Blink 7

The $699 Memory Stick

When buying electronics, two factors remain relatively consistent - If it’s new, it costs a lot more If Sony is involved, it costs a lot more Yet, even these two truisms fail to account the the $699cdn (roughly the same in American dollars) price tag placed on a (third-party!) Memory stick currently being advertised at Staples. Granted, 4GB cards are relatively new but can be obtained...

Nintendo Wii – A Truly Family-Oriented Game Machine

Shortly after our wedding I asked my wife what she’d like as a wedding gift: a digital SLR or a Nintendo Wii console (this is as romantic as many techies get, after all). To my surprise and eventual delight she chose the Wii. We lucked out by arriving to a Best Buy barely an hour after the shipment arrived and scored a Wii console that someone else had probably been waiting on for weeks. And...