HELIUS Solar-Power Backpack
Do you ever wish you could charge your iPod or cell-phone without having to find a power outlet?
You need a Helius Solar-Power Backpack from V-Dimension.
It’s got a little solar-cell on the outside of the pack and comes with adapters for iPod and iPhone, Mini-USB (for Blackberry/Motorola Razr V3), Samsung, LG, [...]

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Have you ever found yourself looking up at the sky at night, struggling to remember what constellation’s you’re looking at? Can you only pick out a few constellataions like Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, and maybe find the North Star?
Were you a Boy Scout in a previous life, and used to know a lot [...]

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Gas is headed for $5 a gallon. The price of food is up 40 percent over the last 3 years. Unemployment is zooming. Car sales are in the toilet. And the stock market? Well let’s just say it’s technically not a “loss” until you actually sell your shares.
The best strategy for your portfolio during these [...]

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There’s nothing to buy here. Let me say that right away. Instead, what this post offers you is just old-school advice, free for the taking.
This isn’t about spam or email, either. I’m talking about the real deal, the stuff that the postal carrier brings you and goes straight to the trash can.
You may not know [...]

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If your iPhone and your alarm clock made a baby, Chumby would be the result. Unless your iPhone is your alarm clock… then that wouldn’t make a lot of sense.
Chumby’s got a 3.5-inch touch screen and built-in WiFi, allowing it to do things regular alarm clocks can only dream of. Like:running more than 600 widgets [...]

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Foot massages are one of life’s great joys. I hear it’s also a prime reason to get a pedicure, but I’ve yet to embrace my metrosexuality to that extent.
If you’re like me, or you lack a partner who is willing and capable of delivering a quality rub, toss a few Benjamins Brookstone’s way and pick [...]

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Some people compost. Some people recycle. Some people share cars.
Living green is our future. While some aspects will inevitably become faddish and rife with snake-oil claims, there are many positive ways to reshape our consumer behaviors.
Xtracycle is but one of thousands of effective ways to live fully, but also to chip away at our nation-leading [...]

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Fastest. Biggest. Coolest. Sleekest. Geeks like adjectives that end with -est.
So let’s throw “hottest” into the mix and point you to The Source Hot Sauce because, we assure you, nothing even comes close.
If the near-$100 price tag for a 1 oz. bottle doesn’t have you convinced, allow us to refer you to the scoville rating: [...]

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Truth be told, turning a book into a discrete hiding place is one of the oldest and easiest do-it-yourself projects out there, since all you need is an eligible book, a knife, and a bit of time.
But that’s a crude solution.
Instead, point your credit card at ThinkGeek and pick up their new Book Vault, a [...]

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