Nov 26, 2010

Hi everyone. Yes, it’s Thanksgiving. And that means lots of turkey. For everyone. And for us at the Gadget Grill, that means that means it’s time for our annual Tech Turkey Awards. Join us this Sunday night, on 2RDJ FM-88.1, or on the net at www.radio2rdj.com, and find out who we think this year’s Tech Turkeys are....

Nov 21, 2010

Hear at the Gadget Grill we like nice headphones, and we also like designs that are simple and elegant. And the Elecom headphones for the iPod Shuffle are both simple in their design, and present an elegant solution to the way that you may use headphones with the Shuffle. Yes, they’re wireless, but not in the way that think. What they’ve done is...

Nov 21, 2010

You’ve seen those electronic roadside signs, of course. They’re used to warn of changing traffic conditions or upcoming hazards. In Arizona last week, near Tucson, one of these signs was hacked, with the message changed to warn drivers on the highway that there were zombies ahead on the roadway. Although obviously adept at programming these devices,...

Nov 21, 2010

New technology is set to change the way we use, as well as the look of, our credit cards. With an embedded battery that has an expected life of over four years, this new technology can allow the one card to provide access to multiple accounts, and it can be configured to suppress the display of the account number(s) until after a PIN has been entered.

Nov 21, 2010

How’s your Facebook access been during this past week? The accounts of female members (only) it seems have been affected by a bug in the Facebook code base over the last week, with access to the accounts for the users disabled. Users were requested to upload a form of photo ID, such as a drivers license. The Boy Genius Reports website quotes the following...