Tekzilla

Hosted by Patrick Norton, Robert Heron and Veronica Belmont. New episodes Tuesdays & Thursdays

Tekzilla feeds your tech hunger! Patrick Norton, Robert Heron and Veronica Belmont bring you hands on reviews of the latest gear, tips and tricks that improve the tech you already own and conversations with the most informative experts around. Read More

Tech Gifts From Under $20. Google: Goggles and Real Time Search. Holiday Shopping Picks from Veronica, Patrick, Roger and Serafina. National Handwashing Awareness Week!

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 – running time 44:23

It's the "I WANT" episode! Our Holiday Picks from under $20 to price is no object include toys, t-shirts, a gift to help your geek live longer, under $30 headphones, a 4 TB WD My Book, the Drobo S, Nikon's D5000, the Sonos ZonePlayer S5, LiveSribe's Pulse, Alienware's M15x gaming notebook, Intel X-25M SSD, Hexbugs, two sets of Home Theater Speakers, $1100 earbuds, SPOT's Personal Tracker, TADGear's F.A.S.T. Pack EDC and more! We've also got PeaZip, The Oatmeal and some nifty news from Child's Play and Project Inspire!

Welcome to Tekzilla... hands on reviews of the latest tech, and how to make the most out of the gear you already own! Veronica Belmont and Patrick Norton are your hosts.

Google News, National Handwashing Awareness Week

Google dropped a dogpile of announcements Monday, including Real Time Search a visual search tool, Google Goggles along with an explanation of those weird QR decals showing up in store windows.

Oh, for National Handwashing Awareness Week, we forgot to mention Henry The Hand, "Champion Handwasher." You have been warned.

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Holiday Spirit: Childs Play and Project Inspire!

Child's Play, the charity started by the terminally awesome Penny Arcade crew has raised over a million dollars already this year in donatinos of toys, games, books and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals. Also for the kids, Nvidia's annual holiday 'party with a purpose, Project Inspire 2009 did some major work making over the McKinley Elementary School and Community Center in San Jose, CA. Way to go!
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Small Presents: Toys... and the Dell Studio 17 Laptop

Dell's Studio 17 Laptop won't fit in anything smaller than an elephant stocking, but it arrived late for the mobile episode, and we wanted you to see it... Core i7 notebooks are fast!

Toys? October Toys has lots of nifty collectibles, we had the a few sets of Z.O.M.B.I.E.s. ThinkGeek has tons of cool geek toys, but they all pale in comparison to the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag! Rocket World is where Patrick scored his Creature (Bear!) Hoodie... we had their IWG Movie Icon vinyl figures on with us.

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Small Gifts Under $50

Gifts for geeks under $50? T-shirts are a classic... check out the stylish (yet tres geeky) designs at Jinx, Threadless and, of course, the Tekzilla gear at the Revision3 Store!

How about recharable batteries, or an 8GB SD Card for their camera or maybe a 16 GB USB Thumdrive to back everything up on? Looking for a fun USB thumbdrive? Check out Mimobot for original designs along with Star Wars, Hello Kitty and Domo drives, too!

Cheap headphones? Try the Koss PortaPro for as little as $28.

New gadget? Protect its screen with one of Zagg's InvisibleSHIELDS

Want your geek to last longer? Get 'em to drink more water. How? Buy 'em a Kleen Kanteen. Lots of shops have custom designs, like TADGear's "Water is Life".

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Free Software: PeaZip: Awesome un-Zipping and Archiving!

Tasty free open source goodness? Try PeaZip. It supports 95 different types of archiving file formats including, Zips, RARs, TARs, 7-Z's, ISOs, Open Office files, and even Mac DMG files. It can create Zip, 7z, TARs or BZ2 archives, split and join files and encrypt them, too. Random password generator? Yup. Keyfiles and system benchmarking? PeaZip has that, too!
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Veronica's Wish List Picks

Veronica's list included the Mophie Juice Pack Air, the 4 TB WD My Book Studio Edition II, Canon's PowerShot G11, the Sonos ZonePlayer S5, the LiveScribe Pulse smartpen and Nikon's D5000!

Watch video clip to find out more about Vernica's Holiday Picks!

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Roger's Wish List Picks

Our producer, Roger, had a fun list, including the Alienware M15x gaming notebook, Panasonic's HDC-TM300K HD Camcorder, a Canon EF 24mm F/1,4l USM lens, Intel's X-25M solid state drive, the super fun HexBugs and a set of HTD Level THREE Speakers.

Watch the video clip to learn why these made Roger's Holiday List!

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Website We Can't Get Enough Of: The Oatmeal

The brain child of Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal has some of the best quizzes and comics out there. Funny, educational, plus 5 Very Good Reasons To Punch A Dolphin In The Mouth!

Did we say educational? Check out Seventeen Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat and 8 Ways To Prepare Your Pets For War and Twenty Things Worth Knowing About Beer. This site rawks!

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Serafina's Wish List Picks

Our Associate Producer, Serafina, included tech she can use outdoors, like the ContourHD 1080p helmet camera, SPOT Personal Tracker and Celestron's SkyScout Personal Planetarium, along with some video fun: Adobe Premiere Elements 8 and a Roku video player!

Watch the video clip to find out more about Serafina's Holiday Picks!

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Patrick's Wish List Picks

Partrick's wish list wraps up our holiday picks! From smallest to largest, his list included the ridiculously musical JHAudio JH13 PRO in ear monitors, the oh so tiny Orb Audio's People's Choice Home Theater Speaker System, DataRobotic's Drobo S (a faster Drobo with more drive protection!), a 13 inch MacBook Pro (before his white MacBook turns compeltely brown),

Finally, TADGear's F.A.S.T. Pack EDC v4 (Technically not a notebook bag, but an an awesomely constructed everyday carry bag!) ... and if you want to score a 15% discount on any one TADGear.com order, use the code thankyou15 on your new account!

Did somebody say FOX Racing Shocks?? Find out in the video!

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About the Show

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Show Title:
Tekzilla
Description:
Tekzilla feeds your tech hunger! Patrick Norton, Robert Heron and Veronica Belmont bring you hands on reviews of the latest gear, tips and tricks that improve the tech you already own and conversations with the most informative experts around.
Categories:
How-To & DIY, Technology & Gadgets
Launch Date:
Sep 1, 2007
Episodes:
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