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• HP To Bring Palm WebOS To Printers – (via Information Week)
• Redesigned 2011 Porsche Cayenne – (via KickingTires)
• iFlight Entertainment – (via Geek.com)
• Official Twitter For iPhone – (via Gadget Crave)
• Isn’t it Ironic? – (via Autoblog)
  
• DNA origami – (via MedGadget)
  
• Zombi Defense Weapon – (via Nerd Approved)
• Throw another cow chip on the fire – (via Engadget)
• Now for everyone! – (vai SlashDot)
  

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Totally Cool Tech Podcast #460 – The Humanity

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Today’s podcast is sponsored by GoToAssist Express by the great folks at Citrix, and, today I’m powered by Mt. Dew Code Red. maybe I ought to write to these guys and get some free soda for all the free advertising I do for them.

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On this episode of the Totally Cool Tech Podcast:

• Best Buy Video On Demand – (via I4UNews)
  
  
• See Through Toaster – $350 (via DeviceDaily)
• Cleaning up With Bacterial Soap – $8 to $13 @ Makers Market (via Technabob)
  

• Flying Fish Planes – (via Fast Company)
• Israeli Microbot Shoots Pencil Rockets – (via Wired)
  
  
• I AM Iron Man, a real DIY Suit – (via Popsci)

Thank you so much for listening to the Totally Cool Tech Podcast. Hey, if you like the show, and I think you do, please recommend us to a friend.

You can check out all of this Episode’s Show notes and links at totallycooltech.com or tctpodcast.com. Please send an email or audio comment to tctpodcast@gmail.com and let me know what cool tech you think should be on the show. You can now follow me on Twitter, look for @TCTPodcast. Or you can call the all new Totally Cool Tech Podcast listener line @ 540-999-TECH.

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You’re listing to the Totally Cool Tech Podcast #459 – Exhaustion, for Sunday, May 16th, 2010. I’m Norbert Davis, your host.

Totally Cool Tech is a proud member of the Techpodcasts.com network. “If it’s tech, its here!”, and the Blubrry.com podcast community, where podcasters and listeners come together.

May 15th marked my 5 year anniversary in podcasting. I started out with the Norbtek.info Podcast” back in May of 2005 and after 2-1/2 years I reinvented the show as The Totally Cool Tech Podcast. I’m still loving every minute of it.

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On this episode of the Totally Cool Tech Podcast:

Listener feedback – Listener Cameron asks:

• Zetabyte (via CrunchGear) How freaking big is big?
• Darth Vader on your TomTom – $13 @ TomTom (via Nerd Approved) Luke… I’m your co-pilot
  
• Mammoths Return (via Oh Gizmo!) “Oohh, Aahh, that’s how all of this starts, but then later there’s the running and screaming”
• Nano Particles & Melanin (via MedGadget) Damn’it Jim I’m a Dr., not a nanoparticle
  
• Robotic Heart Surgery (via Engadget) Who would you sue if something went wrong?
• Air Force’s  Flying Twinkie (via (IEEE Spectrum) Wasn’t there something like this in Star Trek?
  
  
• Volkswagen has a bike (via LikeCool)

Well, that it is for this episode. Thank you so much for listening to the Totally Cool Tech Podcast. Hey, if you like the show, and I think you do, please recommend us to a friend.

You can check out all of this Episode’s Show notes and links at totallycooltech.com or tctpodcast.com. Please send an email or audio comment to tctpodcast@gmail.com and let me know what cool tech you think should be on the show. You can now follow me on Twitter, look for @TCTPodcast. Or you can call the all new Totally Cool Tech Podcast listener line @ 540-999-TECH brought to you by Google Voice. Just look at the left side of the web site under Contact me.

