Apr 15, 2011 - By danseitz
![asth_600 asth 600 GPS Enabled Inhalers About to Hit the Market?](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20110609111057im_/http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/asth_600.jpg)
It’s a little friend asthmatics know all too well: the faithful, tiny, inhaler. Sometimes quite literally a life saver, most asthma sufferers have one and go through three or four a year. Now, in addition to allowing them to breathe, a scientist wants to use them to figure out why we get asthma in the first place.
How? With GPS units on inhalers!
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Apr 15, 2011 - By danseitz
![pure_digital_flip_ultra_series_f260_camcorderarzdetail pure digital flip ultra series f260 camcorderarzdetail Why Did Flip Get Killed By Cisco?](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20110609111057im_/http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pure_digital_flip_ultra_series_f260_camcorderarzdetail.jpg)
Flip owned 35% of the camcorder market, which it took over in just a few years. It was incredibly popular, and still is, selling heavily on Amazon. Then it was bought by Cisco, and now they’re taking the technology and shutting down the company, and in the process, killing off the next great Flip product, FlipLive.
Why? Because Flip’s new product was going to cost them a fortune.
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Apr 14, 2011 - By danseitz
![google-android-angry-logo google android angry logo One Step Closer to Google Music?](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20110609111057im_/http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/google-android-angry-logo.jpg)
One thing Google doesn’t have, that Apple and Amazon, their current competition, do have, is a music store. Google will help you find music to buy, but you can’t buy music from them. Sure, Google bought a music service, but it seems up in the air as to what that service will actually be doing.
Well, courtesy of their dev blog, we just got a hint.
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Apr 14, 2011 - By danseitz
![Eco_Extreme Eco Extreme The Eco Extreme to Nature: STFU!](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20110609111057im_/http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Eco_Extreme.jpg)
One thing I think most reasonable human beings can’t stand is when some jackass gets on the bus with his cell phone and starts playing his music over the tinny little speaker. It’s annoying, it’s invasive, and inevitably his taste in music sucks (at least listen to some Mos Def, suburban white kid who thinks he’s “street”).
Fortunately, Grace Digital, not wanting people in the country to feel left out of the douche parade, have a fifty dollar solution: a waterproof case with a speaker on it.
You shouldn’t have. No, really, what the hell, guys?
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Apr 13, 2011 - By danseitz
![predator-drone predator drone DARPA Wants To Control Lethal Robot Planes With Holographic Sunglasses](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20110609111057im_/http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/predator-drone.jpg)
This is why I love my job: I can write headlines like this, because they are absolutely 100% true. DARPA wants to give one guy, on the ground, some fancy sunglasses that he will use to call in airstrikes. Suck on that, Call of Duty.
Also, are they for sale?
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Apr 13, 2011 - By danseitz
![windows windows Windows 8 Available for Stealing, er, Download, If You Want a Virus](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20110609111057im_/http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/windows.jpg)
So, Windows 8 is in beta testing, and, almost inevitably, it has escaped from the beta lab and is rampaging across the wilderness, eating sheep and terrifying farmers…oh, wait, that was our genetic experiment.
No, it’s just hanging out on torrents, saying “‘Sup?” and getting downloaded by the curious to see how it’s different from Windows 7. So far, survey says…not that different!
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Apr 12, 2011 - By danseitz
![mobee_technology_magic_charger mobee technology magic charger Mobee To Give Your Apple Keyboard a Charge](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20110609111057im_/http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mobee_technology_magic_charger.jpg)
If you’re an Apple user, you’re probably familiar with Mobee’s technology already. Mobee makes inductive chargers for all sorts of gear, but really blew up when they made an inductive charger for Apple’s Mighty Mouse, which always was kind of a pain to recharge. Mobee solved that problem, and now they’re about to make life even easier for Apple users.
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Apr 12, 2011 - By danseitz
![vudu_logo-2 vudu logo 2 Vudu Finally Gets Browser Streaming](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20110609111057im_/http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/vudu_logo-2.jpg)
Online video streaming has gone from that goofy YouTube video you uploaded for your mom to a major industry in the space of about five years. But the number of competitors has stayed pretty limited: Netflix has dominated pretty much the entire market, with Hulu controlling most of TV only thanks to being owned by a few networks. But the ‘Flix has controlled movies online, especially in browsers…until now.
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Apr 11, 2011 - By danseitz
![11x0411mnulg 11x0411mnulg LG Window To Make Ads Even More Annoying](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20110609111057im_/http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11x0411mnulg.jpg)
There’s an arms race going on in displays right now. Samsung and LG are competing with each other to create the biggest, brightest transparent screen possible, complete with touch capability. They look awesome, they perform exactly how you’d want them to, they are full HD, and you will never be allowed to own one.
Why?
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