Great sound from an eye-catching design
In the marketing for the P'9120 Elton has been playing up how this clock radio speaker system was designed by Porshe. Indeed, the P'9120 definitely catches the eye. It is not necessarily an intuitive design -- some one seeing a P'9120 for the first time probably wouldn't even ...
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Text message from your home phone
If you are a 13 year old girl chances are that you can text message on a tiny cell phone as fast as you can type on a computer. The rest of us would prefer a more normal keyboard to type our text messages. But we don't want ...
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High contrast high definition TV at a low price
Spot Cool Stuff loves HDTV. After testing out several models we've settled on this Samsung. Besides the giant 52-inch screen framed by beautiful black trim what really stands out about this HDTV set is the high contrast picture it delivers. With its 50,000:1 contrast ratio the blacks are ...
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The best new ultra compact digital camera
The Canon PowerShot series is Spot Cool Stuff's favorite line of ultra compact digital cameras. For reasons beyond our understanding, not every new model has been better than the last. In fact, by our measure the several-years-old SD700 IS has been the best PowerShot . . . until ...
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Part skateboard, part unicycle
The lowly skateboard was in dire need for a technological upgrade. And it got it in the form of The Magic Wheel. This is not a sort of skateboard you'd want to jump off ramps or slide down banisters with. The Magic Wheel is more utilitarian than that, ...
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Finally, a wide screen user friendly GPS
Confession: We've never liked GPS road navigation devices. The in-dash variety built into many cars these days are fantastic. But the add-on GPS units are clunky, with difficult-to-see screens and annoying user interface. (With apologies to Garmin, the usability of their products is especially sub-optimal to us). So ...
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