Mens Tech

I don’t even know if this qualifies as Menstech per se but ITS COOL! The premise of these little devices is basically a Tamagotchi; all similarities end there. Oh let me back up. A Tamagotchi (click for wiki definition) is a digital pet or a pocket monster. A LCD game, in which you feed, play with, teach and otherwise “raise” a digital pet. If you mess up, like in real life, your pet dies. Cube World is an interactive place where pixellated stick people live, play and pester each other. There are four characters to collect and each one has a different hobby: Slim plays with a stick, Dodger plays with his ball, Scoop plays with his dog, and Whip does rope tricks?

Now of course there are buttons on the front of the unit so you can interact with each single little stick man. You and your little friend can do kick ups and pull ups, snake charm and juggling depending on the character, but he will also entertain himself depending on his mood. The cube features motion sensors on its sides so you can tumble your little guy around as well.

How does Cube World differentiate itself from your standard Tamagotchi? When Cube Worlds are connected the stick men will interact with each other and leap into neighboring screens, completely without your input. You can arrange your cubes in any configuration as long as the cubes are touching squarely. I mean you could have 20 of these things connected, but only 4 guys can be onscreen at once. You’ll never be sure what you stick figures will do. Put Slim and Dodger together and they could play baseball; Scoop and Slim might play fetch with the dog and stick. Your stick men might even perform an funky synchronized dance routine, play leapfrog, have a group hug, a tug of war, or beat the living daylights out of each other Matrix style! Get one! Get a few!  Also check out Radicas Cube World site its pretty entertaining!

There are of course a billion and some tech sites on the net, in every language and for every category and genre. Cnet.com and Zdnet.com and a list of other sites offer tech reviews and buyers guides etc. So why is Yahoo opening a tech site? Well, Google is kicking their but in the advertising sector and in the search engine technology. Yahoo is teaming up with somebody new every week it seems: this week, Microsoft and eBay.

At any rate, this site is supposed to grab a bigger share of the Internet advertising market. 19 different categories from laptops to cell phones to digital cameras to monster HD TVs. The site aims to be “Average Joe” friendly without technoese. There will be 4 categories that people will stereotypically fall into "The Mom," "The Working Guy," "Techie Diva" and "The Boomer" yada yada. Anyway, Google is going to eat them alive. Why? Better technology, more competitive, hungrier, right place, right time. Google is the rebirth of the Internet. (Ok, ok, I was just possessed by Al Gore, sorry, strike that last comment!) All that coffee has made me brazen tonight! Check out Yahoos little tech site… http://tech.yahoo.com

But lets talk, heart to heart. Do your own research. Go to Amazon, to eBay, to Google, to Froogle , to our site (Menstech.com), search Salecircular.com, Cnet.com and whatever else. Look for the best prices, don’t get ripped off and don’t rely on any one site as the ONE SOURCE FOR ALLLLLL KNOWLEDGE! Well, accept for ours. Ultimately its up to you to make sure you get a good product that your happy with and that fits your needs.

Should I say The Mark Frank Montoya Integrated MP3 Player Headphones by Skull Candy. Mr. Montoya is a hotshot pro snowboarder; these headphones are the ONLY product, which he endorses which says a lot. DJ style headset with a built-in, detachable 512MB MP3 player/Flash drive. These headphones are completely wirelessly with the MP3 player attached. Yes they do work as regular headphones and come with an auxiliary audio jack with detachable connection cable. Pull out the player, slide on the battery pack, and transform it into a mini portable MP3 player/USB Drive (with LCD display and direct USB upload/download capability) for use with any headset or through travel speakers. You want a set, don’t you! »Here ya go«

SPECS:

• The MP3 player has a direct USB upload/download function.
• A 512MB Flash memory for music or data.
• A 40mm power driver.
• Up to 10 hours playback time.
• DJ style headset with 90-degree swivel earcups.
• An LCD display with backlight.
• The earpads and headwrap of the headset are made with soft leather.
• An extra earpad set is included.
• An auxiliary audio jack with detachable connection cable.
• A handy soft travel bag is included.
• Requires 1 x AAA Battery (included) and an external battery pack for the detachable MP3 player (included).
  

