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| Jan 13, 2022 | HubSpot : How to Become an Entrepreneur With No Money or Experience | Being your own boss, calling all the shots, hustling to hit your goals - for many people, entrepreneurship is the ultimate career goal.
But as awesome as running your own business sounds, it's also incredibly difficult.
How difficult? 90% o... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | Gift Guide: 7 great gifts for anyone working from home | Let’s just get this out of the way: For the past several years, I’ve contributed the “Best Gifts for Frequent Travelers” segment to TechCrunch’s annual gift guide. I love it. It was easily my favorite gift guide to write, and it was an audi... |
| Nov 12, 2013 | TiVo Roamio marries content recording and roaming, but cable keeps calling | reader comments 118 with 78 posters participating
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Want to know how normal "cord cutting" is these days? Here's a peek behind the Ars Orbiting HQ curtain: when we ... |
| Mar 7, 2013 | Jerome Bowman – founder of Gentlemens Supply Co. | Jerome is the 25-year-old founder of Gentlemens Supply Co. He is a Sydney local whose passion for fashion started when he began working in family’s business whilst still in school. During this time his family expanded their B&M stores t... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | Screw The Mall: How To Super-Charge Your Lame Gift-Giving With Digital Tools | I am, historically speaking, not the best gift-giver. I like to think that I don’t drop the ball entirely, but I’m not one of these people who naturally and instinctively knows exactly what someone would love and where to get it. The tricki... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | VITAband: Philly childhood friends develop cashless payments, medical record technology for wristbands | They say near-death experiences can be life-changing. For childhood friends Jason Brown and David Waxman, Brown’s close call inspired their startup: VITAband.
The idea for VITAband, which licenses out technology that allows wristbands to ca... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | Flipboard adds 1M users since launching iPhone app | Popular mobile news-reading app crosses 5M user mark only one week after iPhone launch
Popular mobile app Flipboard, which allows users to flip through Web pages on their mobile devices like a magazine, has added one million new users since... |
| May 3, 2011 | Conan On The World's Most Expensive Toilet By Kohler | http://i.cdn.turner.com/tegwebapps/tbs/tbs-www/cvp/teamcoco_dynamic_embed.swf?context=teamcoco_embed_offsite&videoId=250222
As if the real product, the Kohler Numi, isn’t crazy enough with it’s remote control and $6400 price tag. But re... |
| May 2, 2011 | Bow Before The Crovel: Combination Shovel, Crowbar, Hammer, Machete | Sweet baby Grylls. This “Crovel” tool is absolutely monstrous. Its patent-pending hardened steel shape is alternately sharp, grippy, heavy, and jagged. The rope grip even detaches to form… you know, rope.
$85? I’ll take ten, please.
[via Un... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | Steve Jobs In Carbonite Is The Best iPhone Decal I've Seen Yet | While the Polaroid skin is pretty cool and, practically speaking, a case is a better option for several reasons, this Steve Jobs frozen in carbonite iPhone decal from S6 is probably the nerdiest/coolest phone decoration in the galaxy right ... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Kickstarter: Coffee Joulies Are Temperature Regulators For Your Java | Some people love the hot coffee. Love the hot. People order their americanos “extra hot” so the baristas will put out water at higher than the 180 degrees they aim at. Madness! Personally, I have to let it cool down a bit — but ideally, you... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | Blunt Umbrellas Reduce The Possibility Of Rain-Related Impaling | You would think that, in a city like Seattle, people would learn to A: not have gigantic, pointy umbrellas, and B: look where the hell they are walking. But no, that is not the case. I fear for my life on blustery days when iPhone-absorbed ... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Wenger Titanium Tool Is Titanium | We had a nice little multi-tool roundup over the holidays, but there are way more than we could ever review, not to mention new ones coming out all the time. This one stands out for two reasons: it’s designed to the spec of mountaineer Ueli... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | X-Ray Boots Have Transparent Soles, Just Because | I was going to write that the transparent soles let you see what’s “underneath” the tread, but it’s not really underneath, since the sole’s on the bottom, right? It’s barely “above,” and it’s not really “inside.” So I scrapped the headline ... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | The Creditor Carbon Fiber Money Clip Knife Keeps Your Money Safe | Designed by John Kubasek, the Creditor carbon fiber money clip knife can keep you and your money safe from theft. The minimal design is really neat, and looks great. The material makeup is carbon fiber and titanium. By pressing down on the ... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Pure Black Knife Set Is Evil-Looking, Tasteful | Man, these are some handsome knives. They’re each cut from a single piece of metal and then given a grippy, non-stick black coating. It’s not really clear whether these knives are actually good knives, but I certainly wouldn’t mind having t... |
| Dec 27, 2010 | Indiana Jones Would Rock This Canvas Lunch Bag | This thing makes me want to go loot some ancient temple, then stop and have a panini on the way out. Of course, I’m a sucker for waxed canvas, but you have to admit this Artifact lunch sack handsome object. It costs $45, which is a bit much... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Now Go Home And Get Your Cole Haan Shinebox | Looking for a good way to put down the high roller in your life? Get him a shinebox, so whenever he gets out of line, you can pull a Billy Batts, though hopefully without all the stabbing.
