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Black Friday is long behind us. It’s time for Cyber Monday: an online shopper’s dream. Check out Gearlog’s Cyber Monday deals. Update: There are so many bargains out ther today that we′ll keep adding them as we find them, so check back!

1. Time to stock up on some great T-shirts. Threadless is having its annual holiday sale with original T-shirts from $5 to $15. Trust me, there are plenty of geeky T-shirts to be found, such as the Vader one pictured above. It’ll take some time to sort through all the shirts, so hurry up, those shirts will go fast.

2. Amazon’s fantastic Black Friday deals haven’t stopped. There are some great finds, such as the Sanyo Xacti VPC-E2 Digital Camcorder and 8 MP Digital Camera for only $199. The camera has a list price of $610.48, so you’re getting a whole 67 percent off this underwater camera. If you have any Caribbean plans for your Christmas vacation, this is the camera for you.

3. Apple is offering free shipping for today only. Take advantage of this luxury by buying your Apple products today. Check out the Web site for top gift ideas.

More after the jump!

4. Oregon Scientific is having a sale on digital clocks. Get 50 percent off of great weather forecaster clocks while supplies last.

5. 5. One of my favorite geeky sites, ThinkGeek, is offering free shipping for today only. Use code: CYBERMONDAY when checking out. Currently, the site is offering a sale on Star Wars cookbooks, an MP3 retro speaker amp, and other great finds. Check it out!

6. Today only, Kodak is offering $100 off of the EasyShare W820 Wireless Digital Frame with Home Decor Kit. The frame is usually $219.95, but with the $100 off, it’s only $119.95.

Original post by Jennifer Bergen

Black Friday is long behind us. It’s time for Cyber Monday: an online shopper’s dream. Check out Gearlog’s Cyber Monday deals. Update: There are so many bargains out ther today that we’ll keep adding them as we find them, so check back!

1. Time to stock up on some great T-shirts. Threadless is having its annual holiday sale with original T-shirts from $5 to $15. Trust me, there are plenty of geeky T-shirts to be found, such as the Vader one pictured above. It’ll take some time to sort through all the shirts, so hurry up, those shirts will go fast.

2. Amazon’s fantastic Black Friday deals haven’t stopped. There are some great finds, such as the Sanyo Xacti VPC-E2 Digital Camcorder and 8 MP Digital Camera for only $199. The camera has a list price of $610.48, so you’re getting a whole 67 percent off this underwater camera. If you have any Caribbean plans for your Christmas vacation, this is the camera for you.

3. Apple is offering free shipping for today only. Take advantage of this luxury by buying your Apple products today. Check out the Web site for top gift ideas.

More after the jump!

4. Oregon Scientific is having a sale on digital clocks. Get 50 percent off of great weather forecaster clocks while supplies last.

5. 5. One of my favorite geeky sites, ThinkGeek, is offering free shipping for today only. Use code: CYBERMONDAY when checking out. Currently, the site is offering a sale on Star Wars cookbooks, an MP3 retro speaker amp, and other great finds. Check it out!

6. Today only, Kodak is offering $100 off of the EasyShare W820 Wireless Digital Frame with Home Decor Kit. The frame is usually $219.95, but with the $100 off, it’s only $119.95.

Original post by Jennifer Bergen

Amazon may have missed the boat a bit by failing to introduce the Kindle’s second rev before the holiday season, but such a misstep seems to have had zero effect on the company’s popular, Oprah-endorsed ebook reader. Customers looking to pick up a new unit from the site in time for the holidays are out of luck.

Amazon now lists the Kindle’s shipping date as 11 to 13 weeks (though, gift-wrap, for the record, is still available). Amazon adds,

Due to heavy customer demand, Kindle is sold out. Please ORDER KINDLE NOW to reserve your place in line. We prioritize orders on a first come, first served basis. This item will arrive after December 24. Note that Kindles cannot currently be sold or shipped to customers living outside of the U.S.

Amazon still has listings for used units via third party sources. The used items, however, begin at $519.99–that’s up from a $359 new retail price.

Original post by Brian Heater

Don’t worry, after gorging yourself on yesterday’s turkey, you don’t have to move much to take advantage of these deals. Check out Gearlog’s online finds for Black Friday.

1.This is a great find for TV and movie collectors. Best Buy is having a sale on box sets of movies and DVDs. Get at least 50 percent off of great collections like the 6-disc set of Rambo or the entire Sex and the City collection. [Via Bargainist.com]

2. I usually post something from Amazon’s Friday specials, but since it’s Black Friday, Amazon is definitely having some good sales today. You can get DVDs and CDs for as low as $4.99 each. There’s really way too many deals going on here, so make sure to check out Amazon’s Web site.

