Digital picture frames are old news but Casio has put a new spin on it with the Digital Art Frame recently unveiled at CES. The10.2-inch, WSVGA color LCD frame has a series of special effects that can transform snapshots into pieces that look like paintings.Users can create up to eight different styles of art from a photo: Water Color Painting, Color Pencil Sketch, Pastel Painting, Pointillism, Air Brush, Oil Painting, Gothic Oil Painting, and Fauvist Oil Painting. The device has 2GB of internal memory, two SD cards slots, a USB output, and wireless LAN connectivity. It will be available this spring but the price hasn’t been announced yet.... Read more

We all have friends who tune out like a Narcoleptic whenever electronics are mentioned…but we refuse to believe it’s due to lack of want for the benefits of gadgets! They’re just not wired to understand how things work and as such..Aperion clearly had those good folks in mind when it developed the Home Audio Link (HAL for short…not a Space Odyssey reference we hope). This simple system enables users to stream audio with two simple, wireless connections.... Read more

• Could Bing be the new Google on the iPhone?
• Got the money? You too can be on Rock Band!
• New Valentines day candy asks you to “Tweet Me“!
• Wanna read a fun article pontificating upon the upcoming Apple Conference on the 27th?
• This is interesting…the Kindle adds apps in a move that looks to respond to Apple’s forthcoming Tablet.
• How safe are your passwords?
• How to turn your Nexus One into the multi-touch beast it’s not (but was intended to be)
• The Zune Phone? It just sounds wrong.
• Firefox 3.6 is here! Check out its new features!
• Oh Tetris…how we love thee.

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Guys with a penchant for going green should take note of this new computer from HP. With pricing starting at $849, the HP Compaq 8000f Elite Ultra Slim Desktop PC is being touted as the industry’s first Microsoft Windows(R) based desktop PC to be free of brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride from the wall to the mouse. Judging by the clunky ‘puter in the given image we’re not so sure about the slim part unless they’re referring to slimming down hazardous materials. The PC powered by Intel® Core or Core vPro processors and claims to be 30 percent more energy efficient compared to previous models. It’s also using 100 percent paper-based recycled molded pulp cushions for its packaging. More here!... Read more

• Google vrs China. The New York Times looks at this new front in the ongoing battle between our current version of democracy and whatever that cracked up system is they’re using in China.
• Everyone wants to like Google’s Nexus One but once again the iPhone seems to win out, this time because if their app store.
• The Wii is to stream Netflix in the near future. Does anyone really care?
• Intel messed up big time by leaking what looks like the next big update to the MacBook.
• If news agencies start charging for their content…looks like wingnut, opinionated bloggers (not us of course!) will win out.
• If the electric car is dead then Detroit is starting to look like a ghost town.
• iPhone 4G with improved camera by June?
• Defriended? Track who defriends you on Facebook!
• The Amazon.com of weed?

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• The Nokia vrs Apple patent fight was already pretty ugly, but now it’s war.
• Sadly, Green-tech venture investing isn’t heating up like the globe it.
• Still wanna put your money in the right place? Experts see a rise in sales of LCD TV’s for 2010.
• Don’t blame Apple’s crappy eadbuds for your hearing loss.
• How could Russia save the planet one day?
• Google will reveal all on their new Android model on Jan 5th.
• Apple Tablet fever goes on overdrive just days before CES. Here, here, here and here are some of the best of them.

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The sound bar just wasn’t enough space savings for Yamaha. Nope. The audio manufacturer just introduced its YHT-S400 system including none other than a sound bar and a receiver with integrated subwoofer.... Read more

• One sure way to get yourself banned from the iPhone app store…make up fake reviews about your product!
• Speechless? Google now searches image.
• In the future, there will be iPod players in vacuum cleaners. For real..
• Whatever happened to Friendster?
• Microsoft  softly kills the recession-friendly priced Windows 7 Family Pack. Sniffle.
• What’s this JooJoo thing everyone’s been talkin’ about this week?
• We’ll believe it when we see it!
• A study released Wednesday from the University of California, San Diego, reports that the average American consumes a whopping 34GB of data and 100,000 words of information per day.
• Send a lot of information via your iPhone? AT&T is getting ready to milk you dry…
• Chrome for Mac!

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• Inventor of Spam given a flimsy four years in prison!?
• CES 2010 is still a few months off but already companies like Lenovo are throwing some bones.
• Obsessive-compulsive multitaskers click here!
• Could an iTunes-like program for magazines save the publishing industry? The major publishing houses are considering just such a thing.
• Big Brother Google? Details on the information sharing deal between Tivo and Google.
• The Apple-Microsoft war hits Saks Fifth Avenue!
• A new study finds Mac users to be more creative.
• Google adds off-line attachment viewing feature.
• Blackberry App World gets an App from Ebay!
• USB 3.0 strikes December 7th.
• A new study finds that women are better with technology and gadgets then men. We find womanly men are the best with gadgets.
• Craigslist, Napster and the iPhone among the top ten “internet moments” of the last decade.
• Happy Black Friday! Shoppers click here.

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This right here is your neighbors’ worst nightmare: a 125 Watt, tube amplified, 28-element iPod speaker. Measuring about 3ft x 4ft, the Wall of Sound by Swedish brand Brothers might personify the definition of both overkill and awesomeness. Made for those of us who disregard safe levels of noise, the WOS peaks out at an headache inducing 95dB, about the same noise-level you’d get from putting a running chainsaw to your ear. The tube amplifier pushes silky smooth tone from 28 elements, each housed individually in handcrafted boxes to maximize clarity and balance. The Wall of Sound is available for pre-order online for the wall of money price of about $5000 or at Brothers’ flagship in Stockholm. Just a warning though, weighing in at 220lbs, your UPS bill might be as massive as this loudspeaker.... Read more