Seriously though, this is a nice-looking accessory ... |
| Nov 30, 2010 | Surplus Swiss Army Axes? Yes Please | Oh man. I don’t know what it is about a finely crafted axe that I like so much. I should probably just stop there. But I can’t. I just love axes, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
These beautiful axes are apparently Swiss Army surplus, a... |
| Nov 8, 2010 | Hate Fire? Get You Some Sweet Extinguishers | I know fire extinguishers aren’t really on everybody’s Christmas lists, but if I saw these in a store window, you’re darn tootin I’d stop and look, buster. If you’re going to put out a fire, why not look good doing it?
These HalGuard exting... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | These handmade wooden computer peripherals are the closest thing to heaven on earth | There is something warm about these handmade external computer drives. They are almost like how God would have created computers. The real charm is that they are made exclusively by two dudes out of Seattle who obviously enjoy woodworking a... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | Cannondale's enclosed-chain ON Bike is now for sale | From the side it doesn’t look like anything but a rather attractive street bike, but then you notice it’s missing a piece of the frame back there. What the — and then you hit up the side view and WHAT THE — it’s only got tubing on one side ... |
| Mar 11, 2010 | Tecmo Bowl Throwback due for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network | It’s Tecmo Bowl, but on your Xbox 360 or PS3. And without the NFL-licensed players and teams. But with a 3D-style look and feel! You can go old-school and play in 2D mode, too.
It’s actually the SNES version of Super Tecmo Bowl, redone for ... |
| Jul 16, 2009 | Nixon Ground Swell surf pack | I’m in the market for a new surf pack and Nixon’s Ground Swell just might fit the bill. It’s only $70 and comes with a waterproof wetsuit pocket that can be accessed via a side zipper. The outer shell and zippers are also waterproof. I’m su... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | The 'Go Plate' facilitates outdoor food and beverage enjoyment | Even though summer has been effectively cancelled for certain areas of the country, it doesn’t mean you still can’t enjoy an all-American barbecue. You’ll just have to cook everything on the stove and eat inside. Just like summer, except mo... |
| Sep 25, 2008 | Spin the Beer Wheel, win a prize (beer + knowledge) | People who are really into wine get cool sounding titles like “Sommelier” and “wine enthusiast” while people who really love beer are often just called “fat” and/or “drunk”. Unfair though it may be, I happily plop myself into the latter cat... |
| Aug 16, 2008 | Speedo taking orders for LZR Racer – Michael Phelps' swimsuit | Who doesn’t wanna be like Mike? Greatest athlete in his sport of all time. Incredible focus. Huge wingspan. Gigantic feet. Total dominance.