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Totally Cool Tech Podcast #458 – The Sickness

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May 15th – My 5 year anniversary podcasting

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On this episode of the Totally Cool Tech Podcast:

• Tesla Predicted Mobile Phones over 100 Years Ago (via SlashDot)
• Apple 4G Phone Assembly begins (via Phone Reviews)
• Slim Bluetooth for iPhone/iPad – $37 @ Brando.com (via Red Ferret)
• Brilliance BEV A0 – Totally Cool Electric Car (via Red Ferret)
• Reddit to Stop Spam (via NY Times)
• ShutterSnitch App for iPad – $8 ShutterSnitch (via Wired)
• Burning Adult Diapers (via Fast Company)
• Ford’s Cloud Car Apps (via Fast Company)

I do have a deal for you from our friends over at BudgetGadgets.com

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Get 6% off site-wide @ BudgetGadgets.com till May 10th. Just use coupon code is THXMOM, when you checkout.

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Totally Cool Tech Podcast #457 – Sleeping In

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May 15th, 201 is my 5 year anniversary podcasting!

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On this episode of the Totally Cool Tech Podcast:

Rezap – $100 USD @ Rezap (via GoodCleanTech)
sOccket Ball (via GoolestGzmos)

Facade Printer (via DudeCraft)
Cyber Walk (via DVICE)

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V Lock (via Yanko Design)

Apple’s iAd Coming to an iPhone near you (via GadgetCrave)
New iPhone Announcement on June 7th? (via Wired)

I do have a deal for you from our friends over at BudgetGadgets.com

This week’s Special Deal:
High grade black leather holster case for your Blackberry. This case sells for only $3.79 at BudgetGadgets.com, and get free shipping too.

Get 6% off site-wide @ BudgetGadgets.com till May 10th. Just use coupon code: THXMOM, at checkout and receive a 6% discount.

If you like the show, and I think you do, please recommend us to a friend.

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Totally Cool Tech Podcast #456 – Sequential

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I did want to mention that the Tech45 podcast, which is a Techpodcasts.com member, is a format you guys are quite familiar with.  They have a group of hosts / panel members and discuss technology related news in about an hour or so. There are two really cool things about this podcast: 1) Its’ in Dutch Danish / Flemish, and 2) it has been nominated for the European Podcast Awards. So if you are in to the Dutch Danish / Flemish podcasts,  check out the European Podcast Award nominated show Tech45 at www.tech45.eu! If you want to vote for this podcast for the Award, just go to:

English version – http://www.european-podcast-award.eu/uk/start/vote-and-win/non-profit…
Danish / Flemish version – http://bit.ly/bHFQus

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On this episode of the Totally Cool Tech Podcast:

iPad Camera Connector – $30 @ Apple.com (via ARSTechnica)
Cheap Night Vision (via DVICE)
Bayer & Nintendo DS monitors your kids Blood Sugar – $75 @ your local drug store / pharmacy (via PopSci.com)
Story Station 3.0 is a USB 3.0 device – 2TB unit $140 & free shipping @Newegg.com (via EverythingUSB)
Caffeinated Maple-Bacon Lollipops – $4 – $10 @ Thinkgeek.com

But I do have a deal for you from our friends over at BudgetGadgets.com

This week’s Special Deal:
High grade black leather holster case. This is a great choice for your Blackberry. Compatible with BlackBerry Curve 8300, 8310, 8320, 8330, 8350i, 8520, 8530, 8900, BlackBerry Tour 9630, BlackBerry Bold 9700. This case sells for only $3.79 at BudgetGadgets.com, and get free shipping too.

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Don’t forget that you can get 6% off site-wide @ BudgetGadgets.com till May 10th. Just use coupon code is THXMOM, when you shop on our website, by using the coupon code at checkout, you will receive a 6% discount. We hope you have a great shopping experience at BudgetGadgets.com.
Well, that it is for this episode. Thank you so much for listening to the Totally Cool Tech Podcast. Hey, if you like the show, and I think you do, please recommend us to a friend.

You can check out all of this Episode’s Show notes and links at totallycooltech.com or tctpodcast.com. Please send an email or audio comment to tctpodcast@gmail.com and let me know what cool tech you think should be on the show. You can now follow me on Twitter, look for @TCTPodcast. Or you can call the all new Totally Cool Tech Podcast listener line @ 540-999-TECH brought to you by Google Voice. Just look at the left side of the web site under Contact me.

