ShareBy Alice Hill
RealTechNews
It’s winter and that means that the real men who loved our coverage of the Hemi Grill need a wintertime outlet. Rest easy. Here’s one for the snow and sleet – a V8 Snowblower.
Kai Grundt’s V8 snow blower raises the bar on the traditional snow blower in every respect. With electric start, electric [...]
ShareBy Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Personally, I use margarine, and specific brands, without trans fatty acids, mostly for health reasons. My mother-in-law swears by butter though. And one of her complaints is how hard the stuff is when she takes it out of the refrigerator. That complaint could be a thing of the [...]
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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
A Dutch company has announced a Linux-based VCR-like device that can connect and download content from a variety of P2P services (Edonkey, Bittorrent, Kazaa, Gnutella and Overnet). It has a DVD burner (unclear from the site if it’s dual-layer) and various-sized hard drives; the cheapest version has [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
It is not a good day for Blackberry-maker Research in Motion after a U.S. judge ruled a $450-million patent settlement reached earlier this year between RIM and NTP can’t be enforced. U.S. District court judge James Spencer will now decide whether and/or how to impose an injunction that could prevent RIM [...]
ShareBy Alice Hill
RealTechNews
The repo man was so last century. At least that’s what a dealership in Viginina is thinking when it came up with a newer way to get high risk car buyers to keep making their monthly car payments – how about shutting off the car when you fall behind? As they put it, [...]
ShareBy Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Most longtime readers now that I long to fly and own some sort of cool ultralight plane. I’ve covered personal helicopters and flying cars and everything in between, but today I found a video of an ultralight crash that definitely made me stop and think. The weird thing is how there is no [...]
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RealTechNews
I don’t usually bother writing about online stores. Most offer the same old electronic shopping basket and check-out experience, most have their shipping and handling in order and I enjoy the ease of ordering online. Blah, blah, blah. But when I decided to take the Podcasting plunge and ordered up the new M-Audio [...]
ShareBy Alfred Poor, HDTV Resource Center
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Earlier this month, Maxell announced that they will come to market late next year with a 300 GB removable disc storage device. The interesting feature is that it does not use magnetic media like a hard drive, or mechanical pits like a manufactured CD, or heat-sensitive dye [...]
