All vehicle owners should make sure that their tires are properly inflated (and I don’t mean the spare tire around your waist that’s hanging downwards) if they have maximum mileage and optimal road safety on their minds. Unfortunately, most people don’t take the trouble to check their tire pressures regularly, which results in faster wear and tear on their wheels that could compromise road safety as well. With these special pressure valve caps, you can check your tire pressures at a glance without having to use those pesky tire pressure gages. Available in 32 psi and 36 psi color-coded caps, they will retail for $7.98 each.

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Want your business premise to stand out from the rest of the competition? Now that can be a tough question to answer, but not so if you have the help of the VisoBoard. At least that’s what the manufacturer claims, since it is able to speak out your deal at just a glance in order to attract the hundreds of passers-by at your store front each day. The VisoBoard is the modern chalkboard, and best of all is, you don’t have to deal with breathing in chalk dust while you’re, er, chalking out your latest offers. This is the perfect replacement for LED message boards, and each $379.99 (before tax) purchase comes with the following :-

• One adapter
• One battery mount
• High Performance Cleaning Towel
• Four Water-Based Fluorascent Markers
• Free Shipping (USA Only)

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Kids love science and astronomy. Don’t think they don’t. So why not give them a leg up (or should I say head up) and get them this cool overhead light that also teaches your kid about the solar system and planetary rotation?

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Apple is a company well known for rolling out firsts in the computing industry, and I must acknowledge that their phenomenal success with multi-touch gestures on their iPhone and iPod touch has won me over as a fan for life. Good thing this has upped the ante with Windows-based computers, as we now see some of the Windows-based notebooks coming with generous sized touchpads that feature more than just point-and-click functionality of yore, although they don’t really epitomize the ease-of-use associated with Apple’s multi-touch gestures. This time round, Apple boffins aren’t resting on their laurels as the company has had visions of improved touch screens floating around in their heads. On Christmas Day, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revealed an Apple patent application that consists of a swipe-gesture system to be used on touch screen keyboards. What does this all mean for the end user? Well, it basically entails the user to “perform certain functions using swipes across the key area rather than tapping particular keys.”

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Most of us who shop at Wal-Mart tend to think that we are getting a better bargain there compared to elsewhere, which is true most of the time if you want to put up with sub-par service and even the risk of getting trampled to death due to insufficient security during mad rush days like Black Friday. Still, for folks who have yet to jump aboard the iPhone 3G bandwagon after more than half a year and want to do so, they can now head down to their local Wal-Mart from Sunday onwards, although you won’t find it to be much cheaper compared to those found in AT&T and Apple Stores. In fact, it will retail for $197 – a (sarcastically) whopping $2 discount over the standard $199 price point for the 8GB version while the 16GB model is going for $297. Does this mean you get more value out of a shorter contract? No – the phones are still attached to a new 2-year service agreement with AT&T or with a qualified upgrade.

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Everyone has that dream to convert a room into their ultimate hang out or hide out, depending on your outlook. Usually some sort of cool drink dispenser is in the mix. Whether it be for alcohol or other types of drinks, hangouts need beverages. Which is where this retro vending machine comes in handy. It’s a bright and shining red, so it would make a cool addition to any room and would stand out from other appliances.

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Some of us can’t live without our TiVos, and DVR is still in huge demand for both the PC and the TV. Fortunately, Nero has made a low-priced DVR with Liquid TV, a program that can bring actual TiVo software to a PC.

Liquid TV comes with the entire kit to turn a PC into a TiVo including the software and a one-year subscription to the service. The software even includes the Season Pass and KidZone features, something that TiVo-ites will be very familiar with.

It even comes with a figure-eight shaped remote that resembles the remotes that come with most TiVo units, as well as a USB IR receiver. The HD-compatible USB tuner is a genuine Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950Q, which is a high quality model that can access over-the-air digital signals, QAM channels, and analog channels.

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Designer Eun-Gyeong Gwon has created a device known as the Supervision, a “financial management and electronic budget diary”. It should work very well for those who have a hard time balancing their checkbook.

The Supervision has the ability to scan and process receipts. It will also tabulate bank accounts, and it will let the user know his or her balance. I don’t see a screen on this device, so I’m not certain how it informs the user of this information.

Other than that, this is about all my source knows about this particular device, which is still a concept at this point. Since this is the day after Christmas, I’m sure some of you are wishing that you had a Supervision to help manage your flailing finances.

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