It's all fun and games at Propeller - Aim me or message me
Show: All | Submissions | Videos | Votes | Sinks | Comments
Gadgets & Tech – Consumer advocates will gather on Capitol Hill this week to lobby for more money to publicize the big change in television next February, when people who have analog TVs will no longer get any picture unless they have cable service or a digital converter box.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(nytimes.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 06, 2008 09:02pm
Autos – Toyota Motor Corp plans to install solar panels on its next-generation Prius hybrid cars, becoming the first major automaker to use solar power for a vehicle, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(reuters.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 06, 2008 08:41pm
Gadgets & Tech – It's summertime and maintaining the lawn is a must, but rising gas prices can make this costly.
View Story Discuss (
1)
(today.msnbc.msn.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 06, 2008 06:49pm
Do-It-Yourself – One disadvantage of being a "professional gardener" is it's hard to relax around an unkempt garden. My fingers twitch, resisting the urge to pull every weed and move daylilies from shade to sun. No judgment here, just instinct. So garden tours can be stressful as well as inspirational.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(garden.org)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 06, 2008 06:35pm
Gadgets & Tech – As we get older, we are often tempted to play the "what-if" game as we reflect on our past.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(pcmag.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 05, 2008 10:19pm
Gadgets & Tech – These days when customers walk into electronics stores, the first question they ask is how much electricity the fridge, washing machine or laptop computer they are contemplating buying consumes.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(reuters.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 05, 2008 09:37pm
Gadgets & Tech – The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday--an entire week before the device goes on sale.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(news.cnet.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 05, 2008 07:29pm
Gadgets & Tech – CONSUMERS like large displays on the mobile devices they use for reading an e-mail message or an e-book, but they also like to tuck those devices into their pockets. But the bigger the screen on a cellphone or an e-reader, the sooner it outgrows pocket size.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(nytimes.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 05, 2008 03:26pm
Gadgets & Tech – Kawasaki Heavy Industries decided to cancel its plan to spend 10 billion yen ($94 million) to build a new industrial robot plant as auto and microchip makers curb capital investments, the Nikkei business daily said.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(reuters.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 05, 2008 11:40am
Gadgets & Tech – Wireless Bluetooth headsets remind me of early seat belts.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(usatoday.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 04, 2008 11:12pm
Gadgets & Tech – Late last year Hewlett Packard announced that it was exiting the digital camera market, citing a lack of growth in that business sector. But just because HP has quit the camera business doesn't mean it's abandoning all of its digital camera technologies
View Story Discuss (
0)
(eetimes.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 04, 2008 10:49pm
Gadgets & Tech – Two new digital pens don't need special paper to write on.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(nytimes.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 04, 2008 07:03pm
Gadgets & Tech – Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(news.cnet.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 04, 2008 06:50pm
Gadgets & Tech – Maybe you've taken some time and fooled around a bit with Quanta Plus and Bluefish and decided that they weren't for you. Maybe you just looked at the features, and the GUIs and thought, "I'd rather pluck my nose hairs out than use those."
View Story Discuss (
0)
(downloadsquad.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 04, 2008 08:37am
Do-It-Yourself – The camcorders aimed at non-experts and YouTubers--most famously, the Flip, the Flip Mino, and others such as the Creative Vado--are quite satisfying and easy to use. They don't offer much in the way of manual controls, though: Chances are, though, that you won't be entering the video you shoot with them into Sundance.
View Story Discuss (
0)
(gearlog.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 03, 2008 05:55pm