Hawt Gadgets

Last month, HP decided to liquidate it’s supply of HP Touchpads by drastically lowering their prices. The 16 GB model went from $499.99 down to $99.99. As I’m sure you could imagine, this sparked a frenzy, creating Black Friday in the middle of summer! There were long lines in stores and servers were crashing throughout the mid August madness.

If you were one of the lucky few who managed to snap up an HP Touchpad last month, you might be wondering: should I keep it or should I sell it on eBay? Before you go off and get rid of the thing, let me first list 5 useful things you can do with your HP Touchpad.

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This is the next incarnation of the Pam Pre smartphone lineup after the highly successful Palm Pre and Palm Pre+. The Palm Pre 2 is now twice as fast as its predecessors, with a 1GHz processor and internal storage of 16GB.

The 3.1 inch touchscreen display is a gorilla glass screen, same as the iPhone. It has pinch & zoom and multi-touch capabilities. The screen has a 320×480 resolution hvga display in vibrant 24 bit color.

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The Zune HD mp3 and video player is a good alternative to the iPod Touch. It’s not just a music player, as the Zune HD has the capability of listening to music, watching HD videos and browsing the web. Let’s look at some of the details.

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I was looking at getting myself a lens filter for my Eos 60D so I did what anyone with access to the web would do. After a quick search I found some reviews on them. I was looking for something that would help me with my landscape photography. The main issues I was having were the flares and reflections in the images, again reading the reviews I found a good product that I could use.

The results were polarizing lens filters. Polarizing filters work by suppressing surface reflections from non-metallic objects, this is done by blocking the rays. The amount of suppression depends on the angle of the reflected light, the rotation of the filter and the amount of polarization. You can also sometimes see an increase in color saturation of an image, as the glare caused by the surface reflections often lightens the subject of the image.

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I wish we had low cost fisheye digital cameras but alas we have to settle for 35mm film cameras. Lomography makes some nice retro looking cameras and this one is no exception. This Fisheye One Black is the world’s only camera with a built-in fish-eye lens.

This camera produces super-wide-angle images (170 degree view) and compacts everything into a circular image. The distorted images that emerge can be amusing and/or artistic in the right conditions. There is a built in flash so you can use this indoors or at night. It uses normal 35mm film that can be developed at Walmart or wherever else you choose.

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When you’re buying a flash drive you care about storage space, speed and reliability. I’ve chosen to review the Patriot Xporter XT Rage series because it performs well on all of those factors.

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