| Nerd Fashion Week |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: August 18, 2011 - 8:44 AM PST |
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Something I don’t understand is why nerds and geeks have to dress up like dorks, as if they were promoting the Salvation Army sale rack. While nerds are known to have above-average intelligence, they usually fail to do certain things that other people would consider obvious – like wearing clean, matching clothes. Maybe this is an opportunity for us to create a tutorial on that? Anyway, I believe that just because someone is a nerd, that doesn’t mean that he or she must wear a beat-up shirt full of holes; wear only T-shirts that say “Yeah, I am a nerd,” such as freebies from computer companies during trade shows; or wear black socks with a pair of white sneakers when wearing shorts. (Fashion 101: This is a no-no. You should wear white socks in this situation.) Then nerd guys don’t understand why girls don’t talk to them… I am the perfect example. While I am a nerd, I dress fashionably. In fact, most people when meeting me for the first time would not consider me a nerd, since I wear clothes from Calvin Klein, Guess?, GAP, Kenneth Cole, and many other name designers. (The fact that I only shop at T.J. Maxx and Premium Outlets and never pay retail price isn’t evident when meeting someone, is it?) But then, if you are a true nerd, you may think that dressing “normally” will remove all your “nerdness.” Not so. What about dressing better, but, at the same time, wearing an accessory that would still keep you in touch with your nerd self? This could be anything from a keychain with the logo of the Decepticons to a really cool nerdy watch – which is my personal preference. There are some options around. If you follow my “SkyMall’s Most Bizarre Products” series, you know about the watch where the hours are represented by square roots. 
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ThinkGeek is probably the obvious destination for people looking for nerdy gadgets, and they have really cool watches: the E.R. Beat LED Digital Watch shows time as if it were an EKG machine, the Infinity Invaderz LED Digital Watch displays time in a 3D field, and the LED Binary Watch shows time in binary, which may not be practical. 
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But the most fashionable of them is the one recently released by Cadence, the 4-Bit Binary Watch, with leather straps and stainless steel body, where the hours are written in binary, providing the perfect balance between fashion and “nerdness.” This company was kind enough to send me one as a gift, and is offering a 25% discount to our readers, using the code “HardwareSecrets” when buying it at the manufacturer’s website. 
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| Gabriel Torres on Computer America Radio Show - 08/10/2011 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: August 9, 2011 - 11:48 AM PST |
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Folks, I will be interviewed at the Computer America radio show again this wednesday, 08/10/2011, from 7 to 9 PM Pacific Time (10 PM to midnight, Eastern Time). Check their website to an affiliated radio in your city, or listen live on the Internet. Updated 08/11/2011: Here are the audio files of the show: |
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| Gabriel Torres on Computer America Radio Show - 07/13/2011 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: July 12, 2011 - 5:32 PM PST |
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Folks, I will be interviewed at the Computer America radio show again this wednesday, 07/13/2011, from 7 to 9 PM Pacific Time (10 PM to midnight, Eastern Time). Check their website to an affiliated radio in your city, or listen live on the Internet. This time I will be talking about the AMD A-Series APUs and some other interesting topics regarding the enthusiast market. Updated 07/21/2011: Here are the audio files of the show: |
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| New Quiz: SSDs |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 29, 2011 - 10:00 AM PST |
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Test your knowledge in our new quiz: SSDs. Check it out! |
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| SkyMall’s Most Bizarre Products – Part 13 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 28, 2011 - 10:18 AM PST |
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Here is my selection of the most bizarre products from the latest edition (Summer 2011) of SkyMall magazine: - The Pillow Tie: Bored during staff meetings? Simply inflate your tie and sleep!
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- It is alligator season at Design Toscano, the furniture store with one of the most dubious tastes in the world. You can buy an alligator statue to be placed literally jumping out of your swimming pool, or you can buy a crocodile statue to be placed exiting your swimming pool. In doubt, buy the two! I won’t make fun of the armadillo can holder. I found it kind of cute. (Although I wouldn’t buy it.)
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Missed our previous selections? Click here. |
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| Gabriel Torres on Computer America Radio Show - 06/08/2011 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 8, 2011 - 4:20 PM PST |
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Folks, I will be interviewed at the Computer America radio show again today, 06/08/2011, from 7 to 9 PM Pacific Time (10 PM to midnight, Eastern Time). Check their website to an affiliated radio in your city, or listen live on the Internet. This time I will be talking about the Computex and the latest releases I saw there. Updated 06/09/2011: Here are the audio files of the show: |
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| What I’ve been doing - 05/27/2011 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: May 27, 2011 - 4:09 PM PST |
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Yesterday I started reading a book called Million Dollar Habits. It is a terrific book. Have you have had the curiosity of flipping a Robb Report magazine? In two words: life sucks! I am heading out to Taipei, Taiwan, for Computex. My schedule is packed, next week I will have meetings from monday to saturday, from 9 AM to whatever-time-those-parties-finish. I hope I will have time to do some foot massage and drink zhen zhu nai cha by the gallons. The chou doufu (stinky tofu) I pass. I should get in touch with the latest and greatest in the PC hardware market, after a 13-hour straight flight from San Francisco. Not so bad compared to the 33-hour peregrination I used to do when I lived in Brazil... |
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| Gabriel Torres on Computer America Radio Show - 05/25/2011 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: May 24, 2011 - 4:39 PM PST |
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Folks, I will be interviewed at the Computer America radio show again tomorrow, 05/25/2011, from 7 to 9 PM Pacific Time (10 PM to midnight, Eastern Time). Check their website to an affiliated radio in your city, or listen live on the Internet. This time I will be talking about the new Intel Z68 chipset and other computer hardware components. Updated 05/26/2011: Here are the audio files of the show: |
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| Interview with Gabriel Torres at Benchmark Reviews |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: May 10, 2011 - 10:42 AM PST |
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Hi guys, my friend Olin Coles from Benchmark Reviews has just posted an interview we made, where I expose a little bit of the challenges I face running a website. Check it out! |
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| Gabriel Torres on Computer America Radio Show |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: April 26, 2011 - 3:13 PM PST |
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Folks, I will be interviewed at the Computer America radio show tomorrow, 04/27/2011, from 7 to 9 PM Pacific Time (10 PM to midnight, Eastern Time). Check their website to an affiliated radio in your city, or listen live on the Internet. I will be taking calls from listeners and I plan to talk about power supplies and other computer hardware components. Updated 04/28/2011: Here are the audio files of the show: |
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