I’ll see you next time.

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Sorry folks, no show tonight.

I did want to mention that the Tech45 podcast, which is a Techpodcasts.com member, is a format you guys are quite familiar with.  They have a group of hosts / panel members and discuss technology related news in about an hour or so. There are two really cool things about this podcast: 1) Its’ in Dutch Danish / Flemish, and 2) it has been nominated for the European Podcast Awards. So if you are in to the Dutch Danish / Flemish podcasts,  check out the European Podcast Award nominated show Tech45 at www.tech45.eu! If you want to vote for this podcast for the Award, just go to:

English version – http://www.european-podcast-award.eu/uk/start/vote-and-win/non-profit…
Danish / Flemish version – http://bit.ly/bHFQus

Perhaps I will record tomorrow for a Thursday release. If not we will be back on Sunday (recording on Saturday night). But I do have a deal for you from our friends over at BudgetGadgets.com

This week’s Special Deal:
High grade black leather holster case. This is a great choice for your Blackberry. Compatible with BlackBerry Curve 8300, 8310, 8320, 8330, 8350i, 8520, 8530, 8900, BlackBerry Tour 9630, BlackBerry Bold 9700. This case sells for only $3.79 at BudgetGadgets.com, and get free shipping too.

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Totally Cool Tech Podcast #455 – Olds

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On this episode of the Totally Cool Tech Podcast:

• Sole Skate from Razor – $50 @Wal*Mart
• New life for Old Tires (via Technology Review)
• Lego plays Tetris (via SlipperyBrick)
• Apple IIe gets Twitter (via Technabob)
  
• Lego Star Wars Alarm Clock – $29 @ Think Geek (CoolestGadgets)
• Radically new packaging by Yanko – (via GeekyGadgets)

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BudgetGadgets.com is having a Mother’s Day Sale! Make Mom happy and save some money at the same time at BudgetGadgets.com for Mother’s Day!

6% off site-wide till May 10th, please check www.budgetgadgets.com for your choice.

The coupon code is THXMOM , when you shop on our website, by using the coupon code at checkout, you will receive a 6% discount. We hope you have a great shopping experience at BudgetGadgets.com.

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Well, that it is for this episode. Thank you so much for listening to the Totally Cool Tech Podcast. Hey, if you like the show, and I think you do, please recommend us to a friend.

Please send an email or audio comment to tctpodcast@gmail.com and let me know what cool tech you think should be on the show.

I’ll see you next time.

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Totally Cool Tech Podcast #454 – Big Block

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On this episode of the Totally Cool Tech Podcast:

• Make a Faux WiFi + 3G iPad
  
• Palm Pixi Plus or Palm Pre Plus w/ WiFi Hotspot only from Verizon – $30 to $50
  
• Apple iPad – $499 to $829

Exclusive to the Totally Cool Tech Podcast listeners and readers:

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6% off site-wide till May 10th, please check www.budgetgadgets.com for your choice.

The coupon code is THXMOM , when you shop on our website, by using the coupon code at checkout, you will receive a 6% discount. We hope you have a great shopping experience at BudgetGadgets.com.

Well, that it is for this episode. Thank you so much for listening to the Totally Cool Tech Podcast. Hey, if you like the show, and I think you do, please recommend us to a friend.

You can check out all of this Episode’s Show notes and links at totallycooltech.com or tctpodcast.com. Please send an email or audio comment to tctpodcast@gmail.com and let me know what cool tech you think should be on the show. You can now follow me on Twitter, look for @TCTPodcast. Or you can call the all new Totally Cool Tech Podcast listener line @ 540-999-TECH brought to you by Google Voice. Just look at the left side of the web site under Contact me.

I’ll see you next time.

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Recently I was invited to review a couple of products from BudgetGadgets.com, an electronics & gadgets vendor based in Shenzhen, China. They have been in the online retail/wholesale business since 2003 and are able to provide customers with quality products, great service, and a very decent price.

