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This Is a Test of Emergency Power Systems

Regardless of how “wireless” communications technology has become, your gadgets only work if the batteries can be recharged. With that in mind, Walt test devices that are specifically designed to work in emergency situations.

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A Guide to Cellphone Technobabble

The cellphone industry generates more and more obscure jargon that makes it harder to decide what to buy. Walt delivers a basic glossary of wireless jargon, for mere mortals who speak only English.

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Turning Your Cellphone Into Your Home Phone

Cellphones rule in lots of places but the old-fashioned wired phone still wins at home. Here’s a look at two products that aim to solve that problem by tying your cellphone into your wired home phone setup.

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Buying a Digital Camera: Our Annual Guide

In our annual digital camera buyer’s guide, we explain what features mainstream buyers should be familiar with when shopping.

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Battle of the Boxes: PlayStation 3 vs. Wii

Testing the PlayStation 3 and the Wii, we found the cheaper Wii to be the more exciting, fun and satisfying of the two new game machines.

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How to Buy Your Next Digital Camera

Digital cameras have evolved recently to include more capabilities, sharper, larger viewing screens and slimmer builds. The Mossberg Solution offers an overview of what you’ll need to know when buying a new camera.

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Downloadable Movies in a Box: Where’s the Magic?

Movie download service Vudu likes to think of itself as the instant-gratification alternative to running to the video store. But the device, which plugs into your TV and Internet connection, has a poor movie selection and slow downloads.

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Lost in Translation: How Do You Say That in Geek?

A guide to terms and definitions used in some key technology categories. It will help you speak geek with the best of them, whether at CES or browsing products in your neighborhood electronics store.

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Jurassic Perk: A Dino at Home

UGOBE’s Pleo, a $350 baby dinosaur, is a fun and interesting robot/life form. But while the Pleo’s reactions and movements are endearing, many of them run together after a while with only subtle differences.

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Digital Cameras That Do Thinking for You

Most people forget their digital cameras have a settings dial that can be adjusted to take pictures in specific circumstances, or don’t know how to use them. Three new digital cameras claim to do the thinking for you, but how are the results?

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Printer Makes a New Kind of Polaroid Magic

Polaroid’s new PoGo is an inkless printer that churns out photos sent to it via Bluetooth devices. The print quality of photos from a digital camera is sharp, but its awkward size, bad battery life and small prints make it a no-go.

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Where Your Old Gadgets Find a Second Life

Digital electronics will eventually break or get replaced. It’s hard to know what to do with the gadgets that get left behind. But there are Web sites that make it easy to get rid of old electronics — and some offer cash for them, too.

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Yahoo Widgets Lend Brains to Boob Tube

Samsung’s new LED TV 7000 is integrated with the Yahoo Widget Engine, allowing people to watch TV and access the Web on the same big screen at the same time.

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Organizing Your Online Shopping

Snipi organizes online-shopping results by gathering, or “snipping,” product information from Web pages and saving the information to lists.

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