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Road Mice - The Most Toys Wins This Christmas, we managed to get our hands on a hot new gift item for any age or flavor of automotive enthusiast. "Road Mice" are American Muscle cars made to fit in the palm of your hand and serve as your mouse when you cruise the web. They are fast (800 dpi) and fun, and are officially licensed for the hottest new cars, the Mustang GT, Camaro, Corvette, and more. Read more...

Cellular/Wireless

VTech LS6245 - Sleek Bluetooth DECT Phones

In a sea of cordless phone choices, it would take A LOT for a new DECT 6.0 cordless phone to stand out in the crowd, but the ultra-modern styling, higheend features and low-end price of VTech's new LS-6245 phones makes VTech's new flagship cordless phone really stand out in a crowded field.

Computer

Adobe Creative Suite CS4 The most important reason to upgrade to CS4 of Adobe's Creative Suite is new support for the 64 bit Windows Vista OS. For those who edit large photos, the 4GB memory barrier on the 32 bit OS caused the workspace to use hard drive space for swapping, significantly slowing down the program. Read more...

Digital Living Room

Seagate Free Agent Theater Rather than re-invent yet another home theater experience, Seagate has built on the Free Agent GO portable hard drive product to develop a simple home media solution that almost anyone can understand and implement. To create a slide show, simply copy the images and audio into a directory on the drive. Read more...

Embedded

Canesta Controls Electronics with Hand Gestures The innovators at Canesta believe in the future, every room in the home will include devices that are controlled entirely with hand gestures, and so they have developed the chips, software and imaging technology to make this possible. What still remains is for manufactures to incorporate this new technology into products. Read more...

Entertainment

UGOBE Pleo Redux

In early 2006, we saw our first Pleo from UGOBE, and we were certain that this adorable robot was going to be a hit for Christmas 2006. Unfortunately, not only did the product fail to hit the shelves that year, but it looks like battery problems in v2 may negatively impact the release of the new version this Christmas. So, as we begin to prepare our Gadget Gurus Christmas lists, it looks like one of our favorite "hopefuls" will be missing the list again.

Health/Fitness

Fitbit 24 Hour Health and Fitness Monitoring One of the highlights of the 2008 TechCrunch50 event was a small gadget called the FitBit Tracker, a very small health and fitness monitoring device designed to track your fitness and health activities 24 hours a day. The device, designed to clamp over a belt or purse or to any piece of clothing, was created for 24-hour a day, 7 day a week wear, and includes interesting daytime and nighttime monitoring features. Read more...

Home Improvement

Wayne-Dalton Delivers on Z-Wave Promise Wayne-Dalton, a leading manufacturer of garade doors for new home manufacturers, is also leading the charge for Z-wave home automation technology by delivering Pro-Drive garage door solutions to new homes across the US, and offering a vast array of z-wave controllers and modules to extend those systems. Read more...

Websites

Mint.com Manages Bank and Credit Cards

Unveiled at TechCrunch in San Francisco, Mint.com tops our list of favorite FREE website services for 2007. Mint not only integrates all of your credit cards and bank accounts into one online overview, but allows you drill down, and even makes some recommendations. If you are paying too much in fees or not making enough in interest, Mint knows, and will suggest some alternatives, which is how the folks at mint.com make their money, by referring you to "special deals" on credit cards and banking accounts.

TECH2 LAKE HOUSE to be Completed Summer 2009

APR 2009 UPDATE - San Francisco's Channel 7 ABC News just ran a special video report on the construction progress of the Technology Lake House. The outside of the house is just about buttoned up. Click HERE for a DLINK Live Video Feed with pan and zoom features.

Ron Rosberg's current project home, the Technology Lake House, is currently under construction on the shores of Clearlake in Northern California. The new high-tech dock is complete, and the roofline is beginning to take shape. So far, more than a dozen technology vendors have stepped up to sponsor this project, which has been simmering in Ron's head since he attended the first CES show in New York in 1967. The 7,500 square foot project (plus two existing rustic cabin guest houses) is being built on a six-acre Honeymoon Cove resort with 500 feet of beach directly across from Konocti Harbor Resort. This summer retreat will host two technology gatherings annually, inviting Western states home builders, contractors, and technology consultants for a live open house. There is room to park up to twelve boats in the main dock and the guest dock, so plan on coming up for some lake fun after the project is complete. For more info, send email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call 650-342-5642. To see the latest photos, visit Ron's Flickr gallery.

We are currently looking for products to evaluate in these areas:

Home automation: lighting, security, HVAC and entertainment
A/V technology for the 500 SF home theater media demo room

Hot News on Cool New Features: The ENTIRE front of the home will be made of sliding NanaWall glass panels that fold into the walls, opening the entire home up to the lake during demo days.

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