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Remember my Airstream daydreaming back in October? Well, if have the original $40K for that beachfront property deal plus an extra $20K burning a hole in your pocket, here’s your OIALO (don’t forget to push for the customary 18% discount off retail)! You’ll be killin’ if you can get your hands on one of the [...]

So you know where you are thanks to your GPSr, but how do you feel? You need a Kestrel 4000 Pocket Weather Meter! This little handheld does it all when it comes to kickin’ the local weather man’s *$$ (even the Weather Doctor thinks its cool)! Check out this feature summary: Current, Maximum and Average [...]

Think you’ve been everywhere? Chances are good that some of the best deals in exploration are right under your nose — check our urban exploration. If you’re interested in a sit-down briefing, you’ll want to pick up Ninjalicious’ (rip) classic “Access All Areas: A User’s Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration” or another reference [...]

Here’s an interesting hardware twist for you — its a thin client notebook! This would be an excellent option for the office floater (e.g. conference rooms, dynamic work teams, etc.), and even an interesting option when tethered via VPN over seedy broadband. Sorry, Edge won’t cut it, you’ll need at least EV-DO to walk this [...]

I’ve been using a Garmin Etrex Vista since the before the new millennium started, so Father’s day seems like the right time for an upgrade. Garmin’s latest getterdun unit is the GPSMap 60CSx. Its one of two in their line that have the new SiRF chipset and uses standard MicroSD cards (1G < $50). This [...]

Any self-respecting h4x0r is already humming with VMware (sure, its probably their free runtime, or VMTN, but hey), but what do you do when you want to hack the data center? VMware just announced the Infrastructure 3, an amazing suite of plumbing services that finish out their solid, core virtualization capabilities by adding carrier-grade manageability. [...]

Here’s a few quick diddies on GNU Radio slapped on Matt Ettus’ Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) — Slashdot, Boing Boing, and Wired. Think about it for a second — what info is not flying through the air on one frequency or another ready to be plucked out and eaten?! Cellular, GPS, Wifi, Police/Fire dispatch, [...]

Tired of trying to keep up with the Jones? How about a quick reversal to get the last laugh on who has the biggest house? Grab the smallest house! I’ve been trolling in the world of small/tiny houses for a year or so, and its starting to get some press from “the rest of the [...]