Spot-1 Satellite GPS Tracker

Brooks TalleyJune 4, 2009
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These days GPS trackers are a dime a dozen. If you want to geotag photos or map favorite hiking trails, there are dozens of sub-$100 solutions that perform well. But what if you’re an adventurer and want to let family and friends know where you are, and that you’re alive and kicking, in more or less real time? What if you frequently find yourself outside of cell coverage, or immersed in whitewater that would make short work of most electronics?

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Slim Devices Squeezebox Duet

Brooks TalleyJuly 15, 2008

The Squeezebox Duet is a package consisting of the Squeezebox Receiver, a headless networked audio playback unit, and the Squeezebox Controller, a handheld WiFi-based remote control with a 2.4″ color LCD screen. Sound pretty sexy, don’t they? Well, yeah, they are. After a few years of incremental improvement in the network audio playback space, the [...]

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Orb Mod2 Home Theater Speaker System

Brooks TalleyJune 2, 2008

There’s a fundamental problem one faces when buying speakers:  the very best ones are both huge and very expensive. Sure, I’d love a pair of Martin Logan Summits,  but I’m not sure I could get $10k by selling my kitties for science experiments, and even if I could, I’d still have to spend another $10k [...]

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