Yesterday we went in the video/arcade game arena and so I figure let’s keep with the theme. Remember the old Pac Man and Dig Dug machines you would find in pubs and pizza shops. Maybe that was before your time, either way you’re in for an old school treat. Hardened glass top, 14 full color monitor, genuine arcade interface, digital sound and high-resolution color and graphics. PLUS it has a PAUSE BUTTON. 50,000 bonus points. You want one??

Specs:

• Sit-down arcade machine with over 150 arcade games.
• Professionally crafted retro styled cabinet with 14" color monitor.
• Genuine arcade buttons and joystick controls for that retro games experience.
• Digital sound, high-resolution color and dynamic graphics.
• Control panel for one or two player action.
• A pause button!
• No assembly required, simply plug in and play away.
• Suitable for ages 8 years +.
• Size: 106 x 64 x 56in.
• Weight: 155lbs.

   

   

  
  

Arcade games on the machine are:
Power Soccer, Doughboy, F1 Race, Boxing, Wrestle, Popeye, Ninja I, Ninja II, Ninja III, Combat, Mario Bros, Badminton, World Cup Soccer, Baseball, Tennis, Wrecking Crew, Lode Runner, Lode Runner 2, Golf, Dr Mario, Mickey Mouse, Ice Hockey, Pro Wrestling, Volleyball, Track and Field, Paper Boy, Spelunker, Seicross, Double Dragon, Scramble, Flipull, Alpine Ski, Arabian, 80 Days, Star Gate, Bowling, Pandamar, Asteroyds, Bomb Jack, Onyanko Town, Moon Cresta, Phoenix, Arkanoid, Contra, Street Fighter, Spy Hunter, Spy vs Spy, Elevator Action, Gradius, Hydlide, Space Hunter, B-Wings, Double Strike, Sky Destroyer, Bomber, Man, Duck Eggs, Magmax, The New Type, Contra Force, Heavy Barrel, Wan Wan Panic, Choplifter, Legend Kage, Kung Fu, Star Soldier, Argus, Aladin, Goonies, Lunar Ball, Exed Exes, Excitebike, Son Son, Road Fighter, Turtle 5, Max Warrior, Sqoon, Gyrodine, Tank 90, Raid on Bay, Route 16, Mach Rider, Spartan X, Pooyan, Geimos, Thexder, Challenger, Clu Clu Land, Twinbee, Balloon Fight, Cross Fire, Binary Land, Galg, Jewelry, Star Force, Exerion, Formation-Z, Macross, Circus Charlie, Zippy Race, Nuts and Milk, Chitei Fight, Front Line, Antarctic Adventure, Urban Champion, Flappy, Joust, Knights Fight, Karateka, City Connection, Door Door, 10-Yard, Fight, Soccer, Othello, Lolo, Ice Climber, Chack Pop, Devil World, Sasa, Tiger-Heli, Island 2 Calculate, Super Chinese, Volguard II, Penguin Baltron, Peepar Time, Star Luster, Aso, Babel, Metro-Cross, Sky Kid, Jajamaru, Quarth, Solomon Key, F15 City War, Transformation, Banana Lotlot, Bokosuka Wars, Gyruss, Urusei, Missile Comand, Space Aliens, Pinball, Multi Labyrinth, 1942, 100m Dash, Long Jump, 100m Hurdles, Brush Roller, High Jump, Javelin, Skeet Shoot, Triple Jump, Archery.

