Last year, Prilosec OTC was giving away tickets to SuperBowl XLII, run down memory lane right here. It’s ok that I didn’t win. I really didn’t cry. Much.

But I still had fun thinking that I might win. There’s good news…

Well, Prilosec is at it again and they really want you to not only win tickets to SuperBowl XLIII, but they also want you to “Get Tough On Heartburn“. And since I’m a good sport, I’m sharing the information with you. And if you win… don’t forget who showed it to you first.

Good news is - Prilosec OTC is at it again! The new Prilosec OTC® promotion that could send you and your readers to the Super Bowl XLIII. By visiting www.gettoughonheartburn.com, you can enter to win a prize package for four people to go to Super Bowl XLIII.

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On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to the Office Worker/My Inner-Child:

What takes six D sized batteries, is about as stealth as Roseanne Barr at an all-you-can-eat buffet, will simultaneously have you live your childhood Rambo/Predator/Commando/Unreal Tournament dream/fetish and will make your other office mates jealous with envy while ducking your soft yet automatic wrath?

Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster. That’s what. Go out, buy one, and truly understand that you are holding in your hand a belt driven, fully automatic soft-shelled weapon of least destruction. But it enables your ability to fill that almost closet postal service level rage and releases it in a soft enough to never cause bodily harm - eyes and crotch shots still need to be avoided - but hard enough to make your presence known - back of the head shots satisfy like no other. Read the rest of this entry »

And on the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to the Home Office Warrior:

Thanks to the kind folks over at Epson, I’ve had this printer for a while, and given my normal dislike for printers, the Epson WorkForce 600 had a lot to prove. As a home office worker, if anything could stop my rampant visits to Kinko’s would be a welcome change. Nothing against Kinko’s… but the coffee there isn’t top notch. I like my own coffee maker at my home office much better.

So how good is the Epson WorkForce 600? I won’t be drinking any more Kinko’s coffee. Let’s start there. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m quite sure that as a gadget lover that you’ve looked in your house or apartment and just knew that it had to be a better way to make your living spaces and gadget lust just fit all in together better and more efficient manner.

In this wonderfully shot short (click the picture above) we’re introduced to Shadi Shahrokhi and his companies Trak-Kit system and his philosophies for his company.

“What is the digital revolution and how is it affecting the way we conceive the modern, urban home? Digital Architect profiles Shadi Shahrokhi, inventor of the revolutionary Trak-Kit system and principal of Shadi + company a New York-based design studio. A self-proclaimed audio and videophile, Shadi is at the center of the convergence of technology and design which allows for an increasingly democratized digital world. He addresses issues of mobility, efficiency, and elegance and explores new ways of conceiving and realizing the environments where we live, work, and play. First-person observation and Shadi’s own words shed light on an architect whose visionary work is defining new ways for consumers to integrate digital technology into their homes.”

Awesome stuff.

If only I had the money. Thanks to Robert P. and PS Pictures for the information.

[ PS Pictures ] [ Digital Cribs ]

And on the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to the Dental Hygienist:

Ever brush your teeth so hard that you see “pink in the sink”? Do you sometimes brush your teeth too quickly and in under 10 minutes get that not-so-fresh feeling again? Not everybody brushes their teeth properly. Too hard, too fast, too little… you get the idea. It’s not all about bad breath but more about proper dental health. Enter the Oral-B Triumph 9900 with SmartGuide.

If anything, I’m the type that brushes for far too long and far too hard. I don’t mean to do it, but with my current toothbrush, I just felt like I was not getting clean enough. After a brief read - I mean, c’mon, the thing has a wireless remote display - and making a neat little spot for it on my sink, I gave it a quick whirl. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Tis the season to… backup and synchronize? There’s nothing like coming home and finding out that your machine will not start up, that you’ve lost some files because of a bad file copy between locations or worse, hard drive failure. Been there, done that… kicked a hole in the wall.

Now, I back up my files from my main machine to a hard drive that has a network connection.

But every now-and-then, I also tend to have files on my other machine’s hard drive that aren’t the same as my networked hard drive or my main machine. It’d be nice to have a way to synchronize the files and let me know which file is newer while I’m manually doing my backup.

And to throw in that I might take some files to work with me on my 16gb USB thumb drive… I might have up to four different versions of the same project or file(s) and if I switch to my other machines, I might be making more work than necessary. Enter Siber Systems Inc. GoodSync and Scooter Software, Inc. Beyond Compare. Read the rest of this entry »

And on the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to the Music Lover:

I’ve already written about the Mint Digital Music Station 220 here before at RTL; it remains one of my favorite little things ever. It can dock and charge up your Apple iPod or iPhone while playing tunes that are on it. And if you’re anything like me, you probably have a sizable MP3 collection that resides on your main PC.

You’re in luck. With the Mint USB wireless transmitter, you can listen to whatever streams on your PC directly on the Mint 220 up to 45 feet away via their Mint Di-Fi™ technology - which means honestly that your music will stream over the air without any loss of quality whatsoever. Read the rest of this entry »

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to the Environmentalist:

The KOR ONE - all caps like MF DOOM - is a BPA-free hydration vessel. Yes, hydration vessel.

Don’t you dare call it a mere “water bottle”.

Currently on sale at KOR ONE’s website and Amazon.com, this $29.99 hydration vessel is stylish enough to make you stand out, yet environmental friendly enough to show that you care - less water bottles in the landfill is a very good thing ya’ll. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the coolest DIY project I have seen in a long time, and definitely an interesting project if you want to live off the grid. Fifteen columns of soda cans are used to harvest the suns rays and provide some pretty good water heating performance.

