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2014

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Griffin shows off Powermate Bluetooth

Griffin Technology stops by to visit and show off its latest product -- the Powermate Bluetooth. It's tough to describe what this does, so I'll allow the company to explain. "PowerMate Bluetooth is the wireless programmable controller that replaces extra keystrokes with a simple twist or a click. It scrolls. It scrubs. It clicks like a mouse. And it's user-configurable,

Mobio shows off its car mounts

Don Baine, also known as "The Gadget Professor" stopped by the Mobio booth during CES to check out what the company is offering this year. The mobile accessory maker is showing off its range magnetic mounts for smartphones. These work both in the car and in the office. The products make ifor convenient mounting of your device, as it just sticks --

Panovise displays its camera mounts at CES

Panovise makes mounts for may devices, including smartphones. Todd stopped by the booth to take a look at the mounting systems for portable cameras, such as the GoPro. The systems are very advanced. You begin with the stand, such as suction-cup mount, and then add the various attachments for whatever device you are going to be using with it. The

Gibson Takes TPN Award at CES

Celebrating 120 years of Gibson, Aljon Go shows Jeffrey and Todd the superb Anniversary Edition of the Les Paul Standard.  It's stunning both in the Ocean Water Perimeter finish, the level of detail and the technology built-in. The sound of the guitar can be changed to mimic the tone of your rock'n'roll hero and Min-ETune will tune the guitar automatically.

Tablo Takes TPN Award at CES

Digital video recorders (DVRs) are commonplace but usually they're integrated with a cable decoder. Tablo's offering records OTA (over the air) HD broadcasts that are transmitted from local TV stations, free of charge. Still not excited? The Tablo can stream both live and record programs to any connected device including Android and Apple devices, and set-top boxes like the Roku

Xi3 Low Power PCs

David shows off Xi3's latest developments including the X7A modular computer and the Z3RO Pro. If you haven't seen Xi3's offerings before, you need to check them out - they're small cube-like units totally unlike your normal case. The X7A is aimed at the power user with a quad core AMD Trinity processor, Radeon graphics, 8 GB RAM, SSD (up to 1

GNC-2014-02-13 Comcast + Time Warner = ?

Well we knew it was coming but was a bit surprised to see Comcast close the deal versus Charter. I bring you all the opinions on the street. I am trying an experiment tonight let me know if you notice a change. We are testing our new Affiliate program at Blubrry.com so hope you will get yourself a trial account.

‘Robocop’ packs action but lacks original luster

POSSIBLE (minor) SPOILERS: For months and months I moaned and groaned about the new Robocop movie and how bad it was probably going to be, and how they should just throw a "4" on the end of the title and send it right to DVD. When the first trailers were released, I started to think maybe it wouldn't be too

Rovio teases upcoming Angry Birds Stella

Rovio, the wildly successful game studio behind Angry Birds, has begun to tease a new offering. With the first Angry Birds Star Wars now complete -- yes, there will be no more updates -- the company needed a "latest and greatest" to get the attention of the masses again. Today the company teases "Angry Birds Stella". "Get ready to meet

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9″ Review

Any seasoned tech watcher will have noticed that Amazon is quietly building a third mobile ecosystem, competing against Apple's iTunes and Google's Play. Starting with the original Kindle ereader, the environment has grown into tablets and currently the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" tablet sits at the top of the food chain. And very tasty it is too. Let's take a

GNC-2014-02-10 #925 Buried

Twenty-Five Percent of the way to show #1000. I make a confession in tonights show, I am simply buried and have been trying to dig out for a month. It's a good thing but I am simply at 110% task saturation. Download the Audio Show File Geek News Central Google+ Community. Geek News Central Google+ Page. Follow Todd on Google+

GNC-2014-02-06 #924 Congrats are in Order

Congrats to the new CEO at Microsoft. It's going to be a wild ride.. Huge thanks to the GNC fan base you all delivered big in picking up products from our long time sponsor GoDaddy.. Huge kudos... Sometimes it is better to not know something, especially if that something is something you cannot talk about. More details in the show

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