$100 Laptop Not So Much Useful As Useless

The $100 laptop project created by Nicholas Negroponte, has recently come under fire for not being quite the breathtaking, important technology it’s supposed to be, as most of the countries the laptop is geared toward would rather have things like food, shelter, and not dying. Various critics of the project have suggested that the laptops, lacking an internet connection or anything really that worthwhile, are much less important than the need for a basic communications and education infrastructure in the developing countries first.

Samsung ML-1651N Laser Printer Reviews

The ML-1651N laser printer is a big, hulking and efficient piece of machinery. It has no frills, it has no Bluetooth, and it has no laser beams but it’ll get the job done and it’ll get it done fast.

A monochrome laser printer, the ML-1651N prints at a rate of 17 pages per minute, with a maximum 1,200-sheet capacity — making it good for both work and an especially busy home.

Cuisinart DLC-5 Food Processor Reviews

The Cuisineart DLC-5 food processor simplifies so many things in your kitchen that you will be praising it as a small metallic little God.

Black & Decker T4200 Toast-It-All Toaster Reviews

If there’s such a thing as a heavy-duty toaster, the Black & Decker T4200 Toast-It-All Toaster would be it. Big, serious, and very much in charge, the T4200 demands your attention and your bagels.

The toaster has two sets of individual controls, allowing users to toast different foods all at once — revolutionary? No.

Nikon “Accidentally” Leaks D80 Photos, Customers “Accidentally” Intrigued

With 13 days before the launch of Nikon’s new D80 Digital SLR camera, photos of the camera have been “accidentally” leaked by Nikon Europe (this is why America doesn’t get along with you, Europe) providing consumers a look at the shiny new model. The leak has allowed consumers a change to glean various information about the camera, but most importantly it provided a name — D80 — for the product, which was previously titled, “We really hope Nikon leaks the name of this camera.”

Californians To Get $1.1 Billion From Microsoft, Windows Crashes in Sadness

After being put through a lengthy anti-trust lawsuit, Microsoft, the company that would probably build the Death Star if a Death Star is what we needed, will soon be paying California consumers and businesses $1.1 billion dollars in delayed payouts. The sum, which is ironically the same amount that Bill Gates leaves under his children’s pillows when their teeth fall out, will be divided among the people who filed the claims in the form of vouchers, which can be redeemed for cash in the next four years.

LG Makes HDTV Even More HDTVier

LG Electronics has unveiled a 37-inch and 42-inch full HDTV liquid crystal display today, and, in apparent competition with themselves, immediately introduced two larger versions of the same TV at 47 and 55 inches. Large and impressive the two-megapixel HD panels will offer images that are two times clearer than regular HDTV’s and six times greater than SDTV– making the whole HD-watching experience so crisp that your eyes will literally burn out of their sockets — which, really, in the long run, is pretty worth it.

Boombox Makes Come Back, Early 90’s Rejoice

Sanyo is releasing a small boombox that is meant to not only help you relive the good ol’ days of brightly-colored clothes, huge hair and Nike logos shaved into the back of people’s heads, but will also supply you a gadget that’s simultaneous retro and futuristic — a lot like the new Transformers movie, if the new Transformers movie could play MP3s.

Motorola’s New KRZR, RIZR Phones Pretty GOODZR

Motorola, the company that rejuvenated itself with its hip Razr cellphone line, unveiled several new handsets today — included the Krzr and the Rizr — two phones that will be both narrower than their predecessor, and harder to pronounce. Sticking with the thin-is-good-but-four-letter-mutations-of-regular-words-is-better business model, Motorola hopes to strike the kind of gold mine with the new phones that it struck when the Razr sliced into the market and stabbed its way into the hearts of consumers.

iJackets and iShoes To Make World iBetter

In a never-ending quest to put iPods everywhere, shoe and clothing makers are in a self-proclaimed race to put music in places you would never think of finding it — from basketball shoes that pump out Pink Floyd to jackets with iPod controls and Bluetooth — manufacturers are intent on providing us entertainment wherever we go, taking a brave first step into making our lives that much more similar to a musical.

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