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Gadget Spotlight: FitDesk Puts Holes All Up In Your Balance Ball

All of the pelvic thrusting you’re doing on your exercise ball at work is giving your thruster bursitis. Try pedaling your shit around in place while emailing your boss with the FitDesk Exercise Bike.

Weekly Knowledge Dump: Tech News for 10.7.11

Steve Jobs passes away, Microsoft axes the Zune HD and then resurrects it, the IPhone 4S pre-order rush brings down all of the major carriers websites and Google gets cold feet.

App Review: Groovebug for iPad

Groovebug is an impressive, polished app for the iPad with an equally impressive price (free).

High Tech Vs. High Quality: Carry Your Carry-ables

The choice is yours: Do you want a messenger bag that will charge your devices on the go, or a messenger bag made of vegetable-tanned leather? What IS vegetable-tanned leather?

App Review: IP Cam Viewer Pro For Android

IP Cam Viewer Pro For Android lets you remotely control and view almost any piece of technology with a screen. It lets you be a spy for $3.99. Not bad!

Gadget Review: Warpia StreamHD Wireless PC to TV Adapter

Getting your computer and television to work together can be a pain in the ass sometimes. The Warpia HD aims to solve this issue for you by letting you wirelessly connect the two.

Weekly Knowledge Dump: Tech News for 9.30.11

Apple announces a media event for next week, Amazon debuts three new Kindles, people STILL don’t know that The Onion is a fake news network and Apple stops selling boxed copies of some software.

Guy’s History Book: Remembering James Dean and Celebrity Auto Deaths

On this anniversary of his death, we pay tribute to the memory and legacy of James Dean, taking a look at other celebrities whose lives were cut tragically short by automobile-related deaths.

Weekly Knowledge Dump: Tech News for 9.23.11

Google tries to reinvent the wallet, Facebook pisses people off, the Wall Street Journal tries to get social and HP fires a whole bunch of people.

Gadget Graveyard: Microsoft’s Tablet PCs

The iPad had many ancestors that have fallen. We dug up its dinosaur-like ancestor, Microsoft’s retired tablet PC.

Ghost Write The Whip: VW Thing

What the hell was that thing? Guy takes a look at the Official VW thing and has things to say about it.

Weekly Knowledge Dump for 9.16.11

Microsoft shows off Windows 8, Netflix loses almost 1,000,000 customers and HTC’s President is hopelessly out of touch.

App Review: Skifta For Android

Skitfa is an app that takes on more than it can chew. Its motto is “control and play your media whenever and however you want with Skifta” and boy did they choose the worst description for their app.

Elite Beyond Recognition: Golf Simulator Needs Its Own Room… In Your Mansion

What if you love… we mean LOVE… golf and had an extra room in your house? Try this bitch on for size and try not to look at the price tag before you fall in love with it.

High Tech Vs. High Quality: Two Incredible Approaches to QWERTY

Convenience vs versatility duke it out. Would you go with the Optimus Maximus keyboard or the funky Thinkgeek rollable portable keyboard?