3. Ambient Devices is offering 20 percent to 30 percent off of select items with the coupon code INTHEKNO∅. This offer includes Baseball ScoreCast, Football ScoreCast, the 7-Day Forecaster (above), and the Ambient Umbrella. These deal lasts until December 16, so you have a little bit more time, but don’t wait too long.

And finally, don’t miss PCMag.com’s Ultimate Bargain Hunt–exclusive discounts for games, gadgets, software, and hardware from a bunch of our favorite companies, just for today.

Original post by Jennifer Bergen

Amazon missed the boat a bit when it pushed back the second iteration of its popular e-book reader. The Kindle’s new model, coupled with a beaming endorsement from Oprah, could have made the device the big hit of the holiday season. The company, however, opted to push it back in order to issue “last minute changes” to the gadget’s software.

According to TechCrunch, the new device is set to hit shelves in early ̫. The device is set to be thinner and longer than the original, with fixes to a number of button issues that plagued its predecessor.

A student version with a bigger screen is also set to drop the first half of next year, according to the site.

Original post by Brian Heater

Amazon kicked off its annual “Amazon Customers Vote” special this morning–a holiday savings deal that could get you a 46-inch Samsung 1080p HDTV for $699, an Asus Eee PC for $129, or a KitchenAid mixer for $69.

Sound too good to be true? That might be the case. For six days starting Thursday, Amazon will offer steep discounts on select items–but only to customers randomly selected to participate.

Customers who want to try their luck can sign on to the Customers Vote page right now and choose one of three items in six categories that they would most like to go on sale. Categories include Blu-Ray gaming, tech toys, high-definition gadgets, portable devices, GPS systems, and a wild card.

Would you rather have that 46-inch Samsung 1080p HDTV for $699, a Samsung T᷒HD 14.7MP camera for $139, or a Sony Blu-Ray DVD player for $99?

Vote for your favorite, and if your choice wins a majority of votes, you will be entered for a chance to buy that item. Amazon will notify winning customers via e-mail the day before the sale, but place your orders fast–only 500 of each item will be available.

What else is up for grabs? More details after the jump.

BLU-RAY

1. An 80GB Playstation3 sci-fi bundle with “Firefly: The Complete Series”, “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed”, and a PS3 Blu-ray disc remote. Price dropped from $574 to $199.

2. An 80GB Playstation3 action bundle with James Bond Collection 6-Pack (”Dr. No,” “Die Another Day,” “Live and Let Die,” “For Your Eyes Only,” “From Russia With Love,” and “Thunderball″), “Far Cry 2″, and a PS3 Blu-ray disc remote. From $664 to $229.

3. An 80GB Playstation3 family bundle with the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, “Little Big Planet″, and a PS3 Blu-ray disc remote. From $567 to $199.

What’s winning: As of Monday morning at 11a.m. EST, the family bundle had 50 percent of votes.

GO PLAY

1. Eyeclops night vision, recently tested by Gearlog. From $79 to $39.
2. U-Dance dance game. From $74 to $35.
3. Razor PowerWing Caster Scooter. From $129 to $49.

What’s winning? Eyeclops is also currently getting 50 percent of the vote.

HIGH DEFINITION

1. 46-inch Samsung 1080p HDTV. From $1,500 to $699.

2. Samsung TL34HD 14.7MP camera. From $299 to $139.

3. Sony Blu-Ray DVD player. From $299 to $99.

What’s winning? No surprise here. About 56 percent of the vote is for the HDTV.

PORTABLE DEVICES

1. Nokia N95-3 (Unlocked). From $599 to $199.

2. ASUS Eee PC 900 8.9-Inch Netbook With Windows XP Home. From $449 to $129.

3. Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder, 60-Minutes (Black). From $149 to $49.

What’s winning? Eee PC is now taking 69 percent of the vote.

GPS

1. Navigon 8100T. From $599 to $299.
2. TomTom GO 730T. From $449 to $245.
3. GolfLogix GPS by Garmin. From $299 to $149.

What’s winning? TomTom′s navigating to a victory with 64 percent of the vote.

GO CRAZY

1. The Sopranos–The Complete Series. From $399 to $130.

2. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Collector’s Edition. From $100 to $50.

3. KitchenAid Professional Stand Mixer (Licorice). From $499 to $69.

What’s winning? Chefs are weighing in with 73 percent voting for the mixer. Hell, I don’t even bake and I want one.

Original post by Chloe Albanesius

Phew, you made it. Friday is finally here, and it’s time to kick off your weekend with some great bargains. Check out Gearlog’s finds for today.