Why not pick up the same suit he is wearing: the Speedo LZR Racer. Speedo is taking pre-orders now a... |
| Jul 22, 2008 | Biodegradable shoes, sounds great if they don't rot while you walk | I presume that the time scale on these Brooks Trance 8 runners biodegrading is along the lines of years (as opposed to decades) and not months. Wouldn’t want them sloughing off while you run. It’s a nice move towards waste reduction, but as... |
| Oct 5, 2007 | Crazy headphones aren't headphones at all | The Sony PFR-V1’s are actually two mini speakers which are said to mimic an extravagant audio setup. There’s a whole bunch of tech-specs which supposedly justify the $540 price but whatevs, at the end of the day these kinda ruin the premise... |
| Sep 2, 2007 | Ironkey: Military Grade Data Security | If you’re the kind of person who is prone to working with documents which are vital to national security, you might want to check out this cool flash drive. Not only is the metal-encased USB stick built to withstand both hardware and softwa... |
| Jun 12, 2007 | SureFire Titan Flashlight | The SureFire Titan is an LED flashlight that packs a blinding wallop. This tiny device features a variable-output LED that allows you to select light inputs between one and 30 lumens.
To top that off, it is housed within a fine looking tita... |
| May 24, 2007 | Where's My Jetpack? | We know that most of you don’t read anything but CrunchGear, but there is a book currently making the rounds that is of considerable interest to gear heads. Where’s My Jetpack? looks at many of the amazing bits of invention that have been p... |
| May 10, 2007 | Pacemaker Pocket DJ Better Be Real 'Cause I Needs to Mix | Dear Space Jesus, please tell us this Pacemaker pocket DJ is real. Who could resist a 120GB hard drive and the ability to mix and crossfade all the ATB and AVB you can stomach? (For Vince and I that’s quite a bit. In fact, we’ll be raving t... |
| May 8, 2007 | Centerfold Guitar Folds in Half and Doesn't Even Need to be Retuned | This Centerfold guitar, they want us to know, is the world’s first guitar that folds in half for easy transport. It takes just 20 seconds to go from musical instrument to compact, everyday blunt object. It’s built, by hand, by “Sweden’s fin... |
| May 7, 2007 | Widescreen Outdoor Theater: Black and White and Hot All Over | Yes! This is exactly what I need. A giant inflatable screen with an Optoma projector. It will be excellent for entertaining all of those friends that I don’t have when I hold pool parties in my backyard pool that doesn’t exist. Oh I can pra... |
| May 2, 2007 | Flat Panel Frame, Debatable Elegance for those with Cash to Burn | Pottery Barn is selling an item designed to improve the look of one’s flat panel TV. The Chadwick Flat Panel Frame is essentially a picture frame for a flat panel TV.
It’s available in three sizes and it’s crafted from hard wood. The frame ... |
| Apr 26, 2007 | TEAC HiFi: Bone Conduction Style | I’ve grown very fond of my hearing in the last few years and that’s a sad thing to say at my age. I often find myself saying, “huh”, more than I like to. After having my Able Planets my ears can’t handle normal headphones anymore. So, the T... |
| Apr 20, 2007 | Wine That Loves: No More Guessing What Wine Goes With What Food | Biggs, the bossman here, knows his wine, so he knows what wine goes with what foods. I, on the other hand, am ignorant of this magical magic. Wine That Loves should eliminate this problem by placing a label of what type of food the wine goe... |
| Apr 10, 2007 | iRobot Plunges Into the Depths (of Your Backyard Pool) | The crew at iRobot continues to broach into new territories for its household robotics. Now these little automated pool cleaners aren’t anything groundbreaking (we had one way back in the early 90s), but perhaps iRobot manages to do it bett... |
| Mar 29, 2007 | Schuberth J1 Super Helmet | The Schuberth J1 Helmet looks so cool that it kind of makes me want to get a bike just so I can use one. Beneath that distinctive futuristic styling is a collection of advanced features designed to protect your noggin’.
The helmet has a rem... |
| Mar 13, 2007 | Columino Almost Floaty Speakers | Wow, you thought yesterday’s speakers dazzled, check these out. They’re from Audio-Technica and look like they’re floating in mid-air! (But they’re really just held by a string. Boo.) “Columino,” available in both black and white, also feat... |
| Mar 12, 2007 | Sonicum Speakers: Now With a Special Something | PC speakers typically have no design aesthetic to speak of — box, woofer, tweeter, wires. NEXT! Sonicum’s soon to be released speakers at least have a personality. The 15-watt speakers, which should be available this May for around $120 (or... |
| Mar 4, 2007 | Nyko Wii Charger Now Available, Keeps Planet Green | For those tired of constantly replacing their AA batteries because of all the Wii-mote action, here comes a way to save some money on batteries (that is, if you end up spending more than $30 for batteries in your Wii lifetime).
The Nyko Wii... |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Black & Decker InfraWave Oven Awesomeness | I’m probably one of the most impatient people alive. For this reason, above all others, I love the microwave. The problem is that microwaved food doesn’t come out nearly as good when heated in an oven.
Fortunately, Black & Decker might ... |
| Feb 23, 2007 | FLeX 4.2 PC | This Mini-ITX Media Center is intended for the fashionably-minded consumer. It’s powered by a respectable 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB DDR and a 750GB hard drive with vibration dampening.
That’s all fine and good, but what sets this rig apar... |
| Feb 22, 2007 | R2-D2 Trashcan | Since its release a bunch of decades ago, “Star Wars” has been the ultimate fare of geekdom. Anyone who can legitimately call oneself a nerd has seen the films, probably more than once, and holds at least some of it dear to the heart.
Given... |
| Feb 19, 2007 | Delete Erase, Low Tech—Way Cool | For as much as I use computers, I still vastly prefer writing in print. Sure my handwriting barely rivals that of a third grader, but there is something immensely satisfying about saying my words splayed out on a page.
Given my sloppy writi... |
| Feb 15, 2007 | Pak-Lite Is Awesome | I love minimalist products. There is something deliciously refreshing about them. As everything becomes super complicated, it’s nice to have some thing that retains functional simplicity.
Take Pak-Lite for example. With two ultra bright whi... |
| Feb 9, 2007 | Boston Acoustics Receptor Radio: It's HD | Sure it costs $300, doesn’t have a CD player and high definition radio probably isn’t available in your area, but who cares?! It’s HD capable, and what’s more important than being an early adopter?
This tabletop unit from Boston Acoustics i... |
| Feb 5, 2007 | eSommelier Inventories Wine Excessively | Check this thing out. This wine cataloging system is controlled through a snazzy 15-inch touchscreen display. The system inventories your wine collection with bar codes that it prints and scans.
You can access eSommelier online and monitor ... |
| Feb 2, 2007 | Tivoli Table Stereo for Audiophiles | This desktop sound system from Tivoli Audio is billed as the audiophile’s table stereo. Encased within that hand-lacquered box are two high-quality 3-inch full range speakers with rear ports , a built-in 5-inch magnetically-shielded powered... |
| Jan 31, 2007 | Jack Bauer Gear at Uncrate | Uncrate has tenaciously gone through the catalog of all the gear Jack Bauer regularly uses on “24.” It’s a show I’ve tried several times unsuccessfully to get into. Oh well.
Foremost (read: most expensive) among these gadgets is a fancy pan... |
| Jan 29, 2007 | Pioneer FH-P510MD | The Pioneer FH-P510MD Multi-Media DSP Receiver is all sorts of crazy. In addition to the obvious AM/FM tuner, it supports CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3 and WMA. This $400 main unitr also has a mini-disc player than can play both MD and MDLP. And as ... |
| Jan 19, 2007 | In Vino Veritas | I’ve always been a liquor guy myself, but there are a few of us in the CrunchCamp who are certifiable winos (see: Biggs and Josh). But if you’ve ever found yourself confronted by a wino hissy fit over improper wine serving conditions, you k... |
| Jan 17, 2007 | From the Vaults of Ridiculous: TrekStor i.Beat Organix Gold | Do you own an MP3 player that doesn’t bling (is that a verb?) enough for you? Do you feel the need to cover all of your possessions in gold and jewels? Do you have $20,000 lying around and have absolutely no use for it?
If you answered yes ... |
| Jan 16, 2007 | Rubberband Machine Gun of Death | When I was a kid, my mom used to drag me to these arts and crafts fairs at the high school auditorium. It was horrible. Row upon row of potpourri and stupid frilly crap. There was, however, one beacon of hope.