PSP. Nintendo DS. N-Gage. Gameboy Advanced. There are quiet a few mainstream handheld gaming systems on the market. There are quiet a few more on the underground market. Not illegal mind you just not necessarily marketed on the US and sans all they hype. The GPX2 is one of the leaders of the underground handheld movement. It does everything a PSP does and then some. Open source with software included means ANYONE can develop games for the system: so you’ll never run out of games. Runs on Ultra stable Linux operating system not to mention it only needs two AA batteries to start the action. An ultimate mobile multimedia experience the unit plays movies, your MP3 music collection and even reads E Books. It takes any SD card up to 4GBs, and can play movies inputted at any resolution. With a 320×240 back-lit screen and two 200mhz CPU’s with 64meg of RAM each, custom graphics hardware and decoding chips, making it a very powerful and versatile handheld. With the addition of standard TV Out Connector Cables you can connect the GP2X to your TV console style, and watch your DivX movies or try your hand at big screen Quake. Also there is a great community for support up grades and lots of goodies… Give them a look-see.

 

Want to buy one?

Specs:

• Sleek black handheld console which plays games, movies, your MP3 music collection, E-books, displays text files and photos.
• Plug and play to your PC.
• A selection of games such as Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Vektar, Beneith a Steel Sky are already installed on the console.
• Additional games and movies can be downloaded from www.gp2x.co.uk
• Operates Linux OS.
• Two 200mhz CPU’s with 64meg of RAM.
• Custom graphics hardware.
• Decoding chips.
• An internal scaling chip to enable you to watch movies on the console.
• Compatible with AVI/DIVX/XVID movie files with up to 720*480 resolution.
• Takes SD cards up to 4GB.
• A T.V. cable is available to purchase so you can play your games or movies on the big screen.
• Joystick control with standard ABXY buttons.
• A pair of in-built speakers.
• Full User Guide.
• Requires a USB cable (included).
• Requires 2 x AA Batteries (included).
• Size: 14 x 8 x 3cm.

Yahoo “GO” beta a new free PC Based DVR service. You don’t have a DVR unit; but you have a PC. We don’t need no sticking DVR. Yahoo bought a company called Meedio and is launching services that will change the way you use your TV and PC and Mobile Services. View your photo collection on your TV, watch online video content and listen to online music from your entertainment center. No more being tethered to your TV. Yahoo sees the future… click here to share their vision.

Organizing you brain, time and life is indeed very necessary for the modern individual. I haven’t figured it out yet myself. But while I was researching the PDA market for myself and a future post I came across this site. Thus far I have been reading it for an hour. I am not easily impressed but there are some good solution (free at that) and some good advise. Give www.diyplanner.com a whirl.

Specs:
·  Interface: USB 1.1/2.0

·  Transfer Speed:
- USB 1.1: 12 Mbits/sec.
- USB 2.0: 480 Mbits/sec.

·  Supported Media:
- Secure Digital
- Compact Flash I
- Compact Flash II
- Micro Drive
- Multi Media Card
- RS Multi Media Card
- Multi Media 4.0
- RS Multi Media Card 4.0
- Smart Media
- Smart Media C
- Memory Stick
- Memory Stick MagicGate
- Memory Stick Select Function
- Memory Stick Pro
- Memory Stick Pro Ultra II
- Memory Stick Pro MagicGate
- Memory Stick Duo
- Memory Stick Duo MagicGate
- Memory Stick Duo Pro
- Memory Stick Duo Pro MagicGate
- Memory Stick ROM
- Magic Store
- TransFlash

So you go to a house party and you notice you don’t see any speakers and no DJ. What gives? The future baby! Yeah, these folding portable speakers are for your iPod (but will work with any audio source with audio out port). Yes the audio quality is good enough to rock a party and throw a spontaneous little dance party. Work a job where you can’t have ear buds in? Want to share some music but don’t want to bring in a whole stereo? Get this neat/lite little unit and you’ll be in love. High quality twin speakers deliver true-to-life stereo sound. Powered by 4 “AA” or 6 volt DC adapter or USB cable from your PC. Also the speakers fold in half for easy transport and protection. »Get One«

Later,
Patrick