Bring your FI8908W paperweight back to life

If you're part of the numerous people who bricked their ip camera at any stage, maybe you kept it (as a door stopper, a paperweight or a dummy camera). In that case, there is one last thing you can try to make your camera functional again. It requires a small investment of less than €15 so I think it's really worth trying.I obtained some information recently, thanks to Foscam...

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Some branding at last!

Foscam is primarily a OEM producer and therefore always left their products open to custom re-branding.Over time, they acquired some popularity (probably due to both their firmware evolution and their present customer support) but it was nearly impossible to distinguish their products from others if you wanted to buy from them.This is about to change finally as, starting with...

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Digital Note Taker Pen

I got myself the"gadget of the month" from the local hard-discount shop and started to play with Medion Digital Note Taker (MD 86149).This 2nd generation model is similar to what appeared under the IOGear brand about 2 years ago but it became cheaper enough today to trigger an impulsive buy (€59.99).By opposition to the much more expensive (but cool) LiveScribe pen, which allows...

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The geek Xmas 2009 shopping basket

The festive online shopping deadline is coming fast (taking into account the shipping delay necessary to get those items from eBay, DealExtreme, Iwoot, Firebox, DX and such...)So here's my short list of gadgets of interest for this year. I hope it will help you finding the inspiration:Idea #1: A Cassette MP3 PlayerFor some reason, many new cars are still coming with an cassette...

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