This old guy, whose name I can... |
| Jan 15, 2007 | Pioneer Shallow Subwoofer | Pioneer’s TS-SW2541D is going where few subwoofers have gone before: into shallow spaces. The woofer requires a depth of just 3-inches to produce full-sounding bass.
That means that it doesn’t require a giant enclosure to sound right. It al... |
| Jan 3, 2007 | Numark x2 Hybrid Turntable Brings DJ Equality | |
| Dec 27, 2006 | Presto EverSharp | |
| Dec 22, 2006 | Christmas Story Leg Lamp | Yes I know this isn’t even vaguely new, but in the spirit of Christmas, it’s worth mentioning. “A Christmas Story” should be playing on loop 24 hours a day by now and I’m sure everyone can appreciate this piece of cinematic history.
You can... |
| Dec 20, 2006 | Spion Orbitor Electronic Listening Device for the Devious | I was browsing Uncrate this morning when I stumbled upon the Spion Orbitor Electronic Listening Device. While it’s nothing new, it managed to call forward a horde of memories that were repressed somewhere between my first kiss (don’t ask) a... |
| Dec 18, 2006 | Badassery: Gerber Hinderer Rescue Knife | I have a fascination with knives. Not really sure why, but there is something I’ve always found appealing about them. Unfortunately, I have about as much coordination as a blind quadriplegic, so knives and me really don’t splice. Neverthele... |
| Dec 15, 2006 | Oh My Coccyx! | If you’re planning to hit the slopes this winter, you might wanna invest in a little spine protection. And POC’s Spine body armor could be the ideal solution to this dilemma. This space-aged-looking spine armor consists of six plates that p... |
| Dec 13, 2006 | Hunker Down with the Vector Tough Brite Storm Tracker | These things look ridiculous, but they’re such an immense utility for everybody, especially those of us who live in disaster prone areas (like me). Aside from looking like something out of a bad SciFi movie, the Vector Tough Brite (aka brig... |
| Dec 13, 2006 | Ford Racing: 1, 2, 3, Bankruptcy | If you prefer a trip to the local arcade over playing video games at home, take a seat on Ford’s new twin-unit arcade racing machine. The $19,000 arcade machine features Ford Racing: Full Blown, which includes cars like the 68′ Mustang GT a... |
| Dec 12, 2006 | iGlove for the Frigid | This one goes out to all of our readers in the freezing, freezing cold. The iGlove Multi from Marmot not only those those precious digits toasty, it also solves the problem of not being able to manipulate an iPod’s Clock Wheel. I don’t thin... |
| Dec 10, 2006 | Hammacher Schlemmer 150-Country Travel Adapter | I’m not sure how old this 150-Country Travel Adapter is, but it’s worth noting. It’s quite compact and allows for simultaneous charging of AC and USB. Plus it has a built-in surge protector.
The adapter is configurable to work throughout Eu... |
| Nov 30, 2006 | Sennheiser MX75 Sport Headphones for the Sweaty | I’ve used a pair of Sennheiser headphones since my gaming days (long time ago), so I can attest to their awesomeness. And as someone who exercises a lot, I’m always in the market for a good pair of sports headphones. Well these MX75 might b... |
| Nov 28, 2006 | Drink-O-Matic | I hardly even drink canned drinks, but I want one of these things. It’s a mini-’50s-vintage-looking vending machine. The device stores 10-cans, two per shelf, and dispenses them at your pleasure.
It can cool to 30-degrees below its external... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | Timbuk2 Blogger | Timbuk2 has released a new computer bag called the Blogger. It features a ballistic nylon exterior, a three-panel design, a built-in padded laptop compartment, two exterior pockets and a rubberized bottom. The pack can fit up to a 15″ Power... |
| Aug 15, 2006 | Lapinator Protects Your Jewels | With all the buzz lately about exploding laptops and excruciatingly hot MacBooks, I suspect we’re going to start seeing a lot more products like this. The Lapinator is composed of the heat resistant 3M Thinsulate fiber and a comfy cross-lin... |