I was able to use and evaluate a couple of items from Budgetgadgets.com, a USB to serial communications converter and a USB hub/card reader. Here are my experiences with the products and the company.

The first was a USB converter for communications with industrial devices. I used this device to verify that monitoring communications wiring for industrial devices installed by one subcontractor was correctly installed and that the devices themselves were communicating and could be monitored by another subcontractor.

The package from BudgetGadgets.com had all the parts and device drivers that I needed for allowing my Windows laptop to use the converter. The adapter for the 9 pin RS485 that connects to the communications wiring was easy to understand and hookup and the documentation was included on the CD ROM that came with the package.

I was able to check out and verify everything on my job site thanks to this device. This was a great price bargain as well at $14.67 as similar devices that I found online were 3 to 10 times the cost for the same thing.

The second device was an All-in-one USB 2.0 Card read/writer and hub. This device was perfect to hook up to my 8 year old Pentium 4 Windows PC. I use this PC for the storage of all my digital photos but I never had a card reader of any kind installed into it. Now with this add-on device I was able to directly download pictures directly to the PC rather than have to load it upon another PC or hook the camera up via USB. Everything I needed to hook up to my PC came with the hub/reader/writer. There was a USB extension cable which allowed me to have the hub on my desk where I needed it and more convenient to use. As pleased as I was about the ability to read or write to media cards, the addition of multiple USB ports to my machine was great too.

The BudgetGadgets.com site was a pleasure to visit as it is easy to navigate and well laid out. Finding products based on category, price range, or via direct search was simple and easy. Ordering items is not complicated at all and equal to that of many larger on-line vendors like Amazon, TigerDirect, and Newegg. I received my packages in excellent shape as they were shipped in bubble envelopes protecting them from typical banging and bumping experienced with shipping. The quality of materials and workmanship of the products was equal to anything I have ordered from large on-line vendors. I would recommend Budgetgadgets.com to anyone looking to get electronic devices or gadgets and wanting great prices.

If you have a need for electronic devices and gadgets, I highly suggest that you visit Budgetgadgets.com to see if they have what you need. And if you do find something you like on their site, you can get 5% off your order by using the Promo Code: NM5OFF4.

The total value of the items that I reviewed was less than $25 USD and Budgetgadgets.com was kind enough to allow me to keep the products that I reviewed. With that being said, it should give you a good idea as to how great the prices are at Budgetgadgets.com, but don’t take my word alone, go visit the site and see for yourself what they have to offer and their great pricing, and the shipping is always free too.

Norbert Davis
Host – Totally Cool Tech Podcast

HXSP-2108F provides a simple and easy way to connect Universal Serial Bus(USB) and Serial port interface, With the advantage of USB port, user have the capability to utilize the peripheral with serial port interface in an easy way to use environment such as plug and play & hot swap function, This adapter is designed for ideal connections to Cellular phone, Digital Camera, modems or ISDN terminal adapter with over 1Mbps data transfer rate.

Features:
USB specification revision 1.1 & 2.0 compliant.
Small volume, easy installation.
No power supply needed.
Auto sense serial signal rate, zero delay automatic transmit.
Baud Rate: 300~115200bps, automatic sense serial signal rate
Transmit distance reach up to 1800M at the rate of 9.6kbps.
Protection: 600W sugre protection, 15KV static electricity protection
Connector: USB side type A interface female, RS-485 side DB-9 male or 6 terminal block
Working Temperature: -20 to 60 centigrade

All in 1 Hi-speed Card Reader/Write Transmission w/ USB Hub
Support SD, MMC, RS-MMC, Mini SD T-Flash, MS/MS PRO MS Duo/MS PRO Duo, M2
Mini SD, T-Flash, M2 use without adapter
Easy plug and play installation device
No external power needed
LED light clew read and write state
Slim size, easy for carry
Up to 480Mb/s accessibility speed
USB version 2.0 specification
Support Windows 98/98 SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista, Mac OSx9.0 and Linux2.4 later version