devices...
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