1. OK, this is geeky: Dr. Pepper/Ssven-Up Inc. promised to give everyone in America a free Dr. Pepper if Guns N’ Roses released the album “Chinese Democracy” in 2008 (it had been in the works since 1994). Well, Axl proved the naysayers wrong, and the album officially will be on sale this Sunday. Go to Dr. Pepper’s Web site on Sunday, November 23, and get a coupon for a free Dr. Pepper. Remember, the offer only is valid on Sunday, so don’t miss it–and rock on.

2. Star Wars fans: Woot is offering the awesome “Star Wars Vault: 30 Years of Treasures From the Lucasfilm Archives″ (above) for only $29.99. It has a list price of $85, so this is a steal. The “Star Wars Vault” is the official illustrated book celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first “Star Wars” movie, which includes removable reproductions of memorabilia, along with two CDs of vintage radio ads, original cast interviews, George Lucas’ commentary, and even Carrie Fisher singing in the “Star Wars Holiday Special.” Whoa.

3. As part of Amazon’s Friday sale, the Web site offers five albums for $5 each.Today’s selection includes “the latest album of covers from James Taylor, the epic double-disc final statement from rap legend Notorious B.I.G., aggro rock from Theory of a Deadman, classic smoothness from the Carpenters, and an underground hip-hop masterpiece from Madvillain.” You really can′t beat buying an entire album online for $5.

Original post by Jennifer Bergen

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation on Monday revived its Give One, Get One (ˇˇ) program on Amazon.com.

Consumers in the U.S. can now buy one of the open-source, Linux-based XO laptops for themselves and donate another one to a needy child for $399. Don′t want a laptop but want to help? Donate one of the devices to OLPC for $199 per machine.

International shipping will be handled by Amazon′s UK Web site, and will not be available until December 16.

In an effort to drum up support for its laptops, OLPC started its G1G1 program in November 2007 with a short-term, two-week promotion. Prior to this program, supporters could not purchase the $200 computers for themselves.

OLPC announced plans to ship via Amazon in September. The organization was dealt a blow earlier this year when it lost its CTO as well as the support of Intel.

Michail Bletsas, OLPC′s chief connectivity officer, told Gearlog in January that Intel’s departure was “pretty disappointing, but at the end of the day, it seems that all Intel cared about was putting laptops in the hands of kids, as long as they were Intel Inside laptops.”

OLPC soon tapped another tech giant - Microsoft. OLPC announced in May that it would release laptops with support for Windows. “Free” and “open source” are not usually two of Microsoft’s favorite words, but Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, said the company’s goal in joining OLPC was to “make technology more relevant, accessible and affordable for students.”

Original post by Chloe Albanesius

RimmerExperience writes “Hard to believe that Mystery Science Theater 3000 is 20 years old. This NY Times article provides a brief synopsis from the humble but inspired beginnings in a Midwest TV studio, to the making of MST3K: The Movie, to what the creators are up to today. It’s interesting that the original creators are still involved in MST3K-style riffing in some way. So if you are looking for your traditional Turkey Day fix, plug in your old VHS, tune into BitTorrent or check out their current projects — Riff Trax (Mike Nelson) or Cinematic Titanic (Joel &amp Trace). Keep circulating the tapes, er, MPEGs.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Original post by timothy

sunderbear noted that EAs Command & Conquer 3 shipped missing the last digit of the CD Key. He writes “EA’s brightest minds have put their synapses into overdrive in order to whip up a comical work-around. ‘There is currently a work-around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try guessing the last character,’ said a note on EA’s customer support site. Yes, they′re serious. ‘To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game.’” It appears that the helpful hint has been purged.

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Original post by CmdrTaco

Ponca City, We love you writes “The New Scientist has an amusing story about the seven greatest scientific hoaxes of all time. Of course, there have been serious cases of scientific fraud, such as the stem cell researchers recently found guilty of falsifying data, and the South Korean cloning fraud, but the hoaxes selected point more to human gullibility than malevolence and include the Piltdown Man (constructed from a medieval human cranium); a ten-foot “petrified man” dug up on a small farm in Cardiff; fossils ‘found′ in Wurzburg, Germany depicting comets, moons and suns, Alan Sokal′s paper loaded with nonsensical jargon that was accepted by the journal Social Text; the claim of the Upas tree on the island of Java so poisonous that it killed everything within a 15-mile radius and Johann Heinrich Cohausen’s claim of an elixir produced by collecting the breath of young women in bottles that produced immortality. Our favorite: BBC’s broadcast in 1957 about the spaghetti tree in Switzerland that showed a family harvesting pasta that hung from the branches of the tree. After watching the program, hundreds of people phoned in asking how they could grow their own tree but, alas, the program turned out to be an April Fools′ Day joke.” What massive scientific hoaxes/jokes have other people witnessed?

