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Blendtec’s blenders cost a lit­tle for­tune, but we’re more than will­ing to spend an extra mar­ket­ing dol­lar for all the great “Will it blend?” series videos those folks keep deliv­er­ing. They blended hockey pucks, a laser point­ers, Money clips — and above all plenty of Apple prod­ucts. Fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of the iPhone (both 1st edi­tion and 3G) and the iPod, this time the newest geek-gadget aka the iPad under­goes the crush-test. Of course it won’t withstand:

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After read­ing Max’ rather euphoric review about the new Ama­zon Kin­dle 2 ebook reader, I also ordered the inter­na­tional ver­sion of the always-on e-ink reader. The hard­ware is pretty okay for this price (around €200), so I was will­ing to put my fear of pro­pri­etary DRM-systems aside for once. Today UPS deliv­ered my device, but the ini­tial hap­pi­ness about the hard­ware wouldn’t last too long — to be exact, it abruptly ended when I found out there is no way to view PDF-files on the Kin­dle. After a lit­tle online research I dis­cov­ered an accept­able work­flow to upload my PDF-ebooks to the reader: MobiPocket Cre­ator, a free ebook con­ver­sion soft­ware, turns PDF-files into PCRs, which can be orga­nized and dis­played with the Kindle.

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The sec­ond Google Android phone comes with­out any key­board — after the rather dis­as­trous hard­ware of the G1, HTC/Google decided to go with iPhone touch­screen hype. But unlike Apples geek gad­get android can run mul­ti­ple appli­ca­tions at once, also known as mul­ti­task­ing. This viral clip tar­get­ing the British mar­ket is quite funny, yet still I’m not impressed: using win­dows mobile on HTC hard­ware I’ve been enjoy­ing these kinds of perks for quite some while now:

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Last week HP Aus­tria sent me one of their multipurpose-flagships for test­ing pur­poses. Since five days the one they call 8500 thrones amidst my other hard­ware, ever-obiently serv­ing scans and var­i­ous kinds of prints. What­ever Deskjet-printer fea­ture you’ve ever read about, this huge box packs all the heat: auto­matic duplex prints, a touch screen dis­play, LAN– and WLAN-integration and much more. HP says it’s a real ink-saver, too, but since the head­quar­ters of datadirt media group have become a paper­less office long ago, I lack com­par­i­son. Read the rest of this entry »

About two weeks ago I started a blog car­ni­val on the Best and worst gad­get of 2008. Since a cou­ple of blog­gers didn’t yet have time to fin­ish their entries, I’m extend­ing the dead­line: the car­ni­val now ends on the 31st of Jan­u­ary. So if you want to come aboard, you can enter your post­ing until next Sat­ur­day. Obvi­ously, not every­thing that glit­ters is gold — or even sil­ver. But let’s face it: the web 2.0 rev­o­lu­tion has turned us all into beta-testers. But geeks usu­ally love do-it-yourself atti­tudes any­ways Read the rest of this entry »

Luck­ily, I’m a mem­ber of the selected few blog­gers who got one of the first T-Mobile G1 phones here Aus­tria. While the device is already avail­able in Great Britain and the UK, the mar­ket launch in Aus­tria will take place in 2009, but there’s no spe­cific date yet. Dur­ing the next weeks I’ll blog about my expe­ri­ences with this new geek toy — for starters, here’s an unboxing-video: Read the rest of this entry »

A new year has just started and I’m happy to invite all my read­ers to datadirt’s first blog car­ni­val: I’m curi­ous about the new hard­ware you bought dur­ing the last year. Which shiny piece of tech­nol­ogy is your favorite gad­get, and which not-so-shiny one dis­ap­pointed you? Feed the inner geek, write about sat­is­fac­tion and dis­ap­point­ment. I’m sure that most of my read­ers expe­ri­enced both sce­nar­ios, so let’s just share them and spread the knowl­edge Read the rest of this entry »

This one ain’t exactly cheap, but it will def­i­nitely impress any vis­i­tor, from casual mobile-user to alpha-geek: Microsoft built the “Sur­face” Hard­ware, an inno­v­a­tive touch­screen (which actu­ally isn’t a touch­screen but uses five cam­eras to track visual input) that allows for a unique user inter­face expe­ri­ence. But hard­ware is pretty bor­ing with proper appli­ca­tions, and that’s what this video is all about:

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