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Wii Fit with Bonus $10 Online Gift Card on Wal-mart.com

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Wii Fit with Bonus $10 Online Gift Card on Wal-mart.com Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review The Wii Fit fitness accessory and software for the Nintendo Wii is getting a lot of attention and is poised to sell extremely well. Wal-mart has a special offer for Wii Fit if you pre-order it before May 11th.

You get a $10 Wal-mart.com gift card right away if you pre-order Wii Fit now at Wal-mart online. Wii Fit ships on May 21st and the price is $89.74.
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Posted on Fri, 2 May 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AV Receiver Buying Guide

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AV Receiver Buying Guide Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review If you are in the market for an AV Receiver than this new guide from eCoustics might be of help.

Quote from the AV Receiver Buyers' Guide: "Don't obsess over small differences in power output. It takes a doubling of power to make any significant difference in playback volume. Thus, if you had a receiver with 50 watts per channel, you'd need to go to a model with 100 watts per channel to get a 3-dB increase in loudness, a difference that is just "slightly louder." Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:34:47 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tax Rebate Checks arrive, you are supposed to buy Gadgets

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Tax Rebate Checks arrive, you are supposed to buy Gadgets Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Bush's present to the American people is on its way. Some lucky tax payers already got their tax rebate check yesterday. The tax rebate is also called Economic Stimulus payment. What that implies is you should spend the $600 as fast as possible. One way to do that very quickly is to treat yourself to a new cool gadget.

If you are a family, say with two kids ($1,800) you actually get enough for a decent full HD HDTV. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Wii in Stock at Toys'R'Us on Sunday

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Wii in Stock at Toys'R'Us on Sunday Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Tomorrow Mario Kart for Wii goes on sale and Toys'R'Us told us that they will have more Wii consoles in stock than ever before.

If you still did not enter the Wii zone with your own Wii console than a Sunday walk down the mall could change that.
To be on the safe side Toys'R'Us is taking pre-orders for the Wii and the Mario Kart today. Read more

Posted on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:55:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus Eee PC 900 available on eBay

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Asus Eee PC 900 available on eBay Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Asus officially announced the Asus Eee PC 900 with the 8.9 inch screen mid-April. The Asus Eee PC 900 is supposed to ship on May 12th in the United States. If you cannot wait that long, the Asus Eee 900 is readily available on eBay.

Mostly Asian eBay merchants based in Hong Kong or Taiwan ship the new Asus 900 world-wide. The price is between $600 and $700. The MSRP for the Asus Eee PC is set at $549. Read more

Posted on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Mother's Day Gift Guide

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Apple Mother's Day Gift Guide Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Not just you find Apple gadgets hot, your mom sure likes to roll with an iPhone too - at least that is what Apple thinks. Mother's Day is on May 11th.

Apple published the Apple Store Mother's Day Gift Guide to give you some ideas what Apple gadget your mommy would like. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ThinkGeek sells Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard

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ThinkGeek sells Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Gadget shop ThinkGeek now offers the Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard by Artlebedev.

After years in the making the OLED keyboard started shipping in February. ThinkGeek offers it at a still rather high price of $1,589.99. The Optimus Maximus is sure one of the most expensive, if not the most expensive keyboard you can buy. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:05:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Free 1-Year Subscription to PC Magazine

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Free 1-Year Subscription to PC Magazine Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Our Magazine and White paper partner offers for a limited time a free 1-Year PC Magazine subscription.

Sign up now for a full year (12 issues) of PC Magazine - a $24.97 value - yours FREE - courtesy of NetLine Corporation. Read more

Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

iRiver E100 ships

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iRiver E100 ships Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review iRiver brought their budget mp3 player iRiver E100 to the United States.
The 8G iRiver E100 sells for $159.99 and the 4GB iRiver E100 sells for $109.99 on Amazon.com. The 8GB Zune sells for $165.51 on Amazon.com, which is only slightly more, but the 8GB Apple iPod nano is quite a bit more expensive with $189.99. Read more

Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:33:18 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon Buy 2, Get 1 Free Blu-ray Sale

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Amazon Buy 2, Get 1 Free Blu-ray Sale Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Amazon.com has a new Blu-ray movie disc sale going on until April 18th. When you buy 2 Blu-ray movies you get the 3rd for free.

There are lots of Blu-ray movies to choose from including 300, Troy, and The Departed. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:59:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dell XPS M1530 and M1330 Today with $699 Instant Savings

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Dell XPS M1530 and M1330 Today with $699 Instant Savings Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Dell offers today (3/28/2008 12:00 AM CT through 3/29/2008 11:59 PM CT) special Spring Savings Offers for the XPS M1530 and XPS M1330 notebooks.

The XPS M1530 featuring Intel Core 2 Duo T7250, 3GB RAM, 200GB HDD, DVD burner and 256MB Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT sells for $1199 after $699 instant savings. More details on Dell. Read more

Posted on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr