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Flameless USB lighter uses a heating element, insted of a flame to light your cigarette. You can then push down on the heating casing and the USB dongle comes out so that you can recharge the battery powered “Zippo” shaped lighter. The lighter also has some flash memory built in so you can take your [...]

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Bob Buskirk over at ThinkComputers.org has a unique way of testing a Flash Drive. The Corsair Flash Voyager is a new rugged flash drive, meant to protect your data where ever you decide to go. Bob puts the drive trough hell and back. The results surprised me, the drive survived. Amazing, I expected it to [...]

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Need a cheap file server, Linux machine, or emailing machine? How about a refurbished 700MHz Celeron for $47.91. It’s really bare-bones, with only 128MB of RAM, a 10GB hard drive, Windows 2000 (not installed), onboard Video and Audio, two PCI slots, one AGP slot, and four USB slots.
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