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Don’t forget about Cyber Monday!

CrunchGear  Nov 28 08

Black Friday gets all the press but Cyber Monday might have just as good deals this year. The Monday after Thanksgiving was dubbed Cyber Monday a few years ago retailers started offering Black Friday-ish deals following the big shopping weekend. According to Shopzila 84 percent of online retailers plan on having a promotion this year [...] Full story...

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Who still buys iPod docks in 2010?

CrunchGear  13 hours ago

The year 2004 called, and it wants its iPod dock back. (Yes, I know it works with the iPhone, too.) Seriously, do people still buy these things? Inquiring minds want to know.

CrunchDeals: Buy a Roku HD Player, get $20 Amazon on Demand credit

CrunchGear  14 hours ago

Roku's HD player is a great deal at $99, but it's an even better deal if you buy one now from Amazon.

The Twist Alarm Clock forces you to activate your brain in the morning

CrunchGear  14 hours ago

Japan and its alarm clocks. Most of these devices force you to wake up through an extra-annoying noise (or by moving away from you), but this new one, the so-called Twist Alarm Clock [JP], makes you solve (simple) math problems.

Mosquitos of the future may vaccinate against malaria, instead of spread it

CrunchGear  14 hours ago

Mosquitos are one of the major ways that malaria is spread, causing an estimated two million deaths per year.

IT in a box: the ClearBOX

CrunchGear  16 hours ago

As a full time systems administrator, I can tell you without equivocation that IT is hard. There are lots of little problems that occur.

At long last, Windows Mobile 6.5 is available for the Sprint Touch Pro2

CrunchGear  16 hours ago

Here it is, folks! Its been a few long months for Sprint fans toting Touch Pro2's, given that the same device on all of the other carriers saw upgrades to Windows Mobile 6.

New packaging concept helps lazy shoppers find fresh produce

CrunchGear  17 hours ago

Don't you hate standing in the supermarket, with all those people standing around you, peering in your cart and passing judgement over your purchases? You can code a beautiful, standards compliant cross-browser compatible website in your sleep, but you're stymied by which head of lettuce is the freshest.

Hacked Windows Phone 7 emulator demoed on video

CrunchGear  17 hours ago

Earlier this morning, the Windows Phone 7 emulator was "unlocked" (so to speak), granting anyone with a few spare minutes and basic tinkering abilities to get a look at a bunch of stuff Microsoft didn't originally include.

Henry Morgan wants the word ‘pirate’ back

CrunchGear  17 hours ago

Hollywood (the movie studios, the record labels, etc.) sure does have a knack for causing its own problems.

Video: This is easily the coolest thing I’ve seen an iPhone do this week.

CrunchGear  17 hours ago

You hear that sound? That's the sound of my mind being blown. When the folks over in Cupertino strapped a little speaker to the bottom of the iPhone and released an SDK, do you think that any of them thought "Oh, people are totally going to use this to make apps that can push little Styrofoam balls around a fake soccer field.



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