According to the maker:

Peak BTU performance was observed during the noon hour period in October 2001 wherein the temp rise was 50 to 54F degrees resulting in a 9000 to 9720 Btu or 2636 to 2847 Watts. Peak BTU performance will actually increase in colder weather due to the rise in temperature between input and output temperature and a lower angle of incidence.

What you need is a whole lot of soda cans, some conductive black paint and the time, patience and skills to pull a build like this off. Check out the video for some more technical details. [Cansolair via Hacked Gadgets]

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Taking a bath can be long, hot and for some of us at least, is really boring. Fortunately there are the good folks at Sega Toys bringing some entertainment to the tub and while I would prefer a bigass Tony Montana style TV in the room, I have to admit that the idea of a floating planetarium is pretty damned cool. The Homestar Spa floating planetarium sits in your bathwater and projects stars all around the room - there really is not much more to it than that.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Price: [Japan Trends Shop via Complex, Baller House]

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Alongside the already popular Epson NX400 that could print 4×6 borderless (read: full-bleed) prints, Epson has unleashed three other sub-$100 (USD) printers: Epson NX100 at $69.99; Epson NX200 at $79.99 and the Epson NX300 (pictured above) at $89.99. The aforementioned Epson NX400 retails for $99.99.

Epson America Inc. today announced three new sub-$100 ink jet all-in-ones designed to satisfy the printing, scanning, copying, and faxing needs of any busy household. Joining the popular Epson Stylus® NX400, the new Epson Stylus NX300, NX200 and NX100 offer an ideal combination of easy-to-use features, outstanding performance, and creative tools coupled with brilliant results on plain, photo or specialty papers with Epson’s reliable, all-pigment DURABrite® Ultra inks for prints that dry instantly, are smudge and water resistant, and are highlighter-friendly.

“The entry-level Epson Stylus NX series is designed to meet basic printing needs of busy and creative households, especially those looking for products loaded with features to print, scan, copy, and even fax, and that are easy on the wallet,” said Kristi Lanzit Fox, product manager, Consumer Ink Jets, Epson. “All of the products in the Epson Stylus NX series offer more impressive features, superior quality and performance, and an overall better value compared to any of the competitive products at the same price points, including fast print speeds, high quality scanners, and a larger LCD on the Epson NX400.”

The 4-in-1 Epson Stylus NX300 is Epson’s first ever sub-$100 all-in-one with fax and an Auto Document Feeder (ADF), making it an ideal productivity machine for the home. Its fast black draft print speeds and 30-page ADF help consumers easily copy stacks of pages automatically, saving time and increasing efficiency. The Epson NX300’s high-speed faxing includes convenient features, such as individual and 60-number group speed-dial lists, automatic redial, auto answer, and up to 100 pages of fax memory. Additionally, the Epson NX300 includes ABBYY FineReader® OCR software, allowing users to quickly convert printed documents into editable text.

The Epson Stylus NX100 and NX200 all-in-ones deliver crisp documents, vibrant photos, and useful scan and copy capabilities for a wide variety of everyday printing, scanning and copying needs at exceptionally reasonable prices. The Epson NX100 prints up to 26 ppm for black text documents, while the Epson NX200 produces even faster black and color documents at up to 32 ppm. In addition, the Epson NX200 adds card slots and PictBridge compatibility for PC-Free photo printing.

Read more about this new line of printers from the Epson All-In-One Printer website.

By Luke Anderson

The light bulb has been around for a very long time, and we’re all quite familiar with the standard shape. We’ve seen a lot of new light bulbs in the last few years as we focus more on bulbs that not only last longer, but are also more environmentally friendly. LED bulbs are supposed to be among some of the more eco-friendly kinds, and the designers at Frog Design think they’ve figured out a way to get LED bulbs into more homes.

It’s true that many people are scared of change, so why not make something new that looks just like the object it is replacing? These frogLight bulbs look just like the old incandescent ones we’ve known and loved for years. While I can’t argue that more people will likely buy them if they look like a normal bulb, I think you might need more than a single LED to provide the right about of lighting.

VIA [ Yanko Design ]

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Who knew that the Cookie Monster was so computer savvy!?

The website has some very cool features, including over 3,000 Sesame videos and 1,000 Sesame playlists, parenting and caregiver tips, over 400 Flash-based mini-games and almost 90 full games, educational interactive activities, and a free weekly newsletter for parents offering information on upcoming events.

Sesame Street’s new, research-driven website - SesameStreet.org Beta - that just launched today.

After about an hour a few minutes of playing around, the easy to maneuver website done tastefully in Adobe Flash and in bright colors to keep the little kids - and apparently this adult - attention and encourage you to click around for more stuff to read about, play around with.

SesameStreet.org Beta. Bookmarked.

Thanks to the kind folks at Dymo, they sent along a Dymo DiscPainter for review. I decided to take my time, get to know the printer, compare it to my other disc labeling hardware like my internal LightScribe drive in PC, Avery Ink Jet disc labels, and of course my all-time favorite disc labeling “tool”… my trusty Sharpie permanent marker that I’ve been using for years.

After over a week of rigorously using the Dymo DiscPainter… I have a new favorite.

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Using everyday materials with a bit of LED technology and thinking ahead… Louis Saul ofDodolivin announces the oddly named “The Light at the End of the Funnel” entry as part of the “Enlightenment of the Month” series…

THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE FUNNEL is one of the first single spotlights with High Power LED technology: That means only a fraction of the normal energy consumption, a long life span and nearly no heat development.

The Light at the End of the Funnel – dodolivin shows a plastic funnel in its correct light. This newest lamp idea he presents for the first time at Gdynia Design Days from 11th till 27th July 2008.

I seriously like it. I <3 Lamp.