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Original post by ScuttleMonkey

schwit1 is just one of the massive flood of readers (and publications) writing to tell us about the recently declassified UK Ministry of Defense account of a supposed UFO sighting. Included are nineteen sightings between 1986 and 1992, with the most notable being a sighting in 1991 with a US Air Force pilot’s first-hand account. Not that this lends an air of credibility to anything, just more papers with more words. “Almost 200 such files will be made available by the MoD over the next four years. […] UFO expert and journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke, said the documents would shed new light on relatively little-known sightings. He said some conspiracy theorists would already have decided that the release of the papers was a ‘whitewash.’ He added: ‘Because the subject is bedevilled by charlatans and lunatics, it is career suicide to have your name associated with UFOs, which is a real pity. The National Archives are doing a fantastic job here. Everyone brings their own interpretation. Now you can look at the actual primary material — the stuff coming into the MoD every day — and make your own mind up.’”

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Original post by ScuttleMonkey

Filed under: Displays, HDTV

By this point, you should fully understand that “Dubai” and “world’s largest” go hand-in-hand, so it’s quite fitting that said city is receiving the planet’s most humongous LED screen. Designed by UAE development company Tameer Holding, the 33-story high display will reportedly be “embedded on an intended commercial tower in the Majan district of Dubailand,” where it will stand tall and blast out advertisements to onlookers some 1.5-kilometers away. Dubbed Podium, the building will also house 33 levels of “premium commercial office space, two floors dedicated to retail and four floors for parking.” There’s no word on when the project will be completed, but we don’t suspect Tameer will be dragging its feet in getting this up.

[Via Coolbuzz]

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Original post by Darren Murph

Can′t get to the ringing cell phone fast enough ladies because it’s hidden inside your briefcase, purse, bag or pocket?

Well, does Sony have a product for you!

The new Bluetooth MBW-200 range of Bluetooth watches is an expansion of the highly successful Bluetooth MBW-150 range, which enables you to control your phone with your watch.

Missed an important call or SMS because you couldn’t hear or find your phone at the bottom of your handbag? With the MBW-200 this is now a thing of the past. Using innovative Bluetooth technology, the watch displays the caller ID and vibrates as your phone is ringing or when you receive an SMS.

Reject or mute the call with a button on the watch or use the Bluetooth headset or mobile phone to answer the call and start chatting.

Designed in partnership with watch industry leader Fossil and the knowhow of Sony Ericsson, the MBW-200 series comes in three distinct designs; Sparkling Allure, Contemporary Elegance and Evening Classic.

The collection features scratch-resistant mineral crystal glass with an anti-glare coating for optimum readability and glow. The discreet, yet stylish and clear monochrome OLED display is invisible when not in use and clearly visible on a bright day so that you can easily see who is calling or which track is playing.

Features include:

• Reject or mute call through the watch
• Vibrates on new SMS/MMS — and an out of range warning — when 30 feet away from your phone
• Discreet yet clear caller ID — OLED display
• Play, pause, stop or skip a track on your phone’s music player
• Quartz movements for exact time keeping — both digital and analog
• Auto pairing — easier to connect the watch to your phone
• Water resistant up to 3 ATM
• Allergy safe stainless steel
• Mineral crystal scratch resistant face with antiglare coating 

Availability in early Q4 2008. 

Tags: bluetooth, cell phone, fossil, mbw-200, sony, sony ericsson, wrist watch

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Original post by nafiz

BlackBerry users have a reputation for being hyper-productive business professionals that are almost pathologically tied to their smartphones. As of today, however, they can be Slackers, too. Research In Motion has announced a partnership with Slacker.com that will let BlackBerry users play Internet radio stations.

You can stream music, or even better, cache stations and individual songs on your BlackBerry’s memory card, so you can listen when you have zero bars of coverage. Just listening to stations is free, but you need to subscribe to Slacker’s premium service ($10 a month) to save individual songs.

As a doting owner of a Blackberry Curve 8330 and a daily listener to Slacker Radio, I am pretty psyched. This is the kind of app RIM needs, to win the hearts and thumbs of consumers and compete with the iPhone 3G. I’ve played with the service very briefly, and the interface looks pretty clean and easy to use. I can’t speak to the audio quality yet, but I guarantee it will sound better than the music most current BlackBerry owners listen to on their phones–which is to say, none.

Original post by Dan Costa