Dan Seitz
Dan Seitz is a semi-professional nerd (he'll have to code a homebrew game for the NES before he goes pro). He grew up fiddling with video game systems, computers, cameras, and other technology you should never hand to an eight-year-old if you want it back in pristine condition. Currently, he lives in Boston with his girlfriend, her cat, a Shih Tzu, and far too many objects with processors.
Articles by Dan Seitz
Gadgets
Speedlink wireless keyboard solves the battery problem with a solar panel
If you have a home theater PC set up, you need to have a wireless keyboard; otherwise, you’re in for a bad, bad time using it. Unfortunately, the tradeoff there is that wireless keyboards eat batteries like they’re bon-bons
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Air Strike Catapult: A desktop siege machine
Let's face it, work is boring, and sometimes, you need to amuse yourself, usually at the expense of your coworkers. And workplace pranks, while amusing, can take too long to set up and perhaps may not fully communicate, say, the blood-boiling rage you have at the guy in the cube next to you constantly
Apps
Sparrow: The only email app you’ll ever need on iPhone
Have a lot of email accounts? You’re not alone. Most of us have, at the very least, a work email and a personal email, and depending on our day-to-day lives, we might have several. Keeping them sorted and managed can take up way too much time…
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Jompy uses physics to boil water in 45 seconds
If you’re an outdoorsy type, you know that one of the biggest pains in the ass of cooking outdoors is starting a fire and getting the water boiling for, say, your dehydrated meals to actually rehydrate and become something resembling edible.
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Hand-cranked vending machine sounds insane, but could save lives
As you may have heard, the Japanese like to invent things. Not just normal things. Seemingly weird things, like, say, the hand-cranked vending machine.
Gadgets
Gizmon iCA: Turn your iPhone into a classic camera
Most iPhone cases are, not to put too fine a point on it, awful. They’re mostly designed to, at best, crack when you accidentally drop it, and overcharge for what amounts to some rubber and plastic.
Gadgets
How the RIAA is making your Internet crappier
Big fan of BitTorrent? Not for long, you won't be. The RIAA and the MPAA, still insisting that their problems are not due to changing audience tastes and audience fragmentation, but rather pirates stealing things, will be ruining your day. Here's how and why.
Apps
Should you use a digital wallet?
Right now? Hell no. In the future? Quite possibly.
Gadgets
Flat flashlight lights your way, saves space
LEDs have done wonders for the humble flashlight. Instead of being a battery gulping monster, it's now a light electric wonder. And it also lets people be creative with the casing, since one LED pumps out something along the lines of a Maglite's intensity.
Gadgets
Science invents the anti-printer
Printers suck. Let’s just face it. The ink costs a fortune for some reason, they break constantly, they refuse to work when you need them to, and above all, they’re incredibly wasteful. Seriously.
Apps
Watch With eBay is your girlfriend’s new favorite app
One thing that we think corporations really want to have happen in the future, despite the fact that we're pretty sure nobody wants to actually do this, is for TVs to let you buy stuff directly off of the screen. As in, you see somebody in pants you like, you can click on the pants and buy them.