The pros and cons of Dell’s cool hybrid device
Would you rather have a tablet or netbook computer? That can be a tough choice. Do you choose a built-in keyboard or a touchscreen? Mobiles apps or a full operating system?
Dell doesn't want you to have to choose. Instead, they sought to offer the best of both ...
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Borrow expensive photography equipment
Professional and semi-professional camera equipment can be expensive. Really expensive. Potentially the-equivalent-of-buying-a-car expensive. For photography enthusiasts who can't afford high-end camera gear—or are leery about making the financial plunge for it—there's a cool website that will let you rent cameras, lenses, lighting another photography accessories: Borrow Lenses.
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What not to buy for man’s best friend
Last year humans world wide spent an estimated US$100 billion on products for dogs. With a market that big is it surprising that some of those products would be, shall we say, sub-optimal?
With that in mind Spot Cool Stuff decided to take one of our occasional breaks in ...
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Cool deal on an unlocked, ultra-portable tablet computer
Dell's ultra-portable Android tablet computer—The Streak 5—is regularly available in the United States at a discounted price of $99 . . . if you agree to get your device locked to a particular cell company and sign up for a two-year service plan.
But what if I want an ...
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On the road in the world’s first all-wheel drive crossover convertible
Wow! What kind of car is that?!
That was the question drivers rolled down their windows to ask us every few blocks as we were test driving the 2011 Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet through downtown Dallas, Texas. On the highway, cars adjusted their speed so to drive alongside us for ...
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4GB vs 8GB? Intel i5 vs i7? Glossy vs matte?
The 2011 updated version of the Apple MacBook Pro is out. The majority of the improvements over the previous MacBook Pro incarnation are performance related. The most significant of those: new quad-core Intel processors that increase speed nearly 100%. There's also a new graphics processor (three times faster ...
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