Years upon years ago, I sold my bass amp and bought a couple of shitty Numarks with a shitty mixer and started DJing. It was a blast and I’ve never regretted it. But now that we’re moving into the 21st century, it’s time to ditch the belt-driven turntables of the past and embrace the digital movement. Numark’s “NUMARK TOTAL COMPUTER DJ IN A BOX” has the worst name ever, but the right idea is there. It’s a MIDI controller with built-in mixing board, headphones, an I/O interface and you score a copy of Traktor LE software. It won’t turn you into Justice anytime soon, but it’s a good start.

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OK, so I’ve had a nice DSLR for a few years, as well as some point-and-shoot cameras. The problem is, I hardly ever bring them out for shoots since you need to bring a tripod and tripods suck. They’re cumbersome; a real pain in the ass to carry. Luckily, there’s a product for ten bucks that isn’t a concept and is usable almost anywhere. It’s this Bottle Cap Tripod. It fits almost any standard water or soda bottle, so your leftover Dasani bottle from work is a go. This way, you can get a good, clean shot no matter the location. I’ll be picking up one this weekend for sure.

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Nothing is more fun than taking a broken video game console and putting it to good use. Years ago, I turned a Dreamcast into a guitar amplifier, which was one of my favorite DIY projects. Now we have some hardware hackers turning NES and SNES systems into bedside clocks. Hollow out some cartridges, turn ‘em into a clock and lock and load. That’s the idea here. If you want to make your own, hit the link below and try to piece together what was used to build the clocks. Gotta run. It’s Burger Time.

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Who’s the leader of them all?
That’s made for really cheap!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!

What costs fifty bucks and is
designed by SEGA Toys?
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!

Altogether now!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
What a joke!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
Will leave you broke!

It can carry up to 49 pictures and uses USB!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
Tiny screen!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
White, blue and pink!

Don’t forget the AA batteries, kids!

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Ford has unveiled its new take on automobile dashboards with what it’s calling the SmartGauge. The LCD gauge will debut in Fords 2010 line of hybrids, the Ford Fusion Hybrid and Mercury Milan Hybrid. The gauge uses an all-digital screen with lively animations to prompt drivers on good driving habits by displaying a heavily stylized greenery for good behavior. It’s almost as bad as the teddy bear backseat driver.

The gauges are fully customizable, able to display whatever real time data the driver wishes to see. From what I’ve seen in the videos, it looks to be one of the most impressive dashboards ever put in an automobile. It also appears to be way too distracting for drivers, most of which have a bad enough attention span as it is.

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While digitizing a Rubik’s cube would offer little more than confusion and frustration, at least it’s a one-up from Hasbro’s Lights Out. However, it is not a one-up from the original design of the Rubik’s cube, which is a classic amongst puzzle games worldwide. Rubik’s cubes were always the cheap toy you could throw around when you couldn’t solve it, but now that it’s electronic, it’s more expensive and therefore more fragile.

This is the future. So why not add credit cards into Monopoly, digital dice into Double Trouble and a digital display on to each card of Uno? I’ll tell you why: because it’s lame. Leave the classics alone, people.

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A good pal of mine and former colleague Mike Kobrin is the go-to man for all things musical. I didn’t even know a Moog guitar existed until I saw this post on CrunchGear featuring a video of Kobrin reviewing it. It looks (and sounds) like a beautiful instrument but at $6500, it’s reserved for real rock stars.

No, getting one million points in Guitar Hero does not count. Hit the link for the full review.

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While Gateway has never been known for their power house rigs, gamers and media enthusiasts will surely be interested in its latest line of desktops, the Gateway FX6710-01 and LX6200-01.

For the gamer, the FX6710-01 packs an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 CPU, ATI HD 4850 graphics, 6GB of RAM, 750GB HDD, DVD burner, memory card reader and Vista Premium all for only $1199.99. That’s not a bad price considering those specs. Now as for the media enthusiast, the LX6200-01 has an AMD Phenom X4 9400 with integrated ATI HD 3200 graphics. It’s got a built-in analog/digital TV tuner, 8GB of RAM, 750GB HDD, DVD burner, memory card reader, Vista Premium, and HDMI out. Almost identical in specs to the FX6710-01, except the LX costs only $779.99.

Which one tickles your fancy?

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There’s a million watches out there that’ll make you look like James Bond but few of them feature cellphone functionality. With this phone, you’re getting all the luxuries of a decked out cellphone jam-packed in the comfort of a watch. If you’re not loving the wrist action, this watch can also be worn around the neck, though that’s not very Bond-like.

With 1GB of internal memory, full Bluetooth support, a digital video and audio recorder, organizer, multi-function calculator, alarm clock and pretty much everything else offered in a standard cell phone is included with this watch for $141.88. Everything that is, except for the ladies. When you’re Bond, you’ve got to earn ‘em.

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Rid yourself of the burden of carrying multiple books with an eReader. It just so happens that Sony’s latest digital reader is its best yet. This new model, the PRS-700, weighs only 10 ounces and features a touchscreen for easy transition from chapter to chapter. Sony’s also added LED backlights on the sides of the 6″ screen, so you won’t have to worry about lights out time raining on your parade.

With memory that can store up to 350 books, the chances of you running out of reading material are slim. In the rare case that you do run out of material, SD and Memory Stick Duo cards can breathe new life into the eReader with new reading material of your choosing. It’s as if a library was jam packed into a PDA, without the bitchy librarian and the “one book at a time” policy.

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